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'A book to be treasured for the access it gives us to a little-known corner of the New Zealand experience.' Tipene O'Regan, Evening Post This award-winning, trail-blazing book by Michael King restored the Moriori of the Chatham Islands to their rightful place in New Zealand, Pacific and world history. This revised edition contains material that has come to light since first publication. 'King has set the record straight in a richly readable and often moving accoun...

Take a deep breath and immerse yourself in **"**The Extraordinary Life Of Pat Robertson From His Early Life, Career, Net Worth And Personal Life." The amazing journey of one of America's most well-known and important indiv...

This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for 20 years and has sold over 300,000 copies. It remains the definitive, yet highly readable, starting-point for anybody wanting to understand this country. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settle...

Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as 'possibly the most influential woman in our political history', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. 'I want the truth told and nothing but the truth,' she told a Pakeha journalist. Michael King has written such a book. He did so with the full support of Te Puea's tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and protégés. When this book first appeared in 1977 it was hailed as the best book written by or about a New Zealan...

Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. Michael R. King explains the customer focus, innovation strategy, business model, and valuation of leading fintechs in cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi), crowdfunding and online lending, robo-advice and digital wealth management, payments and insurtech, digital banking, and bigtech. The book profiles the successes and failures of over thirty high-profile fintechs, combining ...

Cosmosis® Crystal Alchemy involves three transformational stages namely 1. Know thyself: the preparatory stage when the Alchemist must confront unknown, chaotic material within themselves, to encounter the unilluminated aspects within and enlighten them. 2. The transcension of duality within oneself: By imposing transcendent norms upon seemingly opposing polarities, one learns to master the nature of reality as simply an infinite scale of vibrational expression from infinity to unity. 3. T...

The late Michael King was one of New Zealand's most respected and popular historians. The author of the bestselling The Penguin History of New Zealand and many other significant works, he was a writer of remarkable skill, sensitivity and importance. The Silence Beyond is a wide-ranging and often personal collection of King's writings – many in print for the first time or no longer available – including essays, talks and eulogies for friends. Introduced by his dau...

The first MATLAB-based numerical methods textbook for bioengineers that uniquely integrates modelling concepts with statistical analysis, while maintaining a focus on enabling the user to report the error or uncertainty in their result. Between traditional numerical method topics of linear modelling concepts, nonlinear root finding, and numerical integration, chapters on hypothesis testing, data regression and probability are interweaved. A unique feature of the book is the inclusion of ex...

For fans of rags-to-riches stories, Be There When I Return is not just about overcoming epilepsy and finding success—it is also for those who are looking for a celebration of love in its purest form.When thirty-one-year-old Michael starts to act out of character, it gets the attention of his roommate and a woman he has started dating. After denying anything is wrong with him, Michael finally decides to visit a neurologist. His life takes an unexpected turn...

The world is not short of problems. It is short of governed minds.Look closely at the exhausted man.He is not tired from real opposition. He is tired from serving the wrong master. Urgency has been running his calendar. Fear has been writing his decisions. Comparison has been setting his standards. And somewhere beneath all of it, buried under years of reaction and performance and quiet compromise, is the man he was designed to be, waiting for someone to clear the room....

Music sheet, revised for Kobo format (paperback version also available from amazon)Lyre Meditation No.1 is a short reflective piece of music(1 minute 46 seconds to be exact), as seen on YouTube.Composed for Kravik Lyre and other 7 String lyre modelsYou can also play this piece on other instruments with A c d e f g a notes.Included with the Kindle music sheet are:• Sheet Music and tab Version (two pages)• Sheet music standard notation(42 bars)...

This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand.New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed, the movements and conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapi...