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Breaking the silence, Katherine Findlay

The Middle Bridge: A New Zealand childhood Sheryl Jennings Tandem Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 908884508 Warriors of Truth: Adult Survivors Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse Kim McGregor University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 90856984X Invisible Wounds: A Self‑help Guide

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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

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A multiple enterprise, Dugald McDonald

Social work in action Robyn Munford and Mary Nash (eds) Dunmore Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864692153 Formal education for social work started on a small scale in New Zealand 46 years ago, building on traditions and activities originating in the late

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The value of being sensible, John Martin

New Zealand Health Policy: A Comparative Study Robert Blank Oxford University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0 19 5583191 Whaiora: Maori Health Development  Mason Durie Oxford University Press, $32.95, ISBN 0 19 5583167 Children’s Health, The Nation’s Wealth: A History of Children’s

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Evolving towards art, Ben Gray

The Art of the Possible Peter L Schwartz, Christopher J Heath and Anthony G Egan Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0908569874 If the decision to review a book in New Zealand Books were made on the basis of how many

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Not a useful guiding light, Neil James

In Search of the Virtual Class John Tiffin and Lalita Rajasingham Routledge, $54.95, ISBN 0415124832 Of all parts of our society education has been said to have undergone the least change over the past 100 years. A farmer from last

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Unwanted consequences, Colin Knox

Chaos, Management and Economics David Parker and Ralph Stacey Centre for Independent Studies, ISBN 1864320087 Imagine a world where long-term plans are achieved only by chance … a world where the relationship of systems within systems is so complex they

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Of an age, Heather Murray

River Lines Elspeth Sandys Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 3 4059998 7 Leather Wings Marilyn Duckworth Random House Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 261 3 Zoology Sheridan Keith Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14025281 9 The House Guest Barbara Anderson Victoria

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The haunt of guilty memory, Kim Worthington 

In Touch Janette Sinclair Secker and Warburg, $24.95, ISBN 790004011 Does This Make Sense to You? Renée Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14024946X Rain  Kirsty Gunn Faber and Faber, $22.95, ISBN 0 571173004 The Strange Letter Z Debra Daley Penguin, $24.95,

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