In this fascinating book, an Italian literary scholar traces the story of his grandparents' child...

Arthur Prior (1914-69), the founder of 'tense logic”, is regarded as New Zealand's greatest 20th-...

Providing the first full, comprehensive list of officially classified threatened New Zealand plan...

Providing a personal perspective of domestic life in the 19th century, this fascinating biography...

After the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Canterbury on 4 September 2010, the news media were...

A landmark publication, this book draws together all that has ever been written about the role of...

An observer's account of the Pike River coal mine explosion that killed 29 miners on New Zealand'...

Offers 40 new poems from poet Apirana Taylor. Inspired by nature and mythology, he shifts his foc...

Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date account of knowledge of the flora, fauna and environment of ...

'Rivers are central to our identity as New Zealanders. They shape our landscape, forming the fert...

The final of three volumes, this book completes the official list of all approximately 56,120 liv...

Revised and expanded to include up-to-date information, this new edition describes the Chatham Is...

Filled with real-life characters, this book combines archival and newspaper sources in a highly r...

Presents an introduction to New Zealand's West Coast's physical environment, plants, and animals,...

Lavishly illustrated with more than 120 colour plates, this survey of one of New Zealand's leadin...

Covering nearly 1,500 species, this definitive guide to marine invertebrates found around the coa...

Traversing the significant changes that have occurred in the working lives of seamen and in union...

The Canterbury Society of Arts (CSA) dominated the cultural life of Canterbury for nearly a centu...

Biography of William Guise Brittan and Joseph Brittan, founders of Canterbury and cricket enthusi...

In this eclectic and delightful mix of memoir, biography, and history, veteran journalist and bro...

'The Ngåai Tahu settlement, like all other Treaty of Waitangi settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand...

A collection of 44 personal narratives from well-known New Zealand politicians, artists, academic...

Mary Cresswell is at her imaginative best in this new collection, built from her experiments with...

Featuring both contemporary and historical photography, this book records a part of New Zealand h...

There is increasing enthusiasm for using native plants in gardens throughout New Zealand. This bo...

Llew Summers (1947-2019) was a rarity in the art world - a figurative artist in a scene dominated...

Many New Zealand families were affected by the 1918 influenza pandemic. In the space of about six...

Harry Evison re-examines New Zealand colonial history in the light of a number of original docume...

'Published with assistance from the Canterbury District Health Board and the Emergency Care Found...

Offers a detailed account of the early history of legal education in New Zealand. This study draw...

Drawing on recently released military documents and previously unpublished photographs, this enth...

The collection of stories focuses on the lives of ordinary people from Christchurch, New Zealand,...

Some of the poems in this collection have previously appeared in the Sunday star-times, Defect Pe...

New Zealand's most reforming government was led in part by Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Pal...

Victoria Square, that green and peaceful oasis in the center of Christchurch, has a special claim...

Celebrating the amazing landscapes and waterways of New Zealand's South Island and the magnificen...

A comprehensive account about the lives of French immigrants in New Zealand, this work chronicles...

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including little-known original accounts, Murder on the M...

Revealing the processes behind design, construction, client relationships, and contractor negotia...

Reflecting upon an outstanding selection of antiquities from the Greek and Roman eras, this super...

Gripping and fascinating, this illustrated account explores a previously unstudied yet important ...

This moving and compelling memoir tells the story of 22-year-old Rebecca Arnold. She was diagnose...

'Place names have great linguistic and cultural significance, vivifying the landscape and giving ...

Offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, authoritative but readable account of Tongan society from its...

This historical account of Banks Peninsula--a unique volcanic landform jutting eastwards into the...

'In 1869, a businessman from China's Guangdong Province first set foot on New Zealand soil at Por...

Darkly comic, surreal and full of perceptiveness about human vulnerability and eccentricity, Fran...

'Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand traces the evolution of envi...