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511 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)
Table of contents: 1. Whakairo follows function -- 2. Empirical extraction -- 3. National selection -- 4. Settling in, setting up -- 5. Exportable enterprise -- 6. Products of perception -- 7. Instituting progress -- 8. Revolting baby boomers -- 9. Darwinian deep-en -- 10. Global positioning
Summary: Beginning with Maori tools, traps, lures and more, it moves to pioneer-era inventions, the industrial and agricultural inventions of early entrepreneurs such as Hayes Machinery and the products of the housewife's friends - Shacklock and Fisher and Paykel - to our modern era, with sophisticated products such as the Yike bike and Formway furniture, which hold their own internationally