Social Sciences

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave of state-sponsored 'national ftness' programmes swept Britain and its former colonies. Following revelati...

This book is for people who enjoy driving and exploring the stories of our back roads, but most of all it is for people who love New Zealand, wheth...

This book is for people who enjoy driving and exploring the stories of our back roads, but most of all it is for people who love New Zealand, wheth...

More people are likely migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes e...

The idea of social investment has obvious intuitive appeal. But is it robust? Is it built on sound philosophical principles and secure analytical f...

'How do I encourage my baby to sleep through the night?' 'How do I teach my baby to self-settle?' 'Everyone else seems to be coping with their baby...

The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ...the Fonterra botulism scare ...the Christchurch earthquakes - in all these recent crises the role played by sc...

First New Zealand shores are systematically described in their regional detail, with the addition of material from 25 years' investigation, particu...

Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's fat...

Reminiscences Of A Long Life

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of Heaney as translator. The authors have approached their contribution from differ...

In 2004, workmen demolishing the home that had housed three generation's of Ann Gluckman's family saved an old cardboard box hidden under the eaves...

When natural disaster strikes, how much is the public entitled to know - even when the scientists aren't sure? What obligations do they have to a g...

New Zealand's dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden and not so hidden costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecol...

For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her ...

Penguins are, perhaps, the most loved of birds. We've been fascinated by them for just about as long as we've known they existed. When penguins are...

Paul Dibble has traversed many subjects in his sculptural work - often returning to them years later, like godwits coming home to roost. Between 20...

Acknowledged internationally for his ground- breaking scientific research in the field of magnetic resonance, Sir Paul Callaghan was a scientist an...

`Passion' is the perfect word for author Marion Day. She is passionate about many things - life, nature, photography, good food - and unifying them...

Albert Wendt crosses into new and deeply personal territory in this stirring BWB Text. Returning to his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in S...

In 2010, the Human Rights Commission found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand. Yet a...

In 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called 'man drought' is a h...

Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, Anderso...

Nicolas Dillon is one of New Zealand's leading wildlife painters, who has built a reputation over the last 30 years for his masterful portraits of ...