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Book Confessions of Richard Burgess

Download or read book Confessions of Richard Burgess written by Richard Burgess and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1983 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ideal Society and Its Enemies

Download or read book The Ideal Society and Its Enemies written by Miles Fairburn and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging and provocative study of the nature of settler society in 19th-century New Zealand, Fairburn focuses on the lives of the common people and presents a rigorous and original description of the place and time which is radically different from those of previous historians. An important book that will have a major impact on our understanding of New Zealand's past, it is also a significant contribution to the study of new societies.

Book Confessions of an Alien Hunter

Download or read book Confessions of an Alien Hunter written by G. Seth Shostak and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News that would change the world -- Inklings of ET -- Why would anyone believe they're out there? -- Could they be here? -- Turning ears to the skies -- Eureka -- Beyond gray and hairless.

Book Urban Social Capital

Download or read book Urban Social Capital written by Gregory W. Streich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a kaleidoscopic view of the norms and forms of contemporary city life, focusing especially on the processes of social capital (de)formation in the urban milieu. It brings together studies from highly diverse urban settings, such as squatter re-settlement projects in Kathmandu, urban funeral societies in Africa, an HIV/AIDS community in Los Angeles, the poor of Harare, pensioners in Shanghai, Maori gangs in Auckland, and a Roma boxing club in Prague, among others. Contributors draw on contemporary theory and research in social capital, political economy, urban planning and policy, social movements, civil society and democracy to explore how social norms, networks, connections and ties are created, deployed - and often frayed - under conditions of social complexity, inequality, cultural pluralism, and the ethno-racial diversity and division characteristic of urban contexts throughout the world. In this way, the volume engages in a genuinely globalized - and globalizing - discussion of contemporary urban social life and stands as a unique and timely interdisciplinary contribution to the ever-expanding literature devoted to social capital.

Book Nearly Out of Heart and Hope

Download or read book Nearly Out of Heart and Hope written by Miles Fairburn and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the 800,000-word diary of James Cox, an itinerant labourer living in New Zealand between 1880 and 1925 ... a rare record of the daily life of a permanent member of the colonial working class"--Back cover.

Book Around The World With Mark Twain

Download or read book Around The World With Mark Twain written by Robert Cooper and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, fifty-nine years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train to Cleveland, launching a performance tour designed to alleviate his financial woes, and, more importantly, resuscitate his alter ego, Mark Twain. The journey took him to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and led to the resurrection of Twain as a celebrity. Equal parts travelogue, social history, and biography, Around the World with Mark Twain paints a decidedly different portrait of Clemens: a more tragic, darker figure who faced financial ruin and personal loss throughout his life. Around the World with Mark Twain delights while deepening our understanding of this magnificent personality.

Book Anthony Burgess

Download or read book Anthony Burgess written by Roger Lewis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviewer: "On what occasions do you lie?" Anthony Burgess: "When I write, when I speak, when I sleep." He was the last great modernist. Novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, critic, Anthony Burgess's versatility and erudition found expression in more than fifty books and dozens of musical compositions, from operas, choral works and song cycles to symphonies and concertos. Here now is a kaleidoscope of a book--the culmination of twenty years of writing and research--about a man who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the source of Stanley Kubrick's ground breaking, mind bending and prescient film. Tracking Burgess from Manchester to Malaya to Malta to Monte Carlo, Roger Lewis assesses Burgess's struggles and uncovers the web of truth and illusion about the writer's famous antic disposition. Burgess, the author argues, was just as much a literary confidence man and prankster as a consummate wordsmith. Outrageously funny, honest and touching, Anthony Burgess explores the divisions that characterize its irascible subject and his darkly comic, bleakly beautiful world of fiction.

Book Crime  Law and Justice in New Zealand

Download or read book Crime Law and Justice in New Zealand written by Greg Newbold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime, Law and Justice in New Zealand examines the recent crime trends and the social, political, and legal changes in New Zealand from the end of the twentieth century to the present. Serving as the only New Zealand–specific criminal justice text, this book takes a direct look at what is unique about the country’s criminal justice system and recent crime trends. Crime rates peaked in the early 1990s and have fallen since. Newbold considers why this happened through factors such as economy, ethnic composition, changing cultural trends, and legislative developments in policing and criminal justice. He unpacks various types of crime separately—violent crime, property crime, drug crime, gang crime, organised crime, etc.—and examines each in terms of the various complex factors affecting it, using illustrative examples from recent high-profile cases. The cover photo for Crime, Law and Justice in New Zealand was taken by Jono Rotman.

Book The Confessional  Two Sermons  Etc

Download or read book The Confessional Two Sermons Etc written by Richard BURGESS (Prebendary of St. Paul's.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bushranging Bibliography

Download or read book A Bushranging Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maori and Social Issues

Download or read book Maori and Social Issues written by Malcolm Mulholland and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maori and Social Issues is a collection of essays by experts in various fields of social sciences which collectively act as a snapshot of where Maori currently sit in relation to contemporary New Zealand society as a whole.The book is the first of a series to be published on research into the state of New Zealand�s institutions and sectors of endeavour. This first book in the series focusses on Maori and social issues; the second will focus on Maori and educational endeavour. Each essay tackles the subject as it impacts on Maori now with perspectives on likely effects and solutions into the future: Maori demographics; smoking rates; educational achievement; incarceration; parenting; mental health; obesity and poverty are analysed in detail. Key statistics, past and future trends, opinion and fact are brought together in one volume to act as a reference for students, academics and others interested in New Zealand social sciences.

Book Culture and Identity in New Zealand

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:

Book The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland

Download or read book The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York

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  • Author : Anthony Burgess
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  • Release : 1976
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  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book New York written by Anthony Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of New York City and describes the city, its people and their way of life today.

Book Law Breakers and Mischief Makers

Download or read book Law Breakers and Mischief Makers written by Bronwyn Sell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand was supposed to be a model society at the end of the world, a utopia for 'men and women of good character' who were willing to work hard for a better life. And, for most, so it proved. But this book is about the others - the misfits, the swindlers, the fallen women, the love rats, the escaped convicts, the hoaxers, the charlatans, the highwaymen, the mass murderers - from the earliest days of European settlement to the present day. Law Breakers and Mischief Makers gives the scandalous details of those who've made a name for themselves in New Zealand for all the wrong reasons. Take for example, Charlotte Badger, a pistol-wielding English thief who launched a mutiny on a Tasmanian convict ship in 1806 and sailed over to hide among the Maori of the Bay of Islands, and Amy Bock, a con woman who masqueraded as a wealthy man to marry the daughter of her landlady in 1909.Some of the people featured in this book are monsters, some are merely rascals, but all make fascinating reading. A lot of the people featured in it have somewhat disappeared into the mists of time and readers will be surprised at the shady characters in this country's past.

Book The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland

Download or read book The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland written by Scotland. Privy Council and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: