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Potter extraordinaire, conservationist, railway enthusiast and iconoclast Barry Brickell is one of New Zealand's most important ceramicists ... In essays by David Craig and Gregory O'Brien and with both newly commissioned photographs by Haru Sameshima and historic images, His Own ...
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'You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions betwee ...
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In 1984, the newly elected Labour Government's anti-nuclear policy collided with a United States foreign policy based on nuclear deterrence. After three years of ship visits denied, angry meetings, fraught diplomacy and press conferences, the stand-off led to the unravelling of t ...
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The Maori canoes arrived to a precarious landscape, prone to tectonic upheaval, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic activity and tsunami. This book presents a study of the effects of these catastrophic events on the New Zealand coastal landscape and its people from the time of firs ...
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Explores the question of who New Zealand's Pakeha ancestors were. This book presents and interprets the findings of a statistical analysis of immigrants from the United Kingdom. It looks at such issues as the geographical origins of the founding ancestors, their occupational and ...
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Kiwi, rugby players, angels and aunts, moa and mountains, the bush and the beaches all play starring roles in this bird's-eye view of New Zealand painting. This book is alive with many of the paintings that have, over the past few hundred years, broadened the horizons of citizens ...
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Poetry, Michael Harlow writes, is when words sing. In The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap, his remarkable new collection, words do sing; they also shout and whisper, riddle and recur, express and evade.
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James K Baxter: Poems offers a fresh, uniquely personal look at the work of Baxter, a rare insight into the creative relationship between two leading writers, and reminds how crucial it is that we listen to our poets.
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How have two very different marginalised groups in New Zealand society - Maori and Chinese - interacted over the last 150 years? This important book, the result of a major grant from the Marsden Fund, looks at the relationship between the tangata whenua and the country's earliest ...
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Introduces young and curious readers to the story of New Zealand, from Pacific voyagers to contemporary crime scenes, that archaeologists have discovered. Along the way, readers will learn about what archaeologists actually do, from digging up shell middens to testing ancient DNA ...
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