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Essential reading for financial advisers, insurers, bankers and students. New Zealand has long needed a book that presents in easy-to-read language its own risk management and insurance environment. The second edition of Risk Management and Insurance in Zealand updates the successful fi rst edition, the fi rst written for those studying or working in the New Zealand insurance industry. The book

Available soon. Working with Families: Strengths-based approaches by Jackie Sanders and Robyn Munford is written with both the student of social and community work and the practising social and community worker in mind. All aspects of social and community work are covered in this book that builds on and substantially extends the authors? earlier work Supporting Families (1999). This edition continues a strong emphasis upon context, the cornerstone of effective social and community work practice. It covers the key areas of reflective practice, policy, management and leadership, approaches to support, and diversity. Each chapte... read more

Longing & Belonging by Edwina Pio is a rich resource that explores the ethnic diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand today. It is a stimulating mix of hard facts, stories of adaptation by recent and older immigrants, and ThinkPieces

Are you searching for more effective ways of teaching in higher education? Could your teaching become part of your research? A range of academics position university teaching as research and the subject of scholarly investigation. Innovative and successful strategies and ideas are discussed in various chapters, enabling you to learn from real situations and understand what can be modelled or avoided in your own teaching practice. Content, assessment, student perceptions, e-learning, social justice and service, community links and research-counting are addressed by the authors, whose aim is to challenge academic identity and improve student engagement.

This book, first published in 1992, offers Pakeha New Zealanders an insight into Maori thought and values and the basis for the sort of understanding and partnership that should exist between Pakeha and Maori. It also presents a new perspective from which long-held Pakeha values can be reassessed. John Patterson attempts, as an investigative philosopher, to come to grips with personal, embedded limitations that inform any look into one world-view from the perspective of another. He demonstrates a high degree of empathy with and respect for Maori and the book offers a practical model for engagement with this culture and for greater mutual understanding.

Issues around inclusion of all pupils in schools continue to be a major concern of parents, educators, politicians and providers of professional development for teachers and academics. There is, as well, confusion as to what

Dop 2009, Wellington 138mmx210mm/210pp softcover Youthful Cedric, bored and waiting for something to change his life in the direction of his fantasies and dreams, meets Mervyn and his unusual friend. He is caught up in plots and events that both excite him and alarm him. Harmless pranks become serious crimes and while Cedric battles his conscience he yet yearns to punish some of those around him. This wondrous New Zealand tale delights with the richness of its language and the storytelling skill of the writer, offering a potent mix of psychological insight, tension and comic twist.

This book focuses on leadership in New Zealand with a particular focus on the dynamics of the recent general election and the reasons for the outcome of that election. It will appeal to a broad market - and is indeed written in a style that will appeal to all who have an interest in NZ politics. The book will offer a challenging and thoughprovoking analysis of the recent general election a "stock-take" on the health of our democracy. It looks at the type of change that is possible and the type of leadership that NZ will have to face the enormous present changes on our economy, our race relations and environmental threats. John Key's style of politics and personality is... read more