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I Dont Believe in Murder is an alternative history of the years before, during and after New Zealands involvement in World War I. It depicts the strong response made by Canterburys labour, socialist and women's movements to pre-war compulsory military training and wartime conscription.

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A fifth volume of poetry from a beloved New Zealand troubadour that includes old favorites, such as "Sad Joke on a Marae" and "Cocoa Cola Jesus and Mitsubishi Mary." It explores topics such as nature and landscape, love and war, poverty and racism, and the poet's Maori ancestry.

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'A Long Time Coming' depicts the history of the Ngi Tahu settlement and shows how the two sides, Ngi Tahu and the Crown, led by Tipene ORegan for Ngi Tahu and the Minister of Treaty Negotiations Douglas Graham, managed to negotiate one of the countrys longest legal document.

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In 'A New History: The University of Canterbury 18732023', historian John Wilson offers a fresh interpretation of an institution that has played a central role in shaping the development of research culture and university education in Aotearoa New Zealand and that has been at the forefront of the shift to a postcolonial university world.

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New Zealand is renowned worldwide for spectacular ecological restoration work over the last 50 years, through advances in pest eradication and native species translocation. This book documents the development of these world-leading technologies told through the eyes of pioneer conservation biologist David Towns.

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Provides a record of what happened to the animals during and after the Christchurch earthquakes, and asks what we can learn from these events and our response to them. The accounts of professionals and volunteers involved in the rescue, shelter, and advocacy of the city's animals postquakes are presented in the first part of the book and are followed by the tales of individual animals.

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Priors letters have been transcribed and annotated for this volume by early Prior scholar Mike Grimshaw. An essay by Mike Grimshaw and an introduction by Prior expert Jack Copeland provide further context, including a brief introduction to tense logic.

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'Beyond Manapouri' traces the evolution of environmental administration in New Zealand since the dawn of the `environmental era in the late 1960s.

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A portrait of an attentive son, a steadfast friend and erudite academic, a resolute administrator and a multi-skilled professional artist.

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Woven from the sharp and tensile strands of memory, many of the poems in this collection return to the primal pains of neglect and damage in childhood. Emotional memory is anchored in the specific detail of an era and fans out to draw on local and international history, exploring with wit, anger, imagination and grief the ways in which Aotearoa st

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John Puhiatau Pule was just 21 years old living in Auckland when he wrote The Bond of Time: an Epic Love Poem, composed as a lyrical address by a lover to his beloved. The love that preoccupies the youthful poet in The Bond of Time is multi-faceted; it combines the erotic and surreal with the earthy and the mundane, the classical with modern.

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Bonsai brings together a pioneering collection of flash fiction and associated forms (prose poetry and haibun) from 165 writers in Aotearoa New Zealand, along with intriguing essays on this increasingly popular genre.

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Describes the Chatham Islands, with particular emphasis on their geology, flora, fauna, habitats, and extinct and endangered species - both on the land and in the sea. It gives an introduction to the history of the islands and a guide to the many reserves and covenants that have been set up to protect and conserve the islands' heritage.

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Filled with real-life characters, this book combines archival and newspaper sources in a highly readable narrative about humorous crimes and criminals. As it describes a wide variety of colonial crimes and their courtroom sequels, these true-life narratives contain a mixture of transient folk and locals who claim they only broke the law due to drunkenness.

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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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Biography of William Guise Brittan and Joseph Brittan, founders of Canterbury and cricket enthusiasts.

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These fascinating tales and reminiscences from New Zealand's West Coast's earliest pioneers were originally compiled by Carl Pfaff for The Diggers' Story, first published in 1914 to mark the 50th anniversary of the gold rushes that transformed this remote part of New Zealand. Long out of print, the book has been thoughtfully edited and expanded for today's readers.

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In this fascinating book, an Italian literary scholar traces the story of his grandparents childhood on Stromboli, Italy, at the end of the 19th century, and their later immigration to New Zealand. Painting a lively picture of life in Island Bay, New Zealands Little Italy, from 1900 to the 1960s, this book weaves events and themes into a moving story of the familys moments of joy and sorrow.

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Mary Cresswell is at her imaginative best in this new collection, built from her experiments with the ghazal, a traditional form, which she first met via the work of Agha Shahid Ali and Mimi Khalvati. The poems are presented as an intellectual challenge to students of the ghazal and glosa forms, encouraging them to develop their own craft.