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No need of spin doctors Jeanine Graham
Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the Colonial Dream: A Reconsideration GP Publications in association with the Friends of the Turnbull Library, Wellington, $39.95 ISBN 1 86956 204 6 In William Gisborne’s revised and enlarged edition of New Zealand Rulers and Statesmen…
Tagged with: Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Friends of the Turnbull Library, GP Publications, Issue 33, Jeanine Graham
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The land as a traceable commodity, Wendy Pond
National Overview: Waitangi Tribunal Rangahaua Whanui Series Alan Ward GP Publications, $154.65 (3 volumes), ISBN 1 86956 209 7 In 1993 I attended the first Pacific island peoples’ science conference in Suva. At that time there were still western scientists…
Tagged with: Alan Ward, GP Publications, Issue 31, Spring 1997, Wendy Pond
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Is bias one-sided? Bill Oliver
Muriwhenua Land Report Waitangi Tribunal GP Publications, $99.95 If academic historians need a reminder that they do not have a corner on the past, they could not do better than read this report. It is a formidable and elaborate intellectual…
Tagged with: Bill Oliver, GP Publications, Issue 28, Summer 1997, Waitangi Tribunal
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Vietnam more goyishe, Adam Levy
Far from the Promised Land? Ann Beaglehole and Hal Levine GP Publications, $39.95 ISBN 0958341742 There were more synagogues in New Zealand last century than there are today. Hokitika had a synagogue and so did Timaru and Nelson. Many South…
Tagged with: Adam Levy, Ann Beaglehole, GP Publications, Hal Levine, Issue 21
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The ski lifts are free, Les Cleveland
You Are Too Old to Drive Dear: Elderspeak and Ageism in an Ageing Society Sik Hung Ng Victoria University Press, $8.95, ISBN 0 864732813 Beyond Good Intentions: Support Work with Older People Anne Opie Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University…
Tagged with: Anne Gluckman, Anne Opie, Auckland Institute of Technology Press, Gary Courtenay, GP Publications, Hodder Moa Beckett, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 20, Jacques Vannoort, K J Smith, Les Cleveland, Mary Tagg, Noel Whittaker, Roger Moses, Sik Hung Ng, Sue Waiter, Summer 1995, Tandem, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Ian Duncan: Politics, the Budget and a business
Out of the Woods Reg Birchfield and lan Grant GP Publications, $34.95 The subject of restructuring and sale of state trading enterprises in New Zealand has attracted a number of writers from a variety of professional backgrounds. It is not…
Tagged with: GP Publications, Ian Duncan, Issue 13, lan Grant, Reg Birchfield, Winter I 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A sporting chance, Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson and Anna Rogers review books that document ‘a little-discussed area of women’s endeavour’. Athletes of the Century: 100 Years of New Zealand Track and Field Peter Heidenstrom, GP Publications, $49.95 The world’s first international races for women…
Tagged with: GP Publications, Issue 10, Peter Heidenstrom, Roger Robinson, Spring 1993
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Approaches to Writing, Ian Gordon
Committed to Print J E Traue, Victoria University Press, Wellington, $24.95 The Common Writer Robert Neale, Oxford University Press, Auckland, $29.95 Real Writing Rachel McAlpine, GP Publications, Petone, $24.95 These three books approach the craft of writing from three very…
Tagged with: GP Publications, Ian Gordon, Issue 6, J E Traue, Oxford University Press, Rachel McAlpine, Robert Neale, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
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…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Department of Politics, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, E M McLeay, Gavin McLean, Geoffrey Moss, GP Publications, Issue 6, John Deeks, Judy McGregor, Longman Paul, Margie Comrie, Moss Associates, Nick Perry, Richard Rudman, Spring 1992, Victoria University of Wellington
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
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