Dunmore Publishing

The Blind Impress by Michael Jackson

$19.95 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

The Pawelka manhunt of 1910 and Joe Pawelka's prison escape and disappearance are recounted.Michael Jackson looks into the unsolved mystery surrounding Pawelka and explains the hold this 'man against the world' had on our consciousness. He intercuts recollections of his own life in small-town New Zealan d, creating an allegoary about the ways in which the past shapes the present. ...Show more

Politics of Possibility, The : Leadership in Changing Times by Jon Johansson

$39.95 NZD

Category: Politics

This book focuses on leadership in New Zealand with a particular focus on the dynamics of the recent general election and the reasons for the outcome of that election. It will appeal to a broad market - and is indeed written in a style that will appeal to all who have an interest in NZ politics.

Hawke's Bay: the History of a Province

$39.95 NZD

Category: History

The Bolger Years by Margaret Clark

$37.95 NZD

Category: Politics

Memories of the Bolger years by those who worked closely with and for him in the two sequential National Governments of which he was Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1990 and 1997. These accounts vividly portray the political dynamics and challenges of the government that succeeded Lange's Labour government and present a fascinating picture of the man who led it. First published July 2008. Read Alison McCulloch's review in the Scoop Review of Books ...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

Hearts Hands Minds: The cardio-thoracic nurses of Green Lane Hospital by Margaret Horsburgh with Heather Spinetto, Judy Murphy, Jill Crawford, Rachel Ronaldson & Sylvia Hilton

$34.99 NZD

Category: Health | Reading Level: Very Good

A poignant and well-researched history of Green Lane's cardio-thoracic unit: of interest to those who worked at, or have links to, Green Lane Hospital; personal stories, recollections and photographs are included; covers societal issues and the development of New Zealand's health services; describes the evolution of heart surgery in New Zealand; captures the highs and lows, the team work and camaraderie of nurses and doctors. ...Show more

War and Class: the Diary of Jack McCullough by Melanie Nolan

$49.95 NZD

Category: History

Jack McCullough's diary, begun 100 years ago in 1908, records a period in New Zealand society beset with economic turmoil and war. McCullough was a political reformer - a pragmatic idealist who worked tirelessly to better the lives of his fellow citizens through protest, union and Arbitration Court acti vity in matters of industrial relations wages and employment conditions. ...Show more

Practical Herbage Seed Crop Management by Jacqueline Rowarth

$39.95 NZD

Category: Horticulture/viticulture

Cannabis on the Brain by Paul Smith

$34.95 NZD

Category: Health

Cannabis is one of the most widely used drugs in the world. Popular as a recreational drug for thousands of years, it has also been used as a medicine since 2300 BC. Over the last few decades, cannabis users and an increasing number of doctors and scientists have demanded that reform of cannabis laws. B ut do we know how cannabis works? What effect does it have on the brain? What ill-effects are associated with its use? Is there any convincing evidence supporting its use as a medicine? Should it be decriminalised? This book answers these and other questions using the latest scientific information from pharmacology and medicine, using a minimum of technical jargon. ...Show more

A Magpie Stole My Heart : Ten Years of the Whitireia Writing Programme by Sue McCauley (ED.)

$29.95 NZD

Category: NZ Society

"Here we have, perhaps, the 'alternative' face of emerging New Zealand writing. One of the functions of literature is, I think, to show us what kind of society we live in, and this collection is a literary profile of New Zealand in the 21st century; multicultural, passionate, funny, sad, surprising." ...Show more

From Z to A: Zizek at the Antipodes by Laurence Simmons

$39.95 NZD

Category: Education | Reading Level: very good

Slavoj Zizek is regarded as one of the pre-eminent European cultural theorists of the last decade. His growing body of work has generated considerable controversy and transformed the way we think about issues of popular culture and politics. This volume provides a critical reflection on Zizek's ideas an d his intellectual itinerary. As well as bringing a Zizekian analysis to a discussion of the cultural and social aspects of nationhood in New Zealand and the Southern hemisphere, it will provide readers with new material and fresh perspectives on Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, multiculturalism, television and the new media, ethics and politics. It is proposed that Zizek's arresting, and at times scandalous, re-elaboration of psychoanalytical theory and his critique of ideology will open the way for a new understanding of social conflict. From Z to A contains approaches that are challenging and fascinating: What really happened when Paul Holmes interviewed Dennis Connor? Why do we watch reality TV? Is the Treaty of Waitangi a fraud? Why has Peter Ellis come to represent par excellence the figure of sexual threat to children? Why does Ada in Jane Campion's 'The Piano' send a love letter to Baines who cannot read? What psychic mechanisms of nationalism are displayed in British football hooliganism? How did Western orientalism shape Japanese national identity? Why is the discourse of nationhood in the United States always structured around a central void or impossibility? The range of topics demonstrates both the power of Zizek's formulations and the light they can shed on our world. ...Show more

Three Labour Leaders by Margaret Clark (Editor)

$29.95 NZD

Category: Politics

Nordmeyer, Kirk and Rowling successively led the Labour Party from April 1963 until February 1983. During that time they contested seven general elections and won only one. The theme of many contributors to this book is that had it been otherwise, New Zealand might have been a better place. Contributor s to this book include fellow Labour politicians as well as scholars and civil servants. Together they paint a complex picture of the three men with their strengths and talents. This readable collection offers fascinating detail and insight into two decades of New Zealand's political history. ...Show more