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Te Aotūroa Tātaki: inclusive early childhood education

This book addresses how practitioners and policy makers work for inclusion with diverse children and families in early childhood education. It focuses on the development of positive attitudes to difference, diversity and inclusion, and provides strategies for creating inclusive environments and quality teaching practices. The authors consider in..

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Critic and Conscience - Essays on Education

John Codd and Roy Nash lived the role of critic and conscience. During long academic careers at Massey University, they made lasting contributions to educational scholarship and to education policy and practice in this country, and they achieved international recognition for their work. John Codd was best known for his robust analysis and critiq..

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Scaling Up Education Reform

What is school reform? What makes it sustainable? Who needs to be involved? How is scaling up achieved? This book is about the need for educational reforms that have built into them, from the outset, those elements that will see them sustained in the original sites and spread to others. Using the Te Kotahitanga Project as a model the authors bra..

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Foolproof: How to find and test great business opportunties

Have you ever launched a new product or service and it flopped? Foolproof is a practical book that will help bridge the sometimes huge gap between innovation and successful commercialisation. Foolproof contains thirteen true stories of failure and success from entrepreneurs and investors from organisations including as Xero, Phil & Teds and ..

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The Music of Life: Concerto for Mankind

Every person is born with a set of natural talents – their inner composition. Knowing this composition explains why they think, feel, sense, believe, act and live the way they do. Ignoring your natural talents can make life difficult and frustrating; living in harmony with your inner composition makes success and happiness easy to achieve. Using..

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Amigas

A collaborative novel in English and in Spanish, written in New Zealand and Argentina. 2009: in Argentina, a woman prepares to travel to Italy for a funeral. In New Zealand, two friends discuss art, loss, and how to accept life as it plays out. 1969: a girl from New Zealand and another from Argentina are stranded in the airport in Rome. A friend..

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Proud Garments

A wickedly funny story of family love and betrayal which moves from the world of do-it-yourself property development in 1990s Auckland to fabric mills and fashion showrooms of Milan. Rich, comic, herat-breaking, Anderson's prose has the power to enthral. ..

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Daylight

Brian “Bad” Phelan, New Zealander and bomb disposal expert, likes to live dangerously. While on vacation on the French/Italian border in 2001, he helps to bring a body out of a rocky, wave-swept cove. The dead woman bears striking similarities to a young woman he met years ago, under mysterious circumstances, shortly before she disap..

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Wednesday To Come

In Wednesday To Come Renee takes four women of four generations in a single family and looks at how they cope with the Great Depression of the 1930's. The play is a passionate celebration of the contribution women have made to the politics of this country ..

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Foreskin's Lament

One of the most successful and well-known New Zealand plays is also compelling reading on the page. The power, humour and irony of the language all serve to illustrate a penetrating analysis of New Zealand socirty, as seen through the lens of sport. ..

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In and Out of Touch

Whakamaa is a Maori word without an English counterpart. This book investigates this central Maori cultural concept in terms of both individual experience and cultural misunderstanding. ..

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Nga Tangata Toa

Set on a marae on the East Coast in 1919 when a war weary soldier, Taneatua, returns from Europe a hero. A powerfully dramatic play of family secrest, confrontation and revenge. ..

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Jeannie Once

The third play in the trilogy that began with Wednesday to Come and Pass It On. ..

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Pass It On

The middle play in the trilogy begun by Wednesday to Come and set amongst the Waterfront Lockout of the 1950's. ..

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New Growth From Old

This book is in the first place meant to provide basic information for the many Pakeha who interact with Maori as spouses, friends, work colleagues and service providers to help them understand a family type different from theor own. ..

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Cherish

Cherish is the tale of two couples—Jess and Maeve, William and Tom—and the children they share. What happens when good intentions run up against the hard realities of human need? ..

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Daughters of Heaven

On June 22, 1954 in a secluded part of Victoria Park in Christchurch, Julirt Hulme and Pauline Parker battered Pauline's mother to death. The infamous murder, also depicted in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, arose from the passionate friendship of the two girls. ..

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Hot Water

Roger Hall's great gift for creating a setting in which a diverse group of characters are drawn together is rarely better displayed than in this play. Irresistibly funny and satrirical. ..

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Lovelock's Dream Run

This play sets the well-known events of Jack Lovelock's Berlin Olympics in parallel with a conservative boarding school in New Zealand today. ..

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Middle Age Spread

As Ian Fraser wrote in his original review of this play at the Circa Theatre in the 70's "Hall has not abandoned the conviction, inherent in Glide Time, that the short, grey dusk of the middle-class soul is the province of comedy rather than the stuff of tragedy." ..

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State of the Play

Peter Dingwall, a once successful playwright, is running a weekend course on the art of writing plays. Five - the minimum number for a course - aspiring playwrights gather with varying degrees of enthusiasm and expectation for his class in this little country town. Clare, a housewife, ambitious for social as much as artistic reason; Brian, the w..

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Shuriken

The Japanese Military Field Code was explicit: 'Japanese forces do not surrender to the enemy under any circumstances.' How then would the eight hundred or so prisoners who found themselves in the first Japanese prisoner-of-war camp anywhere in the world behave? They had been brought from the Soloman Islands to Featherstone in 1942. Six ..

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The Share Club

Eight people form a neighbourhood share club hoping to make instant money. Meetings are held turn about in their homes, and tempers flare and patience wears thin as the market fluctuates. ..

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Solo

A volume of four plays fo solo performance; THE END OF THE GOLDEN WEATHER/ TO RUSSIA, WITH LOVE/ NOT CHRISTMAS, BUT GUY FAWKES/ COURTING BLACKBIRD ..

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