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A St. John’s College Scholarship Boy

A St. John’s College Scholarship Boy is the autobiography of a doctor who briefly lived and worked in the gold-mining towns of the Witwatersrand from 1931–33 and then, for 27 years, on two Copperbelt mining towns in Northern Rhodesia from 1933–61.He writes about his work as a doctor in the time before antibiotics and with only a few vaccinations av..  More

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Assessment of Mental Capacity

The ability to make decisions and take actions that influence our life is critically important, and ranges from simple everyday choices about what to eat or wear, to far-reaching decisions about health care and personal or financial matters. When our ability to make our own decisions is impaired due to dementia, learning or intellectual disability,..  More

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Being a Distance Grandparent: a Book for ALL Generations

Is your family geographically scattered? Has globalisation made your family a Distance Family? This book tells the candid story of how Distance Parents and Distance Grandparents struggle – and succeed – to adapt to their new reality. This isn’t family life as they had imagined it.    If you are a Distance Parent or Distance Grandpare..  More

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Being a Distance Son or Daughter: a Book for ALL Generations

What is it truly like being a son or daughter who leaves home to live in an expat/migrant setting? How does it feel to be geographically separated from your parents, grandparents and other family members? Maybe you’ve left home for your studies, your career, a sense of adventure, for a challenge, for love. But how do you venture forth into your glo..  More

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Black November: The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand

‘Black November’ details New Zealand’s worst public health crisis, and its worst natural disaster. Over 8,500 New Zealanders died from influenza and pneumonia in just six weeks in 1918 when the country was swept by the so-called ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic. Nearly a quarter of the victims were Maori, who died at seven times the death rate of Europ..  More

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Blood and Bone: Revelations of an Orthopaedic Surgeon

Russell Tregonning finished his fifty-year career in medicine as one of New Zealand’s leading orthopaedic surgeons and as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Otago School of Medicine.This memoir takes the reader through his journey from medical student to orthopaedic surgeon – from introducing pioneering techniques in reconstructive surgery, to perso..  More

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Call Me Brother: The Story of a New Zealand Doctor in Bangladesh

What happens when one person refuses to tolerate injustice and gives everything they have to see it right? Edric Baker was driven by the idea that healthcare should be available for every person, rich or poor. In wartime Vietnam, he performed complex surgery on a patient, only to see him return and die from dysentery, a disease of poverty. Bak..  More

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Children's Health A to Z for New Zealand Parents

A natural approach to supporting your child through the coughs and colds, ear aches, tummy upsets and mild infections that are part of growing up...  More

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CiggieButtOut

An easy to follow guide to giving up smoking.Knowledge is the real power behind battles conquered and this is no different for when you are wanting to stop smoking.By understanding how addiction works, you will end up sitting in the boss’s seat and confidently manage your entire journey through the withdrawals and freeing yourself from addictive sm..  More

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Cockney Kid: the making of an unconventional psychologist

The biography of a gutter snipe in the East End of London,  who joined the Royal Navy, saw service abroad in minesweepers, became a probation officer, prison psychologist, a professor of clinical psychology and a disaster trauma specialist. Share the delights of his passage, and compare them with your own. ..  More

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Dark Side of the Brain: Adapting to Adversity

Adversity can hit anyone at any time, often unexpectedly. The loss of  a close family member combined with his own experience of depression spurred Lance Burdett on to share what he’s learned about how the  brain works. During his time both as a police crisis negotiator and later as a resilience and wellness specialist, Lance has und..  More

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Fighting to Choose: The abortion rights struggle in New Zealand

Fighting to Choose chronicles one of the most important yet neglected chapters in New Zealand’s recent political history. More than thirty-five years ago, at the height of the second wave of feminism, New Zealand passed a conservative abortion law that bucked a trend in the West toward liberalisation.  How did this happen in a cou..  More

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Growing Great Girls

After the huge success of Growing Great Boys, comes this companion title focusing on girls. There are many issues today to challenge girls and their parents. This book gives support and advice to parents in the same way that Growing Great Boys has done. It follows the structure of the boys' book quite closely. It includes some general chapte..  More

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Growing Great Marriages

Ian and Mary Grant maintain that the two great human desires are to know that we can love and that we can be loved. In their latest book, they give skills and tips on how to maintain your relationship with your husband or wife. Whether your relationship is flaming with passion or just flaming awful, this entertaining book gives you insights and ..  More

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Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety

In 2017, Ministry of Health figures showed that one in five New Zealanders sought help for a diagnosed mood or anxiety disorder, and these figures are growing. Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety tells the real, messy story behind these statistics ­– what anxiety feels like, what causes it, what helps and what doesn’t. These accounts are sometimes ra..  More

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I Am the Life

“The Truth is Eternal, Birthless and Deathless, forever the same,” but the teaching of the Truth is always changing to finer and higher expressions as man unfolds. There is a lot of knowledge in the Bible that is hidden from the many; esoteric knowledge, that which came through the great Prophets and was revealed to the inner circle of disciples...  More

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Igniting Resilience

Christine Burns, an illustrious leadership and performance specialist, consistently inspired her clients to be courageous, step out of their comfort zone, stand tall with confidence, and ignite their resilience in the face of adversity no matter what. Little did she know, 40 seconds into that phone call as her life took a drastic turn for the worse..  More

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Munch Lunchbox

Thinking up ideas for school lunches every day is tough – but you will never run out of inspiration with the Munch Lunchbox.The authors, Anna Bordignon and Michelle Kitney, are the team behind Munch Cupboard and their fantastic website munchnz.co.nz has been inspiring Kiwi parents for over five years with recipes ideas and great lunchbox products. ..  More

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My Grandmother Used to Say

In 1915 my Grandmother had her life turned upside down by the death of her mother. At age 14, with no father to rely on she was left to raise her 4 younger siblings by herself. She came through the school of hard knocks with a caring heart and a tenacious spirit and learned a great many things. Her experiences became the foundation of her wisdom..  More

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Of Course I Love You, Now Go To Your Room

This book presents a modern approach to parenting. Diane Levy believes children must be taught to experience and handle their emotions and they must learn self-discipline. There are two main tenets to the new approach to parenting developed in the book: Emotional Support and Limit Setting. It takes about twenty years to raise a child. Within tha..  More

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Oh Baby: Birth, Babies & Motherhood

Refreshingly honest, openly frank and candidly blunt, this book has been written by a mother for other mothers. It oozes with warm fuzzies, it reeks of mumsy terms, it exudes realism in every paragraph and it is refreshing in its guiltless honesty. Modern first-time mothers are often alone - devoid of once traditional motherhood knowledge and pr..  More

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On Being Dyslexic

Who is the dyslexic in your life? A son or a daughter? A grandchild or a pupil? Maybe you are the dyslexic yourself? In this book, Sarah Platt takes you on the journey of her own story with dyslexia, weaving you in and out of the decades of her life. You will meet both heroes and villains. You will laugh at the funny moments and be indignant at th..  More

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Out of My Mind: Living with Bipolar

This is the story of one man's journey through the hell of mental illness and out the other side. ..  More

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Out of My Mind: Living with Manic-depression

This is the story of one man's journey through the hell of mental illness and out the other side. ..  More

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