Pākehā Settlements in a Māori World offers a vivid account of early European experience in these islands, through material evidence offered by the archaeological record. As European exploration in the 1770s gave way to sealing, whaling and timber-felling, Pākehā visitors first became sojourners in small, remote camps, then settlers scattered around the coast. Over time, mission stations were established, alongside farms, businesses and industries, and eventually towns and government centre...

A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby … a Nobel Prize–winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . .The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally combative sleuth.World-renowned Dartmouth professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he e...

In July 2007, Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7,634 per cent, deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment.Months later, on 20 November 2007, Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black majority rule and the dangers that he believed it would bring to his country.Ian Smith was a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions i...

Good assessment focuses mainly on improvement and is used to support progress. It helps learners to know how well they have learned and provides feedback on how they can do better; it encourages learners to support and help each other; it builds self-motivation, self-confidence and self-reliance. Sound familiar? These are the principles of formative assessment. They're at the heart of the national Assessment for Learning initiative and they form the core of the "Assessment & Learning Pocke...

If Only I Knew Then is the fourth and final novel in the series that began with Nursery Rhymes, They Never Saw It Coming, and Vengeance Is Mine. Shean O'Brien is on a relentless path of vengeance, driven by the tragic deaths of his younger twin brothers, who were shot while trying to run a roadblock in Northern Ireland by the British Army. Adding to his fury is the torture he endured at the hands of the police after being arrested twice. Using his cunning, O'Brien has managed to escape the...

Father O’Brien is a tough Catholic priest with a violent past. He now counsels youth in prison and has a particular interest in two brothers behind bars. He becomes their advocate on the pretext of rehabilitation, visiting them regularly and eventually getting the boys released into his care. DCI Keir Dickson, the man who put these brothers away for eight years, is furious. He sends DS Liam Smith undercover to see what this priest and these ex-cons are up to. It turns out the father has gi...

The 9th edition maintains the content on all soil mechanics subject areas - groundwater flow, soil physical properties, stresses, shear strength, consolidation and settlement, slope stability, retaining walls, shallow and deep foundations, highways, site investigation - but has been expanded to include a detailed explanation of how to use Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design.The key change in this new edition is the expansion of the content covering Geotechnical Design to Eurocode 7....

Cassie's parents are under house arrest in Burma and the innocent virgin becomes the means for their release - if she agrees to be the secret slave of the General every Saturday for as long as he wants, their release will be negotiated.The General uses her regularly, punishing her with painful sexual activities if she incurs tally marks during her time of servitude.The submission ends with the release of her parents; but by then Cassie has been permanently changed, even whe...

The fifth book in the ongoing 'Ali' series (yet still very much a 'Stand-Alone' book).In this story, Ali and her friends have been sold, transported to another land and sold on to different masters, there to endure the suffering and humiliation which always seems to be heaped on slave girls.When the contract ends, the girls are once again returned to the Manor, to their lives in the kennels, there once more to serve the Masters ... just as they did before!

The amount of medical information available on the Internet is mindboggling, if not mind-numbing. And what do you find once you wade into these cyberwaters is often so contradictory, confusing, or suspect that it is easy to feel more addled than assisted by the plethora of articles, advertising, and medical reports. Dr. Ian Smith's Guide to Medical Websites bring order to this chaos. As medical correspondent on NBC's Today show and a regular columnist for Time, Dr...

An exploration of Harold Pinter's work in the theatre – through interviews with the man himself and with actors and directors who worked with him.Eight actors and directors who worked with Pinter in the theatre talk candidly about what it's like to appear in a Pinter play, to direct a Pinter play, to be directed by Pinter, to work alongside Pinter as an actor.The voices belong to directors Katie Mitchell and Sam Mendes, and to actors Barry Foster, Susan Engel, Roger Lloyd P...

"A vivid picture of how this earth matters to God—our work, our communities, and the physical world." —Scott B. RaeBeginning with the creation of the heavens and earth and ending with the New Jerusalem, the storyline of Scripture reveals God's commitment to the physical world that he created. Our final destiny is not some disembodied, heavenly existence but rather life with God on a renewed earth. How does this understanding of our future home affect our lives toda...