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Gisborne, New Zealand: A Photographic Journey
A Place by the Sea-side
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
A (MY) PLACE BY THE SEA-SIDE: Gisborne, New Zealand
Photos (great) by my friend, Jennifer Palmer of Gisborne, New Zealand
“I do love to live besides the sea-side”
enjoy c (to the words of the “kiddies” song)
"A fitting tribute to a tumultuous yet triumphant...
Treasury
The New Zealand Treasury 18402000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Commissioned by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, this interpretive history tackles New Zealand's most important department of state, the Treasury Department. The history of the complex interplay between New Zealand's government, economy, and people is detailed. McKinnon shows the perennial jousting...
Innovation and Independence
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This study of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand reveals why the Bank's presence in the national life is strong; illustrates how it is internationally renowned for its mandate to eliminate inflation, having been the first reserve or central bank in the world to adopt the "inflation targeting"...
A City Lost and Found
Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
“Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for a building 50 years old will be in vain.” —Herald, 1925.
The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred...
by Jennifer Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that...
Disposable Leaders
Media and Leadership Coups from Menzies to Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Since 1970 seventy-three political leaders within the major parties have been forcibly removed from their leadership positions. And at the heart of the turmoil is the media, with its 24-hour news cycle making political leadership evermore precarious. Disposable Leaders is an engaging and insightful...
Selfish Generations?
The Ageing of New Zealand’s Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Our present welfare state has little good reason to survive much longer, and we will have to find a new basis for its continued existence.’ So writes David Thomson as he offers an unflinching perspective on how different generations have fared under the social welfare policies of governments since...
Waitangi & Indigenous Rights
Revolution, Law & Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This landmark study examines issues surrounding New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, focusing on recent Fiji revolutions and indigenous customary rights to the seabed and foreshore. In this revised edition, the author approaches these complex and controversial matters with a careful, thorough, and...
by Donald Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Imagine a rock that catches fire yet does not burn, strengthens construction materials, insulates materials perfectly, dampens noise, and possesses long, silky threads that can be woven into fireproof cloth. Sound impossible? This "wonder material" is asbestos.However, If it sounds too good...
The Last Man
A British Genocide in Tasmania
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specifically...
Contemporary Japan
History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown.
Fully updated to include a detailed assessment...
Sea of Glory
America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
**"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.**
A...
The Healthy Country?
A History of Life & Death in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Did Maori or Europeans live longer when Captain James Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769? Why were Pakeha New Zealanders the healthiest, longest-lived people on the face of the globe for 80 years—and why did Maori not enjoy the same life expectancy? Why were New Zealanders' health and longevity...