http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/newbooks/index.php History books recently added to the University of Otago library collection en-us Copyright 2007 University of Otago Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2480601 Hocken Library: UB345.N5 C665 2013 "What do Colin Meads and Carmen have in common? Or Barry Brickell, Jim Bolger, John Hawkesby, Paul Reeves and Witi Ihimaera? They all took part in compulsory military training (CMT). Just four years after the greatest war the planet had witnessed, New Zealand thought it was going to have to..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2413765 Hocken Library: CS2179 .F5279 2012 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2475424 Central Library: DS12 .M546 2012 "From Pankaj Mishra, author the successful Temptations of the West and Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image. The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, was..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2414783 Hocken Library: DU600.75 L36 2011 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2414729 Hocken Library: DU615.72.S585 A3 2011 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2485412 Hocken Library: DU483.5 .K53 2005 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:37 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2414401 Hocken Library: DU425 .S94 2012 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2414683 Hocken Library: E98.L33 L58 2012 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2274555 Hocken Library: DU455 .MJ185 "In the first half of this work, the author recounts his own experiences in the Crimean War, suggesting that his brother might have been victimised because of his own conflicts with the army..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2473644 Central Library: JC111 .S97 2012 "This book focuses on the reception of classical political ideas in the political thought of the fourteenth-century Italian writer Marsilius of Padua. Vasileios Syros provides a novel cross-cultural perspective on Marsilius's theory and breaks fresh ground by exploring linkages between his ideas and the medieval Muslim, Jewish, and..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2413624 Hocken Library: DU473.7 .M66 2012 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2414842 Hocken Library: DU720.75 .N4813 2011 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2485857 Hocken Library: DU422 S336 1910 "An album of 20 North Island and 20 South Island views. It is likely that this is a combination re-issue of photographs previously published in two separate volumes..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:37 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2471726 Central Library: F1060.94 .O54 2004 "This book explores the problems, importance, and results of comparing the Canadian and American Wests, focusing on issues relating to borders, whether they be geographical and historical, or cultural and theoretical. It is an excellent introduction to this burgeoning area of study, as it brings together a variety of disciplines..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2417466 Hocken Library: DU850.66.C768 A3 2012 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:37 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2475431 Central Library: DS119.7 .S4672 2008 "Provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine--Jimmy Carter (from cover..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2485786 Hocken Library: DU574.42 F6 2003 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:37 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2475432 Central Library: DS107.5 .S478 2010 "Raja Shehadeh is the most celebrated Palestinian writer working today. To his surprise, when researching his family history, he discovered a great uncle who had also been a writer entangled with the authorities, and who, like Raja, had dedicated his life to the freedom of the Palestinian people. Najib was..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2366340 Hocken Library: DU484.7 .F66 2012 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:35 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2484212 Hocken Library: D547.N5 L694 2011 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2485685 Hocken Library: DU483.1 .PK78 1998 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:37 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2485361 Hocken Library: DS919.7.N5 D47 2013 Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2485424 Hocken Library: DU482.1 .W54 2013 "The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island arguably boasts the greatest range of the country's natural attractions. From the warm, temperate nikau palm forests at Karamea to the cool beech forests of Haast, from the alpine heights ofArthur's Pass to the dramatic Paparoa coast, glaciers that descend into valleys..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36 http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2475435 Central Library: DS113.7 .S535 2003 "The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof tops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried..." BOOK JACKET. Friday, 17 May 2013 14:47:36