Auckland University Press: 301 books
by Jessica Le Bas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Portraying a parent’s experience of coming to terms with the new and frightening world of mental health care, this narrative explores the myriad foreign ways of diagnosis and treatment. Written from a mother’s perspective, the poetic sequence displays the anguish and complexity of dealing with...
by Ron Palenski
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Rugby is New Zealand's national sport. From the grand tour by the 1888 Natives to the upcoming 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in the Second World War to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park,...
Answering to the Language
Essays on Modern Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
A collection of 47 essays, lectures, reviews and articles covering a wide variety of topics, ranging from Yeats and Katherine Mansfield to Booker Prizewinners Peter Carey and Keri Hulme.
Treasury
The New Zealand Treasury 18402000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Commissioned by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, this interpretive history tackles New Zealand's most important department of state, the Treasury Department. The history of the complex interplay between New Zealand's government, economy, and people is detailed. McKinnon shows the perennial jousting...
Innovation and Independence
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This study of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand reveals why the Bank's presence in the national life is strong; illustrates how it is internationally renowned for its mandate to eliminate inflation, having been the first reserve or central bank in the world to adopt the "inflation targeting"...
Employment Relationships
Workers, Unions and Employers in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This revised evaluation of the New Zealand Employment Relations Act 2000 assesses the developing trends and major changes in the employment relations situation in New Zealand since the act was passed. Perspectives from employers, union members, academics, and government workers address how the new...
Waitangi & Indigenous Rights
Revolution, Law & Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This landmark study examines issues surrounding New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, focusing on recent Fiji revolutions and indigenous customary rights to the seabed and foreshore. In this revised edition, the author approaches these complex and controversial matters with a careful, thorough, and...
The Healthy Country?
A History of Life & Death in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Did Maori or Europeans live longer when Captain James Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769? Why were Pakeha New Zealanders the healthiest, longest-lived people on the face of the globe for 80 years—and why did Maori not enjoy the same life expectancy? Why were New Zealanders' health and longevity...
Get off the Grass
Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In a brilliant intellectual adventure that ranges from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to economic geography and the science of complex networks, Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan explore how New Zealanders can learn to live off knowledge rather than nature. The key to increasing New Zealand's prosperity,...
The Infinite Game
How to Live Well Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Whether we are competing for a job, building a business or championing a good cause, some days it can feel as if we are trapped in an endless competition for status, wealth or attention. Maybe if we learn to play the game and follow the rules we'll come out on top. But is life really a finite game...
by Brian Easton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Neither an argument for nor against globalization, this book is a careful and thorough analysis of the issues of globalization and an imaginative, wide-ranging picture of the globalizing world. It aims to both inform and enable readers to improve their own decisions about how to harness globalization,...
Wool to Weta
Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Final Approaches
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This memoir presents the life of a distinguished civil servant and gives a fascinating look into a dramatic political career spanning from Singapore to New York City. With an unerring eye for humor blended with thoughtful insight, this autobiography provides a diplomat’s viewpoint to some of the...
Psychology for a Better World
Working with People to Save the Planet. Revised and Updated Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Can you save the planet and have some fun along the way? Aimed at the teacher who updates students on the latest climate change negotiations, the conservationist who works to protect endangered species, the office manager who buys fair-trade coffee, or the city counselor who lobbies for cycle lanes,...