Three Labour Leaders by Margaret Clark (Editor)
$29.95 NZD
Category: Politics
Nordmeyer, Kirk and Rowling successively led the Labour Party from April 1963 until February 1983. During that time they contested seven general elections and won only one. The theme of many contributors to this book is that had it been otherwise, New Zealand might have been a better place. Contributor ...Show more
The Bolger Years 1990-1997 by Margaret Clark (ed.)
$37.95 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Memories of the Bolger years by those who worked closely with and for him in the two sequential National Governments of which he was Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1990 and 1997. These accounts vividly portray the political dynamics and challenges of the government that succeeded Lange's Labour g ...Show more
The Politics of Possibility - Leadership in Changing Times by Jon Johansson
$39.95 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
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.
Holyoake's Lieutenants by Margaret Clark
$29.95 NZD
Category: Politics
Sir Keith Holyoake was one of New Zealand's longer-serving Prime Ministers, leading the National Party to four successive electoral victories in 1960, 1963, 1966 and 1969. He provided certainty in a period of transition for New Zealand. His remarkable political life has tended to obscure the fact that h ...Show more
Sir Keith Holyoake - towards a Political Biography by Margaret Clarke
$34.95 NZD
Category: Politics
Eat, Drink and be Wary: A New Zealand Diplomat Looks Back by Jim Weir
$34.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Jim Weir joined the New Zealand Foreign Service in 1947. His career included periods as High Commissioner and Ambassador and this book highlights some of the people, places and events in his diplomatic career. It also dips into New Zealand's post-War political history and its place in the world. This i ...Show more
Two Titans - Muldoon, Lange & Leadership by Jon Johansson
$34.95 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good
Two Titans analyses the leadership styles of Muldoon and Lange, the two Prime Ministers on either side of a crucial forking point in New Zealand's political history.
Republicanism in New Zealand by Edited by Luke Trainor
$29.95 NZD
Category: Politics
Republicanism has the potential to change our national identity, the structure of our constitution and the nature of democracy in New Zealand. The origins of republicanism are explored, its meaning for changes in everyday life, its connection to overseas developments and its distinctive character, inclu ...Show more
Localizing Asia in Aotearoa by Paola Voci and Jacqueline Leckie (editors)
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Essays and personal narratives contributed by fifteen writers reflect upon the diversity and complexity of Asian experiences, examine geographical, social and cultural locations and different perspectives in which Asia is actualised, embodied and imagined. Different ethnic and national groups are discus ...Show more