(Paperback)
By: Malcolm Mulholland
ISBN: 9781775506218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Huia Publishers
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This is a history of St Josephs Mori Girls College, which has become the second oldest Mori boarding school and was started by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions in 1867. The college has given rise to numerous Mori trailblazers in a variety of fields.
(Hardback, illustrated edition)
By: Paul Goldsmith
ISBN: 9781877378355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: David Ling Publishing Limited
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This book tells the story of how Fletcher, in its many manifestations over the decades, has transformed New Zealand's built environment by constructing such renowned structures as the Auckland University Clock Tower and the Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa.
(Hardback)
By: Hirini Moko Mead
ISBN: 9781775502128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Huia Publishers
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Mataatua wharenui is the most travelled Maori meeting house in the country. Built in 1875, it was taken to Australia, London and Otago before being returned to Whakatane after more than a century away. The story of Mataatua is part of the story of the desecration of Ngati Awa by the Crown and the fight of the people to regain their sovereignty.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Rangi Matamua
ISBN: 9781775503262
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Huia Publishers
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In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantations on hilltops at dawn, balls, exhibitions, dinners and a vast number of events.
(Paperback)
By: Rangi Matamua
ISBN: 9781775503255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Huia Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: John Tne Christeller
ISBN: 9781988595597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: The Cuba Press
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In 2021 Palmerston North poet and artist John Tne Christeller decided to visit the sites of the NZ Wars and record what he saw, and from his observations he created a series of woodblock prints and short poems in English and te reo Mori.
(Paperback)
By: Mary Ellen O'Connor
ISBN: 9781927242056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Peter Mulryan
ISBN: 9781847177810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2016
Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd
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Everything you always wanted to know about Irish Whiskey, the lifeblood of the people! The history, the difference between single malts and blends, the art of distilling and blending, and the explosion of new distilleries - learn how to taste as well as drink the water of life!
(Paperback)
By: Murray Edmond
ISBN: 9780995126862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Atuanui Press
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Time to Make a Song and Dance captures a spirit of revolt that swept over Auckland and Aotearoa in the 1960s, affecting every aspect of NZ culture. It included such figures as Janet Frame, Tim Shadbolt, Carmen, Hone Tuwhare, Jean Watson and Barry Crump, and culminated in a series of bombings that rocked Auckland at the end of the decade.
(Paperback)
By: John McCrystal
ISBN: 9781988538761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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Bear witness to some of the worst nautical disasters from New Zealand and around the world in these fascinating, and endlessly engrossing accounts inspired by John McCrystals radio series Shipwreck Tales. From heart-wrenching tales of survival against all odds to gob-smacking acts of foolish hubris.
(Paperback)
By: Clarence Lusane
ISBN: 9780872868854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: City Lights Books
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(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Sarah Davis
ISBN: 9780143003496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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Features a comprehensive listing of names for Australian babies, including traditional, biblical, modern and invented names, as well as their origins, meanings, and variations.
(Paperback)
By: Elisabeth Asbrink
ISBN: 9781925322439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age the one we call now.
(Paperback)
By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9780349143040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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(Hardback)
By: Alastair Bonnett
ISBN: 9780711293533
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World is a collection of historic and contemporary maps and the insights they reveal about geography, geopolitics, art, history, science and society.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Ellis
ISBN: 9781841197906
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 13th November 2003
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Uncovering one of the world's greatest civilisations
(Paperback)
By: Robyn Annear
ISBN: 9781863956505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Black Inc.
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'Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for a building 50 years old will be in vain.' - Herald, 1925. The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892-1992).
(Paperback)
By: Max Leonard
ISBN: 9781526631176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Deborah Mayersen
ISBN: 9781350469785
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Benjamin N. Lawrance
ISBN: 9781350053939
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A comprehensive, six-volume cultural history of slavery and human trafficking around the world from ancient times to the present day.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Meyer
ISBN: 9780753559949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Meyer
ISBN: 9780753559932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Rachel Devlin
ISBN: 9781541697331
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education
(Paperback)
By: Otto Rosenberg
ISBN: 9781800961128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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A unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child's survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust.
