How To Listen To Pop Music (The Ginger Series 03) by Nick Bollinger

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Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Ginger Series 03 | Reading Level: very good

Nick Bollinger traces his personal voyage through pop music. An illuminating guide to pop music for the curious uninitiated, this book will also provoke and stimulate fans and fanatics. Nick Bollinger, one of New Zealand's leading rock journalists, is also a musician who has played in bands from Rough J ustice and the Pelicans to Wellington's iconic Windy City Strugglers. In How to Listen to Pop Music he traces his personal voyage through pop music, from childhood encounters with Beatlemania and the Sunset Show to today's wildly fragmented music scene. An illuminating guide to pop music for the curious uninitiated, this book will also provoke and stimulate fans and fanatics. First published 2004. Nick Bollinger is a columnist on pop music in the New Zealand Listener and presents The Sampler, reviewing new releases on National Radio. ...Show more

NZ Votes : 2002 General Election by Jonathan Boston

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Category: NZ Non Fiction

Offering perspectives from New Zealand's party officials and organisers, as well as from parliamentary candidates, this book focuses on campaigning, both nation-wide and in individual electorates. The impact of the media and of political advertising on voter perceptions and electoral choice is examined; how New Zealand parties select their candidates, and with what results, is explained; and the role of leaders in New Zealand's politics and election campaigning is described. Included are copies of the coalition agreement signed between Labour and the Progressive Coalition, the agreement signed between that coalition and its supporting party, and the subsequent accord agreed to by the coalition and the Greens. ...Show more

A Guide to the Local Government Act 2002 by Vivienne Wilson

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Category: NZ Non Fiction

This book provids a succinct overview of New Zealand's new local government regime, complete with the text of the Local Government Act 2002 for ease of reference. Local authorities in New Zealand have always gained their powers from highly prescriptive legislation. Statutes, from specific local Acts to general public Acts, have set out in detail what local authorities must do, what they can do, and even how they do things. The traditional prescriptive approach of the 1974 Act has been replaced by a principled approach. The new 2002 Act removes much of the detail about what councils can and cannot do by conferring a generalised power on all local authorities to have full capacity to do anything for the purpose of performing their role. That role is generalised as performing statutory responsibilities and giving effect, in their locality, to the purpose of local government. That purpose is to promote the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of communities, to make democratic decisions by and on behalf of those communities, in a sustainable way. The emphasis is away from local authorities as autonomous and discreet deliverers of services and towards responsive, collaborative facilitators of community outcomes. This new statutory purpose of local government underpins the more profound change. There are many other changes including important new provisions for funding infrastructure through development contributions. It is important to know that some of the existing detail in the 1974 Act remains in force in areas too complex to be reformed in the timeframe of the Local Government Act reform. This includes Parts on roads, waste management and land drainage. The Local Government Act 2002 represents a major change to the statutory basis of local government. This guide is an important starting point for working through the transitions and understanding the overall scope of the Act. ...Show more

The New Zealand Legal System: Structures and Processes by Morag McDowell

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Category: NZ Non Fiction

This is one of the “best all-round introductory” books available: New Zealand Legal System, Structures and Processes provides all the ingredients for successful law study; structures, processes, and method. The authors present and clearly explain the basic functions and qualities of law; the c oncepts are easy to access and easy to read. The Fourth Edition keeps you up to date with evolutionary and radical changes in the law, such as the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act, the creation of the Supreme Court, and developments in Treaty issues in respect of the foreshore and seabed. ...Show more

Statute Law in New Zealand 4th Edition [Handling fee and/or freight charge may apply] by J.F. Burrows

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Category: NZ Non Fiction

Statute Law in New Zealand provides a clear and comprehensive guide to statutory interpretation, preparation and drafting. It includes discussions of the Treadty of Waitangi and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. For 16 years this work has been a leading authority used by students, practitioners a nd the courts. In this fourth edition Professor Burrows is joined by Ross Carterof the Parliamentary Counsel Office in updating the developments in New Zealand statute law over the last 6 years. ...Show more

Historic Sheep Stations of New Zealand by Colin Wheeler

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Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

A glorious new edition of Colin Wheeler's seminal books on the historic sheep stations of New Zealand Between 1967 and 1972, Colin Wheeler visited 60 of New Zealand's historic sheep stations across the North and South Islands. Travelling thousands of kilometres with his wife, Phyllis, the pair went to p laces rarely seen by the outside world. It was a time when sheep farming was the most important agricultural industry in New Zealand, yet these stations remained some of the most isolated communities in the country. Colin spent month after month drawing, painting and writing about what he saw and the people he met: the interiors of old cottages, blacksmith's shops, rabbiting huts, sod-walled school houses, grand homesteads, bailing hooks, sack needles, hand shears, wool wagons, shepherds, musterers and cooks. The Wheelers forded swift and treacherous rivers, hard against the main divide; stood for days in deep snow; sat in heavy frost; encountered sea-mist, heavy dews and fierce nor'westers. Fifty years since the publication of Historic Sheep Stations of the South Island, this new edition features all three of Colin Wheeler's original books. It is a remarkable survey of our heartland and a unique record of New Zealand's back-country life. ...Show more

Doctors in Denial: The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment' by Ronald W. Jones

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Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good

When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynaecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) - later called 'the unfortunate experiment' - had been in progress for seven y ears. By the mid-1960s there was almost universal agreement among gynaecologists and pathologists worldwide that CIS was a precursor of cancer, requiring complete removal. Green, however, believed otherwise, and embarked on a study of women with CIS, without their consent, that involved merely observing, rather than definitively treating them. Many women subsequently developed cancer and some died. In 1984 Jones and senior colleagues Dr Bill McIndoe and Dr Jock McLean published a scientific paper that exposed the truth, and the disastrous outcome of Green's experiment. In a public inquiry in 1987 Judge Sylvia Cartwright observed that an unethical experiment had been carried out in large numbers of women for over 20 years. Since that time there have been attempts to cast Green's work in a more generous light. This rewriting of history has spurred Ron Jones to set the record straight by telling his personal story: a story of the unnecessary suffering of countless women, a story of professional arrogance and misplaced loyalties, and a story of doctors in denial of the truth. ...Show more