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Muddle and fudge, W H Oliver

Trick or Treaty? Douglas Graham Institute of Policy Studies $22.00 ISBN 0908935 24 2 Justice and the Maori: the philosophy and practice of Maori claims in New Zealand since the 1970s Andrew Sharp 2nd ed, Oxford University Press $45.00 ISBN

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The squirrel instinct, Heather Murray

The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks Edited by Margaret Scott Lincoln University Press & Daphne Brasell Assoc. Ltd, 2 vols, $79.95 per volume (soft cover), ISBN: 0 908896 48 4 / 0 908896 49 2 Katherine Mansfield: New Zealand Stories  Selected by

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Summer is over, Nicholas Reid

New Zealand Film 1912-1996 Helen Martin and Sam Edwards Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 019 558336 1 Here are three separate and unrelated personal anecdotes about New Zealand film. Each has a neat and glib “moral” tacked on to it

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Pluralism rules, OK? Colin James

New Zealand Politics in Transition Ed Raymond Miller Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 19 558339 6 Politics in New Zealand, 2ed  Richard Mulgan Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86940 171 9 Beyond the Two Party System. Political Representation,

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An assiduous industry Les Cleveland

Scars on the Heart: Two Centuries of New Zealand at War Chris Pugsley with Laurie Barber, Buddy Mikaere, Nigel Prickett, Rose Young David Bateman in association with the Auckland Museum, $69.95, ISBN 1 86953 301 1 New Zealand and the

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Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, War

The making of a ‘too hospitable’ canon, Mac Jackson

An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English ed Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O’Brien and Mark Williams Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 19 558338 8 “I cannot think that real poets have any competition,”  wrote Blake. But we lesser mortals

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Did we do right? Paul Dyer

The New Zealand Macroeconomy, A Briefing on the Reforms Paul Dalziel and Ralph Lattimore Oxford University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 19 558330 2 Prosperity Mislaid Len Bayliss GP Print, $19.95, ISBN 1 86956 107 4 Rebuilding New Zealand  John Robinson

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Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review

Rich and troubling paradox, Vincent O’Sullivan

A Fighting Withdrawal: the life of Dan Davin Keith Ovenden Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0 19 212355 1 Even before this careful and stylish biography came out,to think of Dan Davin was to conjure a rich and in some

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The value of being sensible, John Martin

New Zealand Health Policy: A Comparative Study Robert Blank Oxford University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0 19 5583191 Whaiora: Maori Health Development  Mason Durie Oxford University Press, $32.95, ISBN 0 19 5583167 Children’s Health, The Nation’s Wealth: A History of Children’s

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Inside the black box, Andrew Ladley

The Cabinet and Political Power in New Zealand Elizabeth McLeay Oxford University Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 19 558 312 4   As New Zealand squares for the next general election many candidates and their party leaders will be reaching for

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