This modestly-sized book is primarily concerned with listing the location of all medieval manuscripts and manuscript fragments in New Zealand. Now, that seems pretty obvious, based on the title, but you have no idea how literal the title is until you peruse this book.

Some of the better items are pictured in the section of the book devoted to plates. There are a fair number of both black and white and color reproductions. Otherwise, the book is mostly one huge list of title and provenance for New Zealand manuscripts. While the provenance items often contain some interesting tidbits about manuscript history, there is not really enough to make the book truly informative and useful for someone not living in New Zealand and looking for a list of manuscripts to request access for study.

I thought, based on the title, that this would be an exhibition catalogue of some sort, but it is not, not really. It's just not in the same league as Weick's Painted Prayers and other works of that ilk. Nor is the text informative enough to put this book at the same level as, say, de Hamel's A History of Illuminated Manuscripts.

That said, the book does have some good qualities. Again, there are a number of interesting tidbits contained in the various lists, and a number of the plates are artistically interesting. I would not suggest that someone looking for a coffee table book select this volume, but it is an acceptable addition to the collection if you collect books about illuminated manuscripts.

This is the absolute worst book on case studies I have ever seen. And, I have read many. Better books to buy would by primarily Yin (1994). While the publication date on Yin is old, it is a seminole work and referenced by most others in the field. Two more recent and good books are by Sharan B. Merriam 2001 and by Foster, Gomm and Hammersly (2000). ...Seriously, avoid this book.... I gave 1 star only because the system doesn't allow zero stars.

I was hoping for a model for conducting a case study. This is definitely not it. This is an academic discussion of sociology-based case studies.

It may be just what some were looking for, but it is not the manual on how to do a case study.

qualitative research methods specially for multiple cases of studie

Not many usable activitites. The artwork is terrible.

Actually it's pretty simple, the book is outdated, the information too old, and there are many better books or websites available, just make a search for Hamel and Korea and you will find better ones than this book

I was stunned and disappointed to receive this. It had no relevence to anything I was looking for and to make matters worse, I received two copies, one day apart. This was a paper with no cover-something that you would run off on your copier. I would not recommend it to anyone for any reason.