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Of interest to amateur naturalists and undergraduate students. This work is divided into thirteen chapters, where each chapter describes a different area or science, including geology, landforms, fossils, climate, biogeography, environmental change since the last glaciation, the human factor, wetlands, the coast, and the open sea.

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The New Zealand Family Court Survival Guide is the only resource you need to help manage the legal and practical logistics of a relationship breakdown, custody dispute or other family or whanau crisis.

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The ultimate guide to the New Zealand seashore, packed with information on our coastal marine species, including sponges, anemones, sea stars, shrimps and crabs, barnacles, paua, mussels, oysters, fish and seaweed. Written by marine scientist Sally Carson and superbly photographed by Rod Morris.

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*The most concise, grounded guide to the New Zealand wars *Written by well-respected historian and author of over 60 books *Fifth title in The NZ Series, for a general readership, and tailored to new NZ history curriculum

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The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation's history. This book by leading historian Vincent O'Malley provides an accessible introduction to their causes, events and consequences.

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In this fascinating memoir, New Zealander Sir Donald McIntyre looks back over a huge slice of operatic history and his role in it. Mixing fun and gossip with judgement and insight, he brings to life a teeming gallery of the world's movers and shakers in the opera world of two generations.

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January 1920 heralds the start of a new decade, promising fresh opportunities for girls like 14-year-old Tilly. But her dreams seem impossible to reach, outweighed by all the things that girls cant or aren't meant to do, as she tries to work out what it means to grow up in a world shattered by war and a pandemic.

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The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness. The angelically beautiful but fragile paper nautilus provides a vivid image of this interplay of death and rebirth.

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The Parihaka Album: Lest We Forget blends the personal and the historical. It tracks the author Rachel Buchanan's discovery of her family's links with Parihaka and her Maori and Pakeha ancestor's roles in the early days of the city that is now Wellington.

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Past. Present. Future.These eighteen stories mark Barbara Elses return to fiction for adults. They are notable for their range in genre and tone, from realism to science fiction and fantasy, from subversive humour and sharp satire to thoughtful and humane contemplation of the human condition.

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Based on the notorious Maungatapu Murders of 1866 in Nelson, New Zealand, this action-packed historical novel is a gripping tale of murder and greed.

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Twenty funny, tender, compassionate, sharply observed stories whose subjects range from a woman cooking up a storm to fend off a lover; a woman who is arrested for drunk driving after attending a wedding anniversary; a meditation on breasts; a cat called Min, and three sisters who commemorate their mother each year with a piano recital.

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A diverse range of economists and commentators address the relevance of Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' for New Zealand.

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In Emma Neales first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships.

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The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutral.

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In a book that is both deeply personal and highly political, Melani Anae recalls the radical activism of Auckland's Polynesian Panthers - the movement modelled on the US Black Panther Party 'but without guns'.

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This is an autobiographical account of Marilyn Waring's extraordinary years in parliament. She tells the story of her journey from being elected as a new National Party MP in a conservative rural seat to being publicly decried by the Prime Minister for her `feminist anti-nuclear stance' that threatened to bring down his government.

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Indigenous peoples are uniting around a commonality of concerns, needs and ambitions. In New Zealand and Canada, the politics challenge the colonial structures that social and political systems are built upon. This book casts light on the constitutional politics in both countries that are redefining the relationship of these peoples to the state.