Turning the Eye: Short Stories of Patricia Grace by Panny, Judith Dell
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Seven of Patricia Graces's short stories are reprinted. Judith Dell Panny follows each story with a commentary, discussion topics and a glossary.
People of the Land: A Pacific Philosophy by Patterson, John
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This sequel to the author's acclaimed first book on Maori philosophy, "Exploring Maori Values", develops the idea that we humans can and need to become "people of the land" in the Maori sense (tangata whenua), developing a harmonious interdependence with the environment in which we live rather than cont ...Show more
The Image Always Has the Last Word : On contemporary New Zealand painting and photography by Laurence Simmons
$49.95 NZD
Category: Art
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, L ...Show more
Crisis of Identity?: The Mission and Management of Universities in New Zealand by Wilf Malcolm
$39.95 NZD
Category: Education
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 gov ...Show more
Mind Over Muscle : Surviving Polio in NZ by BUTTERWORTH, Karen P (Editor)
$29.95 NZD
Category: Health
Holyoake's Lieutenants by Margaret Clark
$29.95 NZD
Category: Politics
Sir Keith Holyoake was one of New Zealand's longer-serving Prime Ministers, leading the National Party to four successive electoral victories in 1960, 1963, 1966 and 1969. He provided certainty in a period of transition for New Zealand. His remarkable political life has tended to obscure the fact that h ...Show more
Battling the Big B: Hepatitis B in New Zealand by Vivien Edwards
$29.95 NZD
Category: Health
When Sandy Milne discovers hepatitis B is endemic in Eastern Bay of Plenty children in the mid-1970s, health officials refuse to acknowledge the problem. Undaunted, this laboratory technologist teams up with paediatrician Dr Chris Moyes to prove that New Zealand faces a serious hepatitis B crisis. They ...Show more
Sir Keith Holyoake - towards a Political Biography by Margaret Clarke
$34.95 NZD
Category: Politics
Welcome to the Campus of Struggle by David Cohen
$34.95 NZD
Category: Education
An amusing collection of personal observations, profiles, news stories and columns that examines the social and political changes in higher education. Expect in August.
The Ombudsman in New Zealand by Gilling, Bryan
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This book tells the story of the Office of the Ombudsman and places its work in its political and legal contexts, noting the role individuals have played, and outlining some of the tens of thousands of investigations they have undertaken.