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The art of display, Paul Thompson
Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display Conal McCarthy Te Papa Press, $69.95, ISBN 9781877385339 Mana taonga mana tangata. Exhibiting Maori is primarily an academic book. Originally published by Berg, an imprint of Oxford International Publishers, its style…
Tagged with: Conal McCarthy, Issue 81, Paul Thompson, Te Papa Press, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Issue 82 | Winter 2008
Volume 18 | Number 2 | Issue 82 | Winter 2008 Letters Elizabeth Smither: “Naming a Telescope” (poem) James C Raymond: Bernard Beckett, Falling for Science: Asking the Big Questions Catharina van Bohemen: Fiona Kidman, At the End of…
Illustrating the gaps between words, Raymond Huber
Rats! Gavin Bishop Random House, $30.00, ISBN 978869419028 Tahi: One Lucky Kiwi Melanie Drewery, illustrations Ali Teo and John O’Reilly Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781869419301 To the Harbour Stanley Palmer Lopdell House Gallery, $35.00, ISBN 9780958228442 Snake and Lizard Joy…
Tagged with: Ali Teo, Gavin Bishop, Gecko Press, Issue 81, Jenny Cooper, John O’Reilly, Joy Cowley, Lopdell House Gallery, Melanie Drewery, Random House, Raymond Huber, Scholastic, Stanley Palmer, Winter 2008
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Becoming someone else, Diane Hebley
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful Brigid Lowry Allen and Unwin, $19.99, ISBN 9781741751604 The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves Fleur Beale Random House, $19.99, ISBN 9781869418366 Duet David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $17.00, ISBN 9781877423062 Full marks to the three well-established authors…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Brigid Lowry, David Hill, Diane Hebley, Fleur Beale, Issue 81, Mallinson Rendel, Random House, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
One-book wonder, Harry Ricketts
Collected Poems Charles Spear (Peter Simpson ed) Holloway Press, $200.00, ISBN 0958231370 Laclos (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), Anna Sewell (Black Beauty), Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird): there’s an undeniable fascination about one-book wonders. Those were novelists,…
Tagged with: Charles Spear, Harry Ricketts, Holloway Press, Issue 81, Peter Simpson, Winter 2008
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Handbook for the global Christian, Nicholas Birns
The Lloyd Geering Reader: Prophet of Modernity Paul Morris and Mike Grimshaw (eds) Victoria University Press, $39.99, ISBN 9780864735478 Lloyd Geering is the most famous New Zealand Christian thinker worldwide, though Christopher Marshall is gaining ground with his recent work…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Lloyd Geering, Mike Grimshaw, Nicholas Birns, Paul Morris, Winter 2008
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Digging deep, Ann Beaglehole
Castles of Gold: A History of New Zealand’s West Coast Irish Lyndon Fraser Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 9781877372445 Mine Alone: The Story of an Immigrant Mining Engineer from Staffordshire R D Mercer Butterfly Creek Press, $39.95, ISBN 9780473120115 Stories…
Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, Butterfly Creek Press, Issue 81, Lyndon Fraser, Otago University Press, R D Mercer, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
History in danger, Malcolm McKinnon
The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History J G A Pocock Cambridge University Press, $60.00 approx, ISBN 139780521850957 J G A Pocock’s The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History is a rich and scholarly exploration of a subject…
Tagged with: Cambridge University Press, Issue 81, J G A Pocock, Malcolm McKinnon, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Why we are here, Bernard Carpinter
Looking for Darwin Lloyd Spencer Davis Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 0781877361227 Science has somehow acquired an almost inhuman reputation. Scientists are regarded as dry, dusty specimens, cut off from society and probably working on projects that will cause more harm…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Charles Darwin, Issue 81, Lloyd Spencer Davis, Longacre Press, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review