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Why isn't Aotearoa famous for its insects? We have weta that can survive being frozen, weevils with ' snouts' almost as long as their bodies, and the world's only alpine cicadas. There is mounting evidence that insect numbers are plummeting all over the world. But the insect apocalypse isn't just a faraway problem - it's also happening here in Aotearoa. In recent years, we have lost a number of our native insects to extinction and many more ar...

Edmonds is one of New Zealand's best-known brands - its radiant sun and 'Sure to Rise' promise have embellished baking powder labels and the much-loved Edmonds Cookery Book for over a hundred years and are now embedded in our popular culture. The man behind the company, Thomas Edmonds, came to New Zealand with his wife Jane in 1879. While running a modest grocery store in Christchurch, he expanded into making baking powder. As his most famous ...

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Many exciting new buildings have arisen from the rubble of post-earthquake Christchurch but none, perhaps, is as remarkable as Ravenscar House in the heart of the city's heritage precinct. Ravenscar House: A biography explores the story of this unique, purpose-built house museum as the realisation of a long-held dream and the expression of a heart-warming act of public philanthropy. Christchurch journalist and writer Sally Blundell tells the c...

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John Hellemans looks back on his long career in triathlon, initially as a successful competitor, and subsequently as a coach, sports medicine doctor and advisor for some of New Zealand's best-performing triathletes. He provides a fascinating insight into the professional triathlon world and its personalities, including athletes and other coaches.

Many New Zealand families were affected by the 1918 influenza pandemic. In the space of about six weeks, over 6400 Pakeha died and an estimated 2500 Maori. That equals nearly half the total of New Zealand soldiers killed in the First World War. Yet these were civilians, dying in the first month of peace. This was New Zealand's worst-ever public health disaster. This book shows how we coped back in 1918 - the response of public health officials...

New China Eyewitness is the fascinating account of the 1956 visit to the People's Republic of China by a group of prominent New Zealanders - including Roger Duff, James Bertram, Evelyn Page, Angus Ross and Ormond Wilson - and of how Canterbury Museum came to acquire the largest collection of Chinese art in New Zealand. At the centre of the book is the eloquent diary kept by Canterbury Museum director Dr Roger Duff, detailing his efforts to bri...

Place names have great linguistic and cultural significance, vivifying the landscape and giving it deeper character and interest. Banks Peninsula, Lyttelton Harbour and the Port Hills of Christchurch offer a wonderfully diverse and kaleidoscopic array of names that speak of the area's Maori and colonial history and the people who have lived and worked there. Back in 1927 prolific author Johannes Andersen published his classic and important Pla...

Traces twenty fields of cultural change that became prominent in the "haunted and disjointed times” Nicholas Mirzoeff has identified in the late twentieth century, from email to installation art, from the new museology to leisure style, from media fashion to cyberpunk.

Presents a selection of 30 objects from the James Logie Memorial Collection of Classical Antiquities at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. Each of the items in this selection of highlights from the Logie Collection is illustrated and expertly described, providing the reader with an opportunity to see and understand the work of craftsmen going back more than three thousand years.

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Traversing the significant changes that have occurred in the working lives of seamen and in union practices, this comprehensive history details the New Zealand Seamen's Union's past. Arguing that the union has been moderate in its activity, this account offers a better understanding of New Zealand's political and industrial history and where the New Zealand Seamen's Union, fit into that picture.

The poems in this fine collection reveal Lorna Staveley Anker as New Zealand's first woman war poet. She was a "war widow" of WWII—a civilian casualty in the "unsung generation.” This collection contains the best of her published poems and a substantial number never seen before.

Presents an introduction to New Zealand's West Coast's physical environment, plants, and animals, and provides a guide to the walks—short, easy paths as well as longer, more demanding trails—lakes, lagoons, and highways of the remote yet accessible region. These attractions will appeal to bird watchers, botanists, natural historians, ecologists, and nature hikers.

Demonstrating how individuals can grow their own supply of everyday ingredients to produce affordable and easy meals year-round that are both healthy and sustainable, this book also explains the significance of emerging "foodways” in modern society and details trends such as the Slow Food Movement. It also includes recipes to enjoy sustainable home cooking.

New Zealand's most reforming government was led in part by Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, who then became the 33rd prime minister and an undeniable historical figure. Researched from extensive archives and interviews with Palmer, his family, and his associates, this biography reveals--from his formative years in Nelson onwards--the influences that shaped him as a politician, the extent of his power, and the achievements and limitat...