By any measure, New Zealand must confront monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change, wealth inequality to new populism these challenges are complex and even unprecedented. Yet why does New Zealand’s political discussion seem so diminished, and our political imagination unequal to the enormity of these issues? And why is this gulf particularly apparent to young New Zealanders?These questions sit at the centre of Max Harris’s ‘New Zealand project...

"Because time, attention, and resources are finite, wise prioritization lies at the heart of any flourishing organization or meaningful life. Yet there's surprisingly little actionable advice on how to do it well—and many seductive reasons to avoid it entirely. This approachable, psychologically astute, and deeply practical book has the potential to change all that. Reading it is well worth your time."—Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for M...

For centuries, the Feast of Fools has been condemned and occasionally celebrated as a disorderly, even transgressive Christian festival, in which reveling clergy elected a burlesque Lord of Misrule, presided over the divine office wearing animal masks or women's clothes, sang obscene songs, swung censers that gave off foul-smelling smoke, played dice at the altar, and otherwise parodied the liturgy of the church. Afterward, they would take to the streets, howling, issuing ...

First published in 1986, Language Processing in Children and Adults provides a broad perspective on psychological research into language processing. The book has two main sections. The first deals with language processing in children and describes the processes involved in learning to produce and understand spoken language and the processes involved in learning to read. This section also includes a chapter on development disorders of spoken and written language. The second section...

In villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances to massive street theatre lasting several days. The festival tradition officially celebrates the triumph of Spanish Catholicism over its enemies, yet this does not explain its persistence for more than five hundred years nor its widespread diffusion.In this insightful book, Max Harris seeks to und...

With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colorful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations, with roots reaching back to medieval times, remain vibrant in the high-tech culture of the twenty-first century strongly suggests that they also provide an indispensable vehicle for expressing hopes, fears, and desires that peop...

Harriman Classics with a new foreword by James P. O'ShaughnessyIf you want to get rich, no matter how inexperienced you are in investment, this book can help you. Its message is that you must not avoid risk, nor court it foolhardily, but learn how to manage it – and enjoy it too.The 12 major and 16 minor Zurich Axioms contained in this book are a set of principles providing a practical philosophy for the realistic management of risk, which can be followed successfully by an...

Bruce Harris has left an indelible mark on public law across the common law world. In this Festschrift, commentators explore key themes including the nature of executive power, issues concerning the judiciary, and the future of unwritten constitutions. This collection of essays conveys a distinctively pragmatic approach to public law, relevant to scholars and practitioners alike. ;

Jewish History: A 12-Volume Anthology assembles a capacious archive of historical narrative, religious interpretation, legal reflection, biography, and cultural criticism. Spanning antiquity to modernity, its selections place accounts of Judea under Roman rule beside studies of rabbinic tradition, medieval endurance, emancipation, nationalism, and Jewish-Christian encounter. Classical testimony, scholarly historiography, devotional prose, and polemical essay coexist, making the set valuabl...

Piketty’s book is a bombshell, promising a Kuhnian scientific revolution. Geoff BertramPiketty erects a floodlight that illuminates the shadows ignored by economists for too long. Hautahi KingiFew books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty’s assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than earned wealth has energised debate. Hailed as ‘bigger than Marx’ (The Economist) or dismissed as ...

The central character of this book is Max, a thirteen-year-old boy who has the courage of his conviction to dress as a girl and think differently to other boys his age. Max is an Adonis, with unmistakably stunning androgynous looks, captivating emerald green eyes, and mid-length blonde hair. Despite a loving, supportive family and their unconditional positive regard for him, his good looks both work for him and against him as he questions himself and his choices as he experiences the scorn...

The Pirate Bay Collection charts the pirate figure across history, purported true accounts, romance, adventure, Gothic terror, and sea narrative. Ranging from early modern chronicles to nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular fiction, it reveals piracy as both maritime reality and imaginative frontier: a site of violence, commerce, rebellion, empire, and freedom. Canonical tales of hidden treasure, mutiny, cursed waters, and elusive captains stand beside less familiar voyages, creating a...