This book has been the go-to guide on sheep health, disease and production for veterinarians, farmers, farm advisors and veterinary, agricultural and applied science students since it was first published in 1993. Its authors are recognised internationally in the field of sheep health and production and have a lifetime of experience in the New Zealand sheep industry as well as wide exposure to sheep farmers working with practical production and flock health issues. This fourth edition is extensively revised and fully redesigned.
By the time Marcus Taylor graduated from veterinary school at age 23, a sheep, a cow, a hawk, innumerable dogs, cats, parrots and even a fish had locked their mandibles onto his flesh. Each bite only intrigued him further. From his first entanglement with a cow in ketosis in Canterbury to a beagle in heart failure in Newfoundland, and all manner of adventures and heartbreak in between, this memoir of the early career of a young New Zealand vet is both heartwarming and hilarious.
This gripping biography of Air Commodore Keith ' Grid' Caldwell CBE, MC, DFC & bar, Croix de guerre, tells the story of his remarkable exploits during the First World War. Flying single-seat fighters against the best of the German air force, including the Red Baron's Flying Circus and airmen such as Werner Voss, Caldwell accumulated 26 victories in aerial combat. Over his illustrious career he flew with numerous ' stars' of the British air service, including Albert Ball, William ' Billy' Bishop and Edward ' Mick' Mannock. In the last year of the war, aged only 22, he was given command of the new 74 Squadron. Under his leadership 74 ' Tiger' Sqaudron become one of the war's most feared and revered units. Written by a leading military historian, Grid details Caldwell's journey from early flight training in Auckland to his death-defying sorties over enemy lines on the Western Front. It also details his pivotal role in sustaining military aviation in interwar New Zealand, and his role in reinvigorating interest in the airmen of the First World War during the 1960s and 1970s.
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices such as Albert Wendt, Selina Tusitala Marsh and David Eggleton and the powerful newer voices of poets such as Tusiata Avia, Courtney Sina Meredith, Karlo Mila and Grace Iwashita-Taylor to new and emerging voices. Deep and rich, like Moana Oceania itself, it shows Pasifika poetry to be in a constant state of ' old and new', of haharagi and lelea' mafua, a lively and evolving continuum.
This is the biography of the mighty ceremonial waka taua Ngåatokimatawhaorua that rests on the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Herangi. In the late 1930s the Waikato leader held a dream to build seven waka taua for the 1940 centennial commemorations at Waitangi. By 1937 two waka had been commissioned. Carved in Northland under the guidance of Pita Heperi (Te Tai Tokerau) and Piri Poutapu (Waikato), Ngåatokimatawhaorua was one of them. But it was to be many decades before the true power of the waka to inspire a people was realised. In 1974 Ngatokimatawhaorua was refurbished by the late Sir Heke-nuku-mai-nga-iwi 'Hec' Busby for relaunching during Waitangi Day ceremonies. It was then that Te Puea's dream turned into reality. By 1990, The Year of the Waka, 22 waka and their 2000 crew gathered at Waitangi. Ngåatokimatawhaorua and others became symbols of Måaori unity and pride and an important part of the renaissance of the traditions of carving and voyaging around Aotearoa and beyond. Ngåatoki is the story of this great canoe, the longest to be built in modern times, and those who carved and crewed it over the last 80 years.ast 80 years.
"Perhaps the closest a human being comes to visiting another planet is to descend into the sea. In Soundings, Kennedy Warne connects his lifelong exploration of the underwater world with a global story of humanity's relationship with the sea. Drawing on more than 20 years of fieldwork for National Geographic, he shares experiences that range from diving with harp seals under the sea ice of the Gulf of St Lawrence to following the legendary 'sardine run' along South Africa's Wild Coast; from watching turret-building ghost crabs in Arabia to witnessing the impact of dynamite fishing in the Philippines; from swimming with crocodiles in the Okavango Delta to finding seahorses on the Eastern Cape. From a myriad underwater encounters a wider conversation emerges about human engagement with the sea. One question dominates: How can we care for and reconnect with the oceans around us?"--
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in New Zealand: the increasing emphasis on technology and risk management, the return of midwifery autonomy, the re-acceptance of birth at home, and the efforts to create birthing centres embedded in the communities they serve. It also describes her more recent work supporting the development of midwifery internationally, especially in countries across Asia, including Afghanistan and North Korea. Warm, engaging and important, Labour of Love is a story of a woman at her work, holding together the complexity of living and the growth of skill and wisdom. It is a reflection on what it means to be a midwife and a story of the fundamental connections that are made where living begins.
Rewi: Ata haere, kia tere is a tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngati Porou, Ngati Raukawa), a visionary thinker who believed that great architecture is crafted through careful consideration of people and place. This book brings together a breathtaking range of his projects, from conceptual dreamscapes to one-of-a-kind homes. It is written by one of the rising stars of architecture and a well-known commentator on urban issues, and includes interviews with those who worked with him.
This bumper art activity book brimming with ideas and inspiration has been developed by the team at the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth, who work with the thousands of children who visit the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery every year and really understand how the great New Zealand artist Len Lye's approach to art sets young minds abuzz and alive. With 65 activities, and a running narrative thread about Lye's fascinating life, it offers hours of fun to young readers and their family, and teachers.
"A vigorous strand of interest in the occult, the spooky and the mysterious has been part of our history since 1840. Shadow Worlds takes a lively look at communicating with spirits, secret ritualistic societies, the supernatural, the New Age - everything from The Golden Dawn and Rosicrucianism to Spiritualism, witchcraft and Radiant Living - and introduces the reader to a cast of fascinating characters who were generally true believers and sometimes con artists. It's a fresh and novel take on the history of a small colonial society that was not quite as ploddingly conformist as we may have imagined." --Back cover.
Haunting and searingly beautiful, Erebus has attracted explorers, mountaineers, artists and scientists; each drawn to the mountain by their own particular vision or curiosity. The mountain is a truly unique geological phenomenon - an active volcano sheathed in ice, with hundreds of ice caves, steaming towers 6 metres high around its summit and a lava lake. Also, in the minds of many New Zealanders, it is a place of destruction and despair, wrought by a single momentous accident. Antarctica veteran Monteath weaves history, science, art and adventure into a compelling tale, supported by superb images selected from his lifetime of working and voyaging in the area.
The fifth in the ground-breaking korero series conceived and edited by Lloyd Jones, Little Doomsdays is another rich collaboration between an artist and a writer. This time legendary musician and painter Phil Dadson responds to a wildly innovative text that's steeped in te ao Maori by Ngai Tahu writer Nic Low. Together they play with the notion of ark and arc in a manner that is at once beguiling and challenging.
In 1979 the photographer Robin Morrison and his family spent seven months on the road in the South Island, where Morrison photographed people and places. The resulting book was published in 1981 by Alister Taylor and became an overnight success -- and the first photographic book to win a New Zealand Book Award (now the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards) for non-fiction, in 1982. Alas, conflict between Taylor and the printer, and the later loss of some images, meant it was never reprinted once it had sold out. It now has near legendary status and sells for hundreds of dollars in the used-book market. Now this groundbreaking book is back in a new edition. Morrison's original Kodachrome slides have been digitised using the latest technology, and his friend and fellow journalist Louise Callan has written a major essay on the book and its legacy, including assessments and recollections by Robin White, Laurence Aberhart, Grahame Sydney, Owen Marshall, Ron Brownson, Dick Frizzell, Alistair Guthrie and Sara McIntyre. Forty years on, Morrison's astounding images can now be appreciated afresh.
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this countrys longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #57 features over 150 new poems including by this years featured poet, Tyla Bidois and essays and reviews of new poetry collections by some of this countrys best-known poets and literary critics. Poems by the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition are among the line-up.
"Working women everywhere face discrimination. Inequality and lack of inclusion is reinforced through regulation, policy, behaviours and attitudes. Although there has been progress in some countries, gender equality at work has yet to be achieved by any nation. This in-depth study examines the challenges faced by working women, their families and communities in ten countries throughout Asia and the Pacific: Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Pakistan and the Philippines"--Publisher's website.
"This collection of 50 texts, written by diplomats and poets, politicians and academics, students and businesspeople, reflects on personal experiences of China over the last half century"--Back cover.
"In 1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of Whanganui had shot a young gay poet, D'Arcy Cresswell, who was blackmailing him. They were then riveted by the trial that followed. Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left the country, only to be shot by a police sniper during street unrest in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis. Mackay had married into Whanganui high society, and the story has long been the town's dark secret. The outcome of years of digging by historian Paul Diamond, 'Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay' shines a clear light on the vengeful impulses behind the blackmail and Mackay's ruination"--Back cover.
The many bays, coves, and steeply rising hills of the Marlborough Sounds create some of New Zealand's most glorious, but challenging, environments. Maori carved out a living there over hundreds of years, but as European settlers farmed, milled, mined, fished, and chased the tourist dollar they transformed the Sounds. Maori lost their land, language, and way of life. Both groups had to overcome obstacles that ranged from the merely difficult to the nearly impossible, but Maori faced additional systemic legal and economic barriers. History continues to play out here in complex ways--Maori and European, land and sea, boom and bust, locals and tourists. These multiple strands are brought together for the first time in a wide-ranging, engrossing, and richly illustrated account of the Sounds and its resourceful and resilient peoples.
Me kimi ko wai e takaro ana ki runga i te retireti, i te tarere, i te pae piki i runga aha ano i tenei pukupuku papa whakamiharo mo tetahi toronga ki te papatakaro. He pukapuka mama, patai atu, whakahoki mai tona hanga hei hoatu i kupu hou me nga rerenga korero hou ma tetahi tukanga pahekoheko. Ko nga whakaahua rerehua na te kaitango whakaahua rongonui, na Jane Ussher ka whai wahi nga tamariki me o ratou whanau hei korero paki me tuhura i te reo. E ahei hoki ana te tiki i tetahi pukapuka reo rua i te reo Maori me te reo Pakeha. Find out who is playing on the slide, the swing, the climbing frame, and more in a charming, educational boardbook about a visit to the playground. The simple question-and-answer format introduces new words and sentences in an engaging and interactive way. The photographs by renowned New Zealand photographer Jane Ussher provide opportunities for children and their families to tell new stories and explore the Maori language.
The third in the series of popular and handy guides to our urban architecture by the well-known team of writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds. This handy pocket-sized book curates a series of city walks that take in Wellingtons remarkably rich architectural heritage, guiding the reader from Oriental Bay through to Thorndon and many places in between. Its the perfect guide for visitors to Wellington and also for locals who want to know more about their city.
"Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhoodto the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed in to the then male poet club.Weaving its own patterns and colours, Raiment shines a clear-eyed light on the heady, hedonistic hothouse of our literary community in the 1970s and reveals what it took, back then, to be an independent woman"--Back cover.
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine (established in 1951 by Louis Johnson), rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #56 features 130 new poems--including by this year's featured poet, Wes Lee, and by David Eggleton, Janet Newman, Amber Esau, Elizabeth Morton, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O'Connor, Alistair Paterson, essa may ranapiri, Nikki-Lee Birdsey, Iain Britton, Jordan Hamel, Jack Ross, Dominic Hoey, Owen Bullock, Semira Davis, Rata Gordon, Adrienne Jansen, Olivia Macassey, Vaughan Rapatahana, and Kerrin P. Sharpe--and essays and reviews of new poetry collections.
30 Queer Lives explores the lives, struggles and successes of LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders. From the famous - Grant Robertson, Gareth Farr, Chloee Swarbrick - to the less well known, these 30 stories encourage empathy and understanding, challenge stereotypes, and offer courage and hope.
"In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881. Honest, and intertwined with an examination of Shaw's relationship with his father and of his family's Catholicism, this book's key focus is urgent: how, in a decolonising world, Påakehåa New Zealanders wrestle with, and own, the privilege of their colonial pasts"--Publisher's website.
"Lobster's tale is the third book in the kåorero series. The kåorero project invites new and exciting collaborations - for two different kinds of artistic intelligence to work away at a shared topic."--Colophon.
New Zealand's war through the lens of those who served. A book of photographs of New Zealand's involvement in the Second World War.
"In 1998, just as South Island iwi Ngåai Tahu was about to sign its Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the government justice of sorts after seven generations of seeking redress a former foundryman stepped into the pivotal role of kaiwhakahaere or chair of Te Råunanga o Ngåai Tahu, the tribal council of Ngåai Tahu, Mark Solomon stood at the head of his iwi at a pivotal moment and can be credited with the astute stewardship of the settlement that has today made Ngåai Tahu a major player in the economy and given it long sought-after self determination for the affairs of its own people. Bold, energetic and visionary, for 18 years Solomon forged a courageous and determined course, bringing a uniquely Måaori approach to a range of issues. Now, in this direct memoir, Tåa Mark reflects on his life, on the people who influenced him, on what it means to lead, and on the future for both Ngåai Tahu and Aotearoa New Zealand."--Publisher information.
"In 1971, Sue Kedgley and other members of Auckland University Women's Liberation carried a coffin into Albert Park to take a stand for women's rights. She has been an activist ever since. She helped bring Germaine Greer to New Zealand in 1972, worked for women's equality at the United Nations, made documentaries and wrote books about women's issues, and was a crusading Green MP. Now, 50 years after that protest, she tells the story of feminism in New Zealand and its intersection with her own remarkable life."--Back cover.
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architecture expert. In this handy pocket guide, brought up to date in 2021 with the inclusion of twenty new buildings, well-known architecture writer John Walsh teams up with architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to offer a self-guided walking tour of 65 significant Auckland buildings, from the Victorian era to the brand new. The sparkling and informative text is accompanied by easy-to-follow maps for each of the five routes. On the bestseller list for many weeks when it was first published in 2019, this informative book is perfect for Aucklanders and visitors to the city alike.
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