This new revised edition offers a comprehensive insight into Janet Frame's fiction. This edition recentres and reorganizes the material originally published in 1992 and also provides an index.

A Guide to Best Practice in Committee Servicing

In this true story, Krystine Tomaszyk looks back over her life, the earliest memories of which take place as her world, and that of all around her, shatters with the invasion of Poland by the German and then the Soviet army and her deportation to Siberia. This poignant narrative is, at the same time, a dramatic physical journey, by a very long route to New Zealand, and an exploration of the mind of a child, coping with and making meaning of the events she is caught up in. Essence is a mosaic of emotional colours, pieced together... read more

What makes a superior grape? The aim of this book is to provide the serious wine aficionado with the information needed to appreciate the contribution of the particular features of the vineyard to wine quality. The topics covered range from discovering our taste buds and the aroma of wines, to grape varieties and clones, an explanation of soils, climate, terrier, light, pests and diseases, pruning and training to the human influences on viticulture.

This book offers common-sense advice to those intending to acquire a puppy. It covers selecting a breed and size, the first six months, the basics of early training and socialization.

Essays On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography This book, which takes its title from a phrase by Roland Barthes, examines in detail the work of seven major twentieth-century New Zealand painters and photographers: Rita Angus, Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters, Milan Mrkusich, Richard Killeen, Les Cleveland and Megan Jenkinson. While it contains some historical and contextual background, it is not an art history in the traditional sense. Rather, it aims to apply a broad range of critical theories and methodologies to sust... read more

This is a comprehensive, user-friendly dictionary, with a focus on accounting, economics, marketing and law terms.

What is the x factor that makes some salespeople top performers? It's a little five-letter-word: skill. If you want to improve your sales, the best way is to focus on improving your sales skills. How to close more sales contains 52 essential skills to help you move from being an ordinary salesperson to being a top performer. For every skill there's a skill-acquisition exercise to help you cement what you've learned and translate it into your everyday work. Quick and easy to read, this book will show you how you can immediately begi... read more

Introduces New Zealand executives and managers to the business practices they will encounter in China. Ed Weymes has drawn on his 25 years of experience in developing partnerships with Chinese enterprises to write an easy-to-read step-by-step guide. This book will help New Zealanders understand the different way Chinese people think and behave and why these differences significantly change business protocols and how Chinese companies need to be managed.Weymes provides comprehensive practical advice on how to deal with China, includ... read more

New Zealand and the Global Economy looks at New Zealand's international economic relations over the past fifty years from the mid-1950s until recent times. Over the period New Zealand's international economic relations have at times been unstable, but nonetheless have provided an important engine for growth and development of the New Zealand economy and society. The book analyses the nature of New Zealand's trade relations with the rest of the world, the structure of trade and examines how trade has increased the wealth of the coun... read more

An amusing collection of personal observations, profiles, news stories and columns that examines the social and political changes in higher education. Expect in August.

Cooperative skills are in constant demand. In industry, commerce, management and in classrooms there is a need to work effectively with others. This book fills a gap in the literature on teaching methods. It clarifies what cooperative learning really is all about and shows how it can be applied in New Zealand classrooms. Cooperative Learning in New Zealand Schools is multi-purpose. It deals with the theory and offers a conceptual understanding for those who want to know the background to the method. It is also full of sound, prac... read more

Facing the Challenge is the first book published in New Zealand that focuses exclusively on foundation learning for adults. Written by experienced tutors, managers and researchers, it showcases local expertise and experience in the teaching of literacy, language and numeracy to adults.

The first comprehensive New Zealand text on supervision. It marks a paradigm shift in how we conceptualise and practice supervision and invites the practitioner and supervisor to engage in the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of their supervision story and practice in order to meet the needs of people they work with.

Slavoj Zizek is regarded as one of the pre-eminent European cultural theorists of the last decade. His growing body of work has generated considerable controversy and transformed the way we think about issues of popular culture and politics. This volume provides a critical reflection on Zizek's ideas and his intellectual itinerary. As well as bringing a Zizekian analysis to a discussion of the cultural and social aspects of nationhood in New Zealand and the Southern hemisphere, it will provide readers with new material and fresh pe... read more

Out of print.

This book proposes the model of the 'ethical teacher' - one who understands both the moral purpose of education and the importance of viewing the process of teaching as basically ethical in nature.

Aimed at high school and university students, but suitable for anyone who wants to improve their skills in critical thinking and agrument evaluation, "Reason in the Real World" is a short and practical introduction to reasoning. Designed for use either as a teach-yourself course, or as a textbook for a critical thinking class, this book uses accessible language to show students how to assess arguments and ten how to construct their own arguments. The reader is actively engaged and taught the skills of critical thinking through a se... read more

OUT OF PRINT Explores the importance of the university identity and describes how it has been eroded by developments in the New Zealand system. At the conclusion the authors put forward a set of principles that they believe are essential to the idea of a university and the expression of that idea in governance and management.

A poignant and well-researched history of Green Lane's cardio-thoracic unit: of interest to those who worked at, or have links to, Green Lane Hospital; personal stories, recollections and photographs are included; covers societal issues and the development of New Zealand's health services; describes the evolution of heart surgery in New Zealand; captures the highs and lows, the team work and camaraderie of nurses and doctors.