Product Description: Our editors went out into New Zealand and rounded up a pile of blogs and travelogues, memoirs and journalism – some of the best true stories from the last year or so. We’ve got bullies and Barbie, chakra and shipwrecks, loose lips and AK47s...read more

Product Description: Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context...read more

Product Description: The 'Our City' series offers a new perspective on New Zealand's major cities. Each volume presents a selection of the literature inspired by one of New Zealand's four major cities. Chosen with care by a well - known editor from each city, the selections include short stories, poems, and extracts from novels and writers' memoirs...read more

Gathers two versions of one of Mansfield's most influential stories in order to show the ways in which she revised her work

Product Description: From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation features New Zealand’s major writing, from Polynesian mythology to the Yates’ Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, and from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke’s letters to Katherine Mansfield’s notebooks...read more

Product Description: Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him...read more

Product Description: In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary" by ambition, but when events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into a crisis that moved, in a matter of months, from protest to war...read more

Product Description: Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: "The Tiredness of Rosabel", "At Lehmann's", "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding", "The Swing of the Pendulum", "The Woman at the Store", "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped", "Ole Underwood", "Millie", "Bains Turcs'", "The Little Governess", "An Indiscreet Journey", "The Wind Blows", "Prelude", "A Dill Pickle", "Je Ne Parle Pas Français", "Bliss", "Psychology", "Pictures", "The Man Without a Temperament", "Revelations", "The Escape", "The Young Girl", "The Stranger", "Miss Brill", "Poison", "The Daughters of the Late Colonel", "Life of Ma Parker", "Her First Ball", "Marriage ý la Mode", "At the Bay", "The Voyage", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", "The Fly", and "The Canary"...read more

Volume XXII Table of Contents Luke Treadwell, “Mihrab and ʿAnaza” or “Sacrum and Spear”? A Reconsideration of an Early Marwanid Silver Drachm Hana Taragan, The “Speaking” Inkwell from Khurasan: Object as “World” in Iranian Medieval Metalwork Yury Karev, Qarakhanid Wall Paintings in the Citadel of Samarqand: First Report and Preliminary Observations Yvonne Dold-Samplonius and Silvia L. Harmsen, The Muqarnas Plate Found at Takht-i Sulayman: A New Interpretation Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim, A 1498-99 Khusraw Va Shīrīn: Turning the Pages of an Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript SAMER AKKACH, The Poetics of Concealment: Al-Nabulusi’s Encounter with the Dome of the Rock Ebba Koch, The Taj Mahal: Architecture, Symbolism, and Urban Significance Caroline Finkel and Victor Ostapchuk, Outpost of Empire: An Appraisal of Ottoman Building Registers as Sources for the Archeology and Construction History of the Black Sea Fortress of Özi Maurice Cerasi, The Urban and Architectural Evolution of the Istanbul Divanyolu: Urban Aesthetics and Ideology in Ottoman Town Building Paolo Girardelli, Architecture, Identity, and Liminality: On the Use and Meaning of Catholic Spaces in Late Ottoman Istanbul Susan Gilson Miller, Finding Order in the Moroccan City: The Ḥubus of the Great Mosque of Tangier as an Agent of Urban Change

Frank, a disturbed boy who lives alone with his father, creates a bizarre fantasy world for himself which includes strange rituals and murder

An American describes New Zealand literature, culture, and film, and compares and contrasts them with those of the United States (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Over the last three decades New Zealand literature has changed radically as New Zealand has become more diverse and more independent of its colonial origins. In place of a small literary culture—nationalist, realist, Pakeha and masculine in outlook—we now find a variety of styles, kinds, voices...read more

Product Description: Although many treasure the poetry of New Zealander James K. Baxter, less familiar are his forays into written prose and public speaking which similarly dazzle, challenge, and entertain. Laced with the humor, passion, intelligence, and everyday detail beloved of his poetry, this unique selection of writings explores those issues--social life, love, religion, nature, and everyday life--which make Baxter's life and work central to the New Zealand experience and to his generation...read more

Gathers letters by the poet written to her husband, family, lovers, friends, and fellow writers prior to the onset of her tuberculosis

The first comprehensive history of New Zealand literature, this volume includes chapters on the novel, poetry, and the short story, as well as sections on drama, non-fiction, children's literature, popular literature, and the history of publishing, patronage, and literary magazines. While it features major authors, this history also contains information on little-known authors and forgotten periods in New Zealand's literary history, providing more comprehensive information on the subject than has ever appeared in a single volume before.

Product Description: This collection of essays addresses the issue of language use in New Zealand, focusing in particular on Maori and New Zealand English. Written by scholars and writers living in New Zealand, the essays examine two aspects of language study...read more

In mid-eighteenth century New Zealand, the tangled strands of kinship and desire control the life of Daisy Morgan, a doctor who struggles with both prejudice and her love for an unattainable man