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Full history, intrigue and facts of Predator Free New Zealand. The story behind Predator Free NZ and how, through a tapestry of theft and deception, successive governments have sabotaged the original concept and plans while setting up their own 'pois...
A patchy archive of hallucinatory field notes, dictionary definitions from inside a dream, and diary entries from an alternate history. This collection of strange poems maintains both excitement and melancholy like the two-edged blade of a letter ope...
"David Cossgrove was undoubtedly one of the key players in the social reforms of the 20th Century. Early in 1908, David was watching a self-formed patrol of Boy Scouts undertaking adventurous activities on a riverbank, near their homes in Kaiapoi, Ca...
"Len's first overseas adventure was as part of a delegation of New Zealand university graduates to People's Republic of China in 1977 and he has been constantly traveling since then. This book covers over 40 years of travel to over 35 countries. Len's...
"In this book, Janis outlines a simple approach that she has used herself to improve sleep. She spent 12 years researching practical ways to improve her brain after damage in 2007. She believes that sleep is fundamental to good health, happiness and ...
"Pasifika people are at a crossroads and need to decide whether to retain their traditional cultural values and practices, to adopt those of the majority of New Zealanders or find a middle pathway to the future. They feel under pressure in their lives...
"Walking is one of the best ways to see a country and in this book there's a short walk to suit everyone. All 365 walks are three hours or less and will suit those who enjoy walking but do not fancy a long tramp with heavy boots and a pack, or visitors...
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"This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu's traditional oral maps and modern satellite atlas, I crossed the Southern Alps more than a dozen times, trying to understand how our forebears saw the land. What did it mean to define...
"Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine...
"Polly Gillespie walks the reader through some of the ups and downs of life, with advice and warnings. She has been on radio and in magazines continuously since 1991. With empathy, self-deprecation and experience, she hopes to make you feel better about...
"The principle guide to the political context, institutions and processesz of government in New Zealand. It provides readers with a clear and comprehensive introduction to the history, theory and knowledge required to understand the New Zealand polit...
"When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – he saw something deeper. It was a story about his...
"New Zealand versus South Africa ... the All Blacks against the Springboks. There's been no other rugby rivalry like it. For a hundred years, they've been battering away against each other, the outcomes see-sawing with the seasons. But it'sbeen more ...
"When we see the need for change, we want to take action. But there is more to change than taking to the streets. From prison theatre and glaxroots community engagement to social enterprise and online campaigning, the ways citizens can make change are...
"Many people find the road to having a family is not the smooth one they always expected. Whether there is an unforeseen physical problem, the lack of a suitable partner, or no problem that can be diagnosed, many people wind up seeking help. Pamphlets...
Our energy to heal and create change, comes from the whenua - the living growing earth with all its beauty; from te Ngahere (Forests) and the rivers and mountains - the special places where Papatuanuku still retains that gift of life that once flouri...
"To the Occupant takes the everyday and transforms it into something fine and precious and enduring. With an unsparing attention, Emma Neale creates shape-shifting poems that confound prejudices and subvert expectations. Displaying verve and confidence,...
From 1845 to 1875, New Zealand experienced a succession of conflicts that stretched from the Bay of Islands to Wellington. What they meant has been debated ever since. To some they were land wars, to others, the Maori wars; lately we are calling them...
Gripping, authentic and inspiring, Rebekah Campbell's quest to find love and happiness is packed with hilarious mistakes and insights that can help us all become better at relationships.
Couples in last-chance therapy, best friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game -- this collection is concerned with the things that make us feel. This felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the regal calm of goats...
"The Nuvolari Alfa P3; ex-Moss Maserati 250F; Paul Fahey's Lotus Cortina, Shelby Mustang and Escort FVA/FVC, Ray Stone's place in New Zealand motorsport history is unequalled. Working with national and international drivers he earned the respect of all...
"Reflexology for Dogs is the first book to provide practical instruction on reflexology for canines using specific touch techniques on the paws, face and outer ears, which correspond to parts of the dog's body. Included are other holistic therapies for...
"Strong Words #2 showcases the long-listed entries for the 2019 and 2020 Landfall essay competitions. The contents, often poetic and psychologically insightful, gave editor Emma Neale a 'hell of an intriguingly hard time' deciding which sparkling exp...
"Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers the men in his barbershop a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. As the creator of My Fathers Barbers, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Zealand men to break...
Cheap and cheerful recipes full of flavour, from series 1 and series 2 of New Zealand's hit series Eat Well for Less NZ. The New Zealand version of Eat Well for Less was a big hit and had a huge impact on the families involved. This book gives all the...
"What will it take to follow your dream? On the outside, Rebekah Campbell has an enviable life. At thirty-five, she is founder of hot Sydney start-up Posse.com, she writes one of Australia's most popular blogs and she gives inspirational talks at con...
"In this ... memoir, Hon. Sir Michael Cullen describes his lengthy political career, including his major economic policies. Among the many highlights are the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, also known as the Cullen Fund; KiwiSaver; and the Working f...
"The Hundred Year War is the story of the intense competition between the All Blacks and Springboks over the past 100 years, the games they've played and the battles that have raged from parliaments to the streets. It's an examination of two cultures...
"God's Cuisine for Balance is a book sharing the importance of a balanced life style and how it can be achieved by eating great healthy food for the body, getting essential good knowledge and education for the brain, and having safe loving enculturation...
"Len's first overseas adventure was as part of a delegation of New Zealand University graduates to People's Republic of China in 1977 and he has been constantly traveling since then. This book covers over 40 years of travel to over 35 countries. Len's...
"Mamas in Lockdown is an emotional and inspiring collection of personal stories from over 70 parents who were pregnant or gave birth during lockdown.Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the people of Aotearoa New Zealand, especially those having a baby....
"For more than six decades Catherine Brough has painted the New Zealand landscape, 'en plein air,' pursuing both the realities of its light, atmosphere and geology, and its abstract formal materiality on canvas, finely tuned in painterly, expressionist...
A collection of stories of those who brought about change. People between the ages of 70 and 90 have faced massive societal change - arguably more than anyone in the history of mankind. Was it easy for them? How were they able to grow and develop in ...
"This detailed study of New Zealand’s air forces – what the service men and women wore and carried – is a first. This book includes the often-overlooked ground trades and women in the service as well as the flyers. It include items that were manufactured...
"The Little Ache - a German notebook was written in 2013-14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler. In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history...
"Blanche Edith Baughan (1870-1958) was one of New Zealand's first poets and travel writers - her poems were praised for their New Zealand vernacular and her travel writing introduced people here and overseas to our walks and wilderness areas. Born in...
"The Ford Falcon is as much a part of Kiwi culture as fish and chips on the beach, or rugby, or wearing jandals in summer. Ford Australia launched the Falcon in 1960, and while it took the best part of five years before Ford New Zealand introduced it....
"In New Zealand's France, Dr Alistair Watts investigates the origins of the New Zealand nation state from a fresh perspective - one that moves beyond the traditional bicultural view prevalent in the current New Zealand historiography. That New Zealand...
"Intrepid hunter, adventurer and writer Peter Ryan has produced yet another deeply satisfying collection of hunting tales, complemented by sensational imagery." --Publisher description.
"This book tells the candid story of how distance parents and distance grandparents struggle – and succeed – to adapt to their new reality. This isn’t family life as they had imagined it. If you are a distance parent or distance grandparent, all those...
"From Invercargill to Auckland, community access radio has been broadcasting by, for and about New Zealanders across four decades. Within a rapidly shifting mediascape, the twelve current stations came into existence through a combination of passion,...
"In our modern environment, we are continually exposed to a steady stream of pollution which has the potential to undermine our well-being... Take back your power to stay well! Discover how easy it is to make your own safe to use healing balms and ...
"Throughout the Orphan trilogy, James & Lance merge fact with fiction by incorporating real-world theories on known individuals and organizations. Now, with this non-fiction companion volume, they provide detailed analysis for each one of those contr...
Beyond Refuge is a new way to brining resettled people and host society together to share settlement and integration lived experience that might encourage connection, understanding and relationship building. Stories of resettlement in Auckland is about...
First published in February 2021, The Sensational South Island is the companion volume to The Neglected North Island: New Zealand's other half, judged 'Best Antipodean Cultural Travel Book 2021' by Lux Life magazine, lux-review.com. Both books expand...
"The Western Districts Community Foundation (WDCF) may not have changed greater Auckland, but it exercised a tangible influence in West Auckland from when it was formed in the early 1970s. This book is a record of the how and the why of the Foundation,...
"Conceptualised and developed by contemporary artist Cushla Donaldson with publishers Te Reo Kē and The Physics Room, Through That Which Separates Us is a collection of writing, artworks, and interviews which form a genealogy of deportation in Australasia...
"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 importance of a sense of humour in the world of agricu...
"One of the most influential Czechs living abroad, New Zealand author Jindra Tichý's fascinating memoir is one of exile and survival, of distance and painful longing. It depicts in a moving way the pain and confusion of banishment from home, family and...
"If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Sea foam, ambergris, giant squid, stranded whales, seaweed, shells, plastic, dead birds, shoes and pieces...
The fascinating, definitive story of Australia and New Zealand's quest to win the world's greatest motor race.
"The story of the All Blacks campaign for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, with insightful analysis and full commentary. What happened to the All Blacks at the 2019 Rugby World Cup? They were aiming for their third title in a row. A win would have capped a decade...
"This brilliant selection of photographs and stories describes what it means to stare down the most famous ritual in sport, from the perspective of those who have been there. Facing the Haka examines the significance that the All Blacks' haka has in the...
"Peat starts out as Lynn Jenner's study of the Kapiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre from her own house. She decides to create a kind of archive of the construction of this so-called Road ...
"In her new collection of poems, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book."--Back cover
"This book examines the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand that took place in March 2019. The massacre sent some shockwaves across Muslim communities in the west. No one expected Muslim devotees to be butchered in broad day light like this in any w...
Manawa Hine: He wāhine e tohe ki te tai - Women who swam against the tideText by Kuini RikihanaIllustrations by Sarah WairauTranslated by Hēni JacobFrom Kuini Rikihana, author of Illustrated Māori Myths and Legends, comes Manawa Hine, a collection of...
"The incredible story of how a woman and her family survived poverty and injustices, and yet received miraculous provision. How did a woman who suffered such trauma go on to change the face of the justice system in New Zealand and the world? Verna's and...
"Misa Telefoni Retzlaff attended primary school at Marist Brothers’ in Apia and attended King’s College (Auckland) where he was awarded Scholars and Honours Ties. He was the first student at King’s College to win the prestigious Kelliher Economics Sc...
"Jessica Hutchings (hua parakore gardener, activist, academic and certified Te Waka Kai Ora grower) explains the political implications of the decisions that we make about growing and eating kai. She encourages us to take control over the food security...
This book provides a critical reflection on the ways dance studio teachers recognize, reflect and respond to cultural difference within their dance studio classes, particularly in the rural context in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Through dance teachers narratives,...
"This second volume showcases the inspirational Kiwi running stars of our millennium to date. The majority of their stories are based on personal interviews and intertwined with those who have gone before them. There is a robustness to this family tree...
"A powerful survivor's memoir from a former child resident of New Zealand's infamous Centrepoint Community Shortly before I turned 13, my life changed forever when my family moved to the notorious Centrepoint Community on Auckland's North Shore, then...
"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 across the Pacific. They were given the status of mast...
"'Amui 'i Mu'a – Ancient Futures is the significant creative outcome of recent 'hands-on' research by Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck and Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi in historic collections at museums in Australasia, across Europe, the United Kingdom and the United...
This beautiful book recounts the fascinating history of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Epsom. It tells the story of the Sisters of Mercy who founded the parish and school, and features photos and memories of those involved in the first 100 years of Ep...
"Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems live in the space between the end of the world and a new day. They ask us to think about our relationship to desire and exploitation. They are both nostalgic for, and exhausted by,...
"These gracious homes - dotted across the sun-drenched uplands of Hawke's Bay - rose unashamedly from the golden fleeces on the sheep's backs, to become monuments to our settler heritage. Set in spacious grounds and framed by enormous exotic trees, such...
"Sam Duckor Jones's first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the ...
When you have a parkrun barcode you can run or walk at any of the free, weekly, timed 5km events around the world. In this book Alison King guides you around the events of New Zealand. You can find out how the event came to be and what else is to be ...
"This comprehensive book showcases all the works from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam that appear in the exhibition of Surrealist art hosted by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in 2021. It includes biographies of all the fea...
"Extraordinary stories from a lifetime spent conducting interviews. This is the world of the dreaded door-knock from the other side of the door. Trish Palmer has been working as an interviewer and area manager for market research companies for over 20...
"Owning a dog is a huge responsibility and the more we prepare for such a major life decision, the more we empower ourselves. With the right signals, you'll soon be able to understand and speak your dog's language, helping you cement the foundations of...
At a moment when the planet is so clearly in peril, the trees stand as both guardians and messengers. They have words for us - if only we would listen. As climate change imposes significant challenges on the natural world we are being encouraged to p...
"On April 24th 1915 Armenian intellectuals of the Ottoman Empire were arrested en masse marking the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. The following day, April 25th 1915, saw the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing at Gallipoli. This book draws...
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