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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 are teetering on the brink. Without insects, the world is in trouble. Insects are our pollinators, waste removers and ecosystem engineers - they are vital for a healthy planet. So why don't more people care about the fate of the tiny but mighty six-legged beings that shape our world? Richly illustrated, and including more than 100 original paintings by the author, 'Six-legged Ghosts: The insects of Aotearoa' examines the art, language, stories and science of insects in Aotearoa and around the world. From te ao Maori to the medieval art world, from museum displays to stories of the insect apocalypse, extinction and conservation, Lily Duval explores the lives of insects not only in Aotearoa's natural environments, but in our cultures and histories as well.

"A century and a half now separate us from the founding of Canterbury College, the institution from which the University of Canterbury ] Te Whare Wåananga o Waitaha evolved. In 'A New History: The University of Canterbury 1873-2023', historian John Wilson offers a fresh interpretation of an institution that has played a central role in shaping the development of research culture and university education in Aotearoa New Zealand and that has been at the forefront of the shift to a postcolonial university world"--Back cover.

In 1969 Al Riordan, a US exchange scientist, joined Simon Cutfield and three other New Zealanders to spend a year at Vanda Station on the shores of Lake Vanda in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The men lived in a strange world-- a snowless place that had not seen a glacier for millions of years-- yet lay within sight of the permanent East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The surface of the lake was covered in 3-4 meters of permanent ice, but the temperature of the water near the bottom was +25 degrees C. No one knew for certain why the water was so warm, and Simon's mission was to take measurements to help solve this mystery and carry out a range of other hydrologic and earth science projects. Al's aim was to help build a comprehensive weather record, understand the valley wind systems, and to learn why the area was snow-free. Drawing on their diaries and letters, this is a unique first-person account of life at the station as the five men carry out their daily tasks in an environment that challenges and transforms them: temperatures as low as -57 degrees C, eight months of total isolation, including four months of continual darkness, and daunting mechanical and logistical challenges, including a limited supply of power, fuel, heat and water. At least it's no challenge to follow the instructions on their photographic chemicals-- "keep in a cool place"-- like much of their supplies, this equipment is encased in ice. Supplemented with scientific appendices, the book also gives the reader a window on how scientific knowledge is built one step at a time, from the initial planning, to data gathering, to building hypotheses, and to developing theory. As the only complete record of life at Vanda Station during the first year of its occupation, and complemented by a selection of maps and color photos, this engaging account is an important missing chapter in the history of New Zealand's Antarctic achievements --

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 compelling story of Jim and Susan Wakefield, whose vision was to share with their community the eclectic and impressive collection of art and artefacts that they had endowed to the charitable Ravenscar Trust. After their house on Scarborough Hill was demolished following the Canterbury earthquakes, the couple were determined to commission a new house museum, filled with a wide range of works by leading New Zealand artists such as Frances Hodgkins, Colin McCahon, and Bill Sutton. Designed by renowned architects Patterson Associates, the Wakefields' bold but elegant addition to the city was opened in 2021. Sally Blundell's engaging text is enhanced by family photographs and stunning images of Ravenscar House and the works within its walls.

An historical account of Banks Peninsula - a unique volcanic landform jutting eastwards into the Pacific Ocean from the otherwise unsurprising Canterbury Plains. Once densely forested, the land was stripped of nearly all of its trees and much of its original wildlife by two great waves of human colonization, Polynesian and European.

'A Long Time Coming' depicts the history of the Ngai Tahu settlement and shows how the two sides, Ngai Tahu and the Crown, led by Tipene O'Regan for Ngai Tahu and the Minister of Treaty Negotiations Douglas Graham, managed to negotiate one of the country's longest legal document.

This volume is the culmination of a comprehensive survey of New Zealand's Cretaceous-Cenozoic strata, begun in 1978, and presents an up-to-date synthesis and interpretation of regional sedimentary information from a variety of sources; the study has been expanded to include large areas of the continental shelf and beyond.

The 2019 re-opening of the Christchurch Town Hall is celebrated in this richly illustrated volume. With contributions from those who shaped its original design, along with accounts of the renewal project and the story of the hall's Rieger organ, this book explains why the Christchurch Town Hall is of both national and international significance.

In this fascinating and informative book, Margaret Maclagan and Anne Buckley - two specialists in children's language development - explain the subtle and extraordinary process in which children learn to talk and the very important role that parents and grandparents can play.

The eagerly awaited new collection from award-winning author Frankie McMillan. The work features stories that globe trot all over the planet: from Russia to America to New Zealand. They are laugh-out-loud, surreal, bizarre and full of perceptiveness about human vulnerability and eccentricity.

Ngaio Marsh's 1943 Hamlet production typescript is reproduced here for the first time, together with Douglas Lilburn's especially commissioned incidental music score. An introduction by Polly Hoskins examines the staging of the production and the wartime context in which the play was performed. A note from Robert Hoskins introduces Lilburn's music.

John Hellemans looks back on his long career in triathlon, initially as a successful competitor, and subsequently as a coach and sports medicine doctor for some of New Zealand's best-performing triathletes.

Recognised internationally as one of the 20th century's great modernist innovators, Len Lye is most famous for his avant-garde experimental films and astonishing and playful kinetic sculptures. This timely and richly illustrated collection of essays considers Lye's place in modern art from a variety of fascinating and thought-provoking angles.

Prior's letters have been transcribed and annotated for this volume by early Prior scholar Mike Grimshaw. An essay by Mike Grimshaw and an introduction by Prior expert Jack Copeland provide further context, including a brief introduction to tense logic.

Based on interviews with those who lived and worked through the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes, and the authors' own experiences, `Rising from the Rubble' gives a compelling account of those who rallied to maintain and rebuild essential health services after the earthquakes.

This is the first full English translation of the surviving Mangakahia journals and letters of French Marist priest Father Antoine Garin. Frank, open-minded and often humorous, Garin's diary is a major contribution to the early history of European settlement in Aotearoa and a compelling insight into Maori customs, values and beliefs of the time.

Woven from the sharp and tensile strands of memory, many of the poems in this collection return to the primal pains of neglect and damage in childhood. Emotional memory is anchored in the specific detail of an era and fans out to draw on local and international history, exploring with wit, anger, imagination and grief the ways in which Aotearoa still carries the wounds of colonisation and class.

This moving and compelling memoir tells the story of 22-year-old Rebecca Arnold. She was diagnosed with a rare and vicious cancer and, 13 months later, this vibrant, talented young woman was dead as her family was left to cope with a tidal wave of grief and loss. Neither sentimental nor voyeuristic, this personal journey is instead a restrained telling that is ultimately powerfully redemptive.

This collection of new work by award-winning New Zealand poet Frankie McMillan features the horse as a central motif. The poems tingle with a sense of the ineffable, like certain chords in musical pieces. One poem causes another, they glint and glance off each other, depicting a world of real emotion and psychological mystery.

Mt John University Observatory is New Zealand's only professional research observatory for optical astronomy. Today it is both a research observatory and a mecca for stargazing astrotourists, who come to see the pristine landscape and the amazing dark night skies. This richly illustrated account follows the development of this iconic New Zealand scientific institution.

From its earliest days in a cold, rented room in a former Christchurch warehouse, the Canterbury Workers' Educational Association has been a pioneering provider of adult education, enriching, and transforming, the lives of thousands of men and women. Ian Dougherty tells the fascinating and important story of this resilient association over its first 100 years.

Biography of William Guise Brittan and Joseph Brittan, founders of Canterbury and cricket enthusiasts.

There is increasing enthusiasm for using native plants in gardens throughout New Zealand. This book is aimed at helping gardeners and landscaping professionals to select and care for native ground-cover plants in order to create low-maintenance, good-looking, and sustainable gardens.

Offers 40 new poems from poet Apirana Taylor. Inspired by nature and mythology, he shifts his focus from the mundane to the mysterious, and with characteristic wit and intensity shares his delight and despair in what he discovers. Accessible and tender, but pulling no punches, his work assumes many forms.

By pulling together earlier accounts and adding important new research, this history solves some mysteries about what happened to Henry Whitcombe, a young civil engineer who, in 1863, led an expedition to find a route across the Southern Alps in New Zealand.

Lavishly illustrated with more than 120 colour plates, this survey of one of New Zealand's leading printmakers draws from Barry Cleavin's vast output to present a major representative sample of his prints and drawings from 1966 to 2012. Selected works are presented within the context of Cleavin's wider oeuvre, but they are also placed within their social and historical background.

Rich in the themes and preoccupations that have made this author's novels so admired, this fine collection of poetry provides wise, elegiac poems on love and loss, affectionate poems about the New Zealand countryside, and witty poems about human frailty.