Social Sciences

Growing More Than Grass

Geoff Spearpoint is a legend among New Zealand's tramping and mountaineering community. For over 50 years he has been undertaking many long, advent...

Fast-paced, globally informed and wittily written - Professor Danny Dorling, Oxford University One of the epochal shifts of the last 40 years has b...

Migration and the movement of people is one of the critical issues confronting the world's nations in the twenty-first-century.This book is about t...

Have you ever wondered why New Zealand's plants and animals are so different from those in other countries? Why kakapo is the only parrot in the wo...

The events surrounding the 'trial' of Lloyd Geering for heresy in the late 1960s were unprecedented in New Zealand. Charged with 'doctrinal error' ...

Compelling and revealing, the often hectic and sometimes poignant tale of the life and times of New Zealand's foremost storyteller.

What do Colin Meads and Carmen have in common? Or Barry Brickell, Jim Bolger, John Hawkesby, Paul Reeves and Witi Ihimaera? They all took part in c...

Fair Weather Hitchhiker

New Zealand has un unparalleled selection of superb day walks, ranging from the easiest short strolls to more strenuous full-day tramps. These enco...

Checkpoint 25

Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this remarkable book tell a new story of life arriving amidst a turbulent world. Before t...

In recent years, more people are calling for an independent, values-based foreign policy - and parties of all political stripes are looking for new...

This is the story of a quest I began three decades ago - the search for my Chinese identity. The path I travelled was not linear, and the years bro...

'The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory's infinite field.' Martin Edmond's ...

Life in the remote community of Te Kuaka.

This dramatic story of hope and devotion is based entirely on the cache of letters and documents found in an old 1930s leather suitcase. Intrigued ...

"I knew, and know still, that there is good science and bad science, misinformation and reliable information, truth and falsehood, and also much gr...

This award-winning book explores the dynamic worlds of New Zealand and the submerged realm of Zealandia, their natural geological wonders, bounties...

Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on New Zealand tourism, but the industry was already troubled by unchecked growth and questionable governance...