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Book Life as a Casketeer

Download or read book Life as a Casketeer written by Francis Tipene and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, as seen on Netflix* Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life as a Casketeer reveals how Francis and Kaiora grew up in families that had few possessions but were rich with love and tikanga, and how they came to work in their often misunderstood profession. It's also a book about the Maori world view and traditional funeral customs. The Tipenes make death feel less mysterious and life feel more precious. But most of all, Life as a Casketeer is a love story - for whanau, for culture and for each other. It is full of joy and sorrow, tears and laughter.

Book Tikanga

Download or read book Tikanga written by Francis Tipene and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living a fulfilling life rich with tradition, connection and te ao Maori Following on from their bestseller, Life as a Casketeer, Francis and Kaiora Tipene share how they bring the traditional values of tikanga Maori into day-to-day living, what they know about whanau, mahi and manaakitanga, and how they live a life rich with the concepts of te ao Maori Known for their warm hearts, grace and humour, the stars of the wildly popular series The Casketeers show how the traditions of tikanga shapes their lives juggling five sons, three businesses and a television show - all while sustaining a life filled with joy and connection.

Book Pacific Identities and Well Being

Download or read book Pacific Identities and Well Being written by Margaret Nelson Agee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a significant gap in the cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary literature within the field of Pasifika (Polynesian) and Maori identities and mental health, this volume focuses on bridging mental health related research and practice within the indigenous communities of the South Pacific. Much of the content reflects both differences from and relationships with the dominant Western theories and practices so often unsuccessfully applied with these groups. The contributors represent both experienced researchers and practitioners and address topics such as research examining traditional and emerging Pasifika identities; contemporary research and practice in working with Pasifika youth and adolescents; culturally-appropriate approaches for working with Pasifika adults; and practices in supervision that have been developed by Maori and Pasifika practitioners. Chapters include practice scenarios, research reports, analyses of topical issues, and discussions about the appropriateness of applying Western theory in other cultural contexts. As Pasifika cultures are still primarily oral cultures, the works of several leading Maori and Pasifika poets that give voice to the changing identities and contemporary challenges within Pacific communities are also included.

Book Corpse Care

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cody J. Sanders
  • Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
  • Release : 2023-01-03
  • ISBN : 1506471315
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book Corpse Care written by Cody J. Sanders and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume develops robust, constructive, practical ethics of corpse care that address economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns for caring for the dead.

Book Wiremu Tamihana

Download or read book Wiremu Tamihana written by Evelyn Stokes and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history, taken from his own words, of one of New Zealands most important Maori leaders. It is the most complete collection of sources and commentary surrounding the life of Wiremu Tamihana Te Waharoa Tarapipipi, rangatira of the Ngati Haua iwi, commonly referred to as The Kingmaker for his role in the institution of the Maori King Movement.

Book A Boob s Life

Download or read book A Boob s Life written by Leslie Lehr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boob’s Life explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts—or loves them. Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She’s gone from size AA to DDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she’s not alone—these are classic life stages for women today. At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob’s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today. From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr’s life-long passion. A Boob’s Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you’ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.

Book Haare Williams  Words of a Kaumatua

Download or read book Haare Williams Words of a Kaumatua written by Haare Williams and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kaumatua &– an elder of the Maori people &– reflects in poetry and prose on his journey from te ao Maori on the East Coast to contemporary Auckland, New Zealand.Ko te kopara anake e tarere ki te tihi o te makauri. Oti rawa! Kia oti rawa, e!Haare Williams grew up with his Tuhoe grandparents on the shores of Ohiwa Harbour on the East Coast of New Zealand in a te reo world of Tane and Tangaroa, Te Kooti and the old testament, myths and legends and of Nani Wai and curried cockle stew &– a world that Haare left behind when he learnt English at school and moved to the city of Auckland.Over the last half-century, through the Maori arts movement, waves of protest and the rise of Maori broadcasting, Haare Williams has witnessed and played a part in the changing shape of Maoridom. And in his poetry and prose, in te reo Maori and English, Haare has a unique ability to capture both the wisdom of te ao Maori and the transformation of that world.This book, edited and introduced by acclaimed author Witi Ihimaera, brings together the poetry and prose of Haare Williams to produce a work that is a biography of the man and his times, a celebration of a kaumatua and an exemplar of his wisdom.

Book Eat Well for Less NZ

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Van de Elzen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-02
  • ISBN : 9780143776031
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Eat Well for Less NZ written by Michael Van de Elzen and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Zealand version of Eat Well for Less was a big hit and had a huge impact on the families involved. This book gives all the recipes from series 1 and series 2, plus tips and tricks on tasty, easy and economical cooking from the hosts Michael Van de Elzen and Ganesh Raj. With nearly 70 recipes from light meals and snacks, to main meals and sweet treats - from chicken sliders to lamb moussaka or beef noodle salad to mixed berry frozen yoghurt with choc-almond topping. Includes ideas on smart shopping, nutrition, kitchen tips, and a peek at the participants from series 1 and how they fared after the cameras stopped rolling. Did the lessons they learned stick?!

Book Maori Boy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Witi Ihimaera
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2014-11-07
  • ISBN : 1869797272
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Maori Boy written by Witi Ihimaera and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling, award-winning memoir, packed with stories from the formative years of this much-loved writer. Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller — one critic calling him one of our ‘finest and most memorable’. Some of his best stories, however, are about his own life. This honest, stirring work tells of the family and community into which Ihimaera was born, of his early life in rural New Zealand, of family secrets, of facing anguish and challenges, and of laughter and love. As Ihimaera recounts the myths that formed his early imagination, he also reveals the experiences from real life that wriggled into his fiction. Alive with an inventive, stimulating narrative and vividly portrayed relatives, this memoir is engrossing, entertaining and moving, but, more than this, it is also a vital record of what it means to grow up Maori. Winner of the Ockham New Zealand Book Award 2016 for the General Non Fiction category.

Book Wild about Noosa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Wellington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-12-10
  • ISBN : 9780980294446
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Wild about Noosa written by Tony Wellington and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild About Noosa celebrates the diverse range of wildlife that resides in the Noosa area. With superb colour photographs and text by former Noosa Mayor Tony Wellington, this book is a passionate ode to a much-loved locale. Noosa has enjoyed over half a century of pioneering conservation effort, with the outcomes now evident in its remarkable biodiversity. Birds, mammals, reptiles and insects are all featured in this spectacular coffee-table, hard-cover book.

Book The Treaty of Waitangi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claudia Orange
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2015-12-21
  • ISBN : 1877242489
  • Pages : 1009 pages

Download or read book The Treaty of Waitangi written by Claudia Orange and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 by over 500 chiefs, and by William Hobson, representing the British Crown. To the British it was the means by which they gained sovereignty over New Zealand. But to Maori people it had a very different significance, and they are still affected by the terms of the Treaty, often adversely.The Treaty of Waitangi, the first comprehensive study of the Treaty, deals with its place in New Zealand history from its making to the present day. The story covers the several Treaty signings and the substantial differences between Maori and English texts; the debate over interpretation of land rights and the actions of settler governments determined to circumvent Treaty guarantees; the wars of sovereignty in the 1860s and the longstanding Maori struggle to secure a degree of autonomy and control over resources." --Publisher.

Book Impossible

Download or read book Impossible written by Stan Walker and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and important memoir about family and forgiveness, love and redemption For the first time, Stan Walker speaks with startling honesty about abuse and addiction, hardship and excess, cancer and discrimination, and growing up in a family where love and violence were horribly entwined. From one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation, Impossible is a story of redemption and the power of forgiveness. It's also a story about courage and hope; about a young Maori boy finding his place and purpose, never forgetting who he is and where he came from. PRAISE FOR IMPOSSIBLE: As a chronicle of Walker's life, it is gripping, but where the book achieves greatness - and I mean real, true greatness - is as a totem to humanity's capacity for kindness. It's an insight into the soul of a man whose capacity for forgiveness seems boundless. - Sam Brooks 'This is a can't-put-down read, direct and proud and inspirational, an honest document of life in New Zealand on the wrong side of the tracks...' - Steve Braunias 'A remarkable, improbable tale of a young Maori man (Tuhoe and Ngati Tuwharetoa) rising to greatness and finding his purpose after surviving horrific childhood abuse and countless other tragic situations.' - Sebastian van der Zwan 'Stan Walker astonished me with his masterfully structured memoir of abuse and forgiveness.' - Catherine Woulfe

Book True Red

Download or read book True Red written by Tuhoe Isaac and published by Tuhoe Bruno Isaac. This book was released on 2007 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Red is the essential biography of one man's fascinating journey from the heart of hardcore gang culture. Tuhoe 'Bruno' Isaac was a leader of one of New Zealand's most notorious gangs; the Mongrel Mob. However, the hopelessness of living the gang life saw him search for another way. A way that led to confession, forgiveness and reconciliati

Book Scotland Yardie

Download or read book Scotland Yardie written by Bobby Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With institutionalised racism at an all-time high, the Metropolitan Police embark on their yearly drive to recruit more ethnic people in the police force. With little or no success they bring over Jamaica's most feared policeman - Scotland Yardie, a ganja smoking, no-nonsense bad boy cop who breaks all the rules to enforce his own harsh sense of justice. But what happens when cultures clash? Will South London ever be the same again?

Book The Noosa Dictionary

Download or read book The Noosa Dictionary written by Phil Jarratt and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trust Me

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phil Hammond
  • Publisher : Metro Publishing, Limited
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781900512602
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Trust Me written by Phil Hammond and published by Metro Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you spot if your surgeon's a dud? Did you know that coffee-drinking lessens the risk of suicide? That amniocentesis is sometimes performed without ultrasound, putting unborn babies at risk? That one third of the 62 different sorts of artificial hip on the market have not been properly tested? That there are 15,000 practising doctors with alcohol or drug problems? That most cases of AIDS in babies are preventable?

Book NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap

Download or read book NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: