He whakamaoritanga i te pukapuka o Puripaha na Witi Ihimaera mo etahi whanau hoariri e rua ki Te Tairawhiti.
Ko Puripaha te tapanga ka tukuna ki Te Pane Kaewa, a, ki Te Tairawhiti o Aotearoa e pakan..
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet.
Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s and of univer..
Stewart Island/Rakiura is one of our special places, an island that is increasingly cherished by New Zealanders, whose appreciation for its wild character has flourished in recent years. This has insp..
WINNER 2021 Ockham Book Awards - Non Fiction
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. It is already in hi..
Contains over 50,000 concise entries divided into Maori-English and English-Maori sections. Includes all the words most commonly used by fluent Maori speakers. Features a vocabulary list with words fo..
Many exciting new buildings have arisen from the rubble of post-earthquake Christchurch but none, perhaps, is as remarkable as Ravenscar House in the heart of the city's heritage precinct. 'Ravenscar ..
In "Re-food", Emily King advocates for a food systems approach to help the troubled food networks of Aotearoa New Zealand - one that takes into account the processes from the farm to the family table...
This book features interviews with 10 master navigators who trained under Mau Piailug (1932-2010), the legendary teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging acros..
This is the story of a man, his family, and his determination to survive the Holocaust by fleeing Nazi-controlled Austria and Czechoslovakia. It's all the more compelling for having been told without ..
This language course follows on from the Level 1 and 2 course for beginners that taught thirty sentence patterns and commonly used words, giving learners basic conversational Maori. This intermediate ..
First published in 1994, Reweti Kohere:
Nga Korero Reweti Kohere Ma is the
collected writings in te reo Maori of Reweti
Kohere (1871-1954) and his associates.
Reweti Kohere was a prolific writ..
A major tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngati Porou, Ngati Raukawa) whose early death robbed Aotearoa New Zealand of one of its greatest thinkers about how our built landscape could best ..
Sometimes I wonder why I have been forced to spend my creative life grappling with words & the logic & rationality they demand ... I wish I could find a way of reaching directly into another's heart. ..
Robin White: Something is happening Here is the first book to be devoted to Robin Whites art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives by 24 write..
Roderick Finlayson (1904-1992), storyteller and prophet, was one of the pioneering New Zealand writers who emerged in the 1930s. Vincent O'Sullivan once described him as 'our first writer to move wit..
Whakaorangia ana i te pukapuka nei e tona kaiwhakamaori e Te Haumihiata Mason te ao o Romeo raua ko Hurieta ki te reo whakaatu i te wairua Maori.
Mauroa ana te kaingakautia o nga whakaari a Wirem..
This is the history of a sport told through its communities. Rugby League in New Zealand: A People's History tells the story of a game and its supporters thriving against the odds.
Beginning wit..
Salt celebrates New Zealand's coastline with breath-taking and evocative B & W photography accompanied by poetry by Terry Fitzgibbon, capturing the essence of beach life across Aotearoa...
M?ori and Cartooning in New Zealand is a pioneering study by Paul Diamond. In the earliest cartoons featuring M?ori, they appeared as fearsome savages; today they are likely to be drawn in corporate-w..
The history of named student flats in North Dunedin reaches back to the 1930s. The authors share some of the stories of these flats, how they got their names, who lived in them and what life was like ..
Background to the book
In this book, Kathy draws on her diary notes from her 12-year stint from 1997 as Keeper of Quarantine Island in the Otago Harbour for the St Martin Island Community, a communi..
From a hidden suburban food forest to a flower farm to an organic vegetable patch to a large station garden, each is described in detail, along with their owners' challenges and delights.
The gar..
In 1900, a handful of New Zealand police detectives watched out for spies, seditionists and others who might pose a threat to state and society. The Police Force remained the primary instrument of suc..
An illuminating tour through the native sea creatures of Aotearoa, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees
Secrets of the Sea is a fascinating introduction to New Zealand's fish and..
Sedition is Anahera's long-awaited first full-length volume of poetry.
Comprising a significant body of previously unpublished work, Sedition represents a vital political intervention in the poet..
Based on the hugely popular Facebook page 'Shit Towns of New Zealand', this book describes New Zealand's towns and suburbs from the affluent to the effluent, the rural to the urinal, profiling all the..
A vigorous strand of interest in the occult, the spooky and the mysterious has
been part of our history since 1840.
Shadow Worlds takes a lively look at communicating with spirits, secret ritualis..
From its inception, the directors of Sheppard & Rout Architects have been concerned that its architectural and planning projects all reflect their cultural and historical contexts.
The events of the..
In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found.
Deep histories, both natural and human, have been woven together over h..
Shipwrecks litter the coasts and reefs of New Zealand. Disasters at sea are no longer the regular occurrence they were in the days when sea travel was the main means of coastal and international trans..
New Zealand-born painter Simon Ingram's (born 1971) first monograph surveys work from 2007-2013. With three essays and abundant illustrations, this publication explores Ingram's robotic kits and self-..
The hi-tech lowdown
Understanding technology has never been easier.
Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Emerging Technology is the perfect introduction to the fast-c..
The very first maps, oral maps made by early Polynesian and Maori settlers, were waypoints, lists of places in songs, chants, karakia and stories that showed direction.
Hundreds of years later, ..
Why isn't Aotearoa famous for its insects? We have weta that can survive being frozen, weevils with 'snouts' almost as long as their bodies, and the world's only alpine cicadas.
There is mountin..
Twenty inspiring New Zealand holiday houses tucked away in spectacular surroundings.
Thoughtfully designed holiday homes in a variety of beautiful locations around New Zealand, from coast to bush..
'Snorkelling the Abyss' explores the two worlds of one woman and the apparently unnavigable void between them. With searing honesty, Jan Jordan shows how she fought to free herself from an inner cultu..