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An innovative new collection from an ward-winning NZ poet whose work has been described as `laconic and original

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Originally published in 2001, A City Possessed is the shocking account of one of New Zealands most high-profile criminal cases. This shocking account of high-profile New Zealand child sexual abuse case is the landmark critique of controversial conviction. This 2019 reprint coincides with an appeal to Supreme Court by Peter Ellis.

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Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, 'A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley' is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China.

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Written between 1909 and 1911, this autobiography describes Vaggioli's philosophical temperament, his search for justice, his objections to war, and his activities as a missionary in New Zealand. It covers the period of his life between 1879 and 1887. The introduction provides background information, and features black and white illustrations.

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"As well as the poems from Lonie's published volumes, [this collection] includes over a hundred unpublished works, two essays and an extensive commentary"--Jacket.

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A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield's old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital.

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New Zealanders today hold firm provincial identities, dating from the time when the young colony was divided into provinces: 1853 to 1876. Why were the provinces created How did settlers shape and change their institutions And why, just over 20 years later, did New Zealand abolish its provincial governments

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Aftermaths explores the life-changing intergenerational effects of colonial violence in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. Written by leading scholars of colonial and Indigenous histories, this collection of illustrated essays reflects on a range of events through a variety of perspectives, including personal experiences, etc.

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Always Going Home is the compelling personal story of Frances Edmonds relationship with her beloved, complicated, difficult mother, the award-winning poet Lauris Edmond (19242000). Frances takes a more intimate look at areas of Lauriss private life than have been detailed in previous family histories and autobiographies.

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A highly original first collection described as displaying 'sheer brio and linguistic flair' by former New Zealand poet laureate Vincent O'Sullivan, Alzheimer's and a Spoon takes its readers on a tangled trip.

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In Anzac Nations, Rowan Light examines the myth-making around Anzac and how commemoration has evolved in New Zealand and Australia. He examines the changing meanings of Anzac from the 1960s to the 1980s; the expanded role of the state since 1990; and the responses from Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

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Archaeology of the Solomon Islands presents the outcome of 20 years' research in the Solomon Islands undertaken jointly by Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard, both leaders in the eld of Paci c archaeology.

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"First published by Otago University Press in 2016."

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At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitchings poems bestow a unique attention upon the world, especially to those weedy, overgrown and pest-infested places where the human impulse to name, control and colonise meet natures life force and wild exuberance

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Beachcombing looks at waves and tides, the connectivity of Southern Hemisphere coastlines, and the life cycles of marine plants and animals. It will help you understand the objects and organisms you find on beaches, and the intriguing reasons they have come to be there.

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Set in the green spaces and urban grit of contemporary Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, this award-winning debut collection unfolds like a Gothic fairytale, touching on themes of love, madness, betrayal, desire and recovery to tell the story of a woman searching among the images and events of her life for answers.

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This biography tells the story of Bob Crowder, a leading horticulturist and early champion of regenerative agriculture in Aotearoa New Zealand. Crowder played a pivotal role in the birth of the organics movement in New Zealand, establishing the country's only university-based organics research unit and helping to build a sector now worth millions.

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Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Maori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. It reveals the central place of over 200 years of print literacy within te ao Maori and vividly conveys how books are understood as taonga tuku iho - treasured items handed down through generations.