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Always some bastard has to spoil it, Kate Camp

Anzac Day Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $19.95 ISBN 087716111 X The title of Kevin Ireland’s selected poems, Anzac Day, suggested to me a rather bloke’s, public kind of poetry, a poetry of momentous occasions with perhaps a hint of speechifying.

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Signing on, Rachel Locker McKee

A Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language Graeme Kennedy (ed) Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books $99.95 ISBN 1 86940164 6 A national taonga has been quietly hidden from most people’s view until the recent arrival on booksellers’ shelves

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Sizing up sizing down, Rosemary McLeod

Stuff It! A Wicked Approach to Dieting Sarah-Kate Lynch Harper Collins, $19.95 ISBN 1 86950258 2 One day, who knows? We may live in a world in which women are not obsessed by their weight. The time may come, even,

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All in the mind? Ben Gray

Somatic Illness and the Patient’s Other Story. A practical integrative mind/body approach to disease for doctors and psychotherapists Brian Broom Free Association Books ISBN 185343379 9 This is a remarkable book. The subtitle suggests that the main audience should be

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Mixed Message Politics, Geoffrey Thompson

From Campaign to Coalition: the 1996 MMP Election Jonathan Boston, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth Hickey and Nigel Roberts (ed) Dunmore Press, $29.95 ISBN 0 86469314 1 Voters’ Victory? New Zealand‘s First Election under Proportional Representation Jack Vowles, Peter Aimer, Susan Banducci,

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Dispelling the myths, Anaru Vercoe

Te Mana Te Kawanatanga: The Politics of Maori Self-Determination Mason Durie Oxford University Press, $39.95 ISBN 019558367 1 Mai i Rangiatea: Maori Wellbeing and Development Pania Te Whaiti, Marie McCarthy and Arohia Durie (eds) Auckland University Press and Bridget Williams

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