Dunmore Publishing

Managing Mayhem : Work Life Balance in New Zealand by Marilyn Waring

$42.95 NZD

Category: Health

Edited by Marilyn Waring and Christa Fouché, Managing Mayhem: Work–Life Balance in New Zealand explores the reality of what work–life balance means in Aotearoa–New Zealand. Waring and Fouché have brought together recent research that reveals the complexities and nuances that people grapple with in thei r lives as they seek to balance unpaid work with paid work and still find time to live in between. It exposes the hidden issues for, among others, women who are Mâori, of the Pacific, who are unpaid caregivers, older women parenting for the second time, or who are establishing businesses or living portfolio lives. Importantly it also examines the experiences of men, who until now have been underrepresented in the debate. Each of the contributors adds richly textured material to the emerging mosaic of knowledge about work–life balance in Aotearoa–New Zealand. ...Show more

Restorying Social Work Supervision by Kieran O'Donoghue

$42.95 NZD

Category: Education

The first comprehensive New Zealand text on supervision. It marks a paradigm shift in how we conceptualise and practice supervision and invites the practitioner and supervisor to engage in the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of their supervision story and practice in order to meet the needs of people they work with. ...Show more

People of the Land: A Pacific Philosophy by Patterson, John

$29.95 NZD

Category: NZ Society

This sequel to the author's acclaimed first book on Maori philosophy, "Exploring Maori Values", develops the idea that we humans can and need to become "people of the land" in the Maori sense (tangata whenua), developing a harmonious interdependence with the environment in which we live rather than cont inuing to dominate it. Although arising out of Maori concepts, this is a model for human life which is available to any culture and is urgently needed to replace discredited ideas of human sovereignty over the natural environment. ...Show more

Planning to House A Nation: The life & work of Reginald B Hammond by Caroline Miller

$35.00 NZD

Category: New releases

In writing this book (her first was The Unsung Profession) Caroline Miller again demonstrates her passion and commitment to the profession of Planning and to documenting the important people and history in New Zealand in this field. REGINALD HAMMOND, the author of this country’s first Planning legislat ion in the mid 1920s, first director of Town Planning and a central figure in the formative years of the state housing programme, is,  Caroline Miller believes, an overlooked figure in New Zealand’s social history.  This book explores his life and work which occurred at a pivotal time in this country’s development.  It also explores the origins and processes that drove the early state housing programme, contrasting New Zealand’s approaches to those in Britain and Australia.  Hammond’s construction and planning knowledge were immense and he was a deeply committed civil servant, no matter the political banner, over a 40-year professional life spanning the 20s through the 1960s. ...Show more

Hawke's Bay: the History of a Province

$39.95 NZD

Category: History

Making Our Place: Growing Up PI in New Zealand by Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop

$34.95 NZD

Category: NZ Society

Pacific Islanders have been travelling to New Zealand for over a hundred years, striving to realise their migration dreams against an increasingly changing New Zealand. These stories highlight the great diversity of New Zealand's PI community today and capture the intense pride in Pacific Island identit y and achievements. ...Show more

Localizing Asia in Aotearoa by Paola Voci and Jacqueline Leckie (editors)

$44.99 NZD

Category: NZ Society

Essays and personal narratives contributed by fifteen writers reflect upon the diversity and complexity of Asian experiences, examine geographical, social and cultural locations and different perspectives in which Asia is actualised, embodied and imagined. Different ethnic and national groups are discus sed, including Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Maori and Pakeha. ...Show more

New Zealand and the Global Economy by Malcolm Abbott

$34.95 NZD

Category: Economics

New Zealand and the Global Economy looks at New Zealand's international economic relations over the past fifty years from the mid-1950s until recent times. Over the period New Zealand's international economic relations have at times been unstable, but nonetheless have provided an important engine for gr owth and development of the New Zealand economy and society. The book analyses the nature of New Zealand's trade relations with the rest of the world, the structure of trade and examines how trade has increased the wealth of the country. Besides looking at the changes that have occurred to New Zealand's trade in goods, the book explores the growing importance of its trade in services, and the inflows of capital and labour. Further, it considers the nature of New Zealand's trade relations, negotiations and agreements with countries such as Australia, Japan, the United States and other countries in the Asia Pacific region. International trade relations have changed over time, reflecting a shift in the attitudes of both the Government and New Zealanders to the world and how they see their place in it. ...Show more

Republicanism in New Zealand by Edited by Luke Trainor

$29.95 NZD

Category: Politics

Republicanism has the potential to change our national identity, the structure of our constitution and the nature of democracy in New Zealand. The origins of republicanism are explored, its meaning for changes in everyday life, its connection to overseas developments and its distinctive character, inclu ding tino rangatiratanga. ...Show more

Hidden Hazards in Women's Work by Celia Briar

$42.99 NZD

Category: Health

Women experience more work-related health problems than men. Gender segregation at work means different health and safety issues for women and men, but at present women’s occupational health and safety issues receive less attention and most research has been on men. Occupational health and safety issu es for both women and men need to be kept to the fore in workplaces and in national policy making. Employed women and men have better health than unemployed or unpaid workers, but job insecurity, overwork and unhealthy workplaces often cancel out the benefits of a paid job. Women occupy fewer good jobs than men and have a larger share of bad jobs. A lifetime of typical women’s work leads to poorer health amongst older women. This book discusses and provides case studies of hidden hazards in women’s work, drawing comparisons across English-speaking countries and other Western industrial environments. It points to practical ways in which health and safety in workplaces can be made more gender-sensitive, to benefit both women and men. It concludes by recommending that gender mainstreaming be put on government policy agendas to improve occupational health and safety and public health. ...Show more

Two Titans : Muldoon, Lange & Leadership by Jon Johansson

$34.95 NZD

Category: Politics

Two Titans analyses the leadership styles of Muldoon and Lange, the two Prime Ministers on either side of a crucial forking point in New Zealand's political history.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: New Zealand Birth Mothers' Experiences by Jenny Salmon

$29.95 NZD

Category: Health

Based on academic research, this book tells the stories of eight New Zealand women who gave birth to children suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome - or fetal alcohol effects, as it is also known. The struggles of these women to raise their disabled children, in a society where everything from the legal system to education can be unsympathetic to their needs, makes absorbingreading. Even a medical diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome is difficult to obtain, a diagnosis that ideally should be made before the child reaches six so the disorder can be managed appropriately. Intended primarily for women wanting to conceive, this book is also a valuable resource for general practitioners, nurses, students and others in the fields of health, medicine and social work. ...Show more