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Hey! What’s the difference between a native fish and a kiwi?I’m guessing this is a trick question; so, tell me, what is the difference between a native fish and a kiwi?Some native fishes are more endangered than kiwi!Huh? That’s right; some of native fishes, that many people donâ€�...

Hey! Did you know that there are      lots of amazing creepy crawly creatures living in our streams?Our waterways are not just home to native fishes, but to an incredible range of animals called invertebrates - animals without a backbone! Even some of the insects we think of as being inhabitant...

"More than five years on from that fateful morning when I first spoke to Charles Cranston, the man who fell down a ravine and changed my life, the report on the 'Ondwa' site is still locked away in a filing cabinet somewhere. Despite our going to great pains to make it as scientific and objective as...

"I was born right on the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, and I often had cause to wonder if the bleak darkness of that day had seeped into my soul."Jessica Ann MacKenzie was the second of three girls born into a close, loving and staunchly Christian family. Her parents had the normal h...

"Before anyone could move, Henry, staring at the approaching pirate ship, saw something that made his blood run cold. From a shadowy black form on the fore-deck of the pirate ship came a flash of fire and then, as if in slow motion, a cannon-ball soared towards them.The main-mast, broken at the base...

The setting of this collection of short stories is the landscape and cultural background of the small South Pacific nation of New Zealand (Aotearoa) - where it is common for lives to overlap. A family and community come together around the ordeal of a child’s abduction. A girl forges an unlikel...

Kapowai the dragonfly awakes to a sparkly world and a beautiful r a i n b o w! What could be at the end of the rainbow? Could it be gold?Kapowai flies off to find her friends; the little dragonfly doesn’t think she is brave enough to go on this adventure, chasing the end of a rainbow, all on he...

illustrated by Stephanie BowmanIan, Billy and Ginny, and Keri and Sheri have just set off on the journey of a lifetime. Tiny, little whitebait swimming all the way from the oceans around New Zealand to our rivers and streams.Wriggling and darting throughthe waves and the foam,They all swim together�...

Velvet & Elvis is a gorgeous and simple book; an important story of New Zealand's long fin eel told with Stephanie Bowman's stunning paintings. Old Velvet the longfin eel has made New Zealand's Lake Rotoiti her home for 101 years. Lately, as hungry male eels swim around smelling for food, she rests...

Sonia is based in the Waikato – once the land of a thousand wetlands and eel/tuna heaven. She thinks she has the best job – researching, writing for, and designing signs and brochures about our nature and history; drawing pictures of birds, beasts and plants for signs and publications; and...

Have you seen our gorgeous galaxiids in your local stream?Our gorgeous what?Galaxiids!Well, maybe you haven't seen them. These beautiful native fish are shy and often can't be seen, not only because some of them are only active at night, but because their numbers are declining.Why aren't there so ma...

Following on from the sell-out success of their book Feed Me Right, mother and daughter team Dee and Tamarin Pignéguy now bring you Grow Me Well, which takes you further on your journey towards understanding the link between healthy food and a healthy body.Grow Me Well reveals all you ever wanted...

Two Kinds of Mystery, Three Kinds of Epiphany...Miracles and Reality..Irrational Reasoning"Our journey in consciousness is too profound and multifarious to fit into one theory or be accounted for by one system of thought"Notes on the Mysterium Tremendum studies the universe as inner experience as we...

Materialism has become the ersatz religion of the Western world, one of its main tenets being the survival of the richest, while the supporting doctrine of materialist science is based on a grand mistake, which we nevertheless share due to the pervasive influence of the mass mind. We’ve been ex...

Delicious, mouthwatering, luscious, delectable. are there enough superlatives to describe the food from Sonja's Kitchen? These remarkably simple dishes are replete with healthy vitality and infused with flavour. Based on traditional, nutrient-dense fresh fruits and vegetables, poultry and seafood, w...

What have kingfishers got to do with Japan's 500 Series Shinkansen bullet train?And is Spiderman more like a spider or a gecko?And what does any of this have to do with Leonardo da Vinci?Just like Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th and early 17th centuries, today's scientists and engineers are realising ...

"If we were to focus on growing food in family backyards, we could shape a new world."Gardening is all about learning, experimenting, changing things, adapting, being observant and open to new ideas. Let the amazing photographs in this book help you to learn how to create your own garden paradise.Ga...

The lessons that Nature can teach us are infinite. So get on the Pattern Path and spend time observing, experimenting and exploring. Look for unique and interesting patterns when you go on pattern walks and use this book to identify new patterns.Numbers arise from recognition of patterns in the worl...

Focus on Healing will be of interest to anyone with a personal or professional interest in natural healthcare, especially to those with long-term medical illness who are looking for practical guidance about self-help using mind-body methods and the holistic approach. Elements of this approach includ...

Saltwater in Her Hair captures the personal stories of women who have accepted the challenge of achieving success at sea. No stranger to the sea herself, Dee Pignéguy writes with compassion and authority, as she herself has had to confront many of the challenges these women have faced when choosi...

Take boating fun to the next level with this easy to understand guide, the indispensable Boating For All.Following on from Boating Fun, respected authorities on all things boating Mike and Dee, take sailors who have mastered basic sailing skills to the next level. With years of sailing and teaching ...

Feed Me Right provides a unique health and science program that recognises issues and problems common to today's youth.Feed Me Right :- supports teachers in their goal to produce healthy, confident kids.- provides accurate and unbiased information about nutrition and body science.- is the perfect to...

Written by NZ's best-known midwife, a home birth pioneer, this is an essential book for every midwifery student and mother-to-be. Joan's compendium covers a wide range of topics, draws on the experience and evidence of her life's work, and challenges conventional thinking with wit and wisdom.Section...