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Bird on a Wire : The Inside Story From A Straight Talking CEO order quantity
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author: Theresa Gattung
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No woman has ever risen as far in the corporate world as former Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung. Her appointment, at such a young age and from the marking ranks, astounded the country, and her leadership of the big telco that Kiwis love to hate was never far from the headlines.

This no-holds-barred memoir tells of her ambition, her determination, and her rise to business power. It tells of the highs of running a vitally important company such as Telecom and also the lows, as the company struggled with the Australian AAPT acquisition, shareholder pressure, antagonism from the government, battles with its telco competitors and changing technology. After seven years she felt she'd given her all.
The personal toll of those tough years at the top had been significant and Gattung is frank about how she had to rebuild her life with a clear focus. First with her chic Californian fashion store showcasing New Zealand fashion, and now with her ... more


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The Villa : From Heritage to Contemporary order quantity
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NZ$ 75.00 each
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Author: Patrick Reynolds, Jeremy Salmond & Jeremy Hansen (photography Patrick Reynolds)
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Despite the interest in contemporary architecture it's a fact that more people in inner-city suburbs throughout New Zealand end up living in a villa than a house of any other architectural style. Everyone at some stage finds themselves doing some renovation work, and that has tended in recent years to revolve around "blowing out the back". In recent years architects have come up with far more interesting solutions to turn villas into a workable house for 21st century living. This book looks at around 25 of those solutions as well as at villas that have remained untouched over the years and at villas that are down on their uppers, including a spectacular and infamous student flat. Photographed by Patrick Reynolds, the text on each house is written by Home NZ editor Jeremy Hansen. In addition the book kicks off with a substantial survey of villa architecture by leading heritage architect Jeremy Salmond, whose late 1980s book on old New ... more

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Dick Frizzell - the Painter order quantity
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Author: Dick Frizzell
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Dick Frizzell's images populate our world - you find them on T-shirts, on TV ads, in shop windows, on wine bottles, on cushions and T-towels and in art shows. People appropriate (or borrow) his images in much the same way that he too appropriated many of the images he has painted over the years. He's reached iconic status in NZ - we love him, he's one of our own. As Dick himself says with a surprised chuckle, "I'm just like the Topp Twins now - I can do no wrong, they all love me!" Dick has a great story. After going to art school he found himself in his 20s married and with a young family to support. He worked in advertising until 1974, when his artistic urges made him leave the ad agency to take up working in the vege markets in the early hours of the day so that he could pursue his art. His paintings combined the pragmatics of an adman's need for a compelling motif with the visceral pleasures of expressive modernist paintings. His ... more

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Aphrodite's Island: The European discovery of Tahiti order quantity
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NZ$ 65.00 each
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Author: Anne Salmond
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First published October 2009.

Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status in Western imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of 'savages'. In this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the centre of these societies' shared history to furnish rich insights into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full extent of European fascination with Tahiti.

As she discerns the impact and meaning of the European effect on the island, she demonstrates how, during the early contact period, the mythologies of Europe and Tahiti intersected and became entwined. Drawing on Tahitian oral histories, European manuscripts and artworks, and collections of Tahitian artifacts, and illustrated with sketches, paintings, and engravings from the voyages, Aphrodite's Island provides a vivid account of the Europeans' Tahitian ... more

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Dave Dobbyn : The Songbook order quantity
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NZ$ 59.99 each
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Author: Dave Dobbyn
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Be Mine Tonight, Outlook for Thursday, Loyal, Whaling, Slice of Heaven, Welcome Home - these are only some of the remarkable songs that have framed Dave Dobbyn's long career and made him one of New Zealand's most enduring and best-loved musicians. While generations of New Zealanders have grown up with his music, his songs have never been collected together and published in written form before. Produced to coincide with his new album of greatest hits (to be released in November by Sony Music), Dave Dobbyn: The Songbook will contain 40 of his most celebrated and loved songs. It will be a book of two halves; the first will contain writing about each song from Dobbyn, along with photographs and the lyrics (with guitar chords). The second half of the book will be the score for piano and guitar for every song. Dave Dobbyn: The Songbook is an innovative and substantial book, and in its dedication to the actual music, a significant tribute to ... more

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Godwits : Long-Haul Champions order quantity
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Author: Keith Woodley
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Godwits: Long-haul champions, an enchanting, wonderfully illustrated book by shorebird expert Keith Woodley, tells the miraculous story of the godwits and their migrations - why and how they do it. It follows the birds on their intrepid journeys, examining the places they visit, be it an estuary in northern New Zealand, a mudflat on the Chinese-North Korean border, or a tundra nesting site in Alaska. Woodley, respected godwit expert and manager of the Miranda Shorebird Centre, details the amazing changes these birds undergo before their departure - from moulting into new plumage, to doubling their weight and shrinking non-essential body organs - as well as outlines their array of innate skills in weather prediction and global navigation. Incorporating the author's own eye-witness accounts as well as meticulous research, this tale of navigation and stunning fortitude is written in a compelling yet accessible style that will appeal to ... more

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Mau Moko : The World of Maori Tattoo order quantity
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NZ$ 65.00 each
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Author: Te Awekotuku Ngahuia with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua & Rolinda Karapu (new photography Becky Nunes)
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Winner Montana Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture Award 2008

In the traditional Maori world, the moko, or facial or body tattoo, was a sign of great mana and status. Male warriors wore elaborate tattoos on their faces and bodies; women took more delicate chin tattoos. After almost dying out in the twentieth century, Maori tattooing is now experiencing a powerful revival, with many young Maori wearing the moko as a spectacular gesture of racial pride.

Mau Moko is probably the most magnificent book ever produced about the moko, from pre-European times to the present day. It examines the use of tattooing by traditional and contemporary Maori and links it to other aspects of Maori culture. Gender issues are considered along with tattooing techniques both old and new. The book features case studies of modern Maori who have made a personal decision to be tattooed; the role and status of the tattooers; exploitation of the moko in ... more

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The Kiss and the Ghost: Sylvia Ashton Warner and New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 39.00 each
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Author: Sue Middleton & Alison Jones (editors)
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Ashton-Warner is known as an educationalist and novelist. She maintained that young children best leasrn to read and write when they produce their own vocabulary. This book focuses on the passionately difficult relationship she had with her country of brith, New Zealand. It contains essays from a variety of ewducationalists as well as her son Elliot Henderson.

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The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa order quantity
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NZ$ 80.00 each
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Author: Murray Waldren
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Christopher O'Doherty, aka Reg Mombassa, has infiltrated our culture for more than thirty years with a unique, laconic view of our world - and of his. His wit, sense of mischief and larrikin energy resonated in the songs and performances of one of Australia's most beloved bands, Mental As Anything, whose music became the soundtrack to a generation's misbegotten youth. His eye for the absurd and his unapologetic idealism captured another generation or three with his irreverent, frequently macabre and always distinctive designs for the original Mambo label. Yet, long before he became a Mental or transformed shirts into collector's items, Mombassa was first and foremost an artist. From his idiosyncratic pop art to the delicately realised fine art landscapes and images that celebrate and elevate the suburban, his artworks are sought by collectors around the world. But there is much more to Reg Mombassa, as fellow New Zealand-born writer ... more

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100 Essential New Zealand Films order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: Hamish McDouall
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Film critic, Sale of the Century and Mastermind winner Hamish McDouall spent several months in darkened rooms watching films to produce this brilliant and unusual selection. It encompasses short films, feature films, documentaries and digifilms. Yes, The Lord of the Rings and Whale Rider are here, but so too are Kaikohe Demolition and Tongan Ninja. The book includes details on where to get hold of these gems so you can watch them in your own darkened room.

First published September 2009, Auckland
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An Autobiography (To the Is-land/An Angel at My Table/The Envoy from Mirror City) order quantity
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Author: Janet Frame
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A beautiful new edition, celebrating Janet Frame’s life and bringing together all three award-winning books of her autobiography: To the Is-Land, An Angel at My Table and The Envoy from Mirror City. “One of the greatest autobiographies written this century.”
— Michael Holroyd.

First published 1982, 1984 & 1985; this omnibus edition 1989.

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A Plume of Bees : A Literary Biography of C K Stead order quantity
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Author: Judith Dell Panny
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C.K. Stead is certainly one of New Zealand's most honoured writers and probably the most argued about. Judith Dell Panny has become a literary detective in her remarkable research into the origins of the Stead opus, from his early life to his influences here and abroad and their effects on his work.
Controversies swirl around Stead. Why and how does he write as he does? What has shaped him, what are the patterns, repeated and intricate, that permeate his extraordinary and ongoing work? In her investigations of all this, Panny also assesses the many effects his writing has on others. With Stead nobody sits on the fence.
WHY DO THE LITERATI HATE KARL STEAD? was the feature in North and South. Yet Janet Frame had “a feeling of amazed gratitude” because of Panny's book on her own work, I Have What I Gave. Readers, said Frame, would now be able to approach her work from new and original perspectives, enabling them to find their ... more

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Backroads : Charting a Poet's life order quantity
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Author: Sam Hunt
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Sam Hunt's life as a poet and performer has always strayed far off the straight and narrow, more akin to following a series of winding backroads that have led to places and people away from the mainstream. As a child, Hunt was surrounded by 'a lot of words, a lot of poems,' and from the age of eight, he knew he wanted to live the life of a poet. His parents and grandparents were his earliest influences, and later it was the likes of W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda and Dylan Thomas; while within New Zealand, Alistair Campbell, James K. Baxter and Denis Glover, among others, inspired and nurtured him. Backroads is a memoir, a series of reflections by Sam Hunt on his life as a poet. He talks about inspiration and its unwelcome antagonist, drying up; the importance of performing, of 'saying poems out loud'; his good friends, like artist Robin White and his faithful canine companion Minstrel; his early publishing ventures and his experiences with ... more

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Black Milk : Douglas Wright order quantity
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NZ$ 49.99 each
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Author: Douglas Wright & Leonard Wilcox (photography John Savage)
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During his career Douglas Wright established himself as New Zealand's leading contemporary dancer and choreographer. He started out with the Limbs Dance Company in 1980, then worked in New York with the Paul Taylor Company and DV8 Physical Theatre in London before forming the Douglas Wright Dance Company in Auckland in 1989. During this time he created over 30 major dance works, which culminated in his 2006 masterpiece 'Black Milk', his last major work. The dance critic Jennifer Shennan wrote, 'In my opinion, this is Wright's, New Zealand's, and dare I say it, the world's finest choreography. I dare.' Black Milk is a permanent record of this extraordinary piece of dance theatre, built largely around the remarkable images of Auckland photographer John Savage. When seeing these images Douglas Wright commented: When I saw John's first pictures of a performance I felt that here, for the only time in my experience in photography, someone ... more

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Cover Up : The art of the book cover in New Zealand order quantity
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Author: Hamish Thompson
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Some of New Zealand's most eminent artists have also featured in some of our most significant books, and it's an impressive roll call indeed: Len Lye, Dick Frizzell, Gordon Walters, Hotere, Para Matchitt, Milan Mrkusich, Colin McCahon, Murray Grimsdale, John Drawbridge, Pat Hanly and more. Hamish Thompson's introductory essay to this comprehensive and handsomely designed book gives an overview of the history of book design in 20th century NZ and details the changing styles of cover art. The body of the book focusses on the work of individual artists, with a two-page spread per artist, plus biographical notes and full colour illustrations. A full index and bibliography included. Sitting at the intersection of art and graphic design, this book slots right into our highly design-aware era and will appeal to the general public as well as to design students, publishers, historians and art lovers.

First published September 2007.

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Health Cheque order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Gareth Morgan & Geoff Simmons with John McCrystal
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New Zealand’s health system is a political football, held together only by the high quality of our nurses and doctors, according to a new book from Gareth Morgan.
While the local health system scrubs up surprisingly well globally, Dr Morgan finds a substantial mismatch between the public’s expectations and what the health system actually delivers. Morgan and Simmons go behind the scenes of the New Zealand public health system and bring clarity to the issues that need to be addressed if crisis is to be avoided.
The book explores the consequences of ongoing avoidance of the tough calls on rationing and prioritisation. It considers how many New Zealanders are already suffering or missing out from health care because of ad-hoc interventions in response to pressure groups.

DoP- November 2009, Wellington
230x150mm /280pp
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How to Look at a Painting (The Ginger Series 07) order quantity
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Author: Justin Paton
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Never have more paintings been painted, and more words written about art, than today. But what does it all mean? How can you distinguish a good painting from a bad? Inspired art from eye-candy?

In this hugely engaging book, acclaimed art writer Justin Paton takes us on a journey of exploration through the centuries and across the painted world - from the luscious fruit of Italy's Caravaggio to the lonely landscapes of New Zealand's Rita Angus, the dazzling panoramas of America's Lari Pittman and the mysterious 'tombstones' of Japanese artist On Kawara.
Whether you're a keen art collector, a student of art, or just love to visit a gallery occasionally, this brilliant exposition of painting in all its forms will open your eyes to things you've never seen before.

First published December 2005.

The Dominion Post made it their “Book of the Week” describing it as “elegant” and “persuasive”

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Living Together : Towards Inclusive Communities order quantity
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Author: Claire Freeman & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
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How do we develop inclusive, engaged communities? In this book experts in community planning review some of the challenges, strategies and solutions, using New Zealand case studies. The needs of specific groups ? whether migrant, the young, elderly or indigenous - and community ties with local and central government are explored. The Treaty of Waitangi, the influence of feminism and the development of online communities are other aspects that are considered. Importantly, the book provides tools for achieving healthy commuities, with strategies to empower their members and ensure they are heard.

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Long Loop Home order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Peter Wells
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We all live with and seek to make sense of the inadequate ideas that conceptualise out time and place.

Peter Wells was born in 1950, in Auckland, New Zealand, to sporting parents, with the complication of a brother who shared his sexuality. In his own words, he took a wrong turning: at eleven he decided the family could not 'afford' two homosexual sons. The problems this led to complicated his youth but possibly gave him the creative fuel that illuminated his later books and films.

Through the difficulties and strains explored in this 'mosaic of a memoir' come other voices: Peter's resourceful, energetic mother; his returned serviceman father, coping with an ambiguous situation about which he understood little; and his ever-inventive, dynamic brother. The book shows the way morality imploded on this family, and their transcendence over the 'inadequate ideas' of time and place. There are insightful pieces written about New ... more

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The Women's Bookshop comments:
A perceptive, beautifully written memoir on growing up gay in a society on the cusp of change in Auckland, New Zealand. Winner of a Montana Book Award.

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Louise Nicholas : My Story order quantity
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Author: Louise Nicholas
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The 'Louise Nicholas trial' - as it became known - was one of the most far-reaching, pivotal and politically important court cases in recent years.

In this very important book Louise Nicholas tells her story - the sad story of a teenager whose abuse first began when she was a 13 year old and continued throughout her teens. Award-winning journalist Philip Kitchin's investigations into the cover-up of Louise's complaints led to the establishment of Operation Austin. Louise's story is interspersed with Philip's story detailing his investigations into the case. The result is a fascinating read with wider implications for the way we view the police in this country.

Public interest in this complex and sorry tale is huge and this has been further piqued by the damning findings of the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct and the outcome of the Dewar case.

 
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