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Brash by Paul Goldsmith
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In 2004 National Party leader Don Brash had risen from political obscurity to a major political figure who turned the opinion polls upside down and rewrote the political landscape. His Orewa race relations speech clearly struck a deep chord among many Pakeha New Zealanders harbouring a strong resentment ...Show more
Fletchers: A Centennial History of Fletcher Building by Paul Goldsmith
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Most of New Zealand's great business icons of the twentieth century have withered, disappeared or been swallowed by other firms. But a century after James Fletcher began his work in Dunedin, in 1909, Fletcher Building continues to perform as one of New Zealand's largest and most trusted companies, with ...Show more
John Banks: a Biography by Paul Goldsmith
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Love him or loathe, there's no doubting John Banks' impact on the political scene in New Zealand. Always outspoken and controversial, a loose cannon who has sometimes embarrassed his colleagues and his leader, John Banks - 'Banksie' to his supporters - has seen the tide of his political fortunes ebb ...Show more
Legend: From Electric Fences to Global Success by Paul Goldsmith
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
New Zealanders are always being exhorted to take a clever idea and go global. Easier said than done. But one iconic company has been doing just that for over 75 years. Gallagher Industries began in a Hamilton shed in the late 1930s, when a self-taught engineer, Bill Gallagher, came up with a design for ...Show more
Puketutu and Its People by Paul Goldsmith; Michael Bassett
55.00 NZD
Category: Rotorua Books | Reading Level: Very Good
DoP November 2008, Auckland 255x235mm / 160pp Cased & jacketed Puketutu is the only significant island in the Manukau Harbour and its natural beauty and proximity to Auckland have long made it a desirable asset. Apihai Te Kawau,the Ngati Whatua and Te Taou chief who invited Governor Hobson to place ...Show more
Serious Fun - The Life and Times of Alan Gibbs by Paul Goldsmith
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A man who in his twenties dared to take on the cosy club of import licence-holders who controlled the New Zealand car industry by building his own car for commercial production was always going to be someone to watch. Who could have picked, however, back in the early 1970s, that this young engineer woul ...Show more
Stress and Enterprise : The career of Richard Izard by Paul Goldsmith
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Richard Izard enjoyed a prosperous family background. He raced cars and flew planes. But by the time he was 44, several business reversals had left him nearly broke, desperately selling sheepskin seat covers to the Californians from the boot of his Pontiac. From there, his fortunes improved. He returned ...Show more
The Myers by Paul Goldsmith & Michael Bassett
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor. It tells the story of local government involvement by the first two generations, and the ...Show more
We Won You Lost Eat That !: A Political History of Tax in New Zealand Since 1840 by Paul Goldsmith
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
We Won, You Lost. Eat That! takes readers through our tax history, from the first customs tariff imposed in 1840 to the Dog Tax War of 1898, from the poll tax on Chinese migrants that was sharply increased by the Liberals in the 1890s to the 90 per cent top marginal income tax rate that confronted the m ...Show more
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