Rooted in the success stories of real companies, this guide presents a concise outline of the key business principles behind generating growth, profitability, and market penetration. Illustrated throu
Telling the story of shearers from the 1860s to the present day, this collection brings to life the world of the shearing shed for the first time. Shearers have played a key role in New Zealand life,
From his?birth in 1932 to his first departure from?New Zealand in 1956, this "autobiopsy" chronicles C. K. Stead's first 23 years,?casting?a critical eye and a novelist's voice over?the author's?own l
Based on in-depth research and interviews with 30 tribal elders, this guidebook to whaikorero?or New Zealand’s traditional Maori oratory?is the first introduction to this fundamental art form. Assessi
Drawing on a range of evidence, including memoirs, menus, advertising, and newspaper coverage, this unique volume relates the story of the dining experience in New Zealand from 1860 to the present. Co
Written from the perspective of the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, this informative chronicle is a firsthand account of the global financial and economic meltdown. This well-researched a
Maori oral tradition is the rich, poetic record of the past handed down by voice over generations through whakapapa, whakatauki, korero and waiata. In genealogies and sayings, histories, stories and s
Since colonization, New Zealand has been mythologized as a ‘land of milk and honey’– a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity. In the twenty-first century, the country has become l
Amelia Batistich is well known for first chronicling the experience of non-British immigrants in New Zealand in novels and stories written from the late 1940s to the 1990s. Here she recalls her own lo
Teenagers is a ground-breaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through the diaries and letters, photographs and drawings that teenagers left behind, we
After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. Fo
They left their Southern Lands, They sailed across the sea; They fought the Hun, they fought the Turk For truth and liberty. Now Anzac Day has come to stay, And bring us sacred joy; Though wooden cros
"None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938–39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival
In 1893 the women of southern Dunedin supported the campaign for female suffrage far more vigorously than women in any other city in the country. Change was in the air. In southern Dunedin as in most
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants
Journalists and presidents, hacks and spin doctors, media moguls and prime ministers: in New Zealand and around the world, politics and the media are deeply intertwined.Politics and the Media is the s
'We have always owned the water . . . we have never ceded our mana over the river to anyone’, King Tuheitia Paki asserted in 2012. Prime Minister John Key disagreed: ?King Tuheitia’s claim that Maori
Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinio
Recounting the fenoterol epidemic?a major medical controversy that took place more than 15 years ago?this narrative explores the involvement of the asthma drug that caused numerous asthma deaths. Alth
