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Getting it practically all wrong, Sally Logan

The New Zealand Marketing Book Guenther Mueller‑Heumann and Michael Duffy Dunmore Press, $84.95 New Zealand’s future prosperity will be based, in large part, on its ability to market itself, its expertise, its products and its services to a sceptical world.

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Shades of green, Philip Clarke

Green Politics Stephen Rainbow, Oxford University Press, $24.95 Environmental Planning in New Zealand P Ali Memon and Harvey C Perkins (eds), Dunmore Press, $39.95 ‘Clean Green New Zealand’ has been accepted as a slogan by politicians and business people whose depth

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Superwoman/Wonderwoman, Marivee McMath

Superwoman: Where are You? Social Policy and Women’s Experience C Briar, R Munford and M Nash (eds), Dunmore Press, $39.95 Superwoman: Where are You? is a catchy title. Since Superwoman is the female counterpart of Superman, created both after and in his

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Comprehensive, practical and well‑informed, Barbara Mabbett

School Textbooks published in New Zealand to 1960 Hugh Price, Dunmore Press with Gondwanaland Press, $33 In introducing this bibliography, Hugh Price modestly invites us to recognise the ‘good case’ for adding educational book publishers, to the teacher-student, relationship that

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A wide-ranging collection, Ivanica Vodanovich

The Gender Factor: Women in NZ Organisations Suzann Olsson (ed), Dunmore Press, $39.95 A focus on gender, one of the major contributions of feminist research, shifts the emphasis from biology to culture, from a perspective that sees the organisation of work in

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Short history reviews, Dale Williams

Waiheke Island. A History Paul Monin, Dunmore Press, $34.95 Aucklanders are in love with the romantic idea of a sizeable, liveable island just 20 kilometres from their urban sprawl. But Waiheke’s wide range of natural resources have always been desired

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Politics and Society, Gavin McLean

The 1990 Election: Perspectives on Political Change in New Zealand E M McLeay (ed), Department of Politics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 1991 The 1990 election was the dullest in recent decades, with a battered, cynical electorate sensing the inevitability

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Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Current Issues, Joanna Gould

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

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Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Science

Maritime and general short reviews, Gavin McLean

Waitemata Ferry Tales Sally Fodie, Collins, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 Sally Fodie was the first woman master of an Auckland harbour ferry. Waitemata Ferry Tales, her short collection of nautical anecdotes, shows that it was not easy to elbow her way into this

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Posted in Health, Māori, Memoir, Natural History, Non-fiction, Sociology

The legacies of history, B J Poff

Te Waimana, The Spring of Mana: Tuhoe History and the Colonial Encounter Jeffrey Sissons, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 1991, $39.95 Kinds of Peace: Maori People After the Wars, 1870-85 Sir Keith Sinclair, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Unsung Hero:

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