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By: Judith Bell

ISBN: 9780958250979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Awa Press
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By: Angela Walker

ISBN: 9781776890279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story of Yvette Williams, a trailblazing young athlete who defied the odds to win gold in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. This is a long overdue celebration of an extraordinary sporting life and a highly engaging chronicle of a young womans quest for excellence.


(Hardback)

By: Cilla McQueen

ISBN: 9781877578717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Otago University Press
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By: Tim Higham

ISBN: 9781988595405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: The Cuba Press
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Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past.


(Paperback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: John McBeth
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It's Over! is sports commentator John McBeth's story of his 40 years behind the microphone and in front of the camera. He described some of New Zealand's most memorable sporting achievements and personally contributed to some unique "firsts".


(Paperback)

By: Chris Brickell

ISBN: 9781990048036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Otago University Press
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NZ author James Courage moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems and short stories. His 1959 novel, A Way of Love, was the first gay novel written by a New Zealander. Between 1920 and 1963, Courage confided his thoughts to a private diary, recording his triumphs and struggles with an engaging honesty and a lively intelligence.


(Hardback)

By: Stephan Diederich

ISBN: 9783791357249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Prestel
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A monograph on the great Pop Art master, James Rosenquist, this book shows how the artist's large-scale works and their source materials remain powerful and relevant as cultural and political commentary.


(Hardback)

By: Ze Wheddon

ISBN: 9781399071123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The Reverend George Austen has so often been painted as just a quiet, country clergyman. This book reveals he was anything but and that the parsonage Jane Austen lived in was a very lively and literary place.


(Hardback)

By: Yukio Okamoto

ISBN: 9784805318430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: A. B. Mitford

ISBN: 9784805315019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2019
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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By: Donald Richie

ISBN: 9780804850537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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These private recollections of longtime Japan resident and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie capture the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.


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By: Kent Sherwood

ISBN: 9780789332820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
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An endearing book of photographs of legendary skateboarding pioneer and Z-Boy Jay Adams during his childhood years, taken by Adams s stepfather Kent Sherwood and now back in print for the first time since Adams s passing.


(Hardback)

By: Darmawan Prasodjo

ISBN: 9780804854177
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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By: Redmer Yska

ISBN: 9781990048531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfields Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfields journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the places where she lived, worked and died.


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By: Allen Riordan

ISBN: 9781988503301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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An engaging personal account of life in an environment with temperatures as low as -57oC, months of continual darkness and isolation, and daunting logistical challenges.


(Paperback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Kelly Publications
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Keeping the Party in Tune embraces twenty stories primarily about the battles of a union leader and Labour politician during turbulent times in New Zealand's political and industrial history. Other pieces capture the often-hilarious life of a musician and dance band leader and later the High Commissioner to Canada.


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By: Paolo Parisi

ISBN: 9783791388434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2022
Publisher: Prestel
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Celebrated artist, activist and humanitarian, Keith Haring is the perfect subject for this graphic novel. Focused on three colors, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of canvases.


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By: Michelle Elvy

ISBN: 9781988592527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Ko Aotearoa Tatou | We Are New Zealand is bursting with new works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art created in response to the editors' questions: What is New Zealand now, in all its rich variety and contradiction, darkness and light Who are New Zealanders


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By: Julia Bradshaw

ISBN: 9781877257537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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Davey Gunn lived 30 years in Fiordland's rugged Hollyford Valley, where he had one of the most isolated cattle runs in New Zealand. Although quiet and modest by nature, Davey became known throughout New Zealand. The Land of Doing Without brings to life the memories of many of Davey's contemporaries, and explores the man behind the legend: his quir


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By: Emma Neale

ISBN: 9781988531557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary.


(Paperback)

By: Emma Neale

ISBN: 9781988592435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers.


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By: Emma Neale

ISBN: 9781988592633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, reviews and cultural commentary.


(Paperback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Results from the 2021 Charles Brasch Young Writers Essay Competition as well as stunning new writing from established literary heavyweights and thrilling new voices the work promises to range from the wry, ludic and lyrical, to gripping body horror as social commentary, which is at once comic and unsettling.


(Paperback)

By: Lynley Edmeades

ISBN: 9781990048111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Landfall is New Zealands foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary.

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