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How We Saw The War: 1938-1945 Through New Zealand Eyes order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author: Ron Palenski
In Stock: 7
The story of World War two told through the eyes of New Zealand media.

Palenski revisits newspapers and other media, revealing the "unique experiences of Kiwis and milestones during the war".

Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the start of World War Two

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Glory Days : From gumboots to platforms order quantity
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Author: Ian Chapman (aka Dr Glam)
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The 1970s - when we listened to glam rock, disco and punk, wearing spandex, platform soles, aviator glasses, wide ties, maxis, midis and minis, when going out on the town meant glitter-balls, Max Factor and Helena Rubenstein, sequins and safety-pins. Kiwis took to the streets against French nuclear tests and US warship visits, and - depending on your politics - Norman Kirk, Rob Muldoon, Marilyn Waring and John Minto were angels or demons. We rode Raleigh Choppers and Healing Dragsters; and drove Ford Capris, Cortinas and Escorts, Holden Kingswoods and Belmonts, Triumph Spitfires and Stags. We watched The Wacky Races, Dr Who, Lost in Space and The Professionals. We loved the 1974 Commonwealth Games, and Starsky & Hutch and Charlie's Angels. The 1970s were a cabaret of influences ...a fragmented, eclectic decade of disparity. And just like a cabaret, the audience could boo, cheer or laugh in disbelief. Except, of course, we weren't in ... more
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New Zealanders and the Sea order quantity
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Author: Te Ara Online Encyclopedia
In Stock: 6
This superbly illustrated book tells the many stories of New Zealanders and the Sea: From the science of oceanography and climate, to the history of boat building and shipping, lighthouses, castaways, the fishing industry, marine conservation, recreational boating and fishing, kaimoana and aquaculture and, of course, surfing.
272 pages in 286 x 210 mm format, colour and monochrome throughout

Published November 2009.

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Health Cheque order quantity
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Author: Gareth Morgan & Geoff Simmons with John McCrystal
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New Zealand’s health system is a political football, held together only by the high quality of our nurses and doctors, according to a new book from Gareth Morgan.
While the local health system scrubs up surprisingly well globally, Dr Morgan finds a substantial mismatch between the public’s expectations and what the health system actually delivers. Morgan and Simmons go behind the scenes of the New Zealand public health system and bring clarity to the issues that need to be addressed if crisis is to be avoided.
The book explores the consequences of ongoing avoidance of the tough calls on rationing and prioritisation. It considers how many New Zealanders are already suffering or missing out from health care because of ad-hoc interventions in response to pressure groups.

DoP- November 2009, Wellington
230x150mm /280pp
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Ngati Dread- Volume 2 No dreadlocks No cry order quantity
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NZ$ 29.90 each
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Author: Angus Gillies
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Dop July 2009, Auckland
271pp
softcover
vol 2

Between 1985 to 1990, Ruatoria, a town on the East Coast of the North Island, was terrorised by a religious sect calling itself the Rastafarians.Their story is one of the most bizarre chapters in modern New Zealand history.
Angus Gillies is a TV producer on 3 News. He has written a novella The Lizard Song, sports biographies on All Black Justin Marshall, rugby league star Matthew Ridge and cricketer Adam Parore and the first volume of Ngati Dread, Footsteps of Fire. Gillies is married to Tui and has three sons: Rogie, Pele and Cassius.

 
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Samuel Williams Of Te Aute order quantity
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Author: Woods Sybil
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101 Incredible Kiwis order quantity
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Author: Tony Williams
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This world beating book profiles an array of the best and most ingenious talent born and bred in New Zealand - it's an invaluable and entertaining record of local and global achievers who have all helped New Zealand compete at an international level across diverse industries such as engineering, fashion, computers, film, astronomy, music and the arts, wine making, business, toys, yachting, science, education and much more. Legendary Kiwi personalities such as Peter Blake, Richard Taylor (WETA), the Finn brothers, Brotha D, Phil Keoghan, Karen Walker, Zinzan Brooke, Bruce McLaren and Sam Morgan join some less well known names in a showcase of extraordinary inventiveness and innovation.

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Marianne Williams:a Study Of Life In The Bay Of Islands 1823-1879 order quantity
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Author: Woods Sybil
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Shield Of Faith,the:life & Times Of Henry & Marianne Williams order quantity
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Author: Davis George
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The Penguin History of New Zealand order quantity
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Author: Michael King
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Shortlisted for the 2004 Montana NZ Book Awards, History section.

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 the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth.

The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane: and that Maori, far from being victims of "fatal impact", coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer.

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9781869507558
Fernleaf Cairo: New Zealanders at Maadi Camp - The Fascinating Story of New Zealanders in Wartime Egypt order quantity
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Author: Alex Hedley with Megan Hutching
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Its call sign was Fernleaf Cairo, and between 1939 and 1946, around 76,000 Kiwis of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force passed through Maadi Camp. Around 17 kilometres south of Cairo, the camp appeared almost overnight, as this country's permanent overseas base during World War Two. By 1945 the camp had tar-sealed roads, two cinemas, an open-air amphitheatre, canteens, bars, chapels, sports fields, a meat-pie and ice-cream factory, and - thanks to General Bernard Freyberg - swimming baths.
Egypt was a source of boundless amazement, sly humour and some disgust to the New Zealanders, an experience which left its mark, both on our language - taking a shufti - and more tangibly, the Maadi Rowing Cup.
With unpublished images and first-hand accounts, Fernleaf Cairo offers a fascinating insight into the unlikely bond young New Zealanders forged with the people and city of Cairo, including their many highly colourful ... more
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Leading the Way : How New Zealand Women Won the Vote order quantity
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Author: Megan Hutching
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New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the vote, in 1893, an achievement of which we are justly proud.
Respected historian Megan Hutching records and explains this momentous event, including profiles of the women who brought about the government's change of earth.
This important book will add to our history as a socially progressive country, and will find a wide readership among people interested in social history.

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Other Anzacs : The extraordinary story of our WWI nurses order quantity
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Author: Peter Rees
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DoP - November 2009, NZ
First published in hardcover in 2008
Trade paperback

'Absorbing, wonderful, inspiring.' - Peter FitzSimons 'I had my right arm under a leg, which I thought was [the patient's], but when I lifted it I found to my horror that it was a loose leg with a boot and a puttee on it. It was one of the orderly's legs which had been blown off and had landed on the patient's bed. The next day they found the trunk about 20 yards away ...' By the end of the Great War, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over 200 had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. They were there for the horrors of Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery of the Western Front. Within twelve hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they had over 500 horrificially injured ... more
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Service From the Sea : Nga Mahi No Te Moana order quantity
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Author: Kelly Ana Morey
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The story of the New Zealand Navy as it unfolded told through the collections of the Royal New Zealand Navy Museum. From the arrival of Captain Cook, an RN Officer, in 1840, through war and peace, the Navy has played a major role in our history. Service from the Sea tells this dramatic story through letters, official documents, photographs, oral histories, diaries, telegrams and ephemera.

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Shear Hard Work : A history of shearing in New Zealand order quantity
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Author: Hazel Riseborough
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Shear Hard Work tells the story of shearers and brings to life the world of the shearing shed for the first time. From the 1860s, when shearers were first identified as the 'very dregs of the colonial democracy', to the present day, when Kiwi shearers set world records and shear sheep around the globe, shearers have played a key role in New Zealand life. A historian and qualified wool classer, Riseborough has travelled from merino farms in Alexandra to the women's world record attempt at Waikaretu, from "the first Maori in Milton" to Joe Paewai's Dannevirke shearing family, to tell this great New Zealand story. Riseborough recounts the history of shearing in the words of the shearers, shedhands, wool handlers and cooks who work in the sheds, compete at the shows and set the records. She chronicles key changes in the business - from mechanisation to the expansion of the shearing season and the shrinking of the New Zealand flock. She ... more
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The Celluloid Circus : The Heyday of the New Zealand Picture Theatre order quantity
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Author: Wayne Brittenden
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As an ideal companion to "Celluloid Dreams: A Century of Film in New Zealand" which covers 1896 to 1996, this book presents a more comprehensive history of the heyday of the New Zealand picture theatre between 1925 and 1970, lavishly illustrated with many never-before-published period photographs. It is a richly informative and often hilarious record of a crucial part of our social history. The local picture theatre was the place for entertainment, socialising, courting and being kept informed through the all important newsreels. Wayne Brittenden has brought the era brilliantly back to life - the theatres, managers, audiences, censors, films and the unsung heroes of picture going - the projectionists.

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9780141021331
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog : Captain Cook in the South Seas order quantity
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Author: Anne Salmond
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The Paperback Reprint of Anne Salmond's bestselling book on Captain Cook's voyages in the Pacific. The Pacific voyages of James Cook sailed across perilous tropical seas, survived hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, discovered unknown lands and peoples and made their Captain an icon of imperial history. Yet, as Anne Salmond shows, the story of these epic South Sea journeys is far more than one of conquest and control. She has devoted a lifetime to the study of relations between Europeans and Polynesians, and this book is the result. In Salmond's account, Cook's great voyages regain their dreamlike quality as they encounter the last major human communities untouched by wider worlds. Far from being little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, his ships and the men in them are as much changed by what happens as the islanders they meet. We see them alarmed and entranced by the islanders' open sexuality, shocked by human ... more
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Way Back Then Before We Were Ten : New Zealand writers and childhood order quantity
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Author: Graeme Lay (ed)
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A wonderful collection of stories and memoir from childhood. Childhood is at times joyful, at times traumatic. In this anthology twenty-six distinguished New Zealand writers evoke memories of their early years, in fiction and memoir. Their stories and memoirs resonate with love and betrayal, friendship and disloyalty, elation and anxiety. The writing features parents and teachers, peers, siblings and other relatives, the loveable and the unloveable. There are wondrous discoveries of the natural and cultural world and glimpses into the enigmatic realm that is adulthood. From the Victorian era of Katherine Mansfield's upbringing to that of today's multicultural society, the contributions reflect many of the personal and social changes which our society has undergone over the last one hundred years. The collection is packed with emotion as the writers conjure up that never-to-be-forgotten time, 'Way Back Then, Before We Were Ten'. Every ... more
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9781869487195
A History of New Zealand order quantity
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Author: John Lockyer
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From the arrival of the Maori to the beginning of the new millennium, this lively book is a fascinating overview of our country's unique history.

Featuring pictures from the renowned Alexander Turnbull Library, the book also includes interesting 'Did You Know' sections.

Paperback (Children's Large Format)
 
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