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In this collection of poems, Janet Charman recalls her childhood, full of voices and stories, and in writing preserves bits of New Zealand's past as well as her own and her family's. The poems range over an era in all its colour and detail and should strike chords with many readers.

This authorized biography of a dominant figure in New Zealand political life since the mid-20th century is based on many hours of conversation with Robert Muldoon himself, and interviews with political colleagues, civil servants, family and friends.

Paula Green evokes New Zealand landscapes and Italy, town and countryside, and includes some love poems. Other poems respond to works by contemporary New Zealand artists who have in turn created new images especially for this book. The final section, 'Westbound and Floating', recalls the popular music of the 1970s and the poet's youth.

The third book to emerge from the Pouerua Project focuses on the pa itself, and explores the innovative attempt to use archaeological techniques to explore and understand socio-political processes. This book should be of interest to scholars, students and amateur archaeologists and historians.

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A collection of poems acute in observation and sensibility. The readre may well have the impression of being in a foreign country and having the good fortune to have hired a particularly knowledgeable guide.

Reveals the alternative history of 'nuclear New Zealand' - a country where there was much enthusiasm for nuclear technology, from the first users of x-rays and radium in medicine, the young New Zealand physicists seconded to work on the Manhattan Project, support for the British bomb tests in the Pacific, plans for a heavy water plant at Wairakei, plans for a nuclear power station on the Kaipara Harbour, and thousands of scientists and medical...

The Meeting Place is an examination of relationships between Maori and Pakeha focusing predominantly on the period between 1814 and 1840 when, author Vincent O'Malley argues, both peoples lived / inhabited a 'middle ground' - in the historian's Richard White's phrase - in which neither could dictate the political, economic or cultural rules. O'Malley begins by introducing readers to pre-1814 encounters between Maori and European from Tasman an...

What makes a good doctor? Are there bad doctors out there - and if so how do we protect patients from them? Can we inject more information, more trust and more assured competence into the medical system to solve these problems? Drawing on his years of dealing with patient concerns, Ron Paterson tackles these important questions.

The sixth collection from this poet. The title suggests the unknown and uncultivated, the world outdoors, the distant past, the hidden power of passion, the bush and the ocean: all these aspects of the wild emerge in these poems.

This collection of short poems dates from the 1980s and gives vignettes of Kendrick Smithyman's forbears, tracing them from their apparent origins in Shropshire, England. It also illustrates the shock of family myth meeting historical reality.

An authoritative insider's perspective, this book penned by the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand chronicles the global financial and economic meltdown. A well-researched and dynamic firsthand account, it captures the drama of the events - from the overheated markets of 2007 through the collapse of investment banks and crises in multiple economies to the fragile recovery in 2010 - as politicians, bankers, and government officials str...

From Polynesian Mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke's letters to Katherine Mansfield's notebooks, Maori and Pakeha New Zealanders have struggled for two and a half centuries to work the English language into some sort of truth about this place. The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature brings together for the first time in one volume this country's major wr...

Rich with local data and case studies, The New Zealand Economy is a clear and concise assessment of the current structure and performance of New Zealand's economy from a historical and global perspective. The book is an ideal supplementary text for undergraduates and MBA students as well as a pocket primer for New Zealanders involved in business and policy.

This is the first study of homegrown television drama in New Zealand, covering its development in all genres from 1960 to the present day and treating landmark programmes in detail. Dunleavy addresses the difficulties, practical, creative, economic and political, that have faced the production of TV drama in a small country.

The rich variety and depth of the special collections of the Auckland City Central Library emerge in this handsome volume full of rare and valuable literary gems. One hundred treasures are each pictured in full color with accompanying text and organized by category. Among the items featured are a first folio of Shakespeare, illuminated manuscripts, maps of early Auckland, avant-garde private press productions, and Maori manuscripts. At the hea...

This is Paula Green's second collection of poems. It is a way of coming to terms with some essential relationships in the poet's own life, her parents and her poetry. The sequence of poems is in four parts named for colours, yellow, red, green and blue.

Blokes, sheilas, good keen men, ladies with plates, Silver Ferns, All Blacks, marching girls and Boy Scouts: New Zealand society teems with images of women and men. This collection of essays analyzes the ways Pakeha masculinity and femininity - gender relations - have changed over time.

This third volume of the "Dictionary of New Zealand Biography" looks at the period between 1901 and 1920. It includes the lives of over 600 people who made their mark in this period when New Zealand was undergoing rapid change and modernization.