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Monash University Publishing 'Me Write Myself': The Free Aboriginal
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ATF Press Christianity in the Post Secular West
Book SynopsisWhat is the future of Christianity in the twenty-first century West? Are Western societies growing more secular, leaving cherished religious traditions behind? Or have modernity''s secularising currents generated equally powerful desecularising and resacralising currents? Should secularisation theory, the dominant paradigm in the social scientific study of religion for much of the twentieth century, be thrown in the dustbin, as some scholars have suggested? Or does it remain useful, even indispensable, despite its limitations? How are globalising processes, bringing diverse religious communities into increasingly close contact, affecting Western Christian communities? Such questions have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many disciplines during recent years and are at the heart of the essays in this volume.
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ATF Press Christianity in the Post Secular West
Book SynopsisWhat is the future of Christianity in the twenty-first century West? Are Western societies growing more secular, leaving cherished religious traditions behind? Or have modernity''s secularising currents generated equally powerful desecularising and resacralising currents? Should secularisation theory, the dominant paradigm in the social scientific study of religion for much of the twentieth century, be thrown in the dustbin, as some scholars have suggested? Or does it remain useful, even indispensable, despite its limitations? How are globalising processes, bringing diverse religious communities into increasingly close contact, affecting Western Christian communities? Such questions have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many disciplines during recent years and are at the heart of the essays in this volume.
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Monash University Publishing Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical
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Otago University Press Standing My Ground: A Voice for Nature
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Otago University Press The Face of Nature: An environmental history of
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Otago University Press Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman? James
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Otago University Press Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in
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Oratia Media Te Kooti's Last Foray: The extraordinary story of
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Oratia Media Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story
Book SynopsisMore biography than conventional history, this substantial work tracks the changing personality of Auckland through the twentieth century, as recorded by its inhabitants in diaries and oral histories, as well as newspapers and formal records. Auckland in 1999 would have been unrecognisable to the city''s residents in 1900. Professor Paul Moon explores this transformation in themes including housing, gardening, the harbours, tangata whenua struggles, shopping culture, the immigrant experience -- and the pervading sense that Auckland was simultaneously at the edge of the world and at its centre.
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Oratia Media Nga Atua: Maori Gods
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Oratia Media Vikings of the Sunrise
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Otago University Press Echoes from Hawaiki
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Massey University Press New Zealand's Foreign Service: A History
Book SynopsisSince 1943, during war, humanitarian and natural disasters and flashpoints of global tension, one government department has been charged with the critical role of representing New Zealand's interests overseas. In doing so, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (and its predecessors) has needed to respond to ever-evolving political and military allegiances, trade globalisation, economic threats, natural disasters and military conflict on behalf of a small nation that seeks to engage on the global stage while maintaining the principles that underpin its political institutions.For more than 75 years the ministry has been served by some remarkable people, dedicated to an organisation that has reflected New Zealand's developing sense of nationhood and place in world. This history of the foreign service, edited by one of New Zealand's foremost historians, captures the high stakes, skill and intelligence involved in the development of a unique organisation.
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Massey University Press The Fate of the Land Ko nga Akinga a nga
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Massey University Press Living Between Land & Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō
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Te Papa Press Tiny Statements: A Social History of Aotearoa New
Book SynopsisThe award-winning authors of this small book with a big heart delve into Te Papa's collections of over 1600 badges to examine how New Zealanders have used badges to join, belong, resist, defy and celebrate. From protest groups and Girl guides to sports clubs, animal breeds, tino rangatiratanga and suffrage, there has been a pin for almost every New Zealand cause and endeavour. Through different themes, they explore what we've worn over the years and why, and New Zealanders' passion for badges, for 'joining and belonging'. With a lively text and a wide range, this is accessible social history at its best.Trade ReviewExcerpts in the Spinoff review of books. "A treasure trove of Aotearoa history, people and place, told through the medium of the badge."; Art News, Autumn 2023, reviewed by Linda Tyler.Newsroom, reviewed by Steve Braunias. "What gorgeous works of art. I'd rather frame them than wear them ... the badges float in the white pages of Tiny Statements, torn from the bodies of their wearers, left to exist as the bric-a-brac of the New Zealand way of life." ; Kete Books extract of Margaret's magical scarf.; Ensemble magazine, Sunday Star-Times, reviewed by Tyson Beckett. "Like the objects in its pages, Tiny Statements is small but mighty."; NZ Booklovers, reviewed by Lyn Potter. "I recommend this little book as a great conversation starter. It may surprise you ... to discover what kind of badges your friends and relations once wore, what they fought for, achieved, or belonged to."; New Zealand Listener, reviewed by Mark Broatch. "It's a potted history of our protest but of celebration too ... [they are] symbols of our principles, our aspirations, our pride."; Kete's 'What to Read in 2023 Non-Fiction from Aotearoa' list: "Potentially one of Aotearoa's quirkier non-fiction books [for] 2023." ;
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sea People
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Back Bay Books The Bomber Mafia
Book SynopsisDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,” asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?” Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.
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ReadHowYouWant The Dreaming Other Essays 16pt Large Print Edition
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iUniverse Fiji and the Franchise A History of Political Representation 19001937
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LZS Press Bowl the Maidens Over
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Banaban Vision Publications Legacy of a Miners Daughter
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M.C. Sutton Beachmere Digging Deeper
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Avonmore Books Lake Boga at War
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In His Name Publishing National Security for Sale
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No Rest For The Wicked Dover Heights
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Hazel Johnson Along the tracks of Cobb and Co. The Roaring Days
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Danielle Louise Ryan Beneath the Southern Cross I Stand
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Creative Shell Australian Beaks
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Peter Hasker Australia and Australians What we are and why
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Keira Street
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University of Hawai'i Press Na Pua Alii O Kauai Ruling Chiefs of Kauai Latitude 20 Books
Book SynopsisThe stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers. Genealogical references to the chiefs are interspersed with legends of sea voyages, wars, heroes and romances in this resource book.
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British Archaeological Reports Formal Variation in Australian Spear and Spearthrower Technology
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Tora Book Publishing 70 Years at Ringside
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Broughton Publishing Pty Ltd Australian Anglicans Remember
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Cric Croc Enterprises My Scrap Paper Diary
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David Anthony Butler Australian Army Operational Shoulder Patches
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