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A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression
David McGill has assembled an exhaustive study that uses the musical concepts of the legendary Marcel Tabuteau as a starting point from which to devel...
A comprehensive collection of the informal language of New Zealanders with more than 3000 entries to cover the astonishing range of weird and wonderfu...
The History of the New Zealand Customs Department
The Irish Rebellion on the New Zealand Goldfields
Supply Side Influences on Manpower Targets
This collection presents the active slang, catchphrases and colloquialisms in Kiwi use in the first decade of the new century....
An Illustrated Rail Journey Back Into New Zealand
In February 1985 David McGill set off to travel New Zealand rail in guards' vans, with guards as companionable dispensers of local knowledge. A genera...
The History of the St James Theatre, Wellington
The most complete and authoritative history of Wellington's St James Theatre. Released to coincide with the reopening of the St James, this delightful...
Kiwi Kids' Chants and Rhymes
A collection of chants and rhymes, riddles and jokes made up and used by Kiwi kids. Suggested level: primary, intermediate....
A Rail Journey Back Into New Zealand
The Advanced TopicMaster series provides students of AS/A-level History with detailed reviews of key topics on the exam board specifications in a chal...
Peter Fraser was our greatest prime minister on the international stage. He proved it as World War Two was ending and he played a major part in shapin...
The companion volume to the author's A Dictionary of Kiwi Slang, 25,000 sold. This collection expands into catchphrases, commentaries, jokes, ditties ...
A Dinkum Kiwi Farce
A Handbook for Labour Market Studies in the Health Service
Memories of a Post War Pakeha Childhood
"In June 1935 Takapuna inventor Victor Penny was attacked by foreign agents seeking what the newspapers dubbed a 'death ray'. The government secretly ...
"1975. Former detective and spy-catcher Dan Delaney and his West Auckland family are on a visit to the Holy Land which goes horribly wrong from the mo...
"Late January 1985 Dame Kiri is launching Vukovich Sauvignon Blanc on the Sydney Opera House steps with major shareholders the Delaney family present....
25 Years of the Earl of Seacliff, A to Z
The Untold Stories of New Zealanders as Prisoners of War
Confessions of a Compulsive Pop Picker
The Folk who Put the Kiwi Into Kiwiana
"David McGill talks ... with Murray Ball, Brian Brake, Peter Button, Carmen, Ronald and Zillah Castle, Brian Edwards, Michael Fowler, Denis Glover, Ke...
Health Service Recruitment on Tyneside
Memoirs of a Kiwi Writer and Publisher, and the Songs That Sustained Him
"This book grew out of a radio series for Paekakariki FM. Bookended by potent pop music at the time, these essays track the perils and pleasures publi...
A Dictionary of Kiwi Slang
Memories of a Post-war Pakeha Childhood
The author recalls his childhood in a small, sleepy, rural community just after the Second World War....
A Dan Delaney Mystery
"The ceasefire has begun in 1995 between the Republicans and the Loyalists. Dan Delaney and his family are in Ireland seeking ancestral roots but are ...
Growing Up with God, Movies, Sex, Rock 'n' Roll and the All Blacks