Kiwitalk: Sociolinguistics and New Zealand Society Donn Bayard Dunmore Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 86469 220 X Among the many revolutions that took place in New Zealand in the 1980s, one was sociolinguistic. Twenty years ago, very little had been written…
Justice and Identity: Antipodean Practices Margaret Wilson and Anna Yeatman (eds) Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 0 908912 60 9 Many of the essays in this book are written in what I have come to recognise as a post‑modernist manner.…
The State under Contract Jonathan Boston (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $39.95 ISBN 0 908912 71 4 Public sector reform has been traumatising many countries for more than a decade. Because of the disruptions and the challenges of comprehensive reform to…
A Working Mother’s Handbook. A New Zealand Guide for Expectant and New Mothers Francesca Holloway Longacre Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 958 3405 1 X Improving the Odds: The Remarriage Gamble ‑ a Woman’s Guide Averill Richardson HarperCollins, $24.95 ISBN 1869 50…
Firebird Natasha Templeton Hodder Headline, $29.95, ISBN 0340 640448 I admire the pluck with which Natasha Templeton has striven to make her first novel a grand Russian affair, almost a New Zealand War and Peace ‑ with a large cast,…
Keeping the specs clean, Janet Holmes
Every researcher has a responsibility to the wider community, although the best way of meeting that responsibility will vary. It may mean illuminating our teaching with information from our research, it may involve sharing the intellectual excitement of the research…
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