Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. It reports the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.This book concentrates on three major themes: active ageing, design for ageing well and the relationship between ageing and socio-economic de...

SpecFicNZ presents SpecFicNZ Shorts, three creepy stories celebrating NZ Bookshop Day 2015 - which falls on Halloween. Discover family secrets, spooky shop owners, and mysterious magical artefacts in:"The Shelver", by Piper Mejia"The Bookshop", by Jane Percival"The Box", by I.K. Paterson-HarknessPublished by SpecFicNZ, the New Zealand association for creators of sci fi, fantasy and horror fiction.

This book is a collection of over a hundred visual and algebraic explanations and proofs of maths formulas and concepts, all needed for GCSE and A level. Set out as very understandable individual pages per proof, with clear diagrams and simple algebra, all these formulas are found within one handy volume.Included are :Areas of rectangle, circle, triangle, parallelogram, trapezium, surface area and volume, ratio sides of triangle, Pythagoras, sine relationship, sine formula ...