Leap Into The Dark – The Changing Role of the State in New Zealand Since 1984 Andrew Sharp (ed) Auckland University Press, $34.95 One of the depressing features of New Zealand is the lack of sustained intellectual policy debate on…
Leap Into The Dark – The Changing Role of the State in New Zealand Since 1984 Andrew Sharp (ed) Auckland University Press, $34.95 One of the depressing features of New Zealand is the lack of sustained intellectual policy debate on…
Focus and the Death‑Ride; The Ghosts of Triton; Shadow of Phobos, Ken Catran HarperCollins, $14.95 New Zealand children’s writers have come of age. They have reached a maturity that adult fiction writers in this country often fall short of. The…
Ties of Blood and Empire: New Zealand Involvement in Middle East Defence and the Suez Crisis 1947‑57 Malcolm Templeton Auckland University Press in association with the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, $34.95 Malcolm Templeton, who retired as Deputy Secretary…
Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori, by James Herries Beattie Atholl Anderson (ed) University of Otago Press in association with Otago Museum, $59.95 The South Island has not been as fortunate as the North with tribal histories. The slim…
Journal of New Zealand Literature No 11, 1993, “Janet Frame Issue”, Department of English, University of Otago, $12.00 Paper‑givers and delegates at the conference which this issue of JNZL records came from Canada and Britain, as well as from…
A new approach to central banking: the New Zealand experiment and comparisons with Australia Sir Frank Holmes Institute of Policy Studies, $15.00 There is an economists’ joke about economists: it says an economist is someone who looks at something in…