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New Moons For Sam: Becoming Kiwi - Life of a New Zealand Diplomat

A personal, intimate, memoir spanning 70 years, in three parts, describing my childhood in the UK and New Zealand, my 35 years as a New Zealand diplomat, and the hundreds of amazing individuals I met on the way, from farming folk to Kings, Queens and Presidents. Part One is the story of an English boy growing up on a farm in rural Devon and Somerset in an extended family, and then, aged 9, moving to rural New Zealand. It covers my school years, my year as a volunteer teacher, aged 17, at an all boys school, in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga and my year as a university student in a still divided Germany. Part Two describes my career as a junior, then senior, New Zealand diplomat, and my postings in Fiji, Canada, Geneva, Samoa, Germany and Singapore, the last three as Ambassador. Part Three argues that New Zealand should become a republic in the Commonwealth, with its own Head of State. It describes, too, my liberating journey from Anglicanism to freedom from any religion. I have aimed to tell the memoir with a sense of humour, humility and (for the most part) optimism!

Peter Hamilton (Author), Paul Barrett (Narrator)

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Wages Don’t Work: Earn up to $400,000 per year as an apprentice real estate agent.

At a time when the basic costs of living continue to increase at a far greater pace than most wages and salaries, it’s become well known that the residential real estate sales industry can provide personal incomes that range from $100,000 to $1,000,000 per annum. This book, written during the 2008 Global Financial crisis, is a very personal account of someone who has worked step by step through a process of starting from zero to progress through to becoming a high achiever in the competitive arena of real estate sales. Absolutely Packed with valuable knowledge, tips, and real-life insight into how to build a successful career very quickly. This industry can produce life-changing outcomes for new entrants into this wonderful world of property sales. We hope you enjoy it. About the AuthorJohn Wills is a 47-year-old father of two who founded a successful real estate startup brand in Auckland New Zealand during the midst of the 2008 Global Financial crisis. John wrote this book, wages don't work in 2008 and now has just under two decades of experience as a high performing real estate salesperson representing large family homes in the $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 bracket in a very competitive marketplace. He has now stepped back from real estate sales to focus on managing a real estate office in Auckland and coaching and mentoring salespeople so that they can enjoy lifelong success in this brilliant industry.

John Wills (Author), Paul Barrett (Narrator)

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Degrees For Everyone

University degrees should be for everyone. Not just for some self-appointed elite who study obscure stuff like Classics, History and Mediaeval Studies. Universities need to offer a range of subjects that will ensure anyone can get a degree in something - it's purely a matter of responding to modern market forces. This is the vision of Ralston University's new Vice-Chancellor. Unburdened by any sense of academic tradition or excellence - and coming from a background in company liquidations - he proceeds to close down the teaching of traditional academic subjects, replacing them with diploma and degree courses in line dancing, hamburgerology and applied witchcraft. More than a new broom that sweeps clean, he is hell-bent on excoriating every last shred of intellectual fibre from the bones of academic tradition. Drawn into this sudden chain of events, can the wise but world-weary Professor Trout save his own job in the Department of Medieval Studies? Or will the monstrous Professor Beefenstein squeeze him out with her teaching of Rubenesque Studies to justify female obesity? Are panelbeating and 'paedophilac studies' to become legitimised as scholarship? It seems anything is possible. About Bob JonesWellington-based Sir Robert Jones has been described variously over the years as property tycoon, free-enterpriser, self-made man, political party leader, syndicated newspaper columnist, boxing fan and intelligent, sarcastic bastard. Born in Lower Hutt in 1939, he attended Naenae College. Becoming established as a national identity through his career as a property investor and founder and leader of the New Zealand Party from 1983 to 1985, he is also a leading commentator on financial matters, education, and social policy. He has donated statues to municipalities and established humanities scholarships. He counts among his other interests trout fishing, tennis, cricket, politics and gardening.

Bob Jones (Author), Paul Barrett (Narrator)

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A Passion for Fashion: The Life of Lindsay Kennett Master Milliner

The life of Lindsay Kennett Master milliner. Lindsay Kennett developed his passion for fashion as a young boy in the isolated Paradise and Glenorchy regions of Otago. The fashionable clothes worn by day tourists arriving at Glenorchy on the Lake Wakatipu steamers intrigued Lindsay and provided the genesis of his career as a master milliner. By the time Lindsay entered art school in Dunedin, he was a young man obsessed with drawing, painting and creating shapes and designs. Work as a department store window dresser and fashion illustrator in Dunedin led to similar work in Wellington. There, he taught himself to make hats. Soon after, he moved to Auckland, securing immediate success when Aage Thaarup, the Queen's milliner, asked Lindsay to help him make hats for society clientele during the Queen's 1953 visit to New Zealand. Lindsay went on to create hats for fashion-conscious women all over New Zealand. His millinery salon in Parnell attracted many interesting patrons, and his numerous 'travelling hat shows' brought delight to all who attended them. During these years, Lindsay embraced New Zealand's increasing receptiveness to international influences. He revelled in films, music and new foods, enjoyed a full social life and continued to paint and sketch whenever time permitted. Since his ostensible retirement in Dunedin in the early 1990s, Lindsay has held sell-out shows and exhibitions of his hats and artwork to raise money for charities, been much in demand as a raconteur, and helped women in Niue shape their traditional woven straw hats into fashion statements. Superb photographs of just some of Lindsay's collection of 100 hats illustrating millinery fashions from 1900 to 1990 complement this engaging memoir.

Hilary E. Hunt (Author), Hilary E. Hunt, Paul Barrett (Narrator)

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