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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 ...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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more
The House: New Zealand's House of Representatives 1854-2004 by John E. Martin
$59.95 NZD
Category: History
'The House' tells a story of New Zealand's House of Representatives History from 1854 to 2004. Throughout its 150 years, the House of Representatives has responded to accommodate dramatic shifts in political patterns. Its history tells us much about the changing relationship between the people of New Ze ...Show more
Monographs in Cool Climate Viticulture Climate Vol 2 by David Jackson
$29.95 NZD
Category: Horticulture/viticulture
Professor Jackson discusses the importance of climate in growing grapes and producing wine in cooler temperatures and ways the grower can avoid potential problems. Chapters include weather and world climates, wine styles, the use of climatic knowledge in establishing a vineyard, and effects of global wa ...Show more
The Fortex Story by Sandra Martin
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Fortex, a small South Island meat processing company, captured the public imagination when it became Company of the Year in 1990.Four short years later it was bankrupt, and in 1996 its charismatic founder and managing director Graeme Thompson, was sentenced to imprisonment for fraud. This insightful st ...Show more