Only Their Purpose is Mad Bruce Jesson Dunmore Press, $27.95, ISBN 0 86469 343 5 Written during the horror of the early 1940s, Karl Polanyi’s famous book The Great Transformation sought to explain why nearly 100 years of relative liberalism…
Only Their Purpose is Mad Bruce Jesson Dunmore Press, $27.95, ISBN 0 86469 343 5 Written during the horror of the early 1940s, Karl Polanyi’s famous book The Great Transformation sought to explain why nearly 100 years of relative liberalism…
Reforming Education: The New Zealand Experience 1984-1996 Graham and Susan Butterworth Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86469 334 6 The book’s cover shows five scowling youngsters – not a good introduction to an account of the most far-reaching structural change in…
A Policeman’s Paradise? Policing a Stable Society, 1918-1945 Graeme Dunstall Dunmore Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, $49.95, ISBN 0864693567 This (large) volume is the fourth in the “official” history of the New Zealand…
Crime in New Zealand Greg Newbold Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86469 348 6 This is only the second proper survey and consideration of criminal statistics in New Zealand, the first being Crime and Deviance published in 1992 by the same…
Cultural Politics and the University in Aotearoa/New Zealand Michael Peters (ed) Dunmore Press $39.95 ISBN 0 864 69306 0 Investing in Minds: the Economics of Higher Education in New Zealand Sholeh A Maani VUW Institute of Policy Studies $30.00 ISBN…
The Blind Impress Michael Jackson Dunmore Press $29.95 ISBN 0 8646307 9 Supposing that one of a reviewers tasks is to interpret, I begin by imagining how a reader will first encounter The Blind Impress in a bookshop. The cover…
Farewell Colonialism: The New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-07 John Mansfield Thomson (ed) Dunmore Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 86469318 4 This is a gem of a book. It looks and feels beautiful, it tells a fascinating story, and it stimulates…
God‘s Farthest Outpost: A History of Catholics in New Zealand Michael King Viking, $49.95 ISBN 0 67087 652 6 Church in the World: Statements on Social issues 1979-1997 by New Zealand Catholic Bishops, compiled by Chris Orsman and Peter Zwart…
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…