The Taming of Distance: New Zealand's First International Telecommunciations by Elisabeth Airey
$39.95 NZD
Category: History
On 19 February 1876, New Zealand became telegraphically linked to the world - it joined the international Victorian "internet". Contact with Sydney now took only seconds and London less than 24 hours. But unlike today when everybody is their own instant "telegraphist", in 1876 the system needed a small ...Show more
Eighty Years on: further memoirs by Nicholas Tarling
$39.99 NZD
Category: Education
Nicholas Tarling's second volume of memoirs, beginning with the 1980s and early 1990s. Tarling was involved in the struggle with the governemnt and its agencies over university 'reforms', with the attempt to keep the Mercury Theatre afloat, and with the founding of what became New Zealand Opera. Tarlin ...Show more
The House - New Zealand's House of Representatives 1854-2004 by John E. Martin
$59.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'The House' tells a story of New Zealand's House of Representatives History from 1854 to 2004. Throughout its 150 years, the House of Representatives has responded to accommodate dramatic shifts in political patterns. Its history tells us much about the changing relationship between the people of New Ze ...Show more