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AOGAASO

Aoga Aso Sa Ekalesia Metotisi Puipa'a (NZ tour 2009)

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NZ$ 95.00 each

Author: Various

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DoP - 2009
DVD

A video recording of the 2009 tour of New Zealand by the Puipa'a Methodist Church cultural group.

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9780981870502

Beachcombers Odyssey, Vol 1: Treasures from a Collected Past,

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NZ$ 150.00 each

Author: Deacon Ritterbush

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DOP 2009, Australia
208pp
hardcover

Mixing science with beauty and inspiration, A Beachcomber's Odyssey, Volume 1 is the first of two "beachlogs" that follow Ritterbush's sandy footprints as she re-traces beachcombing expeditions across some of the world's most beautiful and/or remote shorelines. Each beach offered up fascinating treasures and inspirational life lessons that helped her-and may help you-navigate through many of life's rocky shoals. Woven throughout are stunning photos and intriguing facts about our world. Find out where the real "Treasure Island" is located. Where "time" begins. The age of water in your drinking cup or the difference between magic pebbles, sea gems and button drops.

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9781875567560

Captain William Bligh and the Mutiny on the Bounty

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NZ$ 65.00 each

Hardback

Author: House Hordern

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DoP July6 2009
125pp
Hardcover

A companion volume to 'Captain James Cook, the Greatest Discoverer' released in 2008. Sumptuously illustrated in colour and black and white, this catalogue contains 133 rare books, manuscripts, paintings and prints fully described and individually priced. This work will become a reference on Captain Bligh, and a landmark of its kind. Highlights include: original and evocative manuscript material by Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, two magnificent aquatints of Bligh, his officers and crew being cast adrift from HMS Bounty and Transplanting the Bread Fruit trees from Otahite; the legendary rarity, Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court Martial held at Portsmouth, 1792; and accounts of the official narrative of the voyage and the subsequent mutiny, to name just a few.

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9780754676645

Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific

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NZ$ 240.00 each

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Author: Katherine Giuffre

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Dop May 2009, UK
176pp
hardcover
"Collective Creativity" offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are linked to social structures and social networks, this book investigates the social aspects of making fine art in order to present a 'collective' theory of creativity. With a close examination of tourism, galleries and, of course, the artists themselves, Katherine Giuffre presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the art-world participants themselves. Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded with rich empirical data, this book will appeal not only to anthropologists with an interest in the South Pacific, but also to scholars concerned with questions of ethnicity, creativity, globalization and network ... more

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9398710870282

Humpbacks: From Fire to Ice (Blu-ray disc)

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NZ$ 48.00 each

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Author: Various

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New format - Blu Ray Disc

Take an extraordinary journey with one of nature's majestic giants of hte sea - the humpback whale. This documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, follows a mother and her calf on their perilous journey across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to Alaska and back again. During this journey, the calf learns the way of the whales, and how to survive in an underwater world ruled by cunning and ruthless predators.

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9780824833503

Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific

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NZ$ 65.00 each

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Author: Judith A. Bennett

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DOP JULY 2009, Hawaii
448pp
softcover

Ambitious in its scope and scale, this environmental history of World War II ranges over rear bases and operational fronts from Bora Bora to New Guinea, providing a lucid analysis of resource exploitation, entangled wartime politics, and human perceptions of the vast Oceanic environment. Although the war's physical impact proved significant and oftentimes enduring, this study shows that the tropical environment offered its own challenges. At the heart of "Natives and Exotics" is the author's analysis of the changing visions and perceptions of the environment, not only among the millions of combatants, but also among the Islands' peoples and their colonial administrations in wartime and beyond. Judith Bennett reveals how prewar notions of a paradisiacal Pacific set up millions of Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, and Japanese for grave disappointment when they encountered the reality. She ... more

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9781921401169

Native Title Market

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NZ$ 38.00 each

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Author: David Ritter

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DoP May 2009, Australia

Describes and critically analyses the world of native titles agreement between Aboriginal groups and developers that has emerged since the Native Title Act was passed in 1994. The purpose of the book is to challenge the popular and convenient myths that have emerged about native title agreement making. The special importance of the work is that it is the only book to challenge the orthodoxy that is accepted by many commentators, journalists, government institutions, resource developers and academics.

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CD0805

New Flags Flying - CD

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NZ$ 48.00 each

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Author: Ian Johnson

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DoP - 2009, NZ

Narrated by Ian himself this reading tells of his family's arrival in Fiji, starting work encouraging regional broadcasting, some of the problems involved, the development of tourism and finally, looking back on expatriate life and change in the South Pacific.

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9780199561650

Notebooks from New Guinea : Field notes of a tropical biologist

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NZ$ 69.00 each

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Author: Vojtech Novotny

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Dop August, 2009
272pp
hardcover

A unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. This collection of notes and reflections contains not only descriptions of natural history and scientific research in the rainforest, but accounts of the local peoples and their cultures, and amusing portraits of the antics of Western tourists.

This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much modern science, in a lab full of gleaming apparatus. Instead, he chose as his 'laboratory' the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea, where he has established a research station. Supported by a team of Papuans whom he has ... more

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9780786442447

Saipan: Oral Histories of the Pacific War

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NZ$ 140.00 each

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Author: Bruce M. Petty

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Dop June 2009, USA
hardcover
216pp

The battle for Saipan is remembered as one of the bloodiest battles fought in the Pacific during World War II, and was a turning point on the road to the defeat of Japan. The island was a blaze of fire and steel for over three weeks in the summer of 1944. Visible reminders of the devastation still exist - one can still find human skeletal remains scattered on the jungle floor and in caves throughout the island.

Emotional reminders still exist as well, for both the combatants and the civilians who survived the battle.In this work, the survivors - including Pacific Islanders on whose land the Americans and Japanese fought their war - have the opportunity to tell their stories in their own words. The author introduces the volume with a history of the Mariana Islands and other parts of Micronesia and arranges the oral histories by location: Saipan, Yap and Tinian, Rota, Palau Islands, and Guam ... more

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9781921401268

Shaking Hands on the Fringe

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Author: Tiffany Shellam

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DoP May 2009, Australia
235x155mm / 274pp

An ethnographic history about the British garrison at King George's Sound in Western Australia. Set up in 1826 to deter the French from occupying the area, the garrison compelled the British newcomers and the area's indigenous inhabitants, the King Ya-nup to share a small space, forcing both cultures to adapt in order to communicate and interact with one another.

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9780939226108

The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, at the University of California, San Diego

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NZ$ 120.00 each

Hardback

Author: Kenneth Hill

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DoP 2009, Australia
685pp

The long awaited revision and reorganisation of this important bibliography of Pacific voyages, jointly published with w. Reese Companuy of New Haven. Since its original publication in three volumes between 19074 and 1983, the Hill catalogue has been an essential reference for anyone interested in Pacific Voyages, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, and the South Seas. The first edition has long been out of print and commands high prices in the antiquarian market.

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9780824832483

Traditional Micronesian Societies

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NZ$ 85.00 each

Hardback

Author: Glenn Petersen

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Dop August 2009, Hawaii
328pp
hardcover

"Traditional Micronesian Societies" explores the extraordinary successes of the ancient voyaging peoples who first settled the Central Pacific islands some two thousand years ago. They and their descendants devised social and cultural adaptations that have enabled them to survive-and thrive-under the most demanding environmental conditions. The dispersed matrilineal clans so typical of Micronesian societies ensure that every individual, every local family and lineage, and every community maintain close relations with the peoples of many other islands. When hurricanes and droughts or political struggles force a group to move, they are sure of being taken in by kin residing elsewhere. Out of this common theme, shared patterns of land tenure, political rule, philosophy, and even personal character have flowed. To describe and explain Micronesian societies, the author begins with an overview of ... more

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