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  • Brabyn, Lars; Sutton, S. (Elsevier, 2013)
    Active participation in the outdoors not only provides enjoyment and adventure, but it is also important for health and promoting conservation values. The latter is particularly important for young people as they are at ...
  • Pagel, Mark; Atkinson, Quentin D.; Calude, Andreea S.; Meade, Andrew (2013)
    The search for ever deeper relationships among the World’s languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative ...
  • van Zyl, Liezl (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
    This article reviews the book: “Motive and rightness “ , by Steven Sverdlik. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the question of whether the motive of an action ever affects its deontic status, and it ...
  • Charlton, Samuel G.; Starkey, Nicola J. (Elsevier, 2013)
    This paper describes our research into the processes that govern driver attention and behavior in familiar, well-practiced situations. The experiment examined the effects of extended practice on inattention blindness and ...
  • Cupit, Geoffrey (Cambridge, 2013)
    Is there a connection between the values of fraternity and outcome equality? Is inequality at odds with fraternity? There are reasons to doubt that it is. First, fraternity requires us to want our ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ ...
  • van Zyl, Liezl (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
    This article reviews the book: “New Waves in Ethics “ edited by Thom Brooks.
  • Nannicelli, Theodore (Intellect, 2012)
    The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas – Austin is a fantastic resource for scholars of screenwriting and the humanities in general. The Center groups its collections roughly into the following categories: ...
  • Aiello, Giorgia; Bakshi, Sandeep; Bilge, Sirma; Hall, Lisa Kahaleole; Johnston, Lynda; Pérez, Kimberlee; Chávez, Karma (Routledge, 2013)
    To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded ...
  • Goldsmith, Michael; McNeill, Kellie (Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM), 2012)
    Universal Basic Income is a well established concept that can help solve this basic human rights issue. While hunger is often recognised in poorer countries, it is trivialised and hidden in countries like New Zealand, which ...
  • Barnard, Roger; Burns, Anne (Multilingual Matters, 2012)
    In our introduction to this volume, we pointed out that many academic journals do not have enough space to enable the authors of empirical studies to discuss important methodological details of their projects.
  • Barnard, Roger; Burns, Anne (Multilingual Matters, 2012)
    The book aims to fill the gap between conventional research methodology books and published reports of research such as are found in academic journals. While volumes on methodology may explain how and why a particular ...
  • Moffat, Kirstine; Lavën, Helen (Sage, 2011)
    The New Zealand section of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature’s 2011 bibliographical issue.
  • Fester, Anthea (University of Waikato, 2010)
    I report here on specific aspects of a survey of a sample of 93 teachers of English as an additional language from five different countries who completed a questionnaire that included questions relating to objectives ...
  • Athique, Adrian M. (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
    The article reviews the book “Popular culture in a globalised India” edited by K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake.
  • Nannicelli, Theodore (Intellect, 2012)
    This article reviews the book: “The adventure of the real: Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema” by Paul Henley.
  • Nannicelli, Theodore (Oxford University Press, 2012)
    This essay suggests that television aesthetics, as a research project, would benefit from attending to relevant theoretical debates in philosophical aesthetics. One reason for this is that assumptions about the ontology ...
  • van Zyl, Liezl; Walker, Ruth (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
    It has become common to distinguish between altruistic and commercial contract motherhood (or 'surrogacy'). Altruistic arrangements are based on the 'gift relationship': a woman is motivated by altruism to have a baby for ...
  • Chalmers, Lex (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
    Every four years the International Geographical Union (IGU) requests a National Report from Member Countries. The text below is a version of the submission made on behalf of New Zealand Geography in August 2012. The issues ...
  • Joseph, Alun E.; Chalmers, Lex; Smithers, John (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
    This paper considers issues of authenticity as they apply to the evolution of farmers' markets in New Zealand. Following a discussion of the nature of authenticity and its deployment by farmers' market organisations in ...
  • Chalmers, Lex (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
    Paul’s approachability and commitment to geographical education through the Waikato Branch and NZBoGT has been outstanding over 40 years.

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