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Lipstick, ice cream and bombs, Trevor Richards

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age Rebecca Priestley Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407278 In April 1960, thousands of Aucklanders and Wellingtonians flocked to their ports to welcome the USS Halibut. For the New Zealand Herald, the…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2013, Issue 101, Rebecca Priestley, Trevor Richards
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Science

Cheerful, funny and popular, Trevor Richards

Posted on December 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas David Grant Random House, $45.00, ISBN 9781869793890 In Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas we have as the central character a trade unionist…

Tagged with: David Grant, Issue 92, Ken Douglas, Random House, Summer 2010, Trevor Richards
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review

The essence of patriotism, Trevor Richards

Posted on March 1, 2008 by NZ Books

Spies and Revolutionaries: A History of New Zealand Subversion Graeme Hunt Reed Publishing in association with Waddington Press, $29.99, ISBN 9780790011400 Rutherford split the atom, Hillary climbed Everest and Kate Sheppard and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union ensured New Zealand…

Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Graeme Hunt, Issue 81, Reed Publishing, Trevor Richards, Waddington Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Volunteer photographers abroad, Paul Thompson

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

New Zealand Abroad – The story of VSA’s work in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Trevor Richards, Jeremy Rose, Margot Schwass (photographs: Bruce Connew, Nicola Dove, Bryn Evans, David Gurr, Gil Hanly, Louise Hyatt, Glenn Jowitt, Terry O’Connor) Bridget Williams…

Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Bruce Connew, Bryn Evans, David Gurr, Gil Hanly, Glenn Jowitt, Issue 58, Jeremy Rose, Louise Hyatt, Margot Schwass, Nicola Dove, Paul Thompson, Te Tuao Tawahi, Terry O’Connor, Trevor Richards, Volunteer Service Abroad, Winter 2002
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review