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Editorial – Issue 16

Posted on December 22, 1994 by NZ Books

Colin James: Best wishes New Zealand Books wishes readers the best for Christmas, New Year and 1995. As a result of developments over the past few weeks New Zealand Books confidently looks forward to publishing five issues in 1995, as…

Tagged with: Colin James, Issue 16, Summer 1994
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Editorial – Issue 15

Posted on September 13, 1994 by NZ Books

Colin James: Social dimensions A big argument in political economy these days is whether a country, especially one as small as ours, can protect its society against the caprices of the international traders of capital and money. It is essentially…

Tagged with: Colin James, Issue 15, Spring 1994
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Editorial – Issue 13

Posted on June 12, 1994 by NZ Books

Editorial: June 1994 George Bush could never get the hang of the “vision thing”. No matter, he beat Michael Dukakis who had vision but a myopic one. Then Bush got beaten by Bill Clinton because Americans thought they were in…

Tagged with: Colin James, Issue 13, Winter I 1994
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Editorial – Issue 12

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Colin James: Short and suite “The association of short stories with New Zealand writing is as axiomatic and as much of a cultural cliché as pavlova with kiwifruit.” So Lydia Wevers begins a discussion of “The short New Zealand story”…

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Editorial – Issue 11

Posted on December 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Towards a new era, Colin James The Rank group now controls half of the bookselling trade, with Whitcoulls, Bennetts, London, Philip King and a part share in University Bookshops. More important, according to informal trade estimates, it controls 60% or…

Tagged with: Colin James, Issue 11, Summer 1993
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Near tears, Brian Easton

Posted on March 1, 1993 by NZ Books

New Territory: the Transformation of New Zealand 1984-1992 Colin James, Bridget Williams Books, $29.95 The cognoscente will first turn to chapter 15’s footnote 25, one of the longest in the book, where the author claims that Bruce Jesson misrepresents his role…

Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Brian Easton, Bridget Williams Books, Colin James, Issue 8
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Yes, but who let it become so? Colin James

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

New Zealand’s Constitution in Crisis: Reforming Our Political System Geoffrey Palmer, John McIndoe, $34.95 Electoral Behaviour In New Zealand Martin Holland (ed), Oxford University Press, $29.95 New Zealand Politics in Perspective (3rd Edition) Hyam Gold (ed), Longman Paul, $49.95 Sir…

Tagged with: Colin James, Geoffrey Palmer, Hyam Gold, Issue 7, John McIndoe, Longman Paul, Martin Holland, Oxford University Press, Summer 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Disillusionment and disapprobation, Rod Alley

Posted on April 1, 1991 by NZ Books

Changes? The 1990 Election Colin James and Alan McRobie Allen and Unwin, Wellington, 1990, $24.95 Publication of one of the first books on the 1990 election gives Rod Alley an opportunity to question what he calls our ‘system of electoral…

Tagged with: Alan McRobie, Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, Colin James, Issue 1, Roderic Alley
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review