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Reflects on the writing about New Zealand's past. This book tells much about New Zealand's past and how historians have imagined them. It indicates particular concerns with what the country is, and the role of history as a discipine within the nation. It asks questions and ventures some answers, and surveys the work of historians since the 1980s.

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DIY is a wonderful trend that's growing with the assistance of both the internet and books like this.

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This is a fun picture book for primary-school age kids, from the highly successful author and illustrator of I Need a New Bum! With vivid illustrations plus memorable, hilarious rhyme, Doctor Grundy's Undies are a captivating read.

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'Doctors in Denial' is a first-hand account by one of the doctors who exposed the truth at National Women's Hospital. Jones sets the record straight with his personal story: a story of the unnecessary suffering of countless women, a story of professional arrogance and misplaced loyalties, and a story of doctors in denial of the truth.

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This engrossing history offers not only the portrait of a firm that was at one time our largest manufacturing business, but a window on the development of the New Zealand economy and the emergence of a manufacturing sector.

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A slapstick postmodern tale that is also a profound statement about dictatorship and peaceful revolution

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This guide explains writing and grammar plainly and simply with plenty of examples, especially for Kiwi students, professionals, adult learners and teachers. Find what you need at the time you need it, including parts of speech, sentences, punctuation, mechanics, spelling, confusables, style, organisation and referencing.

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The story follows a group of animals as they watch the sun set. Thinking the sun is falling each one in their turn tries to prevent the disaster. Translated from Chinese.

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Sometimes Sophie worries not during the day when she is busy with family and friends, but at night when everything is calm and quiet. Her family all try to help, but somehow they just make her worries worse. Until her mother thinks of a new approach that just might involve elephants! An excellent resource for social and emotional learning.

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Frank Winter is an ex-cop, a former hard-boiled Boston detective with a soft centre living in curmudgeonly retirement with his beloved dog, Dolly. But when his daughter's killer is released on parole, Frank's back, a man on a mission, and it's yesterday once more.

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Down A Country Road is a brilliant collection of stories (24) throughout the last 140 years about the eccentric, colourful personalities who have made the remote back-country of New Zealand's South Island their home

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Sometimes being half boy, half dragon gets really messy! Young shape-shifting dragon Merek is following his dream to become a knightand its time for the trainee knights to learn how to joust. But when Brin finds herself up against the dastardly, conniving Percy, will Merek be able to save her96-pp softcover.

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A very funny and philosophical illustrated chapter book by a bestselling author/illustrator pair, in which a duck with a limp takes a blind chicken on a goose chase, as they search for adventure and answers to some big questions.

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Curator and author Felicity Milburn takes a lively look at bodiesin contemporary art from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.

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Features writing from musicians, composers and scholar/practitioners. This title discusses genres as diverse as brass band, opera, classical, Indonesian gamelan, jazz, rock and more, the intricacies of the composition and lyric writing processes, digital remixing, and scoring for film and TV.

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THIS IS THE BIOGRAPHY OF DR I.M. ALLEN, better known as "Dusty" Allen to his colleagues. He was the first fully trained neurologist to practise in New Zealand.

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East is a sampling of 136 of Stanley Palmer's works ranging across four decades. From early woodcuts through Palmer's unique bamboo engravings, to his delicate monoprints and evocative paintings, this extensive selection celebrates the work of one of our most-loved and prolific artists and also our own edge of the Pacific.