Michael King

New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and mor...

The late Michael King was one of New Zealand's most respected and popular historians. The author of the bestselling The Penguin History of New Zealand and many other significant works, he was a writer of remarkable skill, sensitivity and importance. The Silence Beyond is a wide-ranging and often p...

A reprint of Michael King's seminal book on what it means to be a non-Maori New Zealander. First published in 1985, Being Pakeha became a kiwi classic, a strong reply both to Maori who were asserting their own identity and also to Pakeha who were mumbling that they didn't have a strong culture or id...

A new edition of this iconic book includes new larger format and photographs rescanned from Marti Friedlander's originals. It is an indepth photographic study of the ancient art of moko.

Renowned historian Michael King (1945- 2004) presents a comprehensive and searching documentary of Maori culture and society, and Maori-Pakeha contact, conflict and co-operation. From the earliest daguerreotype around 1852 to the strong protest images of the 1990s, King records and analyses changes ...

Tread Softly for You Tread on My Life is that rare book - for the general reader and the writer, the researcher and the academic. Michael King tells riveting stories as he considers questions which beset all intelligent writers and readers. What should biographers especially bear in mind? What is co...

This book outlines key aspects of a growing trend within the Australian, United States, Canadian, New Zealand, United Kingdom and other legal systems towards the use of non-adversarial justice. It examines in detail non-adversarial theories and practices such as therapeutic jurisprudence, restorativ...

Set in the beautiful horse country of northern Virginia, "A Thousand Sleepless Nights" is about a family torn apart by neglect and hurt and brought together again by a most-unlikely force.

The Dreamz Friendz and the Magic Well is a bedtime story about four magical children and their pet dragon that live on a far away planet. The four friends discover a magic well that teaches them to make their dreams come true by practicing five important life lessons. These lessons are about positiv...