Here is a new edition of a useful and popular book.  It provides extensive reviews of basic issues in ophthalmology to help the student gain a better understanding of problem areas while stressing the essential techniques of eye examination and clinical elements.  The revised text is exceptionally clear and readable.  It includes needed information on ophthalmic signs in systemic disorders, while omitting those complexities which only the specialist need know.

Introduction to Ophthalmology

Medical Books

Parr, John

Medicine

Otago Univ Pr

<p>Miss Cornelia was religious. To her, mirth was an offence, and laughter a sacrilegious thing. Also she believed in the divine use of the rod. And the Villiers girls prayed for an earthquake, even if only a little one; they petitioned Providence to erupt the nearest volcano. But the gods were on a journey, or asleep, of something.' New Zealanders enjoy a good yarn - and here are some of the liveliest tales told in magazines and newspapers of the 1880s and 1890s. In turn salty, ironic, mildly naughty, exotic and realistic, they are as engaging today as they were to readers a century ago.</p>

The Duel on the Creek: And Other Tales of Victorian New Zealand

Literature & Fiction

Wild Dunedin: Enjoying the Natural History of New Zealand's Wildlife Capital

Science & Math

Patrick, Brian

Peat, Neville

Biological Sciences

This is a paperback edition of this book, which was shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards in 1997. It is a major work of regional natural history introducing a New Zealand World Heritage Area, Fiordland National Park. In a world largely modified by humans, Fiordland is a breathing space for nature. It is one of the planet's great wilderness areas, where monumental landscapes combine with a mosaic of miniature worlds. Located on the southwest coast of New Zealand, much of its landscape was formed by great valleys carved out by glaciers which are now half-drowned. Milford Sound is one of New Zealand's most remote but necessary tourist destinations, while Dusky Sound provided a home to Captain Cook's Resolution and its scientists, as well as artist William Hodges, for five weeks in 1773. This book is for travellers, nature-lovers and scientists alike. Other books by the same authors in this prize-winning series are Wild Central, Wild Dunedin, and Wild Rivers.

Wild Fiordland: Discovering the Natural History of a World Heritage Area

History

Australia & Oceania

Eyewitness: A Memoir of Europe in the 1930s

Biographies & Memoirs

Cox, Geoffrey

Historical

This is a collection of writing by 10 indigenous Pacific women. Essay topics include images of Maori women on New Zealand postcards, the interests and cultural identity of Maori women, education in Western Samoa, young Samoan women and sexuality, gender and work in Fiji, deconstructing the 'exotic' female beauty, representation in films, and poetry.

Bitter Sweet: Indigenous Women in the Pacific

Politics & Social Sciences

Jones, Alison

Social Sciences

This book offers a guide to hikes, flora, and fauna of Stewart Island, one of the three main islands of New Zealand, with information on history, climate, transportation, accommodations, and historical sites.

Stewart Island: A Rakiura Ramble

Travel

Australia & South Pacific

Featuring photographs, drawings, and paintings, this volume offers a visual history of New Zealand interiors. It presents homes that represent the living-spaces of the Maori, of missionaries and settlers, and of the suburban middle-class. It also discusses architecture, construction, design, decoration, and use.

New Zealanders at Home: A Cultural History of Domestic Interiors 1814-1914

Arts & Photography

Petersen, Anna K. C.

History & Criticism

Every poem in this collection offers a stepping stone or resting place on what is eventually a diasporic odyssey. Mishra's is a poetry of discontinuities, of sojourning, of not staying put; it traces the lines of an eccentric cartography, moving restlessly from Fiji to Scotland, to Australia, to New Zealand, to Malta, to Italy and back. It is similarly unsettled in its approach to motifs and forms: a sequence of sonnets jostles with a terza rima; free verse stands alongside a sufi parable. There are poems about poetry, colonialism, photography, food, Palestine, the Pacific, and most of all about people.

Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying: Poems

Sudesh Mishra

Poetry

The notion of masculinity is universal but its embodiment is specific to the culture and historical moment to which it belongs. Experiences of masculinity are intersected and defined by class, ethnicity, race and sexualities, and are therefore diverse. The concept exists only in contrast to "femininity": there is nothing inherent to "what it is to be a man". If this quality of masculinity means that we cannot speak or assume a universal experience of being male in New Zealand, the much-loved idea of the "Kiwi bloke" is really a construction of ideals based on nostalgia. It is unrealistic, out-of-date and limiting. The contributors to this book explore ideas about and experiences of being masculine in the 21st century, and their implications for men's health and sexuality.

Life of Brian: Masculinities, Sexualities and Health in New Zealand

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Men's Health

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