Whether we are competing for a job, building a business or championing a good cause, some days it...

The remarkable story of Maori fishing - from Polynesian navigators to contemporary business.

'As a boy Tony had drawn maps and diagrams and medieval battle scenes. He' d read fairy tales and...

In the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars, five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 provide re...

The history of New Zealand explained through powerful beliefs and the people who held them.

Clay Eaters traverses a network of fault lines diverging and converging at unexpected angles: a m...

In her debut collection, Amy Marguerite explores the peculiar loveliness and specific loneliness ...

Memoir, myth and critical theory weave through Xiaole Zhan's essay-poem ' Arcadiana' as they expl...

A luminous exploration of thought by one of our most distinguished poets. 'If sometimes I think o...

A first poetry collection full of telenoid daydreams and androids in the bureaucracy.

The stories of sex workers in New Zealand as they changed the world.

Racism. There, we said it. You can let your shoulders drop now that you know we will say the word...

How and why immigration has evolved in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last forty years.

This thoughtful, disturbing, and darkly funny new collection explores the theme of uneasy domesti...

Celebrating the University of Auckland's quasquicentennial, this lavishly illustrated volume--wri...

Born in England, Englishman Charles Heaphy - the first 'New Zealander' to win the Victoria Cross,...

The first published work of a young poet from Dunedin in New Zealand, the poems in this collectio...

Athfield Architects combines newly commissioned photography, evocative original architectural dra...

Can you save the planet and have some fun along the way? Aimed at the teacher who updates student...

Issued with a variety of jacket covers featuring a famous New Zealand comic or comic team.

A collection of 47 essays, lectures, reviews and articles covering a wide variety of topics, rang...

This study of the late 19th- and early 20th-century Italian painter Girolamo Pieri Nerli traces h...

Set on the cusp of the 1970s-80s, Janet Charman's compelling new book centres on the disorienting...

'Us Maoris used to practice slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' s...

Six essays previously delivered at various venues and expanded for this publication.

AUP New Poets 7 is a deep dive into the rich diversity of New Zealand poetry today. Relaunched un...

From the tale of One Tree Hill and a mysterious suicide to the wreck of the HMS 'Orpheus,' the pe...

Imaginative and cerebral, this volume recounts the fantastic history of the antipodes--namely Aus...

Photography was invented in France in 1839 - the year before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in...

This study of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand reveals why the Bank's presence in the national lif...

Based on in-depth research and interviews with 30 tribal elders, this guidebook to whaikorero--or...

For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the ar...

Examining the New Zealand constitution and the political system, cabinet and parliament, politica...

'Beginning in Northland and heading into the blue beyond, Always Song in the Water is a book of e...

This long poem by Maori poet, Robert Sullivan, reinterprets the Orpheus myth for the South Pacifi...

Presents a picture of the globalising world, written for a general educated readership. Organised...

The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict

'From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New...

Drawing on extensive research, this social and cultural history explores how colonial settlers ap...

Published to celebrate the centenary of the University of Auckland commerce faculty and the openi...

In Dark Sparring, Selina Tusitala Marsh combats family loss with all the techniques of poetry, ri...

This collection of poems was first featured in ''AUP New Poets 1''. Teatime was when Anna Jackson...

This title examines the 1999 election in New Zealand and its aftermath. The book offers an indepe...

Ngapuhi is the largest iwi in New Zealand, and its people have occupied the northern North Island...

This work presents 50 traditional Maori songs and includes musical transcriptions (by McLean), Ma...

'A new poetry collection that takes readers among 'the unsilent women', from Hipparchia to J.K. R...

The definitive life story of New Zealand Prime Minister 'Kiwi' Keith Holyoake is revealed in this...

Bill Culbert is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists.Ian Wedde explores the ideas, materi...