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9780473151645
Ngati Dread- Volume 2 No dreadlocks No cry
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NZ$ 29.90 each
Paperback
Author:
Angus Gillies
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12
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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9781869621469
The Celluloid Circus : The Heyday of the New Zealand Picture Theatre
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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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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9780733325557
This Barren Rock : 1875 A true tale of shipwreck and survival in the Southern Seas
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Sylvie Haisman
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In 1875 the clipper Strathmore ploughs into the jagged rocks of the remote Crozet Islands, en route to New Zealand, drowning half her passengers and crew. Left alive are a 3-year-old boy, 47 men and Fanny Wordsworth, the author's great-great-great grandmother. This compelling narrative tells the story of her courage, and survival, against the odds.
First published 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143204084
Bible and Treaty : Missionaries Among the Maori - a New Perspective
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NZ$ 51.00 each
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Author:
Keith Newman
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Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand. It brings a fresh perspective to the missionary story, from the lead-up to Samuel Marsden's first sermon on New Zealand soil, and the intervening struggle for survival and understanding, to the dramatic events that unfolded around the Treaty of Waitangi and the disillusionment that led to the Land Wars in the 1860s. While some missionaries clearly failed to live up to their high calling, the majority committed their lives to Maori and were instrumental in spreading Christianity, brokering peace between warring tribes, and promoting literacy - publishing, for instance, the first indigenous-language Bible in the Southern Hemisphere. This highly readable account, from the author of Ratana Revisited: An Unfinished Legacy (2006) and Ratana: ...
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9781877242441
Encircled Lands : Te Urewera, 1820-1921
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NZ$ 90.00 each
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Author:
Judith Binney
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Finalist in the General Non-Fiction category.
During the nineteenth century the Urewera was a remote but enticing wilderness except for the Maori who lived there, for them it was a sheltering homeland. In 1866-67 large areas were taken by confiscation or forced cession.At the end of the fighting in 1872 the Urewera became an autonomous district, governed by its own leaders. In 1921-22 the Urewera Native Reserve was abolished in law. This book provides the historical context for Tuhoe's quest for the restoration of their 'nationhood'.
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9781869536817
New Zealanders and the Sea
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Te Ara Online Encyclopedia
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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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9780473045593
Samuel Williams Of Te Aute
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NZ$ 38.00 each
Author:
Woods Sybil
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3
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Shield Of Faith,the:life & Times Of Henry & Marianne Williams
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NZ$ 38.00 each
Author:
Davis George
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3
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9780958298841
All Those Yesterdays
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NZ$ 32.50 each
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Author:
Elspeth Biss
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DoP August, 2009, Auckland
This is a story many New Zealand women – particularly those who grew up in the country - will identify with. Elspeth Biss was brought up on Hawke’s Bay farms in the 1940s; attended boarding school in the 1950s; trained as a nurse, married, and brought up a family in the 1960s and 70s on farms in the Wairarapa. As she writes: “The 1960s may well have been ‘the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius’, as the popular song had it, with the Beatles, Mary Quant and the mini-skirt, but for me and most of my friends it was a decade of child raising, washing nappies, Plunket and kindergartens.”
In her absorbing memoir, Elspeth Biss evokes the way things were during ‘all those yesterdays’. She is fiercely proud of her Scottish heritage, going ‘home’ for the first time in 1946. Passionate about horses and hunting, she is also always looking for a new challenge – ‘retirement’ is an opportunity to sell cosmetics and learn to ...
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9780986457418
Health Cheque
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Gareth Morgan & Geoff Simmons with John McCrystal
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2
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
Paperback
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877372728
In the Paddock and on the Run : The language of rural New Zealand
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Dianne Bardsley
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2
This is the first book to explore the rich heritage of language the rural sector has generated. For two hundred years people have come from all over the world to work in New Zealand's rural enterprises. From this linguistic melting pot, which includes the addition of indigenous Maori words, phrases and adaptations, the author has composed this book, including historical citations for all words listed. Richly illustrated and often hilarious, it will prove an indispensable resource and a good read for the general reader and researcher alike.
DoP October 2009, Dunedin
230x155mm / 500pp
Softcover
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869711870
On This Day in New Zealand
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Ron Palenski
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2
This books lists chronologically, by month and day, significant events that affected New Zealand and New Zealanders, but this is no mere shopping list of dates. Each entry is like a potted biography of how New Zealand developed as a nation and of the events that made the news at the time. It begins with pre-European times (when definite dates were known) and traverses the exploration years, the colonial period, the changing times of the 1890s and 1900s, both world wars and up to the present. It is a self-contained history of New Zealand based on dates. It covers the great affairs of state but also includes events that touched the lives of all New Zealanders - a political and a social history rolled into one. The book also includes a unique index based on dates rather than pages so the reader can quickly find items of interest.
First published July 2010.
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9781869537647
RSA Country
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Rachel Teen
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2
RSA Country
opens the door to the many New Zealanders who have served in the armed forces over the years. Its pages reflect many past sacrifices, it proudly records the present, and it looks, with hope, to the future. In 2008, the 90th year since the end of World War I, Rachel Teen travelled the length of New Zealand with her camera visiting as many of the operating Returned Service Association clubs in the country as possible.
This photographic journal is the result.
A snapshot of the RSA in that year, her travels brought her into contact with the servicemen and women, many of whom were instrumental in laying the foundations for the RSAs we see today, who do so much to keep the memories of their fallen comrades alive, as well as in supporting those who remain.
She also met many others who work in the RSAs, who are active in keeping the spirit of the RSA movement vibrant and of relevance to current and future ...
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9780473165499
silver wings
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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9780670074396
Swift to the Sky
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NZ$ 65.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Errol W. Martyn
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2
New Zealanders were among the world's first aviators, with our geography and location making the prospect of flight an attractive one for our people and our nation. It comes as no surprise then that tens of thousands have served in not only the Royal New Zealand Air Force but in numerous air forces in peace, and in war around the world. Those New Zealanders were among the first to take to the air like a swift to the sky. This brief account cannot do justice to them all but it serves to convey something of the nature of the challenges they have met and overcome, and of the sacrifices they have made, during the astonishingly rapid progress of aviation from its earliest beginnings, when every flight was an event if not a minor miracle, to the present, when aircraft have become so reliable that aircrew are almost in danger of becoming redundant.
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9781869792633
The Great Wrong War: New Zealand Scoiety In WWI
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NZ$ 56.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Stevan Eldred-Grigg
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2
For New Zealand, World War One was wholly avoidable, wholly unnecessary - and almost wholly disastrous.
Stevan Eldred-Grigg believes that the enormous cost of the war to our people was way too high - and that we still feel its effects, both socially and culturally, today. This is excellent narrative non-fiction, analyzing our history in a novel way. It's very accessible, almost chatty, but is backed up bymeticulous research. Stevan goes against the accepted line and gives us a fascinating look at our social history before, during and just after WW1.
Why did we go to the war in Europe? Was the country united in its desire for war? What were the economic and social consequences? What has been the impact on the psyches of New Zeland men?
These and many other questions are answered in this fascinating book.
In 2007 Harvey McQueen wrote in a review of NZ's Great War (an anthology of essays) that
'[there is] a need for a ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143018674
The Penguin History of New Zealand
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Michael King
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2
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.
The latter part of the ...
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9780141021331
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog : Captain Cook in the South Seas
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Anne Salmond
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2
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 ...
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9781869621711
The Villa : From Heritage to Contemporary
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NZ$ 75.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Patrick Reynolds, Jeremy Salmond & Jeremy Hansen (photography Patrick Reynolds)
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2
Despite the interest in contemporary architecture it's a fact that more people in inner-city suburbs throughout New Zealand end up living in a villa than a house of any other architectural style. Everyone at some stage finds themselves doing some renovation work, and that has tended in recent years to revolve around "blowing out the back". In recent years architects have come up with far more interesting solutions to turn villas into a workable house for 21st century living. This book looks at around 25 of those solutions as well as at villas that have remained untouched over the years and at villas that are down on their uppers, including a spectacular and infamous student flat. Photographed by Patrick Reynolds, the text on each house is written by Home NZ editor Jeremy Hansen. In addition the book kicks off with a substantial survey of villa architecture by leading heritage architect Jeremy Salmond, whose late 1980s book on old New ...
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9781877378317
Way Back Then Before We Were Ten : New Zealand writers and childhood
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Graeme Lay (ed)
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2
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 ...
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