Environmental Politics and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand is a comprehensive introduction to confronting some of today's most urgent challenges.
Global warming, threats to biodiversity, contamina..
Over the last 50 years, sea kayakers, climbers and alpine trampers have been attempting audacious journeys across NZ that last many months. Most of these adventurers have written books on their travel..
Haunting and searingly beautiful, Erebus has attracted explorers, mountaineers, artists and scientists; each drawn to the mountain by their own particular vision or curiosity. The mountain is a truly ..
From creating a festival of dreams to nurturing a space for Maori storytelling, from editing poetry to crafting an Ockham-shortlisted novel on a wild Hokitika beach, this collection weaves together pi..
June 2016, Far North, New Zealand.
The job seemed simple: leave Auckland, pick up
500kg of meth from Ninety-Mile Beach and drive it back south, keeping a low
profile.
How har..
Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit, Feijoa is a sweeping, global tale about the dance between people and plants - how we need each other, how we change each other, and th..
Youth activism has been a defining feature of Aotearoa's recent political landscape. Amidst these unsettling political times haunted by climate change, colonisation, ongoing inequality and the upheava..
This gorgeous collection of photographs, accompanied by extended captions and insightful interviews, is a visual celebration of the New Zealand farmer and the landscape in which they live and work.
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An essential guide to foraging in New Zealand.
New Zealand is full of incredible, edible wild foods - fruit, fungi and seaweed; berries, herbs and more - you only need to know where to look and h..
The arrival of Europeans in Aotearoa brought about an inevitable clash between the laws and values of Maori societies and those of the newcomers.
Like a subduction zone between two tectonic plate..
This book gives a chronological history of abortion in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-European times to the present. It includes key events including legislative changes, anti-abortion protests, lobbyi..
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand.
Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money.
A gang..
Is GE the first thing that comes to mind when hearing the words "genome" or "genomic technology"? You may be surprised to discover how much more there is to this fascinating field of knowledge than ju..
Geoff Spearpoint is a legend among New Zealand's tramping and mountaineering community. For over 50 years he has been undertaking many long, adventurous trips in the Southern Alps every year, decade a..
An eagle, and its place in our history.
The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he lea..
The concept of a braided river - he awa whiria - inspired the creation by pioneering educational researcher Professor Angus Macfarlane of a framework connecting Indigenous and Western perspectives.
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As Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations from 2008 to 2017, Christopher Finlayson completed an unprecedented number of settlements with iwi. In 2012 alone, Parliament passed more Treaty legisla..
For High
Hopes and Big Dreams, Peter Janssen and Elizabeth Anderson set out to
profile 165 small historic towns, that had once flourished and have now faded.
But it turned out to be much more th..
Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand explores intolerance and extremism in Aotearoa New Zealand, from the emergence of the precursors to the radical right during British settle..
Whether you have a small urban section or a rambling, shady backyard, Homegrown Happiness will help you create the perfect garden to suit your needs. An advocate of the low-maintenance no-dig gardenin..
If you really want to know what makes a town tick, look no further than the local pub.To create this tribute to that integral part of our culture - the Kiwi pub - George Lockyer has travelled the leng..
In Defence Of A Reputation A Critique OF R.H. Brown's "Pickerill—Pioneer in Plas-tic Surgery, Dental Education, and Dental Re-search" (OUP 2007)
In Defence Of A Reputation H.P. Pickerill—A Hero For ..
We all have one: an inner critic that sometimes feels like our worst enemy.
A loudspeaker in our mind that yells, "You're an impostor! You don't know what you're doing! Everyone else is doing life b..
Kainga Tahi, Kainga Rua surveys the many ways whanau, hapu and iwi experience housing and home across Aotearoa New Zealand. Arriving at a time of promise and change for Maori housing, these stories of..
'This book has it all. No topic is shied away from. Robyn and Molly share their unique style and deliver an insightful, inclusive and incredibly current view of parenting and childhood. A must-read!' ..
Kiwi Farmers' Guide to Life does just that, telling stories of New Zealand farmers, agribusiness entrepreneurs and even a couple of scientists. Each one knows about sweat, quick thinking and the impor..
To get to the
Stewart family's remote homestead, you head south from the heart of the King
Country and take a 40-minute drive into the middle of nowhere.
Life on Fodder Farm is their jo..
This fully updated, comprehensive book is an indispensable guide to the management of dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, deer, goats, pigs, poultry, horses and farm dogs in New Zealand...
This superbly illustrated history of the people who settled in the many bays of Whakaraupo Lyttelton Harbour is full of finely observed insights into the challenges of living in small, remote communit..
Why cook at home when you can order in?
Only fifty years ago in New Zealand, methamphetamine was a publicly prescribed drug used by housewives, shift workers, students, and anyone looking for..
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marke..
In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantations on hilltops at dawn, balls, exhibitions, dinners and a vast number of events. The Matariki tradit..
Authors of Every Bastard Says No on giving up their city life for a high-country station in Central Otago
In Meet You at the Main Divide, innovators, disruptors, and authors of Every Bastard ..
Written to celebrate the New Zealand Meat Board's Centenary in 2022, 'Meeting Change' covers the past 25 years of evolution for the organisation and its place in New Zealand's wider red meat sector. T..
Twelve extraordinary tales of disappearance: a collection of true crime writing by New Zealand's award-winning master of non-fiction.
Former journalist Murray Mason, found dead in the Auckland ..
Nature faces a crossroads. What will we, ourselves a part of nature, do? Time is running fast but opportunities still exist to activate the human qualities of creativity, generosity, courage and wisdo..
The purpose of this book is to examine the foreign policy of Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand Government between 2020 and early 2023 when the COVID-19 pandemic intersected with an evolving and often tumul..
A powerful new collection of non-fiction by contemporary Maori writers.
From over 60 Maori writers, Nga Kupu Wero brings together a bounty of essays, articles, commentary and creative nonfiction ..
This is the biography of the mighty ceremonial waka taua Ngatokimatawhaorua that rests on the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi.
The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Herangi. In the late ..
A compilation of
quotes about New Zealand by the intelligent and the well-known.
Sourced from a mix of well-known New Zealanders and famous foreigners, with
some people being generous in th..
In 2010, the Human Rights Commission found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand. Yet although anti-Asian prejudice has a long history in Ne..
Mental depression is a serious issue in contemporary New Zealand, and it has an
increasingly high profile. But during our history, depression has often been hidden
under a long black cloud of deni..
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF INSANITY
The dangers of growth, nuclear war, climate change and peak oil; driven by propaganda and on the road to tyranny.
This play, on the world stage, is intended to loo..