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A Critique of Martyn’s Commentary on Galatians with an Emphasis on the Kingdom of God
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The Druids, a Celtic study
My concern is with a select group of religious leaders known as "the Druids" who were affiliated to "the Celtic" peoples. I am particularly interested in the parallels that can be drawn with other religious leaders of ... -
Network-oriented public transport planning in medium and small New Zealand cities
Transport planning has traditionally used a reactive “predict and provide” model in which the main role of public transport (PT) is to move rush-hour commuters to and from the CBDs of large, dense cities. Beyond this, PT ... -
The Radio Doctor: Broadcasting health into the home. Assessing New Zealand's changing public health needs through the talks of Dr H. B. Turbott, 1943 - 1984
This thesis examines the Department of Health’s most enduring health education series (1943 – 1984), written and presented over the radio by Department of Health official Dr Harold Bertram (H.B.) Turbott. The cultural ... -
Public Participation in Conservation: The Taranaki Mounga Project
This research is focused on critically reviewing and examining the nature of public participation in conservation through the lens of a landscape-scale conservation project; the Taranaki Mounga Project (TMP). TMP’s goal ... -
‘JacindaBabyMania’: Media Representations of Jacinda Ardern & Women’s Perspectives of the ‘Working Mother’ in Aotearoa New Zealand
In January 2018, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s third female Prime Minister, made history when she announced that she and her partner, Clarke Gayford, were expecting their first child. This child would make Ardern the second ... -
Utilising concept-based instruction in teaching pragmatics: Exploring the development of requesting behaviour of Iraqi Arabic-speaking EFL learners
This thesis explores the effect of concept-based pragmatic instruction (CBPI) in developing Iraqi Arabic-speaking EFL university students’ conceptual knowledge and performance abilities in English requests. Requests have ... -
On Common Ground: How landlords & tenants shape thermal performance of private rental properties.
Much of New Zealand’s private rental housing is energy inefficient, and this is an unnecessary source of greenhouse gas emissions and often unhealthy for the occupants. There have been limited inroads to improve the thermal ... -
A new way of being church : a case study approach to Cityside Baptist Church as Christian faith "making do" in a postmodern world
New forms of liturgy and church have recently emerged in Western Protestantism. This includes "alternative worship"; defined as liturgical innovation characterised by communal participation, employment of popular cultural ... -
Clarifying the waters: A critical analysis of turbidity and its role in environmental monitoring in New Zealand
Turbidity is widely-used as a water quality indicator to infer the mass of suspended sediment (SS) transported through riverine systems, and is inexpensive, readily available, and can be easily deployed to record continuous ... -
Speed the plough : an historical geography of New Zealand farming before the introduction of refrigeration.
[…] The present pattern of farming in New Zealand evolved through many changes which were in themselves responses to the landscape found by the Europeans, based on the cultural background of the settlers, the changing ... -
The sphere of between: Online dialogic encounters for positive peace
Within the field of peacebuilding, the practice of dialogue in face-to-face settings has become widely utilized by practitioners and studied by Peace and Conflict scholars. However, while an argument has been made, within ... -
Enhancing the validity of teachers' summative judgments through decision frameworks
Commentators have argued that achievement measures based on teachers’ judgments lack validity (Ward & Thomas, 2016) and introduce bias (Meissel et al., 2017). This thesis addresses this issue by exploring whether decision ... -
Teacher cognition in EFL teaching: A study of non-native English- speaking teachers of English for Arabic-speaking students in Egypt with a particular focus on vocabulary
Starting in the 1990s (Borg, 2003; Burns et al., 2015), studies on language teacher cognition and its role in language teaching and learning drew more on the cognitivist paradigm to investigate teachers’ mental processes ... -
J’écris donc je fuis. Petite métaphysique de l’évolution du style littéraire en France, de Stendhal à Emmanuel Carrère
Style is a matter of life and death. Since Homer, the main literary themes have changed little: love, family, nature, society, power. Ceaselessly renewed by times and personalities of each epoch, the interpretation of these ... -
Perfected yet still "disabled": continuity of diverse embodiment in the resurrection body
The risen Christ presented his wounded hands and side to the disciples as evidence of his identity and the reality of his physical resurrection. Despite this, the picture of eschatological life in the popular Christian ... -
Subsistence in the Lapita Homeland
This thesis presents an analysis of vertebrate fauna remains from two Lapita sites in the Arawe Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Studies of subsistence in Pacific contexts have focussed on how Lapita ... -
A sociocultural approach to language teacher identity: Iranian public school and private language institute EFL teachers
The story of English language education in Iran has long been politicized. Political decision-makers considered English as the language of the enemy, which has been reflected in the inadequate attention to English language ...