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A History of Silence: A Memoir (NZ Ed)

Author : Lloyd Jones
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1742539467
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book A History of Silence: A Memoir (NZ Ed) written by Lloyd Jones and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone by stone the basilica was being dismantled in order to be put back together again. Each stone was painted with a number and laid with care onto pallets spread over the ground . . . I kept thinking about those numbered stones. Some purpose began to take shape. I began to wonder if I might re-trace and recover something of my own past, to reassemble it in the manner of the basilica. It was a matter of looking to see if any of the original building blocks remained, and where might I find them. The 2011 earthquake that shook Christchurch to its core led Lloyd Jones to investigate his own foundations and family past. And so begins a quest to revisit what has been buried by a legacy of silence. Piecing together his own memories with clues of what has been deliberately forgotten by his parents, Jones embarks on a journey of discovery – uncovering hardships endured and sorrows kept hidden. Grandparents never spoken of or met emerge from dusty archives as he unearths lives torn apart by tragedy and unspoken mysteries. Like the city that is exposed, Jones must come to terms with a history that is not one he may have imagined. Also available as an eBook

The Penguin History of New Zealand

Author : Michael King
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1776953894
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin History of New Zealand written by Michael King and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for 20 years and has sold over 300,000 copies. It remains the definitive, yet highly readable, starting-point for anybody wanting to understand this country. 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 movements and conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Māori and Pākehā. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Māori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. Now more relevant than ever, this edition includes a Foreword by Sir Tipene O'Regan and a biographical essay on the author by Jock Phillips. PLATINUM PREMIER NEW ZEALAND BESTSELLER READERS' CHOICE AWARD 2004 MONTANA NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS NIELSEN BOOKDATA NEW ZEALAND BOOKSELLERS' CHOICE AWARD – BEST OF THE BEST, 2011

The Book of Fame

Author : Lloyd Jones
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307363848
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Fame written by Lloyd Jones and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious novel from the award-winning author of Mister Pip, now available as a trade paperback original from Vintage Canada. The Book of Fame is a lyrical semi-fictional account of the 1905 All Black rugby tour of Europe - a tour that shaped New Zealand's identity, from which the players returned to find themselves accorded almost god-like status. This remarkable, award-winning novel is both a tribute to some of the world's first sporting celebrities and an investigation into the curious workings of fame. Not just a book for lovers of sport, The Book of Fame is essentially a story about friendship and loyalty, and about a group of astonishing young men at the peak of their abilities.

Mister Pip

Author : Lloyd Jones
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459616359
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Mister Pip written by Lloyd Jones and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Matilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By his own admission he's not much of a teacher and proceeds to educate the children by reading them Great Expectations. Matilda falls in love with the novel, strongly identifying with Pip. The promise of the next chapter is what keeps her going; Pip's story protects her from the horror of what is happening around her - helicopters menacing the skies above the village and rebel raids on the ground. When the rebels visit the village searching for any remaining men to join their cause, they discover the name Pip written in the sand and instigate a search for him. When Pip can't be found the soldiers destroy the book. Mr Watts then encourages the children to retell the story from their memories. Then when the rebels invade the village, the teacher tells them a story which lasts seven nights, about a boy named Pip, and a convict . . .

Purple Prose

Author : Liz Byrski
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1925163113
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Purple Prose written by Liz Byrski and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen Australian women writers were asked to respond to the colour purple. In their hands, purple takes on many meanings. There are stories about Tyrian purple, a snippet of King George's coronation gown, pigeon fanciers, the Dockers' Purple Haze and their layers are explored through themes of feminism, multiculturalism, artists and aging, mothers and daughters and aunts. This is a book for women readers everywhere.

Postcolonial Life Narratives

Author : Gillian Whitlock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199560633
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Life Narratives written by Gillian Whitlock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. Postcolonial Life Narrative draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, from slave narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Palestine, North America, and India, this study follows texts on the move through adaptation, appropriation, and remediation. For postcolonial subjects life narrative offers extraordinary opportunities to present accounts of social injustice and oppression, of violence and social suffering. Testimonial narrative can reach across cultures to produce intimate attachments between those who testify and those who bear witness to legacies of apartheid, slavery, rape warfare, genocide, and dispossession. Thresholds of testimony are subject to change and for some, for example refugees and asylum seekers, opportunities to engage a witnessing public and inspire campaigns for social justice on their behalf are curtailed--these are the 'ends of testimony'. The production, circulation, and reception of testimonial life narrative connects directly to the most fundamental questions of who counts as human, what rights follow from this, and what makes for grievable life. Postcolonial life narrative is a dynamic field of literature and criticism, and this book presents a series of proximate readings that outline its distinctive imaginative geographies.

The Cage

Author : Lloyd Jones
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925603229
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Cage written by Lloyd Jones and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • From the bestselling author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel, Mister Pip • Lloyd Jones brings his trademark lush and evocative language to this powerful allegorical tale about humanity and dignity and the ease with which we justify brutality • The Cage is a strange and confronting story about the treatment of two homeless and stateless men living in a cage in the grounds of a hotel • The two men are assigned an observer who treats them with cool dispassion and reports back to a committee. Occasionally he gifts them random objects like a plate warmer or a tree branch expecting them to be grateful • Everyone is curious to know where they came from and what happened to them but the men will not, or cannot say • With the same sensitivity seen in Hand Me Down World, Lloyd Jones goes to the heart of one of the most difficult and important issues facing humanity today.

A Question of Adoption

Author : Anne Else
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1991033370
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Adoption written by Anne Else and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Question of Adoption gives a richly detailed, immensely readable account of the ideology and practice of closed stranger adoption in New Zealand, from pregnancy through to the final adoption order and its aftermath. Anne Else’s scrupulous, moving narrative explores social and moral attitudes towards ‘unmarried mothers’, ‘unwanted children’ and ‘childless couples’ during the 1950s and 1960s. She shows how the resulting system took shape, how it worked (or failed to work), and its lifelong effects on everyone involved, then sets out how and why change began to occur. This new e-book edition, written with Maria Haenga-Collins, includes seven ground-breaking new chapters providing a comprehensive account of creating and transferring children through the related processes of adoption, state care, donor conception and surrogacy. It details how so many Māori children were and still are cut off from their whānau and whakapapa through adoption and state care, both stemming from racist colonial ideology, and how the Adoption Act 1955 came to be seen as glaringly at odds with contemporary concepts of children’s rights and best interests. It examines New Zealand’s complex history of using ‘third parties’ to create children through reproductive technology, and the lengthy unresolved debates over regulation. The final chapter looks at local and global risks now facing human reproduction, connection, and reproductive justice.

Culture and Identity in New Zealand

Author : David Novitz
Publisher : Manaaki Whenua Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Identity in New Zealand written by David Novitz and published by Manaaki Whenua Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Zealand Books in Print 2004

Author : Thorpe-Bowker Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781864520552
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book New Zealand Books in Print 2004 written by Thorpe-Bowker Staff and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directory containing updated bibliographic information on all in-print New Zealand books. 33nd edition of an annual publication. The 12,500 book entries are listed by title, and there is an index to authors. Also provided are details of 975 publishers and distributors, and local agents of overseas publishers. The book trade directory includes: contacts for trade organisations, booksellers, public libraries and specialised suppliers; NZ literary awards and past winners; and sources of financial assistance for writers and publishers.

The academy

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand

Author : New Zealand. Parliament. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of the Libraries

Author : Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, N.S.W.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Libraries written by Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, N.S.W. and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Penguin History of New Zealand

Author : Michael King
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459623754
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin History of New Zealand written by Michael King and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges in an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.

Different Lives

Author : Hans Renders
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004434976
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Different Lives written by Hans Renders and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed biographies are almost always written by British or American biographers. But what is the state of the art of biography in other parts of the world? Introduced by Richard Holmes, the volume Different Lives offers a global perspective: seventeen scholars vividly describe the biographical tradition in their countries of interest. They show how biography functions as a public genre, featuring specific societal issues and opinion-making. Indeed, the volume aims to answer the question: how can biography contribute to a better understanding of differences between societies and cultures? Special attention is given to the US, China and the Netherlands. Other contributions are on Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and South Africa. "This book represents a much needed breakdown of the history and current status of Biography Studies throughout the world. Any educator teaching a course in higher education that includes Biography Studies should definitely consider this as a major text for inclusion." Billy Tooma, film maker and Assistant Professor, Wessex County College "The rise of biography is the literary event of our time; Hamilton and Renders are its pioneer scholars, and their compelling primer is a must read." Joanny Moulin, Institut Universitaire de France, on Nigel Hamilton and Hans Renders, in: The ABC of Modern Biography (2018) See inside the book

Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Author : Angela Carstensen
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 083899315X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Outstanding Books for the College Bound written by Angela Carstensen and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.

What Is Public History Globally?

Author : Paul Ashton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350033278
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book What Is Public History Globally? written by Paul Ashton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence. This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History Globally? provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which ordinary people become active participants in historical processes and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage studies.