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Waiheke Island A World of Wine - Clare Dunleavy
Waiheke Island A World of Wine
Towards a Warmer World: What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand's Future - Veronika Meduna
As new thresholds are breached, acclaimed Radio New Zealand science writer Veronika Meduna explores our future in a warmer world. Beginning with le...
View full detailsTime of Useful Consciousness: Acting Urgently on Climate Change - Ralph Chapman
Our climate is changing, in ways that will have long-term impacts for us and for our children. Yet still we fail to take meaningful action. Why? An...
View full detailsThorndon: Wellington and Home: My Katherine Mansfield Project - Kirsty Gunn
For London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning to the city of her birth to spend a winter in a tiny colonial cottage in Thorndon is an exciting opp...
View full detailsThe Whole Intimate Mess: Motherhood, Politics, and Women's Writing - Holly Walker
'I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal dist...
View full detailsThe Trouble with Golf - Garrick Tremain
A humorous look at the game of golf through verse, cartoons and observations from one of New Zealand's best-loved cartoonists. His earlier book of ...
View full detailsThe Struggle for Sovereignty: New Zealand and Twenty-First Century Statehood - Margaret Wilson
In the era of public choice and free markets, does the New Zealand state still have the best interests of its individual citizens at heart? Since 1...
View full detailsThe Political Years: 2019 - Marilyn Waring
"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful ha...
View full detailsThe Piketty Phenomenon: New Zealand Perspectives - Nz Writers
Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty's assessment that in...
View full detailsThe New Zealand Project - Max Harris
By any measure, New Zealand must confront some monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change, geopolitical upheav...
View full detailsThe New Zealand Family Court Survival Guide - Katrina Smithson
Dealing with a relationship breakdown, custody dispute or other family or whanau crisis can be an overwhelming, emotional and stressful experience....
View full detailsThe Invading Sea: Coastal hazards and climate change in 21st-century New Zealand - Neville Peat
`Low-lying coast is a chronically grim frontline of climate change, socially and economically, and the frontline with the most to lose.' New Zealan...
View full detailsThe Healthy Kiwi Student: A Food, Fitness and Lifestyle Guide from the Tasty Twins - Sophie Martin
Hey, there's no denying it: student life can be tough. Staying on top of your classwork and passing exams can be challenging enough, let alone figu...
View full detailsThe Health of the People: 2019 - David Skegg
In August 2016, forty per cent of the residents of Havelock North were suddenly struck down by a serious bacterial infection. The outbreak of campy...
View full detailsThe Fire Economy: New Zealand's Reckoning - Jane Kelsey
The FIRE economy - finance, insurance and real estate - is now the world's principal source of wealth creation. Its rise has transformed our politi...
View full detailsThe Expatriates: 2017 - Martin Edmond
The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, no...
View full detailsThe Edge of Life: Controversies and Challenges in Human Health - Mike Berridge
The gap between rapid scientific progress and public understanding faces unprecedented challenges. Leading research scientist Mike Berridge explore...
View full detailsThe Climate Dispossessed: Justice for the Pacific in Aotearoa? - Teall Crossen
The world is heating up beyond the capacity of some countries to cope. Entire populations of Pacific Islands are at risk, jeopardising the sovereig...
View full detailsThe Child Poverty Debate: Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings - Jonathan Boston
The Child Poverty Debate: Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings
The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities, 1840-1920 - Ben Schrader
The pursuit of city life is one of the most important untold stories of New Zealand. The Big Smoke is the first comprehensive history to tell this ...
View full detailsThe 9th Floor - Guyon Espiner
Based on the acclaimed RNZ podcast series, and including new material, The 9th Floor by journalists Guyon Espiner and Tim Watkin presents in-depth ...
View full detailsTamatea Dusky: Conservation and history in Fiordland's Dusky Sound - Peta Carey
Tamatea Dusky: Conservation and history in Fiordland's Dusky Sound
Swim: A year of swimming outdoors in New Zealand - Annette Lees
This is a book about New Zealanders and their deep connection to swimming in the outdoors. Every neighbourhood has its swimming hole up the river, ...
View full detailsStudent Political Action in New Zealand - Sylvia Nissen
Student Political Action in New Zealand