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When Massey's first students attended lectures in the agricultural college headedby visionary scientists Geoffrey Peren and William Riddet in 1928, their arrival wasa major milestone. New Zealand politicians, academics and farming leaders hadbeen wrangling over what an agricultural college should be and where it shouldbe located for 15 years prior. For a time, the only thing that could be agreed onwas that in order to transform the country's agriculture and help feed the Empire,there did need to be one. Massey brought science to New Zealand farming and created a culture ofresearch rigour. Massey also came early to an international approach, welcomingthe first generation of Colombo Plan students and continuing its research andcontract relationships across the globe. In From Empire's Servant to Global Citizen, distinguished historian ProfessorMichael Belgrave details the academic determination and political will that droveMassey's creation, and the myriad changes across its history. It's a candid accountof one of New Zealand's most progressive and entrepreneurial universities.

Forty years of pioneering research and teaching at Massey University

This collection of provocative, impassioned essays about hot New Zealand issues by smart New Zealand thinkers will tune up your intellectual engine. Featuring writing by: Dan Salmon on tuna ΓÇó Paul McDonald on the places youΓÇÖll go ΓÇó Mike Joy on river radicalism ΓÇó David Hall on green growth ΓÇó James Chapman and William Tunmer on why kids canΓÇÖt read ΓÇó Wayne Barrar on diatoms ΓÇó Ridvan Firestone on obesity ΓÇó Mike Grimshaw on Christchurch ΓÇó Richard Shaw on why the kids donΓÇÖt vote ΓÇó Kerry Taylor on spies ΓÇó Claire Robinson on grey hair ΓÇó Peter Meihana on M─üori privilege ΓÇó Krushil Watene on water ownership ΓÇó Jeff McNeill on Messines ΓÇó Chris Gallavin on murder ΓÇó Teena Brown Pulu on being Pasifika and M─üori ΓÇó Jarrod Gilbert on gangs, lies and statistics ΓÇó Paula Morris on a road-end in Denmark ΓÇó Paul Thomas on shallowness ΓÇó David Slack on the melancholy of fifty-something.

The inspirational story of 27-year-old climber Nick Allen, who went from outdoorsman to wheelchair-bound with Multiple Sclerosis to back to the life in the mountains he loves.

Loss of jobs, loss of young people, the ageing demographic, the apparently irresistible magnet of Auckland . . . the economic fortunes of New Zealand's regions are of great concern to politicians, the business community, schools, employers -- and indeed most citizens. What is the dynamic at work here? Is there a remedy? Is there a silver lining? What works? What doesn't? What are the smart regions doing that shows promise? This collection of expert articles addresses the issues facing our regions and investigates the reasons for population loss. Often those solutions involve facing up to the fact that decline is inevitable and unavoidable -- and then coming up with smart new plans and policies that accept that the end of growth does not have to mean the end of prosperity.

A fresh examination of the World War One experience.