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'The legitimacy of the state is at best questionable and certainly remains legally unsettled.' Legal scholar Claire Charters (Ngati Whakaue, Tuwharetoa, Ngapuhi and Tainui) confronts the deeply rooted questions surrounding the legitimacy of the New Zealand state and its sovereignty over Maori. Drawi...

Pies are a Kiwi institution! Flaky golden pastry containing a rich and succulent filling - they're the perfect human fuel for any road trip, and the first thing many of us crave whenever we stray too far from these shores. But why limit yourself to whatever's lurking in the petrol station pie warmer...

Tess's parents have dropped a bombshell. The family's moving back to the place everyone wants to leave, the place Tess calls Toytown. She doesn't want to go and not just because it's small and nothing ever happens there - moving means leaving Chloe behind, her sister who died. What she doesn't expec...

Newsflash! Building healthy, respectful relationships with our children means grasping a single critical factor that is hiding in plain sight: it is not the child's flowering intellect that is at the forefront of brain development. In fact, it is the child's ancient survival brain that wants to run...

Stories of radical imagination and collective action from Filipinos who call Aotearoa home. A glimpse into the lives of 15 Filipinos-Aotearoa's third-largest Asian group-trailblazers who have built community in their adopted home, upheld the struggles of their people in the Philippines and stand in...

From the former prime minister of New Zealand comes a guide for teens on chasing your dreams and embracing the unexpected qualities that truly make a person strong. When Jacinda Ardern became prime minister of New Zealand, she was one of the youngest people in the world leading a country. Many peopl...

A darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author's bestselling memoir, Grand. You have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire's badness in the house with you. Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker's Dracula. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave...

Raised among strong women, butcher's benches and hard ideas about what men are meant to be, Brad Poulter grows up knowing he's different long before he has the wordsfor it. But in late '90s small-town New Zealand, 'different' isn't discussed, it's managed. Joining the Royal New Zealand Navy offers e...

Bad Teacher is an unvarnished and often shocking look into the dark side of the New Zealand classroom. From the teacher who accessed pornography in class to the assistant principal who filmed up the skirts of unsuspecting girls with a pen camera, this book pulls back the curtain on some of the most...

The goldfields of nineteenth-century Aotearoa New Zealand have long been talked and written about as almost exclusively male places. Many historians have either ignored women completely or mentioned them only as wives or as prostitutes. But they could and did make their way to these tough, unforgivi...

is a powerful and practical picture book that helps children understand, manage, and challenge negative self-talk.When intrusive thoughts begin to take over, they can feel constant, overwhelming, and impossible to ignore. In this relatable and reassuring story, a young child shares what it feels lik...

When Chanelle Moriah was diagnosed with autism at 21, life finally began to make sense.Hungry for information, Chanelle looked for a simple resource that could explain what autism is and how it can impact the different areas of an autistic person's life, but found that there was little written from...

From award-winning New Zealand author, Craig Phillips, creator of The Adventures of Jack Scratch and Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts (winner of the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the New Zealand Book Awards 2018).Come along on a journey with Aroha, as she wards of nervousness, fear, worryin...

Soil health and security are key components of our wellbeing. Even so, soil is faced with many environmental challenges under the current iteration of capitalism. A paradigm shift is needed to encourage care for this resource. In te ao Maori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga - it holds ancestral...

The book we've all been needing for decades - a unique explanation of the Maori world for Pakeha, and for Maori people wishing to learn more about tikanga. With simple lucidity and great expertise, Keri Opai shares the spirit and meaning of what it is to be Maori in the 21st century, dispelling myth...

Papatūānuku in Māori “creation stories” is the Earth Mother. This Earth is where we live, where we grow our food and from which we gain sustenance. As we continue to fill our landfills with toxic non-biodegradable rubbish, her puku and friendly worms are all suffering. What can the ch...

": A Handbook of Basic Facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi" by Roimata Smail distills essential information for every individual in Aotearoa. Leveraging her two-decades of legal expertise in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Smail presents the facts in this short book in a way that is easy to digest. The handbook...

This book is intended for people, especially beginners, who wish to learn traditional Maori medicine.The first part deals with the foundation of rongoa Maori and talks about the fundamental understandings that are the basis of rongoa. The second section focuses on the practical aspects of learning a...

In 1992, with the support of the Aotearoa Moananui a Kiwa Weavers committee, Digger Te Kanawa launched her book, ‘’ in Blenheim, at a Nga Puna Waihanga (Maori Artists and Writers) of which Digger is also a founding member. The book was reprinted in 1994, and an updated 2006 version suppo...

Ki te hoe! Education for Aotearoa addresses one of the most pressing questions for educators in Aotearoa New Zealand—how to enact te Tiriti o Waitangi and equitably privilege mātauranga, kaupapa, and tikanga Māori with mātauranga, kaupapa, and tikanga Pākehā. For those asking “how d...

This book is a collection of the writings of Rev. Maori Marsden (1924-1993) who was a tohunga, scholar, writer, healer, minister and philosopher of the latter part of the twentieth century. In his writings, Marsden's thoughts venture far and wide and include analyses and views on key concepts in the...

Professor Paul Moon is one of New Zealand's most respected historians, and most prolific authors. His latest book, the biography of photographer Ans Westra, was published by Massey University Press to laudatory reviews.In this book Moon meticulously researches, through selected art works, how imperi...

A fascinating memoir of a New Zealand underwater cameraman, published on the 50th anniversary of New Zealand’s first marine reserve, at Goat Island.In , underwater cameraman and documentary maker Andrew Penniket draws on fifty years of diving adventures across the South Seas, from witnessing t...

Kiwis in Climate brings together bold and practical visions for Aotearoa to lead on climate solutions. Leading scientists, politicians, CEOs and citizens demonstrate what we are doing now - and what we must do - to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. This inspiring collection from o...