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Consultant / Speaker / Author M.D Coded Vision Consulting, Auckland, NZ. CPM and Business Intelligence Author of "The Logical Organization: A Strategic Guide to Driving Corporate Performance Using Business Intelligence. For more information go Read more...to www.coded-vision.com Read less...

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Over forty years ago at the influential age of 12, Murray was introduced to a sport/pastime that produced a major impact on his life. He relates the associated experiences and Read more...friendships that have arisen as major positives in his life, and his New Zealand Science Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowship provided the opportunity to research and collect information on the stories and development of surfing as an important activity in his region. Murray knew this was an opportune time for such a project, since most of those involved were still available to share their memories. Murray currently is a teacher at Oakura School in Taranaki and had spent the year of 2006 researching and developing his first publication, 'Riding The Wall-Surfing Pioneers of Taranaki' Read less...

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BitterSweet is my title of my first short book of finding yourself, being inspired to believe it and become it.

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I'm still at school, so how could I have qualifications? I have little experience in anything relating to the publishing process, I have no idea about the cost, and how Read more...I make money, if I publish a book. In terms of writing experience, my only experience is writing stories for my own amusement. I am currently working on my first novel, I am planning on finishing it by 2010. Hopefully, I will be able to publish it, otherwise I will just continue writing more and more novels until finally one becomes a success. Read less...

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I'm a fledgling author, unpublished as of yet, but I have huge dreams and ideas, and just as huge aspirations, and look forward to publishing my first book here on Read more...publishme.co.nz! My readers of my various short stories have always given me eager reviews, and have all been so keen for the "next installment" :) I'm also a solo mum of two small and dynamic boys. For now, my energies are going in a different direction, as I am embarking on 3-4yrs of study to become a Naturopathic Doctor. :) But there are decades in which to wow the world with my writing anyway :) WATCH THIS SPACE! lol Read less...

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I have recently attained a Diploma in performing Arts, and through this developed a niche in writing my own scripts and performing them. Currently doing writing challenges creating a small novel Read more...in a designated time. Read less...

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I am publishing the Barlow family history for publishing shortly.

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I was born and grew up in the Hutt Valley, not far from where my ancestors landed in 1841. Following a Bachelor of Arts degree from Victoria University, I traveled Read more...in Europe and lived in England for three years where I trained as a Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten teacher. On returning to New Zealand I set up the Rotorua Steiner Kindergarten where I taught for several years before having my own children, a boy and a girl who are now in their late teens. The question of how to provide a creative, soulful environment for children to grow up in has been the focus of my writing and illustrating over the last few years. I live in Titirangi and I am currently working on illustrating a children’s story I have written based on the extraordinary events surrounding the birth of a neighbour’s child. Read less...

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I started out in Auckland, New Zealand in 1955, a good time to be a New Zealander. At the time we were supposedly the best country to live in, but Read more...in the 70’s that all changed. We dropped dramatically and anyone who could leave left for greener pastures overseas. I ended up as an Exchange Student at Minnesota - St. Paul University. There I thought I was going to save the world so I took a block course on “Education Extension in Developing Countries” It was quite an eye opener about how you could teach people with no teaching materials. After playing around in the USA for a few more years it was time to head down into Mexico and start to save the world. In Mexico City I started learning Spanish at the Universdad Da Mexico City and teaching English in a small private school. Learning Spanish wasn’t too good but teaching English was. I was fascinated by the magic aura of big cities, and Mexico City at that time was one of the biggest. Then it was back to civilization for a few years, but the lure of developing countries and trying to save the world was still in my blood. So in the early 1990’s I crashed in Jember in Indonesia and it was a beautiful place, relaxed and laid back. Mind you that was before the place went mad and I could never understand why. Asia was now firmly planted in my blood and the Middle Kingdom was calling so it was an easy hop to Hong Kong. Hong Kong before the Handover was screaming out for teachers, anyone would do. Here I was stuck in a big modern city, but I paid the price in stress and crowded living. I loved it all the same, and to get away from the crowds and the pressure all it took was a jump across the border. We all had to leave after HK went back to China so it was onto China.  This was China before it went economically mad and they were screaming out for teachers. So it was back to a developing country but this country was developing into an economical powerhouse that would influence the world for years to come. Anyway to tackle the adult students --who were all learning English so they could immigrate to a better life, only to realize if they had stayed in China they would be in the top of their fields -- we were teaching everything from beginner to advanced and everything in between. They were the good old days and at that time it was all adult students. We were surrounded by friends who would always help you when you needed it.  With all this feverish study going on all around me I caught the bug and in 2002 ended up back at University in little old New Zealand as a very adult student. This time doing a “Graduate Diploma In Adult Teaching and Learning” at Massey U with a major in ESL. The only trouble was after I came back to China in 2005 the adult teaching market had collapsed and was being replaced by kindergarten and primary school. So it was onto teaching kids and this wasn’t so bad. To help the kids I had to learn new things and this is where I was first introduced to the “Montessori Method of Teaching.” I tried it out and it was so successful I never looked back. Now all I teach is kindergarten and primary school, the adult market has collapsed.With the Middle Kingdom heading for superpower status it is now fast churning out traffic-jammed mega-cities, clouded in pollution. It is getting too difficult to get to the schools. I spend most of my life in traffic jams and endless queues at the supermarket and every morning I wait for the pollution cloud to lift. So it was time to find something else to bring in the daily bread. Read less...

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Andrew Lendnal (BCA, BSc, MNZIC, Member of IFA) is well known in the investment field and an author of a number of other titles specialising in finance, including the Budget Read more...Wise, Dollar Rich Series of books. He still writes a regular money column for the New Zealand Investment Journal. His books have been sold successfully by booksellers around the country and overseas. Andrew is a specialist within the financial services industry, a company director and an educator. He has spoken on various radio shows and appeared in a number of television programmes. He is also the founder of Breakthru Kids Limited, a company helping children learn about money. His mission is to provide caregivers the tools necessary to teach children the basic principles of money management. Read less...

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I are more of a wana be author I have taken hundreds of photos of animals interacting with each other in a picturesque environment. So I decided to make a few picture Read more...books for family and friends. Next thing you know, here I am! Read less...

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David Liddell`s first book is on it`s way to the publishers.

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I was born in 1935 in the town of Wanganui, and grew up on a sheep and cattle farm fifty k. out in the Wanganui hill country, near the village Read more...of Mangamahu, on the river of the Whangaehu which comes from the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu. At eleven y.o.a. began boarding school education at Friends (Quaker) School, then at thirteen on to Wanganui Collegiate (Anglican) school. University education (interrupted by compulsory military training) at Canterbury University (Christchurch). Moved to Auckland, worked as a gardener, then went to Teachers Training College. Graduated as a primaryschool teacher with B.A. and Diploma in Teaching, but did not stay in the profession. At 27 left for Britain, and, after short interval in ordinary teaching, trained to teach Eng. as a foreign language and spent a year doing that in Cordoba, Spain. Met future Swedish wife there, and eventually moved to Sweden where I took a variety of jobs but mainly in teaching except for a couple of years in Stockholm's International Peace Research Institution (SIPRI), as assistant editor then assistant researcher. In total - apart from the several years spent in Britain - I spent eight years in Sweden. Later, back in New Zealand, I first completed my M.A. in Philosophy with a thesis on the link between philosophy and environmentalism. I took a variety of jobs, one of which was temporary as 'child-care-center supervisor' in Christchurch. I then moved to Wanganui to companion my ailing father. When he died I moved back to Christchurch and have mainly been concerned in these 'retirement' years with writing, taking part in community activities (for example, the new Chinese Buddhist temple in Riccarton) and with helping to bring up my grand-children: I have two part-Russian grandsons here and two part-Swedish in Stockholm. Read less...

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Have written and published a subscription newsletter for the B & B industry for several years. This year this has been morphed into a blog. I am also a website Read more...designer and specialise in sites for small businesses by providing a complete service from domain registration, hosting, design and maintenance. Read less...

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I’m 25 and live in the bay of plenty NZ. For the past year my partner and I along with our six year old son have been living over seas Read more...in Rarotonga. We have just finished building our first house and I have just finished writing my first book. We have moved back to New Zealand, where I am hoping to have my book published. I do not have any qualifications and do not believe that a piece of paper proves that you are able to do something. All you have to do is believe in yourself and others will soon do the same. Read less...

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Raised on a farm in Northland, New Zealand, my earliest inspirations were in nature, and I had no time for reading - there was far too much to explore! It Read more...wasn't until secondary school that my love of books blossomed, and I haven't put them down since. I began reading voraciously, and shortly afterwards began writing. New Rising, my debut novel, has been slow-cooking for nearly sixteen years. It will be the first in a (hopefully) long series of science fiction adventures. Read less...

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Morag has a background in songwriting and singing and loves to write lyrics and poetry to express her opinions and feelings. Garry has a background in computer programming and has always Read more...written poetry as an outlet for his feelings. Read less...

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Waihi’s Cornish Pumphouse is special for a range of reasons – historic, photogenic, architectural, a town’s icon and identity… During a three month period in 2006 intense interest was Read more...focused on this building. It was the centre of attention in an awesome feat of engineering that moved it almost 300 metres to a new site. The project is remarkable for several reasons. It was over 2000 tonnes of unreinforced Victorian concrete. It’s tall - 21 metres high – on a relatively small footprint - approximately 15 x 9 metres. The project had to take difficult ground conditions into account. And it is a Category 1 listed building under the protection of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. How do you move such a building? Carefully … and with the best people on the job. During the move a large and enthusiastic following developed. To satisfy and further this interest an email was sent daily to a distribution list that expanded. Each email included a photograph with a brief statement about an aspect of the project. Many recipients sent these on to further distribution groups. As the number of devotees multiplied it became evident that these images were very popular and should be captured in some way. Hence this book. The photographs help to tell the story of the relocation project. This book is intended as a keepsake for all the people near and far who followed progress with such keen interest and also for those who played a part. A DVD is also available as a companion to this book. All proceeds from sales go to Vision Waihi Trust to further their work to promote Waihi - New Zealand’s Heart of Gold. Read less...

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