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Revenge of the Rich by Austin Mitchell
$27.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Yorkshireman Austin Mitchell lived in New Zealand for eight years while lecturing in political science. In 1972 he wrote his best-selling commentary on the New Zealand way of life, The Half-Gallon Quarter-Acre Pavlova Paradise. Now he returns to the fray with Revenge of the Rich, an outspoken opinion pi ...Show more
Women Now by Bronwyn Labrum
$34.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Its 125 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote. But the battle for the right to so much else is ongoing. This first volume in the Te Papa Thinking About series brings together provocative, insightful and energetically argued essays by 12 leading New Zealand writers and thinkers, based aroun ...Show more
Te Whatu Taniko - Taniko Weaving : Technique and Tradition by MEAD Hirini Moko
$49.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Hirini Mead is a renowned Maori writer and commentator. This contains easy-to-follow patterns and line-drawing instructions for technique The book Taniko Weaving is a taonga handed down by the ancestors to us of today. As a taonga it will always remain a treasure of great value which will be there waiti ...Show more
Legends of Rotorua And The Hot Lakes by A. W. Reed
$32.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
First published in 1958, this is the classic collection of myths relating to that cradle of Maori culture, Rotorua - with relevance across New Zealand Rotorua is one of New Zealand's most visited cities. It is impossible to avoid the area's Maori history and, in this book, it is easy to learn about the ...Show more
Reinventing Emma by Emma Gee
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Emma Gee is one of Australia's acclaimed Inspirational Speakers, offering her thoughts and solutions on client-centred care and resilience through her keynote presentations, workshops and consultancy. With a background in Occupational Therapy and as a Stroke Survivor, Emma is a renowned expert and a liv ...Show more
Desperately Seeking the Fair Go - We Know How to Make Australia a Better Place and It's Not That Hard by Geoff Davies
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Once, Australia was a world leader, resilient, bold, socially progressive. We set about giving everyone a fair go - the vote for women, a living wage, support for battlers. Governments worked for us, built things and made our lives better. Then we dropped the ball. We thought like colonials. We cringed ...Show more
This Realm of New Zealand by QUENTIN BAXTER ALISON
$71.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: Near Fine
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, . . .This precious stone set in the silver sea, . . .This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, . . .- William Shakespeare, King Richard II New Zealand is a democratic constitutional monarchy, one of Queen Elizabeth II's sixteen realms. This book provides ...Show more
A Wild Wind from the North: Hongi Hika's 1823 Invasion of Rotorua by Don Stafford
$43.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Hongi Hika's invasion of the Rotorua area in 1823 is one of the most dramatic and daring assaults in New Zealand history. Armed with muskets, Hongi's forces had roamed the North Island seeking utu (revenge) for past slights. Te Arawa, inland and with their island stronghold of Mokoia on Lake Rotorua, fe ...Show more
Favourite Maori Legends by A.W. Reed & Ross Calman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Maori myths and legends have an important role in transmitting and regenerating traditional knowledge. Yet as Ross Calman points out in his introduction to this new edition, they are also simply great yarns - reflective of a time when telling and listening to stories was a key leisure activity in Maori ...Show more
Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History by LYND STRAGHTON
$36.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Lynd is a lifelong pacifist influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss writing of history by those who m ...Show more
Self Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive Struggle by Z MICKEY
$8.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Radicals, feminists, environmentalists, activists for animal rights, human rights, civil rights - there are plenty of rebels and dissidents putting their safety on the line for what they believe in. Conversely, there's never been a shortage of reactionaries seeking to repress such vision and passion, of ...Show more
The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair & the Intoxication of Power by DAVID OWEN
$22.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
For some politicians and business leaders, power can become an intoxicating drug, and can affect their actions and decision-making in a most serious way. The ancient Greeks called it hubris, and identified arrogance and contempt for others' opinions as classic traits. They also took comfort in the knowl ...Show more