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  • Fatal Contact

    How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples

    by Peter Dowling ...
    Series series Australian History
    Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal ... Read more

    $34.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Māori Place Names

    Their Meanings and Origins

    Pronounce and understand Māori place names with the new fourth edition of A.W. Reed's classic guide to meanings and origins of names across New Zealand. From Ahaura to Whitianga, this handily sized book is the definitive guide to the most common and notable Māori names in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Included are maps on the inside covers showing principal names, and reproductions of the illustrations ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Atlantis The Eyewitnesses Part I The Creation of Atlantis

    by Walter Parks ...
    Many have believed that Atlantis was a fiction created by Plato. Well Plato was not the first to write about it.We have found a very much earlier document. It was written in 9619 BC, about 9,250 years before Plato's writing.This ancient document is believed to be the oldest document that has survived almost intact down through the ages.Further, archeological finds and scientific evidence provide ... Read more

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  • The Old-Time Maori

    A classic account of traditional Māori life in Aotearoa New Zealand, written by Makereti Papakura, a renowned Māori scholar and chieftainess of the Arawa people.Drawing on her intimate cultural knowledge and lived experience, Makereti offers a rare Indigenous perspective on Māori society before widespread European influence. Both scholarly and deeply personal, The Old-Time Maori explores the ... Read more

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  • Navigating the Stars

    Maori Creation Myths

    by Witi Ihimaera ...
    From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century. In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama down into the land of the dead, Maui to the ends of the earth, and the giants and turehu who ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Doctors in Denial

    The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment'

    A gripping exposé of medical ethics violations and the fight for patient rights. Thirty years after the Cartwright Inquiry, the truth behind the 'unfortunate experiment' at National Women's Hospital is finally revealed.When Dr. Ron Jones joined National Women's Hospital in 1973, he unknowingly stepped into a controversy surrounding Professor Herbert Green's study on carcinoma in-situ (CIS) of the ... Read more

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  • New Zealand: Te Reo - an introduction into Maori language

    by Urban Napflin ...
    Short Maori language course for New Zealand travellers and newcomers who would like to understand or even speak some sentences in Te Reo Maori and learn more about the underlying Maori culture.E-book sections:Introduction - History and related languages - The alphabet - Pronounciation - What makes learning Te Reo easier - What makes learning Te Reo difficult - Visiting a marae - Pōwhiri - ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Pandemics

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Maori Word a Day

    by Hemi Kelly ...
    A Maori Word a Day offers an easy, instant and motivating entry into the Maori language. Through its 365 Maori words, you will learn the following: - English translations - Word category, notes and background information - Sample sentences, in both te reo Maori and English Exploring the most common, modern and colloquial words in Maori today, A Maori Word a Day is the perfect way to kickstart your ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Australian Wars

    The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish the nation

    For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present.It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials ... Read more

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  • Tasmanian Aborigines

    A history since 1803

    by Lyndall Ryan ...
    'Lyndall Ryan's new account of the extraordinary and dramatic story of the Tasmanian Aborigines is told with passion and eloquence. It is a book that will inform and move anyone with an interest in Australian history.' - Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania'A powerful and insightful historical account about a unique island and its First peoples, their dispossession and their struggle ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Maori Language - An Introduction for Travellers and Newcomers

    by Urban Napflin ...
    New and revised 2018 edition.Short Maori language course for New Zealand travellers and newcomers who would like to understand or even speak some sentences in Te Reo Maori and learn more about the underlying Maori culture.E-book sections:IntroductionHistory and related languages - The alphabet - Pronounciation - What makes learning Te Reo easier - What makes learning Te Reo difficult - Visiting a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus