Magnitude Eight Plus: New Zealand’s Biggest Earthquake Rodney Grapes Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864733400 Poor Baron Von Alzdorf, owner of Wellington’s largest brick building, a hotel, was the township’s only casualty in the earthquake which struck at 9.17 pm…
Burning Issues: The Failure of the New Zealand Response to Climatic Change Alexander Gillespie Dunmore Press $24.95 ISBN 0 86469 298 6 Guardians for the Environment Gary Hawke (ed) Institute of Policy Studies $30.00 ISBN 0 908935 06 4 Burning…
The Greening of New Zealand Scott McVarish, Random Century, 1992, $24.95 Science and the New Zealand Environment M J Taylor, J E Hay, S J de Mora (eds), Dunmore Press, 1992, $32.95 In The Greening of New Zealand, Scott McVarish has interviewed…