Social Sciences

The modern farmer faces a constant battle for survival. Not only do farmers and their families cope with everything nature throws at them, they hav...

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...

OK Boomer! New Zealand in the Swinging Sixties looks at Politics, Sport, Wining & Dining, fashion, night life and everything 60s in a highly il...

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 ...

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...

This practical, strength-based book includes information, checklists, strategies for change and self-reflection questions. 30 New Zealand men who h...

Meme Churton is very well known throughout the arts community, the business community through her marriage to Jock Churton of Fletcher Construction...

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 ...