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In this BWB Text Johnson explores her elusive and ambivalent feelings about the sunburnt country.

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A collection of short stories in which a variety of characters face individual challenges. Their experiences are rendered freshly, in sharp detail, and with surprises. Human frailty and resilience are on display in stories that are both amusing and moving.

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Mike Beveridges poems return us to a time when poems had rhyme and rhythm (they are, in short, Poems For Remembering), while at the same time being wholly modern in their scope and points of reference. And New Zealand is a constant presence

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Poeta gathers together poems from the poets 14 previous volumes, punctuated by 11 striking drawings, and also includes a range of new work that shows her riddling creativity continuing to grow and evolve.

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Dont miss this brilliant debut, the inaugural winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize.

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Drawing upon first-hand accounts and linking them to classic theories of public policy-making, Mazey and Richardson explain in an accessible way why government 'stuff-ups' happen, and suggest practical steps the policy establishment could take to improve policy-making in New Zealand.

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Freshly updated in 2019, the third edition of Politics in the Playground: The world of early childhood in Aotearoa New Zealand is a lively history of early childhood education and care in Aotearoa New Zealand in the postwar era. This latest edition brings the story right up to date with developments under the Labour coalition government.

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Evidence presented in this BWB Text by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to such a degree that we face an environmental crisis.

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Polly Plum is a biography of one of New Zealand's earliest feminists, Mary Ann Colclough, whose publicly voiced opinions saw her described in the nineteenth century as 'our own little stray strap of a modern female fanatic'.

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A concise introduction to the history of South Polynesia during the period typically defined as the 'Middle Ages' by western historians, focusing on Aotearoa, Rekohu, and Rapa Nui. Written in response to a wider global approach to medieval history, it offers a fresh perspective on the history of the region during that period.

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Reflections on the 20th century. At nearly 99 years old, Lloyd Geering is well qualified to look back over the last century, consider the massive social changes he has lived through, and evaluate human progress.

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In this captivating and beautifully illustrated memoir, John Gillies vividly recalls his months as a member of the Otago University Medical Company on an active service tour of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Gillies takes us behind the scenes and records the people and places he saw when not tending to the wounded.

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New poetry by Ockham 2018 longlistee,Tom Weston

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In 2004, workmen demolishing the home that had housed three generation's of Ann Gluckman's family saved an old cardboard box hidden under the eaves. The letters inside proved invaluable to Ann's painstaking 20-year work piecing together the family history, which had, like the letter, been largely concealed.

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Features up-to-date text with Maori names, two-colour printing throughout and improved quality of illustrations due to the latest digital scanning techniques. The text has been updated by Brian Gill, from the Auckland Museum, and all native animals are covered from tape worms to sperm whales.

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Power to Win tells the story of the living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand, documenting the movements efforts to lift the wages of the most disadvantaged people in our workforce. Here, McIntyre provides a window into the lives of these workers and those committed to ending in-work poverty.

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One of the most influential Czechs living abroad, New Zealand author Jindra Tichy's fascinating memoir is one of exile and survival, of distance and painful longing. It depicts in a moving way the pain and confusion of banishment from home, family and friends into an exile removed from everything familiar.

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Drawing from a rich collection of archival material and oral interviews, Preachers, Pastors, Prophets is the story of the Dominican friars of Aotearoa New Zealand and their impact on the communities and churches they served in New Zealand.

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If a natural disaster or other emergency event happened right now, how prepared would you be What would you need to survive