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Book A Picture Book of Old Auckland

Download or read book A Picture Book of Old Auckland written by Stephen Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Picture Book of Old Auckland

Download or read book A Picture Book of Old Auckland written by Stephen Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shifting Grounds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucy Mackintosh
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 1988587301
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Shifting Grounds written by Lucy Mackintosh and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found. Deep histories, both natural and human, have been woven together over hundreds of years in places across Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, forming potent sites of national significance. This stunning book unearths these histories in three iconic landscapes: Pukekawa/Auckland Domain, Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill and the Ōtuataua Stonefields at Ihumātao. Approaching landscapes as an archive, Lucy Mackintosh delves deeply into specific places, allowing us to understand histories that have not been written into books or inscribed upon memorials, but which still resonate through Auckland and beyond. Shifting Grounds provides a rare historical assessment of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland's past, with findings and stories that deepen understanding of New Zealand history.

Book The Woven Flax Kete

Download or read book The Woven Flax Kete written by Angie Belcher and published by Raupo. This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rawiri's class is visiting the Whirinaki Forest and his grandmother has given him a sruffy old kete in which to collect treasures. But what treasures does she actually mean? By the end of his trip Rawiri has learnt that not all treasures can be carried in a kete.

Book The Pelican History of New Zealand

Download or read book The Pelican History of New Zealand written by Keith Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Auckland Project

Download or read book The Auckland Project written by John R. Gossage and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Auckland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Wolfe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781869415037
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Auckland written by Richard Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUCKLAND: A PICTORIAL HISTORY celebrates the colourful and diverse history of New Zealand's largest city. As the title suggests, this is a highly visual book with many of its historic photographs never having been published before. The story of Auckland is told from three different and interrelated angles: an historic overview of Auckland ; a section on the places, buildings and institutions that set Auckland apart from other New Zealand cities; and a section on a selection of Auckland's suburbs. This book will capture the unique qualities and character of Auckland, covering both the obvious and also the overlooked aspects. It will reflect the spirit and energy that have historically distinguished the development of Auckland, from its earliest humble attempts at settlement to the present sprawling and rapidly growing metropolis. Richard Wolfe is the author of 14 books, including four children's picture books. His books for adults all focus on social history and popular culture, and they include bestsellers such as KIWIANA, KIWIANA: THE SEQUEL, REMEMBER WHEN: OUR NEW ZEALAND 1900 TO 1999 and IN MY DAY: LOOKING AT NEW ZEALAND'S PAST. He is now a freelance writer, having previously been curator of display at Auckland Museum.

Book Made in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

Download or read book Made in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand written by Shelley Brunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Australian or Aotearoan/New Zealand popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making; Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.

Book Tangata Whenua

    Book Details:
  • Author : Atholl Anderson
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2015-11-19
  • ISBN : 0908321546
  • Pages : 705 pages

Download or read book Tangata Whenua written by Atholl Anderson and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is available in a reader-friendly edition, ideal for students and for bedtime reading, and a perfect gift for those whose budgets do not stretch to the illustrated edition. Maps and diagrams complement the text, along with a full set of references and the important statistical appendix. Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History was published to widespread acclaim in late 2014. This magnificent history has featured regularly in the award lists: winner of the 2015 Royal Society Science Book Prize, shortlisted for the international Ernest Scott Prize, winner of the Te Kōrero o Mua (History) Award at the Ngā Kupu ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards, and Gold in the Pride in Print Awards. The importance of this history to New Zealand cannot be overstated. Māori leaders emphatically endorsed the book, as have reviewers and younger commentators. They speak of the way Tangata Whenua draws together different strands of knowledge – from historical research through archaeology and science to oral tradition. They remark on the contribution this book makes to evolving knowledge, describing it as ‘a canvas to paint the future on’. And many comment on the contribution it makes to the growth of understanding between the people of this country.

Book Maya   Filippo Make Friends in Auckland

Download or read book Maya Filippo Make Friends in Auckland written by Alinka Rutkowska and published by Alinka Rutkowska. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Your Children on an Adventure! 2014 Mom's Choice Award Winner! This entertaining and educational picture book features two little travelers - Maya and Filippo - who love to explore the world. ˃˃˃ Would you like your children to learn about different countries and cultures in a fun way? Then the "Maya & Filippo Adventure and Education for Kids" Series will be perfect for you and your early readers. ˃˃˃ Would you like your children to get to know Auckland and make new friends? Then let Maya & Filippo show them around. ˃˃˃ Would you like your beginner readers to read award-winning books? Then pick up your copy right now!

Book A History of New Zealand Women

Download or read book A History of New Zealand Women written by Barbara Brookes and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of view of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts? That considered their lives as distinct from (though often unwillingly influenced by) those of history’s ‘great men’? In her ground-breaking History of New Zealand Women, Barbara Brookes provides just such a history. This is more than an account of women in New Zealand, from those who arrived on the first waka to the Grammy and Man Booker Prize-winning young women of the current decade. It is a comprehensive history of New Zealand seen through a female lens. Brookes argues that while European men erected the political scaffolding to create a small nation, women created the infrastructure necessary for colonial society to succeed. Concepts of home, marriage and family brought by settler women, and integral to the developing state, transformed the lives of Māori women. The small scale of New Zealand society facilitated rapid change so that, by the twenty-first century, women are no longer defined by family contexts. In her long-awaited book, Barbara Brookes traces the factors that drove that change. Her lively narrative draws on a wide variety of sources to map the importance in women’s lives not just of legal and economic changes, but of smaller joys, such as the arrival of a piano from England, or the freedom of riding a bicycle.

Book A History of Silence  A Memoir  NZ Ed

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

Book See What I Can See

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory O'Brien
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-09
  • ISBN : 9781869408435
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book See What I Can See written by Gregory O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography was invented in France in 1839 - the year before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in New Zealand. Within a few years, cameras were charting the life and times of people at this end of the planet. See What I Can See is a celebration of that remarkable, well-travelled, ever-changing invention - the camera - the New Zealand that it captured, and the artists who wielded it. See What I Can See is a book about darkness and light, about careful planning and doing things on the spur of the moment, about the quickness of digital photography and the slowness of old technology. It's a woman driving a tractor and a kid in a Colgate tube, a rock at Ngauruhoe and a Wahine survivor on a truck, it's surfies and selfies and cabbages the size of kings. The book also presents a picture of a country - Aotearoa New Zealand - living its life, dreaming its dreams and taking care of its day-to-day business. See What I Can See is an introduction to New Zealand photography that will appeal to young and curious photographers, students of New Zealand art history, or anyone who wants to sample the extraordinary range of images made in this country by our photographers.

Book The Shark God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rafe Martin
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780590395007
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book The Shark God written by Rafe Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafe Martin and David Shannon reunite in this folktale interpretation of a dramatic flood myth set amidst the unmatched beauty of the Hawaiian Islands. In a country whose ruler is cruel and whose people are hardened, two children remain warm-hearted and exuberant. One day after freeing a shark trapped in the shallows, the children are so excited that they touch the King's forbidden drum. They are thrown into prison, and no one will listen to their parents' pleas for mercy. So, at great risk, they go to the Shark God himself, and he takes retribution, causing a great flood that leaves only the good family behind, and clears the way for a better, kinder future.

Book The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand

Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand written by Keith Sinclair and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing one thousand years of history to life, this is an illustrated history of New Zealand from the settlement by Polynesians to the present day. The book covers the period of colonisation after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the wars between the Maori and the British Army of the 1860s, the beginning of party government in the 1890s, votes for women in 1893, fighting in South Africa and Europe, the Depression, the Maori drift to towns, the influx of Pacific Islanders, and the economic reforms since the fourth Labour Government. Each chapter has been written by an acknowledged expert in his or her field, and a new chapter by Dr Jack Vowles brings the book fully up to date.

Book Reading Picture Books with Children

Download or read book Reading Picture Books with Children written by Megan Dowd Lambert and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert's graduate work in children's literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime and getting kids to think with their eyes. Traditional storytime often offers a passive experience for kids, but the Whole Book approach asks the youngest of readers to ponder all aspects of a picture book and to use their critical thinking skills. Using classic examples, Megan asks kids to think about why the trim size of Ludwig Bemelman's Madeline is so generous, or why the typeset in David Wiesner's Caldecott winner,The Three Pigs, appears to twist around the page, or why books like Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar are printed landscape instead of portrait. The dynamic discussions that result from this shared reading style range from the profound to the hilarious and will inspire adults to make children's responses to text, art, and design an essential part of storytime.

Book A Is for Auckland

Download or read book A Is for Auckland written by Diane Newcombe and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful alphabet picture book about Auckland, with lively illustrations of landmarks from the entire Auckland area. It covers natural landmarks like Rangitoto, the Waitakeres and various coastlines; man-made landmarks such as the Sky Tower, the Civic theatre, the zoo and Jellicoe Park - to name just a few. It also has a terrific geographic spread, as well as cultural. It's a stunning representation of Auckland in all its glory and will appeal to locals as well as visitors. With its excellent illustrations this book makes a great gift for young and old.