Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand: Problems, Policies, Prospects eds Jonathan Boston, Paul Dalziel, Susan St John Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 019 558 3736 6 A Super Future?: The Price of Growing Older in New Zealand Anne Else…
A Passion for Travel ed Tina Shaw Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877178 31 4 We seem to live in an age of pointless record-breaking. People vie with each other to gulp down the most Weetbix in the shortest time…
Stroppy Sheilas and Gutsy Girls Sandra Coney Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 87717 829 2 In a memorable scene in the 1973 BBC TV drama series Shoulder to Shoulder, an evocation of the suffrage move-ment in Great Britain, Lady Constance’s brother,…
Growing Up Maori ed Witi Ihimaera Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877178 16 0 Growing Up Maori contains the reminiscences, memories, passions and pains of some 36 Maori people as they passed through their youthful years. The group includes academics, poets,…
Sucking Feijoas Jeff Buchanan Tandem Press, $24.95 ISBN 187717824 1 Wilde’s “love that dare not speak its name” now declaims lustily from the rooftops, but which name? For men, as if homosexual weren’t confusing enough with its origins in both…
Medical Ethics Alastair Campbell, Max Charlesworth, Grant Gillett and Gareth Jones ISBN 0 19 5583507 Into the Fire Sandra Coney Tandem Press $24.95, ISBN 1 877178 071 Medical Ethics is the updated edition of the 1992 Practical MedicaI Ethics. Because…
Sons of the Fathers: New Zealand men write about their fathers Bill Sewell (ed) Tandem Press $29.95 ISBN 1 877178 08 X Harry’s Absence: Looking for my father on the mountain Jonathan Scott Victoria University Press $29.95 ISBN 0 86473…