Social Sciences

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 p...

Text Pesticides and Health How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection Author: Pearce Neil ISBN: 9781990046889

Many of today's digital technologies inadvertently amplify the power structures and prejudices of wider society. By examining the way digital tools...

A Naturalist's Guide to the Reptiles & Amphibians of New Zealand is an introductory photographic identification guide to all 141 reptile and am...

Between the 1980s and 2015, Dave Vass became one of New Zealand's leading mountaineers. In 'Not Set in Stone' he recounts the beginning of his outd...

'What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that proces...

The first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal, a feat not repeated for forty years. Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story o...

Neville Peat has been a New Zealand writer for over 50 years, and during his working life has visited many of the islands within Aotearoa's marine ...

A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers and activists. For these...

Stirring writings on life, law and culture from Mamari Stephens (Te Rarawa), one of New Zealand's most perceptive legal minds.

Ray Ching is internationally recognised as one of the world's greatest living wildlife artists. Born in New Zealand, he established himself as an a...

'Bloody Woman gives voice to my lived experience, to the overlooked, to the underrepresented and to the exceptionally complex, multifaceted and con...

'The creation of new science requires moving beyond simply understanding one another's perspectives. We need to find transformative spaces for know...

Remembering Kaikoura Earthquake

'Above the Treeline' is an essential publication for anyone interested in the natural world of alpine New Zealand, a guide not only to the plants, ...

Presently, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults - now a roughly 40,000-strong club - has a net worth 68 times that of the average New Zea...

The 1960s was a period of radical conflict, when the desire for a new, socially defiant freedom affected every aspect of NZ culture: theatre, the v...

The moa were the most unusual and unique family of birds that ever lived, a clan of feathered monsters that developed in isolation for many, many m...

New Zealand is the seabird capital of the world - no other country has so many species of breeding seabirds, while about a third of them are only f...

Ever wondered what Kiwis get up to in their garages? Kiwi Garages celebrates the can-do culture, lifting the doors of over 30 self-styled Kiwi gara...

An off-grid house on Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil one man's dreams, until cracks start to appear. Part Man Alone, part love story,...

In 1995, two adventurous artists decided to follow their hearts, creative instincts and life principles to draw a symbolic line around the earth. T...

Dorothy Buchanan is a prolific, much loved and much awarded composer, who pioneered the composer-in-schools scheme and has been a force in music an...

This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first written by Gil Docking, published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Mic...