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Theory vs practice, Colin Knox
The Intangibles of Managing A J (Tone) Borren Dunmore Press, $29.95 ISBN 0864692390 The New Zealand Small Business Guide Richard Higham and Sara Williams Penguin, $29.95 (revised edition) ISBN 0140132201 Marketing In New Zealand Alyse Boaz Longman Paul, $29.95 ISBN…
Tagged with: A J (Tone) Borren, Alyse Boaz, Colin Knox, Dunmore Press, Issue 24, Longman Paul, Penguin Books, Richard Higham, Sara Williams
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
The undemocratic free market, Bryan Gould
Beyond the Free Market: Rebuilding a Just Society in New Zealand David Cooke, Claire Hill, Pat Baskett and Ruth Irwin (eds) Dunmore Press, $30.00, ISBN 9711927212189 In the opening essay of this impressive collection, Nicky Hager identifies 1993 as the…
Tagged with: Bryan Gould, Claire Hill, David Cooke, Dunmore Press, Issue 110, Pat Baskett, Ruth Irwin, Winter 2015
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
More management, less education, Tim Hazledine
Crisis of Identity? The Mission and Management of Universities in New Zealand Wilf Malcolm and Nicholas Tarling Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 9781877399275 Clark Kerr, a great president of the University of California at Berkeley, once defined the university as “a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 81, Nicholas Tarling, Tim Hazledine, Wilf Malcolm
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Porridge stirring, John Horrocks
The Problem of Prisons: Correction Reform in New Zealand since 1840 Greg Newbold Dunmore Press, $49.95, ISBN 9790187399213 Mt Eden Prison in Auckland speaks of an era when punishment and incarceration were very visible. Its turreted buildings of black volcanic…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Greg Newbold, Issue 81, John Horrocks
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Telling tales out of school, Harvey Molloy
Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective David Grant Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877338214 Welcome to the Campus of Struggle: Dispatches from the International Student Academic Front 1999-2004 David Cohen Dunmore…
Tagged with: David Cohen, David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Harvey Molloy, Issue 68, June 2005, Steele Roberts
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review
The House that we built, Colin James
The House: New Zealand’s House of Representatives 1854-2004 John E Martin Dunmore Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864694636 Parliament is a brutal place. Only the idealistic, the ideological, the hard-nosed and the ruthless gather there. No person is inviolate, no secret safe,…
Tagged with: Colin James, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 66, John E Martin, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Absolutely positive it’s dead? Tim Hazledine
Muldoon Revisited ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864694652 What were you doing the day Robert Muldoon died? I was in Auckland, very recently returned to this country after 20 years overseas. I watched the coverage of the death…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 65, Margaret Clark, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Our biggest brashest city, Diane Brown
Auckland before the Harbour Bridge Graham Stewart Grantham House, $69.95, ISBN 1869340868. Almighty Auckland? ed Ian Carter, David Craig and Steve Matthewman Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864694520 History is big these days but it wasn’t when I was young. My…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, David Craig, Diane Brown, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Graham Stewart, Grantham House, Ian Carter, Issue 65, Steve Matthewman
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Men (mostly) behaving well, W K Hastings
Gay Men, Sex and HIV Heather Worth Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 864694342 As chief censor, I recently classified The Gift, a documentary directed by Louise Hogarth about gay men’s relationships with a virus. It interviews men who “bareback”, who choose…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Heather Worth, Issue 62, W K (Bill) Hastings, Winter 2003
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review
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