Social Sciences

As a group of islands in the far south-west Pacific Ocean, New Zealand has a history that is steeped in the sea. Its people have encountered the se...

New World New God: Rethinking Christianity for a secular age

'It strikes me with great clarity that if you look at the problems in isolation they each seem intractable; but when you grasp that there could be ...

Migrant Journeys is about driving taxis in New Zealand cities - and it is about much more than that.Here fourteen migrant taxi drivers talk about t...

Metamorphosis is the story of one woman's transformation from a traditional Kiwi housewife of the 1950s into an internationally known scientist. Bo...

How do you figure out what sort of work is right for you? Do you choose university, find a trade, or get a job? What subjects do you study to make ...

What makes our isles so shaky? Why was Christchurch not the first of our big quakes? Any why won't it be our last? This book investigates our turbu...

Living with the Climate Crisis: New Zealand Voices: 2020

Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they ...

Life As A Novel Biography Of Maurice Shadbolt Vol 2 1973-2004

In just fifty years, South Korea has transformed itself from a failed state, ruined and partitioned by war and decades of colonial rule, into an ec...

Jo Caird and Paula George take us on a journey inside the world of New Zealand's working dogs: celebrating the incredibly diverse roles they play i...

Kim Workman grew up in the Wairarapa, son of a Pakeha mother and Maori father. His whakapapa comes from Ngati Kahungunu and Rangitane; Papawai Mara...

A long-time resident of Tamahere in Waikato, David communicated with farmers for more than 40 years through his cartoons - his main character, Jock...

New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning ...

What better way to put a smile on your trusted postie's face than by requiring them to poke your mail into a pig's snout? Why not give passing tour...

A staggering rise in wealth disparity has transformed New Zealand from one of the developed world's most equal nations to one of the most unequal. ...

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.