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Puppy-dogs’ tails, Anne Else
He’ll Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men Celia Lashlie HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 156950528X Like cooped-up teenage boys, three stories jostle and elbow each other inside this book. Though the biggest wins, it gets badly knocked about in the…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Autumn 2006, Celia Lashlie, HarperCollins, Issue 73
Posted in Education, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Teresia Teaiwa
Streets Call into question/the status of English/noisy silence/ is there something in the collection/ of our faces/clothes/feet/ that would tell the deaf/or blind/ where we are?/ the language of the pavement/is avoidance/ the careful balance of physical proximity/with emotional…
Word-drunk in Auckland, Gordon McLauchlan
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2006 The announcement that The Sea had won last year’s Man Booker prize came through while I was reading it, and I have to confess I was perplexed and then annoyed – both by the…
Processing history, Bronwyn Dalley
Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories Michael Belgrave Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403207 It used to be a lonely business being a New Zealand historian. There have been plenty of us around for the last 30 years, but…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2006, Bronwyn Dalley, Issue 73, Michael Belgrave
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
After the gold rush, Elaine Clark
East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination ed Charles Ferrall, Paul Millar and Keren Smith Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734913 Southeast Asia and New Zealand: A History of Regional and Bilateral Relations ed Anthony L Smith New Zealand…
Waving or drowning, Brian Opie
Catching the Knowledge Wave? The Knowledge Society and the Future of Education Jane Gilbert NZCER Press, $36.00, ISBN 1877398047 A deep anxiety lies at the centre of policy and planning in New Zealand which the title of Jane Gilbert’s important…
Tagged with: Autumn 2006, Brian Opie, Issue 73, Jane Gilbert, NZCER Press
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Radiant living, Philip Temple
Sir Edmund Hillary, An Extraordinary Life Alexa Johnston Penguin Viking, $59.95, ISBN 0670045543 Just when you thought there was nothing else to be recorded or said about Sir Edmund Hillary, this lavish compendium of a life appears, arising from the…
Tagged with: Alexa Johnston, Autumn 2006, Issue 73, Penguin Viking, Philip Temple, Sir Edmund Hillary
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Once upon a time in Caversham, Greg Newbold
Class and Occupation: The New Zealand Reality Erik Olssen and Maureen Hickey Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 187737203X Class and Occupation is based on almost three decades of intermittent but intensive research, begun in the 1970s, on the Dunedin suburb…
Tagged with: Autumn 2006, Erik Olssen, Greg Newbold, Issue 73, Maureen Hickey, Otago University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
High noon, Barbara Larson
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