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"Picks up where Making Peoples left off, taking the story of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the end of the twentieth century. It begins with the search for 'Better Britain' and ends by analysing the modern Maori resurgence, the new Pakeha consciousness and the implications of a reinterpreted past for New Zealand's future. Along the way, the book deals with subjects ranging from sport and sex to childhood and popular culture"--Jacket.

Brief biographies of native African heroes and heroines with emphasis on those from south of the Sahara.

This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single...

"Born in colonial New Zealand, fifteen mountain miles away from the nearest town, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier - a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work overseas revolutionized modern physics. Among his discoveries were the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the "half-life" of radioactive materials, which led to a massive reevaluation of the age of the Earth, previously...

This volume is a fascinating human-interest story of the beginnings of the Seventh-day Adventist philosophy of health and the establishment of the church's early health centers. The institutions whose history is given here extended from mid-America to California and to distant Australia and New Zealand. Told against the background of the medical milieu of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it follows the developing interest in "natural...