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Business & Economics

In Stormy Seas
The Post-War New Zealand Economy
Brian Easton
paperback, 344 pages, ISBN 1 877133 08 6, $39.95

Employment Relations
New Zealand and Abroad

A.J. Geare & F.J. Edgar
paperback, 389 pp, ISBN 978 1 877372 43 8, $60

The Watchdog
New Zealand’s Audit Office 1840 to 2008
David Green & John Singleton
hardback, 208 pp, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 877372 73 5, $59.95

Working on the Edge
A Portrait of Business in Dunedin

Edited by Kerr Inkson, Victoria Browning, Jodyanne Kirkwood
Paperback, 240 x 170 mm, 272 pp, ISBN 978 1 877372 53 7, $40.00

Doing Well & Doing Good
Ross & Glendining: Scottish Enterpise in New Zealand

S.R.H Jones
paperback, 300 pages approx, b/w photographs, ISBN 978 1 877372 74 2, $49.95 / £24.50 UK

 

Ethnic & Indigenous Studies

Tarara
The cultural politics of Croat and Maori identity in New Zealand

Senka Bozic-Vrbancic
paperback, 235 x 155 mm, 240 pages, ISBN 978 1 877372 09 4, $49.95

Indian Settlers
The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community

Jacqueline Leckie
Hardback, 255 x 190mm, 192pp approx., ISBN 978 1877372 50 6, $49.95

India in New Zealand
Local Identities, Global Relations
Edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
235 x 155 mm, 264 pp approx, tables, cartoons
ISBN 978 1 877372 85 8 , $49.95 approx

Tsugaru
Regional Identity on Japan's Northern Periphery

Nanyan Guo, Seiichi Hasegawa, Hidemichi Kawanishi, Kanako Kitahara Henry Johnson, Anthony Rausch
paperback, 160 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877372 08 0, $49.95

Indigenous Identity and Resistance
Researching the Diversity of Knowledge
Edited by Brendan Hokowhitu et al.
paperback, 264 pp, b/w photographs
ISBN 978 1 877372 83 4, $45.0, in-store: 6 July 2010

The Politics of Indigeneity
Challenging the State in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand

Roger Maaka and Augie Fleras
paperback, 352 pages, ISBN 1 877276 53 7, $49.95

Decolonizing Methodologies
Research and Indigenous Peoples
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
paperback, 208 pages, ISBN 1 877133 67 1, $39.95

 

Cultural History

The Pavlova Story
A slice of New Zealand’s culinary history
Helen Leach
paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 978 1 877372 57 5, $40.00

The Twelve Cakes of Christmas
An evolutionary history, with recipes
Helen Leach, Mary Browne, Raelene Inglis
Hardback, 240 x 170 mm, 192 pp approx, b/w and colour throughout, ISBN 978 1 877578 19 9, $40.00 / £24.50 UK

New Zealanders at Home
A Cultural History of Domestic Interiors 1814-1914

Anna K.C. Petersen
paperback, 160 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 14 6, $49.95

In the Paddock and On the Run
The Language of Rural New Zealand
Dianne Bardsley
Paperback, 464 pp, b/w photographs
ISBN 978 1 877372 72 8, $50.00 / £24.50 UK

Piano Forte
Stories and Soundscapes from Colonial New Zealand

Kistine Moffat
Music history/Cultural history/History of the Piano
240 x 148 mm, pb, 240 pp, b/w and colour, ISBN 978 1 877372 79 7, $45.00 / 29.50 UK

Early New Zealand Photography
Images and Essays

Edited by Erika Wolf and Angela Wanhalla
Paperback, 208 pp, colour, ISBN 978 1 877578 16 8, $50.00 / £29.50 UK

 

General

Disputed Histories
Imagining New Zealand's Pasts

Edited by Tony Ballantyne & Brian Moloughney
History, NZ
paperback, 288 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877372 16 1, $49.95

William Colenso
His Life and Journeys
Edited by Ian St George
Paperback, 500 pp approx, ISBN 978 1 877578 15 1, $60 approx, forthcoming

Give Your Thoughts Life
William Colenso's Letters to the Editor

Edited by Ian St George
Paperback, 500 pp approx, ISBN 978 1 877578 14 4, $60

History of New Zealand and its Inhabitants
Dom Felice Vaggioli translated by John Crockett
paperback, 340 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 52 3, $49.95

Promised New Zealand
Fleeing Nazi Persecution
Freya Klier translated by Jenny Rawlings
paperback, 256 pp, b/w photographs
ISBN 978 1 877372 76 6, $45.00

Eyewitness
A Memoir of Europe in the 1930s

Geoffrey Cox
paperback, 288 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 70 1, $39.95

Defence of Madrid
A Classic Account of the Spanish Civil War

Geoffrey Cox
Paperback, 230 x 150 mm, 206pp,
ISBN 978 1 877372 38 4, $39.95

Tuhituhi
William Hodges, Cook's Painter in the South Pacific

Laurence Simmons
Hardback, 240 x 170 mm, 352 pp, b/w and colour throughout, ISBN 978 1 877578 17 5
$60 / £34.50

 

Landscape

Landscape/Community
Perspectives from New Zealand History

Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Judith A. Bennett
paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 1 877372 06 4, $39.95

The Land Girls
In a Man's World, 1939-1946

Dianne Bardsley
paperback, 170 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 94 9, $39.95

The Real McKay
The Remarkable Life of Alexander McKay, Geologist
Graham Bishop
Paperback, 256pp, illustrated
ISBN 978 1 877372 22 3, RRP $45.00

Unearthly Landscapes
New Zealand's Old Cemeteries

Stephen Deed
paperback, 240 x 170 mm, 176 pp approx, illustrated
ISBN 978 1 877372 35 3, $35 approx (forthcoming, 2010)

Common Ground?
Heritage and Public Places in New Zealand

Edited by Alexander Trapeznik
paperback, 172 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 91 4, $39.95

Living Space
Towards Sustainable Settlements in New Zealand
Edited by Claire Freeman & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
paperback, 240 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 45 6, $49.95

Living Together
Towards Inclusive Communities

Edited by Claire Freeman & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
paperback, 240 pages, ISBN 1 877372 29 3, $39.95

Beyond the Scene
Landscape and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand
Edited by Janet Stephenson, Mick Abbott and Jacinta Ruru
paperback, 244 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 877372 81 0, $45.00 / £18.50 UK

Making Our Place: Exploring land-use tensions in Aotearoa New Zealand
Co-edited by Jacinta Ruru, Janet Stephenson and Mick Abbott
paperback, 240 x 170 mm, 240 pp, b/w photographs ISBN 978 1 877372 88 9, $45.00 / £18.50 UK, in stores July 2011

Quarantine!
Protecting New Zealand at the Border

Gavin McLean and Tim Shoebridge
hardback, 192 pages approx, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 877372 82 7, $45.95

Our Islands, Our Selves
A History of Conservation in New Zealand

David Young
hardback, 304 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 94 4, $59.95

 

Law and Government

Adventures in Democracy
A History of the Vote in New Zealand

Neill Atkinson
paperback, 192 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 58 8, $39.95

Rewarding Service
A History of the Government Superannuation Fund

Neill Atkinson
paperback, 152 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 22 7, $39.95

'Rats and Revolutionaries'
The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand, 1890–1940

James Bennett
paperback, 176 pages, ISBN 1877276 49 9, $39.95

More than Law and Order
Policing a Changing Society 1946-1992

Susan Butterworth
hardback, 400 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 99 5, $49.95

The Law of Research
A Guide
Dawson, John & Nicola Peart (editors)
paperback, 256 pages, ISBN 1 877276 50 2, $49.95

Edward Eyre, Race and Colonial Governance
Julie Evans
paperback, 208 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877372 07 2, $39.95

Class, Gender and the Vote
Historical Perspectives from New Zealand

Edited by Miles Fairburn & Erik Olssen
paperback, 288 pages, ISBN 1 877372 02 1, $45.00

Dangerous Enthusiasms
E-Government, Computer Failure and Information System Development

Robin Gauld & Shaun Goldfinch
paperback,160 pp, ISBN-10 1 877372 34 X
(ISBN-13 978 1 877372 34 6), $39.95

The Governors
New Zealand's Governors and Governors-General

Gavin McLean
hardback, 416 pages, 16 in colour
ISBN 978 1 877372 25 4, $59.95

Amongst Friends
Australian and New Zealand Voices from America

Edited by Patty O'Brien & Bruce Vaughn
paperback, 288 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 93 6, $49.95

The Prickly Pair
Making Nationalism in Australia and New Zealand
Denis McLean
paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 1 877276 47 2, $49.95

Colonial Discourses
Niupepa Maori 1855-1863

Lachy Paterson
paperback, 230 x 150 mm, 192 pp, ISBN-10 1 877372 26 9
(ISBN-13 978 1 877372 26 1), $39.95

Psychology and Family Law
A New Zealand Perspective
Edited by M-E Pipe & Fred Seymour
paperback, 176 pages, ISBN 1 877133 22 1, $39.95

Lenin's Legacy Down Under
New Zealand's Cold War

Edited by Alexander Trapeznik & Aaron Fox
paperback, 248 pages, ISBN 1 877276 90 1, $39.95

The Politics and Government of New Zealand
G.A. Wood & Chris Rudd
paperback, 320 pages, ISBN 1 877276 46 4, $49.95

Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament
G.A. Wood
paperback, 120 pages, ISBN 1 877133 00 0, $24.95

Maori History

Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori
James Herries Beattie, edited by Atholl Anderson
paperback, 640 pages, illustrated, ISBN 0 908569 79 3, $59.95

The Welcome of Strangers
An Ethnohistory of Southern Maori, 1650-1850
Atholl Anderson
hardback, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 59 0, $39.95

Colonial Discourses
Niupepa Maori 1855-1863

Lachy Paterson
paperback, 230 x 150 mm, 192 pp, ISBN-10 1 877372 26 9
(ISBN-13 978 1 877372 26 1), $39.95

I whanau au ki Kaiapoi
The story of Natanahira Waruwarutu, as recorded by Thomas Green

Te Maire Tau
Paperback with flaps, 230 x 155 mm, 112 pp, ISBN 978 1 877578 12 0, $30 / £18.50 UK

Nga Pikituroa o Ngai Tahu
Oral Traditions of Ngai Tahu
Rawiri Te Maire Tau
paperback, 336 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 27 8, $49.95 (OP)

 

Otago

Nurse to the Imagination
50 Years of the Burns Fellowship
Edited by Lawrence Jones
paperback, 265 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 877372 65 0, $45.00

No Idle Rich
The Wealthy of Canterbury & Otago, 1840–1914
Jim McAloon
paperback, 232 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 23 5, $39.95

Kiwitown’s Port
The Story of Oamaru Harbour
Gavin McLean
Paperback, 152pp ISBN 978 1 877372 63 6, RRP $40.00

Dunedin
History, Heritage and Ecotourism

Gavin McLean
paperback, 64 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 61 8, $19.95

Oamaru
History and Heritage

Gavin McLean
paperback, 64 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 34 0, $19.95

Anatomy of a Medical School
A history of medicine at the University of Otago, 1875-2000
Dorothy Page
hardback, 400 pages, ISBN 978 1 877372 24 7, $59.95

Ka Taoka Hakena
Treasures from the Hocken Collections

Edited by Stuart Strachan and Linda Tyler
Hardback, 240 x 210mm, 240 pp, ISBN 978 1 877372 40 7, $65.00

John Larkins Cheese Richardson
'The Gentlest, Bravest and Most Just of Men'

Olive Trotter
paperback, 208 pp approx, b/w photos ISBN 978 1 877578 01 4, $45.00 approx

How to Do Local History: Research, write, publish
A guide for historians and clients

Gavin McLean
paperback, 96 pages, black and white illustrations, ISBN-10 1 877372 41 2, ISBN-13 978 1 877372 41 4, $24.95

The Far Downers
Julia Bradshaw
paperback, 152 pp, b/w photographs, ISBN 978 1877276 07 1, $34.99

 

Public Health

'Unfortunate Folk'
Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863–1992

Edited by Barbara Brookes & Jane Thomson
paperback, 304 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 09 X, $39.95

Pickerill
Pioneer in Plastic Surgery, Dental Education and Dental Research

Harvey Brown
hardback, 271 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 877372 46 9, $49.95

Anatomy of a Medical School
A history of medicine at the University of Otago, 1875-2000
Dorothy Page
hardback, 400 pages, ISBN 978 1 877372 24 7, $59.95

Borderland Practices
Regulating Alternative Therapies in New Zealand
Kevin Dew
paperback, 176 pages, ISBN 1 877276 52 9, $39.95

Understanding Health Inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Edited by Kevin Dew and Anna Matheson
paperback, 240 pages, ISBN 978 1 877372 599, $45.00

Continuity Amid Chaos
Health Care Management and Delivery in New Zealand

Edited by Robin Gauld
paperback, 304 pages, ISBN 1 877276 51 0, $49.95

The Hong Kong Public Health Sector
Development and Change

Robin Gauld & Derek Gould
paperback, 192 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 29 4, $39.95

A Gift of Stories
Discovering How to Deal with Mental Illness

Gathered by Julie Leibrich
paperback, 192 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 83 3, $39.95

Folding Back the Shadows
A Perspective on Women's Mental Health

Edited by Sarah Romans
paperback, 280 pages, ISBN 1 877133 49 3, $39.95

The Life of Brian
Masculinities, Sexualities and Health in New Zealand
Edited by Heather Worth, Anna Paris & Louisa Allen
paperback, 204 pages, ISBN 1 877276 25 1, $39.95

 

Pacific History

Vastly Ingenious
The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture
Edited by Atholl Anderson, Kaye Green and Foss Leach
hardback, 319 pages, illus., ISBN 978 1 877372 45 2, $59.95

Fiona Pardington: The Pressure of Sunlight Falling
Edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin
hardback with dustjacket, 160 pp, colour throughout ISBN 978 1 877578 09 0, $120 approx / £49.99 UK, June 2011

Body Trade
Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific
Edited by Barbara Creed & Jeanette Hoorn
paperback, 298 pages, ISBN 1 877276 12 X, $39.95

Bitter Sweet
Indigenous Women in the Pacific
Edited by Alison Jones, Phyllis Herda & Tamasailau Suaalii
paperback, 160 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 87 6, $39.95

Money Makes You Crazy
Custom and Change in the Solomon Islands
Ross McDonald
paperback, 96 pages, ISBN 1 877276 44 8, $29.95

Hiapo
Past and Present in Niuean Barkcloth

John Pule and Nicholas Thomas
hardback, 160 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877372 00 5, $59.95

Travels in Oceania
Dr Louis Thiercelin, translated by Christiane Mortelier
paperback, 352 pages, illustrated, ISBN 0 908569 71 8, $34.95


Religion

Gathering for God: George Brown in Oceania by Helen Bethea Gardner. Otago University PressGathering for God
George Brown in Oceania

Helen Bethea Gardner
paperback,208 pp, ISBN 1 877372 18 8, $39.95

Outspoken: Coming out in the Anglican church of Aotearoa New Zealand
Liz Lightfoot
paperback, 218 pp, ISBN 978 1 877578 08 3, NZ$40.00, 18.50 UK approx, May 2011

A Religious Atheist?
Critical essays on the work of Lloyd Geering

Edited by Raymond Pelly & Peter Stuart
paperback, 206 pages, ISBN-13 978 1 877372 37 7, $39.95 (OP in NZ)

Building God's Own Country
Historical Essays on Religion in New Zealand

Edited by John Stenhouse & Jane Thomson
paperback, 272 pages, ISBN 1 877276 92 8, $39.95

God & Government
The New Zealand Experience
Edited by John Stenhouse & Rex Ahdar
paperback, 146 pages, ISBN 1 877133 80 9, $39.95 (OP in NZ)

 

 

Sociology

Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives, edite by Barbara Brookes and Dorothy Page. Otago University PressCommunities of Women
Historical Perspectives

Edited by Barbara Brookes & Dorothy Page
paperback, 232 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 31 6, $39.95

Past Judgement
Social Policy in New Zealand History

Edited by Bronwyn Dalley & Margaret Tennant
paperback, 288 pages, ISBN 1 877276 57 X, $39.95

Shifting Centres
Women and Migration in New Zealand History

Edited by Lyndon Fraser & Katie Pickles
paperback, 216 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 32 4, $39.95

A Distant Shore
Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement

Edited by Lyndon Fraser
paperback, 196 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 97 3, $39.95

Castles of Gold
A History of New Zealand’s West Coast Irish

Lyndon Fraser
ISBN 978 1 877372 44 5, paperback, 203 pp., RRP $39.95

British Capital, Antipodean Labour
Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915–1951

Anna Green
paperback, 204 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877133 99 X, $39.95

Touchy Subject
Teachers Touching Children
Edited by Alison Jones
paperback, 128 pages, ISBN 1 877276 02 2, $34.95

Gothic NZ
The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture
Edited by Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn, Mary Paul
paperback, 240 x 170 mm, 175pp
ISBN-10 1 877372 23 4, ISBN-13 978 1 877372 23 0, $39.95

Sexuality Down Under
Social and Historical Perspectives

Edited by Allison Kirkman and Pat Moloney
paperback, 230 x 150 mm, 304 pages, ISBN 1 877372 10 2, $39.95

Politics in the Playground
The world of early childhood in New Zealand
Helen May
paperback, 210 x 148 mm, 368 pp,
ISBN 978 1 877372 68 1, $49.95 / £21.50 UK

'I am five and I go to school'
Early Years Schooling in New Zealand, 1900–2010

Helen May
paperback, 210 x 170 mm, 320 pp approx, b/w and colour throughout, ISBN 978 1 877372 86 5, $49.95 approx, in stores May 30 2011

No Idle Rich
The Wealthy of Canterbury & Otago, 1840–1914
Jim McAloon
paperback, 232 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 877276 23 5, $39.95

On the Left
Essays on Socialism in New Zealand

Edited by Pat Moloney & Kerry Taylor
paperback, 262 pages, ISBN 1 877276 19 7, $39.95

Class and Occupation: The New Zealand Reality by Erik Olssen and Maureen Hickey. Otago Univeristy PressClass and Occupation
The New Zealand Reality

Erik Olssen & Maureen Hickey
paperback, 320 pages, ISBN 1 877372 03 X, $45.00

An Accidental Utopia?
Social Mobility and the Foundations of an Egalitarian Society, 1880–1940
Erik Olssen, Clyde Griffen & Frank Jones
paperback, 300 pp approx, b/w photographs ISBN 978 1 877372 64 3, $49.95 approx

Psychology and Family Law
A New Zealand Perspective
Edited by M-E Pipe & Fred Seymour
paperback, 176 pages, ISBN 1 877133 22 1, $39.95

Tackling Rugby Myths
Rugby and New Zealand Society, 1854–2004

Greg Ryan
paperback, 256 pages approx, ISBN 1 877276 97 9 , $39.95

Children as Citizens? International Voices
Childwatch International Citizenship Study Group
Edited by Nicola J. Taylor & Anne B. Smith
paperback, 235 x 155 mm, pp, tables and diagrams
ISBN 978 1 877372 62 9, RRP $45.00 / £ 19.50 UK