Living Relationships: Kokiri Ngatahi. The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium eds Ken S Coates, P G McHugh Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 330 5 An Unsettled History Alan Ward Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 908912…
Long Journey for Sevenpence. Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, 1947-1975 Megan Hutching Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 360 7 In 1960, after having spent two years in New Zealand, I went to work in Australia…
New Zealand Politics and Social Patterns: Selected Works by Robert Chapman ed Elizabeth McLeay Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 86473 361 5 Myths are the stories we tell each other about ourselves. Neither true nor false in any absolute…
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…
Playing to Win Fleur Beale Scholastic, $12.95, ISBN 1 86943 410 2 Lester Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 21 6 The Tiggie Tompson Show Tessa Duder Puffin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130503 7 Compulsion Tania Kelly Roxborogh Scholastic,…
Provocation Charlotte Grimshaw ABACUS, $29.95, ISBN 0 349 11122 7 On a grey Auckland morning in a large house overlooking the harbour, Stella is watching television. She’s waiting for the staff to arrive. The house belongs to her lover, Stuart…
Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand: Problems, Policies, Prospects eds Jonathan Boston, Paul Dalziel, Susan St John Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 019 558 3736 6 A Super Future?: The Price of Growing Older in New Zealand Anne Else…
Managerialist medicine, Jim Traue
The National Library is about to be restructured for the umpteenth time, for the same reasons as the last time, and the times before that. Restructuring will make the Library even more sensitive to its customers’ needs, more effective and…
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