Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinctio

A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand histo

• How are birds so good at flying and navigating? • Why are birds so like mammals– and yet so very different? • Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if

This is the first book in a two-volume work, and covers New Zealand history from Polynesian settlement to the end of the 19th century, examining Maori and Pakeh

"The book before you...carries the urgent warning that we are rapidly altering and destroying the environments that have fostered the diversity of life forms fo