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This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country-specific, ways of caring for the dead. It provides an account of diverse funerary practices that have...
A CAPTIVATING LOOK AT MUSIC, ITS HISTORY AND STYLES.This unique book will introduce you to exciting new areas of music and spark new insights into the nature and pleasures of listening.Besides providing an unusually wide-ranging, accessible survey of the...
Brittney’s story is a testament to resilience, ambition, and the power of staying true to oneself. In this candid memoir, she shares her remarkable journey from an ordinary girl in the regional city of Newcastle, NSW, to a renowned internet sensation and...
The People's Position comprises a series of concise, referenced summaries intended to be read and absorbed in short sittings.Each section distils complex topics into clear, digestible insights.This isn't about covering every angle. It's about highlighting what...
Ivana Chubbuck has developed a curriculum that takes the theories of the acting masters, such as Stanislavski, Meisner, and Hagen, to the next step by utilizing inner pain and emotions, not as an end in itself, but rather as a way to drive and win a goal. In...
Bryce Courtenay was one of Australia's highest-selling and most-loved authors as well as a larger-than-life character. From his first book, The Power of One, he captivated readers. With his third, the non-fiction title April Fool's Day, he captured their...
Born Maori (Ngatikahungunu), raised Pakeha, Kim Rangiaonui Logan's father was commander in D Company, 8th Maori Battallion, but returned from the war a damaged man. He and his wife were unable to cope with two small boys, Kim and his brother Wilfred. Their...
Yes, it is complicated. But behind the inequality, suffering and polarisation that afflicts Aotearoa we have the foundations upon which we can choose to build a country that puts whanau at the centre, and where all can thrive.'Rebecca Macfie expertly weaves a...
Professor Paul Moon is one of New Zealand's most prolific authors; his latest biography on photographer Ans Westra garnered glowing reviews. In this book his meticulous research shows, through selected art works, how imperial art became a form of colonisation...
In journals and pubs, on TikTok and the bestseller lists, the current generation of New Zealand poets is finding new voices, new platforms and new readers. It is a poetry of now: of emojis and hashtags, of bodies and flesh, of identity and aspiration. How to...
Isaac Featherston was at the heart of some of the most significant developments in New Zealand from the 1840s colonisation by the New Zealand Company to the abolition of the provinces in 1876. Doctor, newspaper editor and politician, he advocated for the...
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