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		<title>Lost in History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes by Martin Edmond
Auckland University Press, 2007. Reviewed by SCOTT HAMILTON

Over the last couple of decades Martin Edmond has won critical acclaim and a considerable readership with a books that combine autobiography, history, and fiction. Edmond’s 1992 breakthrough book The Autobiography of My Father is a study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academia and Activism</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/03/08/academia-and-activism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives.” Edited by Kate McMillan, John Leslie &#038; Elizabeth McLeay.
Victoria University Press, Wellington. 2009. Reviewed by ALISON McCULLOCH

Second-wave feminism has been dead for some time now, though precisely when it took its last gasp remains unclear. Some locate the seeds of its destruction as early as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Precious Dead</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/03/03/the-precious-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kiwi Fossil Hunter’s Handbook by James Crampton and Marianna Terezow
Random House New Zealand, 207 pages. $40.Reviewed by SIMON NATHAN 
 
Although there are many popular books on New Zealand plants and animals, our unique fossils have been largely neglected outside the technical literature. Yet fossils are the evidence for past life, and are found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to a People&#8217;s Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A People War: Images of the Nepal conflict 1996-2006, edited by Kunda Dixit
 Kathmandu: Publication Nepa-laya, 2007. Reviewed by DAVID ROBIE

KUNDA DIXIT is a remarkable journalist and an inspiring communications innovator. He has been one of the visionary writers who have been able to make sense of development journalism and development communication theory and translate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Zone</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/02/03/in-the-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zone of the Marvellous by Martin Edmond
Auckland University Press 2009. Reviewed by PAULINE DAWSON
Martin Edmond’s Zone of the Marvellous is an amazing treasure box of fact, fiction, myth, history, fable and imagination in search of the antipodes. Helped on its way by a Copyright Licensing Writers’ Award won by the author in 2007, in eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murder, Taxidermy and Tattoos</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/01/27/taxidermy-of-a-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magpie Hall by Rachael King
Vintage, $35. Reviewed by KERRY TANKARD

I went to the Wellington book launch of Magpie Hall, and wasn&#8217;t disappointed; many friendly, talented people contributed to make it an awesome evening for Rachael, including the Brunette Mafia, her writing friends from VUW&#8217;s Institute of Modern Letters writing programme. Bill Manhire, the head of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East Meets West (Coast)</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/01/26/east-meets-west-coast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Golden Prospects: Chinese on the West Coast of New Zealand by Julia Bradshaw
Shantytown (West Coast Historical &#038; Mechanical Society Inc.), 294 pp. $55. Reviewed by SIMON NATHAN

A large number of Chinese men emigrated to New Zealand during the gold rushes to Otago and the West Coast in the 1860s. Most came seeking to make money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth of Suburbia</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2009/12/15/the-birth-of-suburbia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ring around the city: Wellington’s new suburbs, 1900-1930 by Adrian Humphris and Geoff Mew
Steele Roberts Publishing, 200 pp. $45. Reviewed by SIMON NATHAN

Like most early New Zealand settlements, Wellington was sited on the edge of a good harbour. But there was little flat land around the harbour, and the town was boxed in by steep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iconic War Imagery</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2009/12/09/iconic-war-imagery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don McCullin supporting the Freedom of the Press: 100 Photographs, edited by Jean-François Julliard
Reporters sans Frontières, 2009. Reviewed by DAVID ROBIE

THE PARIS-based global media freedom group Reporters sans Frontières has carved out an innovative niche for its brand of fund-raising books in defence of the endangered journalist species. The latest addition is another fine collector’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second World War in Context</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2009/12/08/second-world-war-in-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies 1939-45 by Gerald Hensley
Penguin Books, $65. Reviewed by DENNIS ROSE

A few years ago I visited the grave of a friend’s brother who had fallen, in April 1945, crossing a river near Faenza in Northern Italy.  Despite kiwi fruit growing in the fields next to the cemetery [...]]]></description>
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