Urban Legend Sir Dove Myer Robinson

Author : John Timothy Edgar
Publisher : Hodder Moa Beckett
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Auckland (N.Z.)
ISBN : 1869712749

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Urban Legend by John Timothy Edgar Pdf

One of New Zealand's most popular and colourful local politicians, Dove-Myer Robinson (1901–1989) was the longest-serving mayor of Auckland city, holding office for 18 years between 1959 and 1980. A controversial figure during his time as mayor, Robinson has today taken on iconic status largely because of his 'ahead of the times' vision. In 2011 we often hear the refrain "They should have listened to Robbie". URBAN LEGEND explores Robinson's life from his hard days growing up in a working class Jewish family in Sheffield to his reluctant retirement from Auckland local government in 1980. It looks at how Robinson emerged as a prototype 'Green' long before the word was coined. His most important environmental success was his decade-long campaign to prevent the Brown's Island drainage scheme: a plan to dump the city's sewage off Brown's Island into the Waitemata Harbour. A vocal opponent, Robinson became leader of a council group who in 1953 enjoyed the balance of power and used it to implement an oxidation system at Mangere, saving the Waitemata. He followed this political upset by taking the mayoralty in 1959 to the shock of the Citizens and Ratepayers' Association. Robinson was given an extremely hostile reception by the political establishment; URBAN LEGEND examines his turbulent personal life that others used to try to discredit him (three marriages before he became mayor). During his first two terms as mayor, his greatest political success was implementing the Auckland Regional Authority, a forerunner of the Supercity. He used the ARA as a way to implement goals such as creating regional parks but unfortunately failed to get it to establish rapid rail. 'Mayor Robbie' was a rare figure in his day. Political independent, environmentalist, sometime solo father, passionate organic gardener, rugby league fan, and lifelong advocate of vitamin pills and alternative medicine; he would have been more at home today.

Author : John Edgar
Publisher : Hodder Moa
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781869712860

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Urban Legend - Sir Dove-Myer Robinson by John Edgar Pdf

Every Aucklander of a certain age knows that we should have listened to Mayor Robbie back in the 1970s' - Labour Party MP Phil Twyford. But who was he? And why is he still relevant today? From a working class Jewish boy in Sheffield to long serving Mayor of Auckland (1959-1980), Sir Dove-Myer Robinson's life followed an unusual path. A slight, bespectacled man whose tiny stature was offset by a booming voice and massive ego, he was a natural political campaigner. Associated with a host of local and national causes, he became Auckland's most recognisable spokesperson. He joined political causes and challenged convention. He fought for our current waste water treatment process, against French nuclear testing, and an integrated Auckland transport system and city. Though his political career was outstanding and memorable, his personal life was a hot bed of gossip. Four wives, one 20 years his junior, and a very public divorce during one of his terms meant he was never far from the headlines. In this book we look at both his personal life and his outstanding political career, which affected not only the future of Auckland, but the future of New Zealand.

Author : John Edgar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Auckland (N.Z.)
ISBN : 1459649664

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Urban Legend by John Edgar Pdf

"Robbie, Auckland's longest-serving mayor, was certainly a man with bold plans: a revolutionary waste treatment plant, a whole city united under a single authority, efficient city-wide public transport, a nuclear-free New Zealand. ... Mayor Robbie was a contradiction - a man who cared for his fellow citizens sometimes more than for his own family; an environmentalist who made his money as a capitalist manufacturer; and a trail-blazing green politician who advocated rapid rail but loved luxury cars. He became a remarkable figure, stroppily out of step with his political peers, who were often just as shocked by his private life - which included four wives and many girlfriends - as they were by his politics. ..."--Back cover.

Author : Alfred Goldberg
Publisher : Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D02370380C

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Pentagon 9/11 by Alfred Goldberg Pdf

The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.

Author : Auckland (N.Z.). Waitematā Local Board,Parnell Plan Working Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1988589959

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The Parnell Plan by Auckland (N.Z.). Waitematā Local Board,Parnell Plan Working Group Pdf

Author : Ranginui Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
ISBN : 0143019457

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Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou by Ranginui Walker Pdf

Author : Peter Nicholas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Auckland (N.Z.)
ISBN : 0723304092

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Robbie of Auckland by Peter Nicholas Pdf

Author : Gordon Briscoe
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781921666216

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Racial Folly by Gordon Briscoe Pdf

Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe's enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.

Author : Peter Althouse
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826466850

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Spirit of the Last Days by Peter Althouse Pdf

Early Pentecostals proclaimed the restoration of the charismatic gifts as a sign of the imminent coming of Christ. This eschatology was later marginalized by the rise of fundamentalist dispensationalism. Today Pentecostal eschatology is being revised to include a more transformative view of the kingdom. This boook proposes a further revision of Pentecostal eschatology created to recover prophetic elements of early Pentecostalism that invite a responsible social engagement in the world, and to overcome fundamentalist assumptions which have crept into Pentecostal theology in its middle years. To this end, the eschatological thought of selected Pentecostal theologians is placed in dialogue with Jurgen Moltmann. This dialogue critiques fundamentalist tendencies within contemporary Pentecostalism by advocating a theology more open to history and creation, and a Pentecostal ethic both personal and social in scope.

Author : Paul Mees
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849774659

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Transport for Suburbia by Paul Mees Pdf

"The need for effective public transport is greater than ever in the 21st century. With countries like China and India moving towards mass-automobility, we face the prospects of an environmental and urban health disaster unless alternatives are found. It is time to move beyond the automobile age. But while public transport has worked well in the dense cores of some big cities, the problem is that most residents of developed countries now live in dispersed suburbs and smaller cities and towns. These places usually have little or no public transport, and most transport commentators have given up on the task of changing this: it all seems too hard. This book argues that the secret of 'European-style' public transport lies in a generalizable model of network planning that has worked in places as diverse as rural Switzerland, the Brazilian city of Curitiba and the Canadian cities of Toronto and Vancouver. It shows how this model can be adapted to suburban, exurban and even rural areas to provide a genuine alternative to the car, and outlines the governance, funding and service planning policies that underpin the success of the world's best public transport systems."--Back cover.

Author : V. Falger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400918306

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Sociobiology and Conflict by V. Falger Pdf

1. 1 THE STUDY OF CONFLICT Polemos Pantoon Pater Heraclitus Conflict on all levels of organic existence is pervasive, persistent, ubiquitous. Conflict is the universal experience of all life forms. Organisms are bound in multiple conflict-configurations and -coalitions, which have their own dynamic and their own logic. This does not mean, however, that the more paroxysmal forms of conflict behaviour, naked violence and destruction, are also universal. Conflict and cooperation are always intertwined. Conflicts do, however, have a propensity to gravitate towards violence. There is, as Pettman (1975) pointed out, no accepted or agreed list of the social units by which conflicts might be classified. To talk of conflict in intra personal, inter-personal, familial, group, class, ethnic, religious, intra-state or inter-state terms is to assume, perhaps erroneously, that 'each kind of social unit, having its own range of size, structure, and institutions, will also have its own modes of interaction and thus its own patterns of conflict with other social units' (Fink, 1968) like and unlike itself. Such an assumption merits scrutiny on its own, since, despite the plausibility of some sort of analytical link between the parties to a conflict and the nature of the confrontation that ensues, the link should be demonstrated and not allowed to stand by assertion alone. This volume is devoted to one type of analysis of conflict, the socio biological one.

Author : Catherine Amey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Animal rights activists
ISBN : 047327440X

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The Compassionate Contrarians by Catherine Amey Pdf

"Although New Zealand's economy has long depended on the bodies and infant milk of animals, this country also has a hidden history of vegetarianism. While some early vegetarians were concerned with health, spirituality, and purity, others took a broader view, speaking out on issues that included peace, feminism, animal rights, socialism, prison reform, and the environment. Yet others set up cafes, organised picnics, and wrote cookbooks. The Compassionate Contrarians uncovers the quirks of the vegetarian experience in a land of meat and dairy. More importantly, it acknowledges the hard work and courage of a group of idealists who dedicated their lives to creating a more just world for all sentient beings."--Publisher information.

Author : Jean Devanny
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781775581727

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The Butcher Shop by Jean Devanny Pdf

The Butcher Shop first appeared in 1926. Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic &– in other words for promoting revolutionary ideas about women and for a bold portrayal of the brutality of farm life. On one level, the novel is a fast-paced account of how passion and jealousy destroy the lives of a rich and cultured farming family; on another it is a fierce polemic for the freedom of women, which in its frankness was years ahead of its time.

Author : Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066230630

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Types of News Writing by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer Pdf

"Types of News Writing" by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Casey Dué
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015080692091

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Recapturing a Homeric Legacy by Casey Dué Pdf

Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand years later, technology offers a new opportunity to rediscover this scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation of Western literature. The high-resolution images of the manuscript that accompany these essays were acquired by a multinational team of scholars and conservators in May 2007.