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By Ryan, Pm
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- RRP: $32.00
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The Raupo Pocket Dictionary of Modern Maori is a portable reference source for speakers of English and Maori at all levels. This new edition has been fully revised by the author.
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Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows tha...t sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the index- an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Here, for the first time, its story is told. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Dennis Duncan reveals how the index has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and - of course - indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart, and we have been for eight hundred years.
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By Ryan, P. M.
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- RRP: $60.00
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"Over 50,000 entries divided into Maori-English and English-Maori sections. Features a vocabulary list with words for new inventions, metric terms, modern concepts and scientific, computer, technological and legal terms. Includes separate lists giving Maori translations of season...s, months, days of the week, points of the compass, parts of the body, New Zealand and overseas place names, and personal names. Contains a Maori proverbs section, complete with translations and interpretations, and a map of tribal areas"--Publisher information.
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Experienced editor Judge Peter Spiller again brings his expertise to the title, building on the exemplary scholarship and practical application for which the New Zealand Law Dictionary is known. With up-to-date definitions and usage, the Dictionary is an authoritative guide to th...e language of law in New Zealand.
While most terms are in English, the Dictionary contains a wide range of terms relevant to New Zealand, including Te Reo Maori, as well as historical terms in Latin and French.
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Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shows you how to tackle the challenges of memoir writing and put your life on the page.
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After Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing.
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By Bell, Matt
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- RRP: $30.00
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15 Jun 22
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They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. Fr...om lauded writer and teacher Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done is encouraging and intensely practical, focusing always on specific rewriting tasks, techniques, and activities for every stage of the process. You won't find bromides here about the "the writing Muse." Instead, Bell breaks down the writing process in three sections. In the first, Bell shares a bounty of tactics, all meant to push you through the initial conception and get words on the page. The second focuses on reworking the narrative through outlining, modeling, and rewriting. The third and final section offers a layered approach to polishing through a checklist of operations, breaking the daunting project of final revisions into many small, achievable tasks. Whether you are a first time novelist or a veteran writer, you will find an abundance of strategies here to help motivate you and shake up your revision process, allowing you to approach your work, day after day and month after month, with fresh eyes and sharp new tools.
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A review of the outstanding books published over the last century. There is an entry for every year and each decade has a selected book designed to capture the spirit of that particular age.
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By Lee, Rebecca
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- RRP: $39.99
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A behind-the-scenes tour for booklovers everywhere.
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A great introduction to Korean for travel, business, traditional learning or just fun! This book teaches you the basics of the Korean language, including practical daily conversations and vocabulary. All Korean words and sentences are given in Korean Hangul script and Romanized f...orm for easy pronunciation, alongside English translations. Easy Korean includes useful notes and explanations on pronunciation, Hangul script, greetings and requests, basic sentence structure and vocabulary, verb conjugations, honorific forms, idiomatic expressions and etiquette dos and don'ts. A useful dictionary of commonly-used Korean words and phrases is provided at the back. Key features of this book include: Accompanying printable flashcards Free online native speaker audio recordings 10 lessons designed for beginning, self-study adult learners Basic sentence patterns and vocabulary used in daily conversations Hangul and Romanized versions of all Korean texts with English translations Cultural notes for understanding Korean customs and norms A dictionary of common vocabulary words
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