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No longer young, male or Christian, Margaret McClure
Body, Mind and Spirit: YMCA Auckland Celebrating 150 Years 1855-2005 Colin Taylor Reed Publishing, $69.99, ISBN 0790009862 Auckland’s reputation has been assessed too long in terms of its founding father’s claim that “the whole and entire object of every one…
Tagged with: Autumn 2006, Colin Taylor, Issue 73, Margaret McClure, Reed Publishing
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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
High noon, Barbara Larson
Posted in Comment