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Rugby, shopping and Shortland Street, Tony Schirato
Ruling Passions: Essays on Just About Everything Nick Perry Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372896 One of the main functions of a book review is to give readers an idea as to whether or to what extent the title…
Tagged with: Issue 99, Nick Perry, Otago University Press, Spring 2012, Tony Schirato
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
A book reader; what else? Laura Kroetsch
The Dominion of Signs Nick Perry, Auckland University Press, $34.95 A few weeks ago a debate appeared in the Times Higher Education Supplement which Colin MacCabe (head of research and education at the British Film Institute) and Graham McCann (a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Laura Kroetsch, Nick Perry, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Pragmatists with principles, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Undeveloping Nation: New Zealand’s Twenty Year Fall Towards the Third World David McLoughlin, Penguin, $24.95 The Decent Society: Essays In Response to National’s Economic and Social Policies Jonathan Boston and Paul Dalziel (eds) Oxford University Press, $29.95 Controlling Interests: Business,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David McLoughlin, Graham Oddie, Issue 7, John Decks, Nick Perry, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Roy Perrett, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Summer 1992
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Politics and Society, Gavin McLean
The 1990 Election: Perspectives on Political Change in New Zealand E M McLeay (ed), Department of Politics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 1991 The 1990 election was the dullest in recent decades, with a battered, cynical electorate sensing the inevitability…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Department of Politics, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, E M McLeay, Gavin McLean, Geoffrey Moss, GP Publications, Issue 6, John Deeks, Judy McGregor, Longman Paul, Margie Comrie, Moss Associates, Nick Perry, Richard Rudman, Spring 1992, Victoria University of Wellington
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review