"The 'mighty tōtara' is one of our most extraordinary trees. Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Māori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the...
"Death Goddess sings loud, proud and off-key about the trauma, mess and gore of our awa atua, red river fox, our frenemy enemy ovaries! This goddess isn't afraid of nothing. She's not afraid to spill her moon sickness on the western line. She is not afraid to...
"This history of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero details all the events of [his] life from about 1775 to his death in 1860, including his status as Lord of the Waikato and the famous battles and conflicts with other tribes, the raising up of Pōtatau as the [first] Māori...
... the recipes are a collection of both traditional and more modern ideas in cooking. The recipes are based on the produce of New Zealand, things that we grow particularly well, produce that we export and should be available to you wherever you are. The...
"Steve Williams, arguably the greatest caddie in golf history, teams up with renowned golf journalist Evin Priest to give his definitive account of his 12-year partnership with the legendary Tiger Woods, sharing personal, never-before-told moments of their...
"The report describes (a) the reasons for the undertaking of DEEP SEA 2003, An International Conference on Governance and Management of Deep-Sea Fisheries, that was held in Queenstown, New Zealand from 30 November to 5 December 2003, (b) its agenda and...
"The idea for Paper Anniversary came about four years ago when I had a vision for an on-going biennal works on paper show at the Franklin Arts Centre. The first very successful Paper Anneversary show was held in 2011. Paper Anniversary II - Romance is a...
Chapter 1. Incidents. 1860's: Prison escapers ; 19th century: Ship deserters ; 1860's: Vauxhall Gardens ; 1864: Caroline the bigamist ; 1869-72, 1880-1882: Maori prisoners ; 1874: Transit of Venus and its aftermath ; 1879: Myra Smith: a baby farmer ; 1880's:...
Ewen Sutherland has spent his life working in, designing and writing about gardens - including 18 years as a fortnightly columnist for Waiheke's Guld News. Via tips about plant choices and how to make the most of a patch of land in the middle of the Hauraki...
"Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw...
"One of New Zealand's most acclaimed and widely read contemporary poets, Brian Turner was a proud southerner, and the landscapes and skyscapes of the central South Island are among the strongest characteristics of his work. His themes range widely and make ...
Jan Cameron lived for swimming. An Olympic silver medallist at the 1964 Tokyo Games, she later became one of the most respected swim coaches in Australasia, guiding athletes to success at the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, and beyond. Known as "the Godmother of...
"In the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars, five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 provide remarkable new insight into the deep conflicts running through nineteenth-century Aotearoa. Beginning with early skirmishes off the Taranaki coast and at the...
"Art historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a father who talked little, whose affection she cherished and whose anger she feared. She later came to understand the trauma that lay behind his dark moods: rejection and violence in his childhood and...
"Part inspired creative endeavour and part determined detective work, this long overdue book brings to light one of New Zealand's most significant botanical artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Just as Emily Harris's beautiful paintings...
"First published in 1946 as Myths and Legends of Maoriland, these stories help explain the traditional Maori perspective on the origins of many things - not just people - in the world around us. They help to explain the natural world and the relationships...
This book is for teachers of adult refugee or migrant students who have made their home in New Zealand. Teachers who want to increase cultural awareness in the classroom and enable students to understand the culture within which they are now living will find...
"A Naturalist's Guide to the Fungi of Aotearoa New Zealand is an easy-to-use introductory identification guide to 267 species of New Zealand's fungi, described at species or genus level; perfect for residents and visitors alike. High quality photographs are...
"The Companion to Volcanology is not a field guide to volcanoes. But tectonic shifts are present in Brent Kininmont’s second book of poetry, and so are companions. The child, for instance, carried up a mountain in the titular opening poem, and companions alive...
"From the late 1970s into the 1990s, many developed countries restructured relations between state and economy. Among them, New Zealand went far, fast, and left a clear trail, making it possible to shift attention from outside commentaries and critiques to...
"This book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy, covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the indigenous people of Aotearoa, New Zealand. This book addresses core philosophical issues including Maori notions of the self, the world,...
"At 15 years old William Mariner was a Cabin Boy travelling on a Privateer the 'Port au Prince' to South America and the Pacific Ocean in 1805 to hunt for wealth. On their travels they ravaged and looted Spanish colonies in South America including a Catholic...
"Help! I'm a manager . . . what do I do next? Management Bites covers every area of business management, bite by bite. It's full of practical ways to manage yourself and your team with real-life examples of what went right and how to fix what's gone wrong....
"Born in a rough place at a very rough time, Allan McLachlan grew up in the Gorbals, Glasgow during WWII. Raised in a one room tenement flat, it was a dirty, grimy and grim childhood, but through it all the family love and the community culture was the...
"What does one do when the dream of a lifetime is realised? What is beyond Reinga (the place of departing spirits)? Questions, so long ignored and put on the back burner of my mind, now had to be faced. We walked, very slowly, back up the track to the car. I...
Through the New Zealand Company, the first European settlers began arriving in New Zealand in the early 1840s among whom were several sets of great grandparents and great great grandparents of mine. The original idea was to write a short history of my father's...
"In Reconnect: Tokelau Ta Tatau, artist Jack Kirifi reveals his journey of rediscovering Tokelau heritage through the ancient art of tā tatau. Raised in Porirua, New Zealand, Kirifi revisits the symbols and meanings of Tokelau tā tatau that captivated him...
"On Gillian Swinton's 2.7-hectare property in Central Otago's heartland she's living simply: trying to be as self-sufficient as possible, living with the seasons, building community and remembering not to take it all too seriously. With her partner Hamish,...
"Kei Ahotea Te Aho Matua is a report on the urgent claim bought by Te Rūnanga Nui and the Kura Kaupapa Māori Te Aho Matua whānau it represents. The claimants allege that the Crown did not sufficiently involve or consider Te Rūnanga Nui or Kura Kaupapa Māori in...
Celebrating the bi-centenary of Cook's visit to the Bay of Islands. Supplement to the Northern Advocate December 2, 1969.
"A book by Red Leap co-founder and former Artistic Director, Julie Nolan. This book deeply explores devising techniques and exercises used by Red Leap over the years. Julie also interviews other well-known New Zealand theatre makers. This is a great tool to...
In Mad Diva, poet Cadence Chung takes us wheeling and diving through a scintillating whirl of ideas, experiences and imagery. Operatic in scale, by turns lush and spare, Mad Diva is a high-wire performance from an extraordinary emerging talent. This...
"Explores the role hymns play in worship. What shall we sing today, in this time and place? It examines the hymns written by six contemporary hymnwriters in Aotearoa New Zealand. It identifies themes and emphases, and assesses their contribution. The book...
"Birds, bats and butterflies all have wings, but their young ones don't always get to fly. Many are fighting to survive. The good news is that relief troops are active in the field. Strategies include fortified nest boxes for our smallest bird, secure roosts...
"Mark Adams is one of Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost photographers. His focus on Samoan tatau, Māori-Pakeha interactions in Rotorua, carved meeting houses, locations of significance for Ngāi Tahu in Te Waipounamu, and Captain James Cook's landing sites...
"A one-stop-shop for making the most of what you have ... Mary Holm is the most trusted writer and reliable long-term adviser on money matters in New Zealand ... Better than anyone else, she knows what worries New Zealanders about money, what they...
South Waikato in the years 1950 to 1980 saw a period of rapid expansion, based around the increase and improvement of farming, the building of Hydro dams on the Waikato River and the utilisation of pine trees and the building of a large pulp and paper mill at...
"Looking for new opportunities, Charles Lagden Haylock and his family left the quiet Essex village of Ashdon and travelled halfway around the world to New Zealand. After a perilous voyage on the Monarch they arrived in April 1850 and settled in the isolated...
"Published to celebrate the Chartwell Trust’s 50th anniversary, Being, Seeing, Making, Thinking: 50 Years of the Chartwell Project conveys the passion and energy driving Chartwell’s visionary work and its impact on the visual arts in New Zealand. Illustrating...
"From the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist like her father. He was a beer-swilling, straight-talking Aussie who was rough around the edges but could quote passages of Hamlet at will. He taught Ali everything - from how to skin a rabbit and...
"Walking from Bluff to Cape Reinga, award-winning journalist Naomi Arnold goes in search of New Zealand. Walking from Bluff, at the bottom edge of the South Island, to Cape Reinga, at the top of the North Island, award-winning journalist Naomi Arnold goes in...
"For anyone who has dreamed of living in the country ... here's the hilarious, heart-warming brutal reality. Rebecca Hayter was a high-profile yachting journalist based in Auckland when she followed a whim to buy a lifestyle block on the beach at Golden Bay...
"This book is an illustrated guide to the visual arts of the Māori as they existed from about the time of Captain Cook's landing on New Zealand shores in 1769, until about 1900 the so called Classic and Historic periods."Page 11.
The Pacific Islands region consists of 14 independent countries and 8 territories located in the western and central Pacific Ocean. The region's fishery resources can be broadly split into two main categories: oceanic (offshore) and coastal (inshore). Oceanic...
"The purpose of the Workshop was to assist countries in the Pacific Islands subregion to develop capacity to elaborate national plans of action to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (NPOAs-IUU). The Workshop addressed...
"A true story about a quiet, peaceful, tightknit community, that learned that a large corporate planned to forcibly acquire their land through the public works act, and what they did about it!"--Back cover.
"An Invisible Hand is Stephen Roucher’s first artist’s book, from his street photographs made between 2012 and 2022. In an era where modern technology offers precise navigation and ubiquitous ‘street-view’ convenience, locations are catalogued and made...
"This collection of essays is a celebrations as much as it constitutes a scholarly text. The essays provide messages of Indigenous women's strength and endurance, love and joy. The collections speaks of Country and connections, of the difficult and complex...
"In central Auckland during the 1980's a group of families began a conversation about the lack of access to preschool Samoan language and culture learning through existing early childhood centres. The conversation grew and manifested into New Zealand's first...
"What is happening to our world? Some key issues about life - freedom of speech, diminishing empathy, our obsession for wanting more, words matter, the decay of truth, the search for happiness, coping when the going gets tough, the need for more wisdom in...
"This book will enable you to develop in-depth coaching expertise. Effective coaches all want to continuously build their skills to help their clients more. Yet widespread evidence shows that although most professionals do initially develop rapidly, more...
A debut NZ poetry collection from newly published ipad poet, Paula Allen. Succinct, stylish writing conjures rural NZ, the joy of gardening and life's celebrations. There is quiet acceptance of life's ultimate finality, of sorrow and a ready self deprecation. ...
"Visas Now! zooms in on the high-stakes, one-off intakes of Syrians, Afghans and Ukrainians in the past decade. The book also includes nine people who share how their communities came together to seek emergency refugee intakes, including some whose calls went...
Following the sell-out success of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth edition of Hunting New Zealand comes this sixth edition, which is illustrated with 1:50,000 & 1:250,000 topographic maps. It provides information on over 850 hunting spots; the...
"A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Innovatively using historical newspapers and other archives,...
"A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world"--Back cover.
The images from this look at Kaipara's 'back story' are courtesy of The Kauri Museum at Matakohe and the Albertland and Districts Museum at Wellsford. Featuring many early photographs from the Harold Marsh and Tudor Collins collections, Paul Campbell takes you...
"I am the eldest daughter of the late playwright and 'father of New Zealand theatre', Bruce Mason and his wife Diana, who had a brilliant career as an obstetrician (though she was also notorious for her anti-abortion stance in the 1970s). This memoir is the...
"The bookseller at the end of the world described the first part of Ruth Shaw's tumultuous life, touching readers in powerful ways. It became an international bestseller, translated into eleven languages. Three wee bookshops at the end of the world picks up...
16 different chapters about some of NZ's Triumphs and Tragedies e.g. Wahine Disaster, White Island, Ballantynes Fire, Tangiwai, Mt Erebus, The conquest of Mt Everest, Building of Auckland Harbour Bridge, Selected Gold medallists at the Olympic Games. Also...
"David Gregory writes about the shifting, mutable, post-truth world, where an opinion is more valid than a demonstrable fact, where our recollections – seemingly as clear as photographs – may be just redacted and damaged files. But there is a place where the...
"Roy Parsons was a roads pioneer, a no-nonsense problem solver, responsible for the planning and construction of Auckland’s roads. As district highways engineer from 1950–68 he oversaw projects for the main transport arteries leading into and fanning out of...
"Pasifika Black details how liberation struggles in Oceania engaged Black internationalism in their fights against French, British, Indonesia, and Australian colonialisms. It explores how these diverse and uneven efforts informed political movements across the...
How is religious faith affected by our life's experiences? Trish McBride started with a traditional Christian faith. Over time this has evolved into a belief in a God who is free of denominational church boundaries. One poem and prose step at a time, Trish...
"Although the number of Chinese who have become Christians in Aotearoa New Zealand has never been particularly large, the impact and influence of the Christian church on the Chinese communities in this country has been significant. Chinese and European...
Vanya has built her reputation on simple, delicious, never-fail recipes. She knows what works in the kitchen when it comes to feeding a family and how to whip up the perfect dish for every occasion. Following on from the runaway success of Everyday Favourites...
"The report concerns claims submitted to the Tribunal under urgency regarding the Crown’s policy to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989. Section 7AA imposes specific duties on the chief executive of Oranga Tamariki so as to provide a practical...
"The Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act was introduced in 2011 to replace the controversial Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004. The Act restored customary interests extinguished under the 2004 Act, introduced statutory tests and awards to recognise...
Poems In Retrospect / A Selection, 'presents a diverse range of philosophic, contemplative, and metaphysical work published over a span of five decades. Here are poems of heightened imagery, perceptual depth, and assured technical proficiency by 'a master of...
"Without Fear or Favour begins with fundamentals: who does what and how, the sources of law nationally and internationally, constitutional principles and values, and time and the law. Keith then moves on to consider the growth (and retreat) of the law, with...
"This anthology is bsed on the 12 Ezines (electronic magazines) produced during 2022 and 2023 - a time when the effects of COVID19 still continued and cyclones and flooding brought destruction and misery. The poems in this anthology reflect how poets reacted....
"The vast cultural area of Polynesia covers Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand and the many isles in between. The stories and legends of the region are based on the creation of land, fish, sea, valleys and the volcanic outcrops scattered across the long...
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