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By: Kristyn Harman
ISBN: 9781988531069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Everyone knows Australia was once a penal colony, but few realise that New Zealand prisoners were sent there. During the mid-nineteenth century at least 110 people were transported from New Zealand to serve time as convict labourers in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
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By: David B. Hill
ISBN: 9781775503491
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Huia Publishers
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In 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen and Royal Navy volunteers left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young Maori sailor, and his friends arrived in Singapore under siege. They manned fast motor launches, raiding and rescuing Allies from behind enemy lies. This is the story of how they evaded the Japanese and survived.
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By: Paul Maunder
ISBN: 9781927145265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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An observer's account of the Pike River coal mine explosion that killed 29 miners on New Zealand's South Island. It questions what the deaths mean for workplace health and safety. It also analyses the economic and political aspects associated with mining in New Zealand.
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By: Bernard Brown
ISBN: 9780994137630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Atuanui Press
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Bernard Brown taught law at the University of Auckland for over forty years, including to ex-Prime Ministers David Lange and Winston Peters. This book is an entertaining romp through Brown's wartime and post-war experiences before arriving in NZ. It includes his meetings with such formidable figures as Margaret Thatcher and author Anthony Burgess.
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By: Robin Allison
ISBN: 9780473515171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing
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In "Cohousing for Life", architect Robin Allison describes her journey from mother of two in the suburbs to determined driver of the development of New Zealands first cohousing community. It is a personal story of a collective endeavour, a heroic journey of despair and triumph, as the obstacles mount and success at times feels far from certain.
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By: Mark Richards
ISBN: 9781877448577
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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Mark richards has been writing poetry for over 60 years. In this volume of collected works are poems from the second half of a distinguished writing career which has seen him produce 17 books, comprising poetry, drama and a series of novellas. An accompanying CD features Mark reading a selection of his poems.
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By: Anne Else
ISBN: 9781927249154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Awa Press
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By: Dawn McMillan
ISBN: 9781775436805
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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By: Maxwell Kat
ISBN: 9780995111066
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Makaro Press
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(Hardback)
By: Anna Cahill
ISBN: 9780473423834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing
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Douglas MacDiarmid has achieved an international reputation as an expatriate NZ painter. He defies labelling, acclaimed particularly as a superb colourist and for the diversity, technique and intellectual rigour of his paintings. His life and insights have the distinction of straddling almost a century of cultural trends and influences.
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By: Alexander McKinnon
ISBN: 9781990048067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Come Back to Mona Vale is a beautifully written, compelling narrative/memoir that sets about unravelling the mysteries and anomalies behind the public history of a wealthy Christchurch business family in the first half of the 20th century.
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By: Peter Bland
ISBN: 9781877577499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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By: Matt Morris
ISBN: 9781988592572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Hardback)
By: A.V. Jennings
ISBN: 9781869631802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Waiatarua Publishing
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By: Neil Plimmer
ISBN: 9780947493738
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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By: Cybele Locke
ISBN: 9781988587899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Comrade tells a riveting story of labour activism and social change. Historian Cybele Locke recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades.
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By: David Minty
ISBN: 9780473511906
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Minty Books
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By: Jill Eggleton
ISBN: 9781741691948
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Global Education Systems Ltd
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By: Jill Eggleton
ISBN: 9781741691955
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Global Education Systems Ltd
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By: Jill Eggleton
ISBN: 9781742836096
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Global Education Systems Ltd
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By: Jenny Chamberlain
ISBN: 9780994136008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Fraser Books
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Sue Bradford is half American and sixth generation Kiwi on her fathers side -- her European missionary genes date from 1820s Northland.
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By: Greville Dennis
ISBN: 9781877382109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Hyndman Publishing
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By: Jean Tekura Mason
ISBN: 9781990042218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Oratia Media
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One of two inaugural titles in sparkling Moana Oceania series Introduction to culture and landscapes of Polynesia by Pasifika creatives Bilingual English and Cook Islands Mori text with vivid design
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Simon Holst
ISBN: 9781877382758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Hyndman Publishing
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