Accidental Life by Phoebe Meikle

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good

As a teacher, a lecturer, a publisher and a friend, Phoebe Meikle has in long and not always accidental life, touched many. She writes engagingly of her childhood in Tauranga, education in Auckland, twin careers as teacher and publisher. She reached the peak of these professions and became a highly resp ected public figure. ...Show more

Henry Cooper of Auckland Grammar School by Andrew Mason

$35.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Sir Henry Cooper (1909?1990) is probably best remembered now as a dynamic and dedicated headmaster of Auckland Grammar School, which he raised to the pre-eminent position it occupies today. But to his generation he personified education in Auckland, playing a leading role in the development of the Unive rsity of Auckland and of the Woolf Fisher educational trust for nearly 30 years. Henry Cooper's achievements over 50 years at Auckland Grammar School are rightly at the heart of this book. It shows how, from his arrival as a scholarship pupil from a small country school in 1922 and then as a master from 1935, he gained a unique understanding of the school and its traditions. As headmaster from 1954 to 1972, he worked tirelessly to enhance the school's reputation for all-round excellence, despite a rapidly changing educational climate. He triumphed over almost insuperable obstacles to obtain the facilities appropriate to a school of its size and status. Henry Cooper's other achievements in education, most notably as a member of the Auckland University Council for 26 years and as Pro-Chancellor and then Chancellor of the University of Auckland, are also described in detail. His crucial role in setting up and guiding the Woolf Fisher Trust is revealed for the first time. Henry Cooper also won renown as a sportsman, especially as an Auckland representative player in both cricket and hockey in the 1940s. He managed New Zealand's first-ever cricket tour to India and Pakistan in 1955/56, and this book makes good use of his personal diary in recounting this notorious 'hellish' tour. This richly detailed and illustrated book illuminates not only a remarkably energetic and inspiring life but a key period in the development of New Zealand education. ...Show more

Tales of Maori Magic Book 1 by Edith Howes

$15.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Whitcombe Story Books No. 428 | Reading Level: very good

Selwyn College's First Century - A History & List of residents 1893-1992 by Ray Hargreaves

$25.00 NZD

Category: Education | Reading Level: very good

Summer Holiday by June Morgan

$6.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Whitcombe's Story Books No. 458 | Reading Level: good

Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

$14.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Auckland Girls' Grammar School - The First Hundred Years, 1888-1988 by Heather Northey; John A. Asher; M. Asher; Auckland Grammar School Old Girls' Association Staff (Contribution by)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Education | Reading Level: good-very good

A Shakeup Anyway - Government and the Universities in New Zealand in a Decade of Reform by Ruth Butterworth and Nicholas Tarling

$15.00 NZD

Category: Education | Reading Level: very good

The Dio Difference - 100 Years of Sonning and Waikato Diocesan School for Girls by Susan Mellsopp

$20.00 NZD

Category: Education | Reading Level: very good

Bricklayers and mortarboards - A History of New Zealand Polytechnics and Institutes of Technology by Ian Dougherty

$30.00 NZD

Category: Education | Reading Level: near fine

School Text Books Published in New Zealand to 1960 by Hugh Price

$25.00 NZD

Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good

Tradition and Change: Mount Albert Grammar School: The First Seventy-Five Years by R. C. J. Stone; N. A. C. McMillan; Mount Albert Grammar School Staff (Contribution by)

$30.00 NZD

Category: Education | Reading Level: very good