New Zealand

A concise, user-friendly guide to this important legislation "The New Zealander's Guide to the Resource Management Act 1991", now in its third edition, is invaluable to anyone concerned with environmental management issues, such as planners and developers, landscape architects and farmers, local authorities and business, teachers and students, individuals and community groups. This revised edition first published July 2008.

Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive is the simple message behind this potentially life-changing book. The authors' basic premise is that retirement is notion to be banished from all sensible conversation and promotes the idea that no one should retire and no one should want to retire. Quite apart from the economic reality that our respective Governments can't possibly afford the retirement we all expected when we started our working lives. Instead they say we should look at rearranging our lives to suit our changing circumstances, but allow no room for the idea of a use-by date when we stop and vegetate - because that's when we die, usually of boredom. A hard-hitting look ... read more

This edition is out of print. A humorous study of all the words and phrases that are uniquely New Zealand's own.

<b>A fascinating new account of New Zealand in the colourful and pivotal 1830s.</b><br><br>Some of the most interesting and important events in New Zealand history took place in the 1830s. In this period the French almost beat the British to claim New Zealand, aggressive English merchants were applying pressure on the country's natural resources, and growing numbers of European settlers were beginning to demand land.<br>Meanwhile, Maori were still heavily in the majority and starting to explore commercial opportunities. But there was turmoil everywhere. Intertribal warfare raged, while many tribes were trying to decide how to accommodate t... read more

Shortlisted for the 2004 Montana NZ Book Awards, History section.<br><br>New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth.<br><br><i>The Penguin History of New Zealand</i>, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeh... read more

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This updated and re-jacketed edition reviews the latest developments in New Zealand's rich architectural history and explores the way a country's architecture reflects the spirit and aspirations of its inhabitants. First published 1991. This third edition 2003.

Like movable type, the motor car, the aircraft and the Internet, the train revolutionised the way we negotiate the world. This visual history charts the development of the train around the globe, from the atmospheric age of steam, through the evolution of diesel and electric locomotives, right up to the ultra high-speed streamlined flyers of the present day. More than just a collection of different locomotives and trains, this selection of images with accompanying commentary from Jonathan Glancey offers a fascinating insight into the ways in which the train has made an impact upon our age, from its role in industry, war and politics to its influence upon architecture and film.

The <i>Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Slang</i> is a comprehensive collection of the informal language of New Zealand. More than 3000 entries cover the astonishing range of weird and wonderful communal sayings that give Kiwispeak its distinctive flavour. Here is the most up-to-date version of the way we talk with our guards down, warts and all, displaying the good old Kiwi ingenuity that is itself an entry in this complete collection of our colourful everyday discourse. This is David McGill's fifth collection of New Zealand slang and was first published in 2003.

The New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping ...The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and non-published written material on our people in warfare. This is a soldier's book - thus letters, diaries, journalists' reports, memoirs. The focus is on actual experience and on human responses to war. A vast array of personal experiences is covered, including POWs, the home front, medical/nursing efforts, as well as coverage of conscientious objectors.