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Urban Village : The Story of Ponsonby, Freeman's Bay and St Mary's Bay (SPECIAL REDUCED PRICE)

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NZ$ 29.99 each

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Author: Jenny Carlyon & Diana Morrow

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Ponsonby is one of New Zealand's most famous suburbs, the place where social and political change has fermented and fomented since its origins over 160 years ago. From Michael Joseph Savage to Che Fu, from the Hero Parade to the Polynesian Panthers, the fashion industry to cafe society, Ponsonby has led the way. This lively, authoritative history brings the colourful pageant of Ponsonby's past to light, and includes a wide range of images of the neighbourhood, then and now.

First published September 2008.

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Leading the Way : How New Zealand Women Won the Vote

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NZ$ 40.00 each

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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.

Amy Bock

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NZ$ 25.00 each

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Ben and Mark : Boys of the High Country

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NZ$ 37.00 each

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Author: Christine Fernyhough Photography by John Bougen

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The true story of Ben and Mark Smith, aged eight and six, who live with their parents Richard and Sheri on Mount White Station, near Arthurs Pass. One of New Zealand's biggest and most remote high-country stations in the South Island, it is 45 minutes from the nearest village to their turnoff on the main road, and fourteen gates along a gravel road from there to the farmhouse.
Their story is lovingly told by Christine Fernyhough, the author of The Road to Castle Hill, with stunning photographs by John Bougen.
This story of life fashioned by the cycles and seasons of farming, far away from other people, where you have to make you own fun, will be enjoyed by adults as well as children.

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Cartwright Papers, The (Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry of 1987-88)

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Author: Jo Mannin et al

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DoP September 2009, Auckland
150pp

The publication of the 'Cartwright Report' twenty years ago was a momentous event in New Zealand history. The Inquiry into Associate Professor Herbert Green's 'unfortunate experiment' at National Women's Hospital established that this research, conducted without the consent of the patients, was unethical. Much followed from the Inquiry and its report. Critical issues were at stake - matters of life and death; the life's work of leaders within the medical profession; professional reputations; and public trust in the profession. Twenty years on, participants in the Inquiry and other commentators write thoughtful essays. Contributors include: Sandra Coney, Charlotte Paul, Clare Matheson, Alistair Campbell, Ron Paterson and Jan Crosthwaite

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Memories of Marie : Reflections on the Life and Work of Marie Clay

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Author: Jenny Clay

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DoP April 2009, NZ
260pp
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From the age of 25, when she first travelled beyond New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States, Marie Clay worked to establish international connections, while keeping her base in her homeland. Marie Clay joined the Education Department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1960, and there helped to create the new Diploma of Educational Psychology. In 1968, the year after she was awarded a doctorate for her thesis Emergent Reading Behaviour, she was an invited speaker in Copenhagen at the 2nd World Congress in Reading. Seven years later she became the first woman professor at the University of Auckland, and was appointed Head of the Education Department. In this book, people write about their interactions with Marie Clay, their shared experiences and history, and the influence of her work on them. Her early life, before she became well-known, is also described, with ... more

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100 Essential New Zealand Albums

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Author: Nick Bollinger

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Music-lovers love lists, and this Top 100 from Radio New Zealand's highly respected music guru Nick Bollinger will not disappoint. As his legions of fans know, Bollinger's taste is eclectic: he's as likely to give space to the Axemen as to Bic Runga. His choices come accompanied by some of the most entertaining writing about music and musicians you're ever likely to read.

DoP December 2009.

A Life of My Own

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Author: Alan de Malmanche

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In 2004 Alan De Malmanche was awared the MNZM for Services to the Theatre in the Queens Birthday Honours.

As a leading actor, Alan toured both New Zealand and Australia in Richard Campion and Ngaio Marsh productions. A former member of the QE11 Arts Council, his work covered the widest range from Grand Opera, Shakespeare, Modern Drama, Theatre Restaurant and Rock Opera.

As a teacher of Speech and Drama he became the longest serving theatre adjudicator. He worked in Canada as an artistic director and in Pennsylvania as a theatre critic. He has worked in broadcasting and television and written many radio and stage plays.

This is his story based on his diaries, notebooks and TV series Come Rain, Come Shine!

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Always the Sound of the Sea : New Zealand Lighthouse Keepers' Lives

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Author: Helen Beaglehole

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Lighthouses have a mystique, a romance, and an almost biblical significance about them. Elegant structures located on remote and exposed sites where the land is challenged by the sea, they beam light into the darkness and transform uncertainty into knowledge and safety. They are the subject of legends and yarns, shanties and poems, written and oral history around the world. New Zealand's lighthouses - their location, design, construction, operation and demanning - have been well documented in Helen Beaglehole's comprehensive history, Lighting the Coast. But the lives and work of the men and women behind the lights over the last 150 years deserves closer study. Why did they choose the life? What did the job entail from day to day and year to year? How did it change? How did they feel about their work? What were their fears, frustrations and rewards? In Always the Sound of the Sea, Helen Beaglehole again challenges the myths and the ... more

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Best of Both Worlds : The: Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau

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Author: Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

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In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsden Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of Maungapohatu. The stories he gave to Best to be recorded for future generations are with us today. Best went on to become a noted Pakeha authority on a people he would style as the last of 'the oldtime Maori'. How much did the old man tell him? Was it freely given? Can Best's writings - so pervasive today in our understanding of Maori culture - be truly relied upon? In his unique examination of this historically significant relationship, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman poses such searching questions, further informing a vital national debate on the shared identity - and destiny - of Maori and Pakeha.

First published March 2010.

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Dust to Gold : The inspiring story of Bendigo Station home of Shrek

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Author: John Perriam (photography Stephen Jaquiery)

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Shrek may be the star of Bendigo Station, but the back-story of the station is rich and fascinating, from its earliest days as the scene of New Zealand's richest quartz reef gold strike in the 1860s to its establishment as a 11,000 hectare sheep station producing many of New Zealand's highest quality top price Merino clips. As well as this it's now home to several leading Pinot Noir vineyards, public walkways, a historic reserve and fishing and game hunting.

None of this recent development would have come about if it weren't for the far-sighted, entrepreneurial and innovative owners, John and Heather Perriam. They took on Bendigo in the late 1970s after the Clyde Dam project forced them off the nearby family farm. They had spent several years in ultimately fruitless battles with bureaucracy, trying to stop the dam project from going ahead. Things weren't easy at Bendigo Station either. Chief among their problems was a rabbit ... more

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Encircled Lands : Te Urewera, 1820-1921

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Author: Judith Binney

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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'.

First published November 2009.

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How We Saw The War: 1938-1945 Through New Zealand Eyes

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NZ$ 60.00 each

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Author: Ron Palenski

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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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Letters on the Go: The Correspondence of Suzanne Aubert

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NZ$ 70.00 each

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Author: Jessie Munro (editor)

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The title for this book presents itself in Suzanne Aubert's own recurring phrases. The small French nun who strode the streets and roads of New Zealand on behalf of the poor and neglected was in her lifetime a legend - and she has remained so ever since.

Highly articulate in both French and English, she wrote copious letters throughout her long life. The correspondence selected here reflects every aspect of her interests - her rich friendships, her challenges to the church hierarchy, her engagement with politicians on behalf of the poor, her relationships with the Sisters of the religious congregation that she founded (the Daughters of Compassion).

Making Our Place: Growing Up PI in New Zealand

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Author: Fairbairn-Dunlop( Ed)

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Passageways : The story of a New Zealand family

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Author: Ann Thwaite

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The author’s eight great grandparents all arrived in New Zealand between 1858 and 1868. Their family names were Harrop, Sales, Campbell, Brown, Valentine, Maxwell, Jefcoate and Oliver. She looks at their reasons for migration, how they fared once settled, and at their participation in gold-digging, farming, road-making, school-teaching and surveying. Both of her parents were graduates of Canterbury University and A.J. Harrop was a respected New Zealand historian.

Ann explains how she and her brother David came to be born in England and how early in World War II they were taken to their New Zealand relations for safety, returning to the UK five years later with a deep love for the country where David later became a farmer. This is an engaging portrait of a brilliant and unconventional New Zealand-British family.

First published April 2009.

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Story of Suzanne Aubert

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Author: Jessie Munro

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This beautifully written story of a radical nun who founded a religious congregation sold thousands of copies when it won the Book of the Year award in the Montana Book Awards in 1997. Unusually, it simultaneously won the E. H. McCormick Award for the best first book of non-fiction.

Suzanne Aubert grew up in a French provincial family in the mid-nineteenth century. Lyon's Catholic missionary spirit brought her to live with Maori girls in war-anxious 1860s Auckland. She nursed Maori and Pakeha in Hawke's Bay as the settler population swelled in the 1870s. In the 1880s and 1890s, living up the Whanganui River at Jerusalem, she set up New Zealand's home-grown Catholic congregation, published a significant Maori text, broke in a hill farm, manufactured medicines, and gathered babies and children through the family-fracturing years of economic depression.

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Teacher

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Author: Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred in an ancient legend-haunted tradition; how could she build them a bridge to European culture that would enable them to take hold of the great joy of reading? Ashton-Warner devised a method whereby written words became prized possessions for her students. Today, her findings are strikingly relevant to the teaching of socially disadvantaged and non-English-speaking students. TEACHER is part diary, part inspired description of Ashton-Warner's teaching method in action. Her fiercely loved children come alive individually, as do the unique setting and the character of this extraordinary woman.

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The Crescent Moon: The Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand

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Author: Adrienne Jansen & Ans Westra (photos)

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The Crescent Moon : The Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand opens new doors into the lives of the largest group of Muslims in New Zealand and in the world as a whole: those of Asian descent.
Photographer Ans Westra and writer Adrienne Jansen - armed with a camera and a tape recorder - take a trip through the country, catching up with people in their everyday lives. They meet a very diverse group, ethnically, culturally, and theologically. There are lawyers and farmers, computer trainers and butchers, fourth generation New Zealanders and new migrants. They talk with disarming honesty about the media, about 9/11, about identity, about their faith - but mostly they just talk about who they are and their life in New Zealand today.

First published February 2009, Auckland

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The Penguin History of New Zealand

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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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