Auckland University Press: 301 books
by Ron Palenski
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Examining the development of a sense of national identity in a British colony, this highly authoritative work is a valuable addition to the literature in New Zealand. By looking at the onset of home-grown shipping, railway, and telegraph networks as well as at the Maori and kiwi experiences, not to...
Crisis
One Central Bank Governor & the Global Financial Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An authoritative insider's perspective, this book penned by the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand chronicles the global financial and economic meltdown. A well-researched and dynamic firsthand account, it captures the drama of the events—from the overheated markets of 2007 through the...
Len Lye
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Len Lye: A Biography tells for the first time the story of a unique, charismatic artist who was an innovator in many areas– film, kinetic sculpture, painting, photography and poetry. Born in New Zealand in 1901, Len Lye gained an international reputation in the arts and had friendships with many...
by Jacqueline Fahey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The second volume of memoir by New Zealand artist, feminist, and writer Jacqueline Fahey, this book kicks off after her marriage to celebrated psychiatrist Fraser McDonald. As it recounts Fahey’s battles against conventional society to shape a life as an artist as well as a wife and mother, this...
Book Self
The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
A sequel to the successful books Kin of Place and The Writer at Work, this collection of critical writing takes the reader on a personal journey from the author’s earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his latest experiences on the literary trail. This trip through literary history involves...
by Ian Wedde
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A collection of poems by one of New Zealand's major poets, Spells for Coming Out exhibits a unity derived from mood and circumstance. Memories of Europe, regrets at the absence of 'friends, fugitives and lovers', dominate the opening section, and recur later when the physical scene before the poet...
Vertical Living
The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realize their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of the capital city of...
Star Waka
Poems by Robert Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 1999
Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Maori poet Robert Sullivan’s third book of poems, Star Waka, explores themes of journeying and navigation, moving back and forth in time and focus to confront colonisation, contemporary political issues and personal questions of family and identity. It...
by Mervyn McLean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
This book is the best introduction available to Maori music – the instruments played, the songs and dance styles and what they were used for, performance, composition, teaching, etc. Based on 30 years of fieldwork that yielded 1300 recorded songs and hundred of pages of interviews and eyewitness accounts, this is a classic book.
Blue Smoke
The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918–1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Bringing to life the musical worlds of New Zealanders both at home and out on the town, this history chronicles the evolution of popular music in New Zealand during the 20th century. From the kiwi concert parties during World War I and the arrival of jazz to the rise of swing, country, the Hawaiian...
Girls and Women, Men & Boys
Gender in Taradale 1886–1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
For much of their lives, the people of Taradale, New Zealand, did not live in the so-called separate spheres. They lived in a community which revolved around family life and family ties. Yet within their shared spaces they often had different experiences, be that at home, at school, at work or at...
No Fretful Sleeper
A Life of Bill Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Outlining the career of one of New Zealand’s most distinguished fiction writers and sharpest critics, this fascinating narrative details the life and work of Bill Pearson. Beginning with his difficult childhood in a society dominated by the New Zealand working man, this gripping biography follows...
An Unsettled Spirit
The Life and Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A critical biography of the popular 1920s novelist G. B. Lancaster (the pen name of Edith Lyttleton), this book tells the moving story of her life and work. Sturm paints a fascinating picture of the harsh experience of a woman writer in the first half of the 20th century whose economic circumstances...
by Bruce Biggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Revised edition of the best-selling, self-help tutor in the Maori language presented in a new, easy-to-use format.