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MASSEY UNIVERSITY PRESS NEWS 
MORE GREAT BOOKS HIT THE SHELVES
Books on the pressing issues of our time, social work, finance and the history of Massey University round out our publishing year. And we have a special Christmas offer for you.
JUST RELEASED
The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Featuring: Dan Salmon on tuna • Paul McDonald on the places you’ll go • Mike Joy on river radicalism • David Hall on green growth • James Chapman and William Tunmer on why kids can’t read • Wayne Barrar on diatoms • Ridvan Firestone on obesity • Mike Grimshaw on Christchurch • Richard Shaw on why the kids don’t vote • Kerry Taylor on spies • Claire Robinson on grey hair • Peter Meihana on Māori privilege • Krushil Watene on water ownership • Jeff McNeill on Messines • Chris Gallavin on murder • Teena Brown Pulu on being Pasifika and Māori • Jarrod Gilbert on gangs, lies and statistics • Paula Morris on a road-end in Denmark • Paul Thomas on shallowness • David Slack on the melancholy of fifty-something.
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Grey Is a Feminist Issue — Claire Robinson

2015 was the year grey hair went mainstream. What started in the noughties as the street-fashion trend ‘granny chic’ — younger women wearing old or pre-owned clothes — had by the end of the decade moved to the catwalk, with fashion designers using older, grey-haired women as models in their campaigns and styling their younger runway models with silver hair . . .

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ALSO OUT THIS MONTH
Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand
All social work students face decisions about where they will undertake field placement required during their study, as well as which field of practice to work in upon graduation. This helpful book introduces students to five fields of practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Students can watch in-depth interviews with practitioners about their field of practice, read text and view photographs and graphics relating to each domain.
 
10 QUESTIONS WITH KATHRYN HAY, MICHAEL DALE AND LAREEN COOPER

Why did you feel the need to write this book?

There were frequent student requests for more information about the different fields of social work practice so they could feet better informed before they indicated to us where they wanted to go on placement.

What do you think is particularly helpful to readers about it?

All of it, really. The videos are bite-sized and can be easily accessed; there’s a lot of information about each field, but it’s written in a way that is engaging;  and the book looks like something you’d want to pick up and start reading (in contrast to a traditional black and white textbook).

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COMING IN EARLY DECEMBER
A History of Massey University
In From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen, distinguished historian Professor Michael Belgrave details the academic determination and political will that drove Massey’s creation, and the myriad changes across its history. The personalities of university leaders Geoffrey Peren, William Riddet, Alan Stewart and Neil Waters leap from its pages, and it is liberally peppered with anecdotes, including that of the infamous 1969 edition of the capping magazine Masskerade, edited by Tom Scott, which ended up before the Indecent Publications Tribunal.
 
It’s a candid account of one of New Zealand’s most progressive and entrepreneurial universities. Belgrave’s engaging and at times critical approach enlivens the debate about what our universities are for, and why their future and the way they teach the coming generations of New Zealanders and foreign students, matters.
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Fundamentals of Finance (Fourth Edition)

An indispensable guide that is both a stand-alone introduction to finance and a great foundation for further finance study. This fourth revised and updated edition gives a practical overview of contemporary finance from a New Zealand perspective. It helps students understand:

  • How the financial system and the institutions within it operate.
  • How and why financial decisions are made.
  • The tools, techniques and concepts used in finance, and how they are applied to the major sectors of finance.
  • How individuals plan their short- and long-term financial activities.
  • How business organisations manage and finance their short- and long-term financial activities.
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DON’T MISS OUR GREAT VALUE CHRISTMAS BUNDLE

Here’s a terrific Christmas offer to you from Massey University Press — four great books from our first year of publishing: Experience of a Lifetime, The New Zealand Land & Food Annual, Rebooting the Regions and The Journal of Urgent Writing for an unbeatable price. Normally $39.99 each, they can be yours for $70! But only if you place your order through our website by 10 December.

Give them for Christmas or take them to the beach. Whatever you do, it pays to hurry! Available from our website here.

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