Massey University Press: 17 books
From Empire's Servant to Global Citizen
A history of Massey University
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The vision of two young scientists, Massey University was established in 1928 to bring science to New Zealand's role as Britain's farm. Massey has since become New Zealand's national and a global university, with almost 140,000 alumni spread across 140 different nations. This candid history looks...
Experience of a Lifetime
People, personalities and leaders in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The First World War is widely conceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors pushed naïve young men into a nightmare of mud and blood that killed millions and left scarred and embittered survivors. However, the ongoing reinterpretation of the First...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
From the state of our rivers and our justice system to a new way to fight obesity and how a farmer discovered our unknown warrior in a field in France, this collection of provocative, impassioned essays by smart thinkers will tune up your intellectual engine. This is an annual journal of passionate...
A Nurse on the Edge of the Desert
From Birdsville to Kandahar: The art of extreme nursing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
International humanitarian-aid nurse and New Zealander Andrew Cameron is the winner of the coveted Florence Nightingale Medal. In this gripping book he recounts his remarkable life nursing in some of the world's most dangerous and challenging locations, including South Sudan, Yemen, Sierra Leone and...
Dear Oliver
Uncovering a Pakeha history
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced...
by Pip Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mother's dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmond's life and an unflinching account of the practical and ethical dilemmas that faced her six children. Told with love, insight, humour and compassion, it raises important...
To the Summit
Getting out of a wheelchair and to the Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This is the inspirational story of climber Nick Allen, who went from outdoorsman to wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis to back to the life in the mountains he loves through sheer determination and grit. This book follows Nick's first faltering steps back into the back country and his decision...
Precarity
Uncertain, insecure and unequal lives in Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Leading UK economist Guy Standing has referred to the precariat as a class-in-the-making. The Precariat are our fellow citizens — be they poor, elderly, disabled, homeless, estranged from their cultural communities, refugees, engaged in casual work — who lead lives of uncertainty, dependency,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The world needs nutrition-driven agriculture that operates within planetary boundaries. But a recent OECD report on New Zealand's environmental performance shows how our agricultural sector's continual push at those boundaries poses grave risks. Meantime, a range of health indices show that how and...
Cyber Security and Policy
A substantive dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
A world without the advantages and convenience provided by cyberspace and the internet of things is now unimaginable. But do we truly grasp the threats to this massive, interconnected system? And do we really understand how to secure it? After all, cyber security is no longer just a technology problem;...
Rebooting the Regions
Why low or zero growth needn't mean the end of prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Loss of jobs, loss of young people, the ageing demographic, the apparently irresistible magnet of Auckland . . . the economic fortunes of New Zealand's regions are of great concern to politicians, the business community, schools, employers — and indeed most citizens. What is the dynamic at work...
The Treaty on the Ground
Where we are headed, and why it matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
It's 175 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. At times they've been years of conflict and bitterness, but there have also been remarkable gains, and positive changes that have made New Zealand a distinct nation. This book takes stock of where we've been, where we are headed, and why...
Army Fundamentals
From making soldiers to the limits of the military instrument
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
How do we understand the functions of militaries of democratic societies? How good soldiers are made, how they behave when posted overseas, the issue of gender and the increased use of military beyond their core functions all demand a closer academic examination. This edited collection brings together...
Home
New writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
A compendium of non-fiction pieces held together by the theme of ‘home' and commissioned from twenty-two of New Zealand's best writers. Strong, relevant, topical and pertinent, these essays are also compelling, provocative and affecting. What is home when it's a doorway on a city street because...
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