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Stardust and Substance: The New Zealand General Election of 2017

Stardust and Substance captures some of the magic of Jacinda Ardern’s extraordinary seven-and-a-half weeks’ campaign, defeating a National government in power for nine years.The story of her sensational achievement – with ‘relentless positivity’ and a ‘Let’s do this’ attitude – is told in this book by multiple authors, including Jacinda Ardern hers..

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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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Statistical investigations | Te tūhuratanga tauanga

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Statistical Investigations | Te Tūhuratanga Tauanga thread in Te Marautanga o Aotearoa (TMoA) and The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC). It collates research and best practice in the area from Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally, and shows the development of statistical concepts that form the found..

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Sticking with Pigs

Uncle Jeremy has been helping the family out for a while now, by dropping off meat he’s shot. The offer to go hunting sounds great to fourteen-year-old Wolf … a chance to get away from the family stress. But this hunting trip proves to be more than he bargained for. 10+ fiction..

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Surveillance

Journalist Grace Marks, needing a story to boost her career and finances, is intrigued by a surge in minor crime in New Zealand suburbs. She discovers it’s organised, but why? Her investigations lead her to Will Manilow, CEO of Erebus Optics, whose security company uses innovative technology from America.Manilow’s business is booming but he’s suspi..

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Survive! Remarkable Tales from the New Zealand Outdoors

Humans cannot survive more than three minutes without air; more than three hours exposed to extreme low-temperature; more than three days without water; more than three weeks without food. New Zealanders love exploring the outdoors, but when things go wrong, why do some people survive and some don't?Using true tales of survival, including the sailo..

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Swallows’ Adventures in the Med

Swallows’ Adventures in the Med shares the stories of our adventures and exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean, over four summer seasons. We had long planned to spend a while exploring the Med, and after 40+ years sailing and voyaging in other parts of the world concluded the time had come! We found that we enjoyed our earlier voyages ..

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Sweat and Salt Water

 On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa’s death precipitated an extraordinary outpouring of grief unmatched in the Pacific studies community since Epeli Hau‘ofa’s passing in 2009. Mourners referenced Teaiwa’s nurturing interactions with numerous students and colleagues,..

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Tackling Depression and Bullying

Depression is a problem for many people in New Zealand, affecting approximately one in ten Kiwis. This book focuses on my personal experience with depression and strategies I have used to manage it. It is my hope that by reading this book, anyone who is struggling with depression can use the strategies I have outlined to improve their lives and ..

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Take Your Space: Successful Women Share their Secrets

Never has there been a better time in history for women to come together as we learn to live, work and respond in our new world order. 'Take Your Space' is an essential resource drawn from 16 diverse and successful women who want to help you to take one step forward; a step towards success. Eight chapters, two authors, one purpose. To get you to ta..

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Taking Charge

Since the 1990s, individuals have been told that, "it is up to you to manage your own career". Most of us think we have managed our career, or have we? Most of us follow a 'Line of least resistance' in our career choices, and are easily fooled by the milestones along our career. Frequently self-seducing ourselves into thinking into what we believe ..

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Talking Baby: Helping your child discover language

In this fascinating and informative book, Margaret Maclagan and Anne Buckley – two specialists in children’s language development – explain the subtle and extraordinary process in which children learn to talk and the very important role that parents and grandparents can play.Combining a comprehensive understanding of speech development with fascina..

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Talking Past Each Other

Where numbers of different cultural groups come together, misunderstandings and tensions can arise, even where there is the greatest goodwill on both sides. In this book the authors set out to explore the situations and contexts in which cross cultural misunderstandings can occur. ..

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Tane’s War

In 1953, Briar is a dreamer whose behaviour sees him sent to a training farm to be turned into a man. The plan backfires when his arrival awakens feelings in Aussie, the assistant shearer.Tane, now an elderly foreman on the farm, recognises the connection for what it is, seeing in the two boys, a mirror of his past. When the boys’ relationship is e..

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Tarquin the Honest: The Hand of Glodd

Tarquin the Honest, Wizard of the Silver Weasel, is a liar, a coward, a charlatan and a cheat. And, according to his diminutive roguish sidekick Lunar Nix, those are his most endearing qualities.On a perilous quest to recover The Golden Gauntlet for a mysterious patron, Tarquin and his band of unlikely warriors must navigate the terrors of the Sorr..

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Tauhou

An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. Dear grandmother, I am writing this song for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land.Tauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set o..

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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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Te aotūroa tātaki: Inclusive early childhood education (2nd ed.)

Addressing how teachers and policy makers can work for inclusion with diverse children and families, this book focuses on the development of positive attitudes to difference, diversity, and inclusion in the early years. It suggests ways to identify, reduce, and eliminate barriers to learning and participation in early childhood communities. By enga..

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Te Ata Kura: The Red-Tipped Dawn

In this new collection of poetry, Apirana Taylor leads the reader through local landscapes, introducing contemporary and historical figures whose lives have touched his own. He also goes beyond Aotearoa’s shores to comment on issues of our wider world and society. His themes are universal – the brevity of life, the fragility of nature, the chaos o..

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Te Kaihau

Te Kaihau | The Windeater was launched at the inaugural New Zealand Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in March 1986, four months after The Bone People won the 1985 Booker Prize.These 20 stories were written over more than a decade and range from widely anthologised classics like the novella-length ‘Te Kaihau’ itself, ‘Hooks and Feelers’ and ‘O..

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Te Kotahitanga

Te Kotahitanga: Towards effective education reform for indigenous and other minoritised students This is the inside story of an indigenous education success story. Te Kotahitanga is a theory based programme that has made a positive difference to the educational experience and achievement of Māori students in mainstream schools in Aotearoa Ne..

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Te Mauri o Te Whare

A collection of essays pertaining to Māori teaching, learning, place, history, and literature.Ko te uhi o tēnei pukapuka Te Mauri o Te Whare he mea hanga, he mea whakarite kia aro ki te takoto, piri tahi ki ngā kōrero o tua, ki ngā kōrero o tēnei ao kikokiko. Ko ngā wāhanga katoa o tēnei uhi he rite tōna āhua ki te tīpuna whare. Ko te whakaara mai ..

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Tea with the Taliban

Fascinating, highly readable tales of travels in the troubled land of Afghanistan by award-winning New Zealand travel writer Ian Robinson.In 2008, Ian Robinson ventured into the hustle and bustle and dangers of the streets of many of Afghanistan's cities and towns, and also, alone on horseback, into the sparsely populated north-eastern regions of t..

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Teachers leading inquiry for school problem solving

New Zealand schools increasingly use inquiry to understand and address complex and persistent issues. This requires schools to have committed Lead Teachers with deep knowledge about inquiry.  The collection of studies in this book have been compiled by the research team at the Woolf Fisher Research Centre, University of Auckland, to illustrate..

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