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this way: covering/uncovering tadeusz borowski’s this way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen by Edited by Marco Sonzogni
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
this way: covering/uncovering tadeusz borowski’s this way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen is a scholarly work that uses Borowski’s stories to explore the relationship between verbal and visual representations of war and genocide through critical analysis of the entries in an international ...Show more
Exploring Maori Values by John Patterson
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
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 ...Show more
The Problem of Prisons: Corrections Reform in New Zealand Since 1840 by Greg Newbold
$49.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
Ever since the penitentiary became a mainstream corrections device two centuries ago, there has been a continuous search for something that 'works' in terms of reforming criminal offenders. In its correctional evolution New Zealand has been primarily influenced by developments in England and the United ...Show more
In View of Kapiti (2nd ed) by Barbara Macmorran
$34.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
This compact history reveals the colourful and fascinating past of the Kapiti Coast. This area of New Zealand, once both desired and fought over by Maori, was the focus of much missionary work and early European settlement from the mid 1800s.More manageable land and conditions that allowed for abundant ...Show more
Ravaged Beauty: An Environmental History of the Manawatu by Catherine Knight
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
While "Ravaged Beauty" is about the environmental history of one North Island region, the impact of human settlement and accompanying development for improving human settlement conditions is typical of many New Zealand regions. This impact, graphically illustrated in this well researched and entertainin ...Show more
Persona Non Grata: Breaking the Bond - Fiji and New Zealand 2004-2007 by Michael Green
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
This is the account by (the late) Michael Green, NZ High Commissioner in Fiji, of his years and role in Fiji until the surprising announcement of his change in diplomatic status to "Persona Non Grata" (unwelcome person) in 2007, a status that prevented any further diplomatic activities or role for him i ...Show more
Samuel Marsden : Altar Ego by Richard Quinn
$34.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
An in-depth examination of first missionary Samuel Marsden's New Zealand endeavours. The author researched Marsden's life and activities in New South Wales and in New Zealand and found a challenging dichotomy between his behaviour and reputation in Australia, where he is loathed, and in New Zealand wher ...Show more
The First Colonist: Samuel Deighton, 1821-1900 by Michael Butler
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
A fascinating insight into early New Zealand history. Draws on letters between Deighton and government officials: Deighton, from Cambridge, England, was the first ashore from the first ships which landed off Petone in Wellington Harbour in 1840; he held land orders from the New Zealand Company and fough ...Show more
The Taming of Distance: New Zealand's First International Telecommunciations by Elisabeth Airey
$39.95 NZD
Category: History
On 19 February 1876, New Zealand became telegraphically linked to the world - it joined the international Victorian "internet". Contact with Sydney now took only seconds and London less than 24 hours. But unlike today when everybody is their own instant "telegraphist", in 1876 the system needed a small ...Show more
A Nun Always: The Story of Teresa Grigolini, an Italian Missionary Sister in the Sudan, 1876–98 by Thérèse Pickard
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
This extraordinary but true story of Sister Teresa Grigolini, missionary in the Sudan from 1878, is both an uplifting heroic one and a dark and terrible one. Captured by the Islamist Mahdists in 1882, this Nun and others of her community became slaves, constantly abused and threatened with death, over w ...Show more
An Energetic Life: an autobiography by Colin Maiden
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
Colin Maiden was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in the late 50s, a research engineer in Canada and a leading General Motors scientist and executive in the US, Vice Chancellor of the University of Auckland for 24 years, and professional company director or chair of companies such as NZ Synthetic ...Show more
War and Class: the Diary of Jack McCullough by Melanie Nolan
$49.95 NZD
Category: History
Jack McCullough's diary, begun 100 years ago in 1908, records a period in New Zealand society beset with economic turmoil and war. McCullough was a political reformer - a pragmatic idealist who worked tirelessly to better the lives of his fellow citizens through protest, union and Arbitration Court acti ...Show more