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Contents : introduction - the power of creative Kiwis 1. The Marvellous Morgans - Gareth Morgan (economist) - Joanne Morgan (truckie and traveller) - Sam Morgan (Trade Me) 2. IT entrepreneurs - Seeby Woodhouse (Orcon Internet) - Rod Drury (IT entrepreneur) 3. Technology - Warren, Brent and Darren Robinson (small chips, big company) - Dennis Chapman (electronics maestro) - Bill Buckley (magnetic entrepreneur) 4. Social Pioneers - Mary Ann Muller (women’s rights) - Muriel Bell (nutrition) 5. Free-diving Kiwis - Ant Williams (New Zealand free-diving champion) - William Trubridge (world record free-diver) 6. Car Crazy - Sybil Lupp (the Jaguar lady) - Bruce McLaren (motoring legend) - Chris Amon (over 100 Grand Prix races) - Scott Dixon (youngest and fastest) - A1 Grand Prix (Colin Giltrap, Jonny Reid, Matt Halliday) 7. Enterprising Engineers - Trevor McCoid (the lawnmower man) - Alan Gibbs (Aquada) Civil Engineers - Archibald Milne Hamilton (Hamilton Road) - George Ball (road surface scientist) 8. Independent Spirits - The Independent Republic of Whangamomona - Tim Wallis (the warbird of Fiordland) - Richard Hayes (rescue pilot) 9. Leisure and Pleasure - The magnificent Mills family - Robert and Peter Lynn (woodworking and kites) - Andrew Akers and Dwane van der Sluis (Zorb) - Allan Croad (mountain buggy) - Hec and John Ramsey (Buzzy bee) - Mike McManaway (Tantrix) 10. Sports Stars - Peter Blake (giant of the sea - Sailing) - The America’s Cup (Russell Coutts, Dean Barker, Grant Dalton, Brad Butterworth and others) - Tom Ellison (founder of black) - Gordon Tietjens (sevens wizard) - Madonna Harris (wonder woman) - Steve Williams (world-s greatest golf caddy) - Michael Campbell (golf master) 11. Sensational Scientists - Sir Ernest Marsden (Rutherford’s protege) - Ray Avery (science for humanity) - Margaret Brimble (organic scientist) - Kamla Kant Pandey (world plant geneticist) 12. Ingenious Inventors - Peter Witehira (power boat) - Shane Inder (product designer) - Norma McCulloch (top female inventor) - Luke Nola (inventor mentor) Young Inventors from Let’s Get Inventin’ - Brittany Smith-Frank (Gurgle Gobbler) - Natalie Crimp (UV sensor) - Sam Sinclair (lacer clips) - Sarah Trass (thief-proof craypot) 13. Articulate Artists - Len Lye (innovative artist and inventor) - Bruce Mason (pioneer playwright) - Janet Frame (escaping the asylum) - Margaret Mahy (winning the Little Nobel Prize) - Lloyd Jones (New Zealand’s first million dollar author) 14. Musical Maestros - Inia Te Wiata (from the freezing works to Covent Garden) - Kiri Te Kanawa (diva) - Howard Morrison (singing in his blood) - The Brothers Finn (ingenious musicians) 15. Entertainment - Dean Lonergan (New Zealand’s own Barnum) - Chris Morley-Hall (festival man) - Phil Keoghan (no opportunity wasted) - John Barnett (South Pacific Pictures) - Brotha D and Andy Murnane (Dawn Raid Entertainment) 16. Kiwi Stars - Beatrice Tinsley (astronomer and cosmologist) - Leslie John Comrie (astronomer and computation pioneer) - Alan Gilmore and Pamela Kilmartin (asteroid hunters) 17. Femmes de Fashion - Karen Walker (Karen in Fashion Land) - Trelise Cooper (feminine democracy) - Annah Stretton (the marvel of Morrinsville) - Catherine Hansby (can-do on the catwalk) 18. Barons of Business - Sam Emery (Maori business pioneer) - Michael Hill (putting the sparkle into jewellery) - Jim Anderton and Sam Knowles (Kiwibank) - Bruce Plested (Mainfreight) - George Fistonich (Villa Maria) - Geoff Ross (Chief Vodka Bloke at 42 Below) - Bob Robertson (town builder) 19. Eco-friendly Entrepreneurs - Richard Williams (Potatopak) - Peri Drysdale (eco-friendly clothes) 20. Fantastic Filmmakers - Rudall and Ramai Hayward (pioneer filmmakers) - Bill Gavin (film producer) - Stefan Lewis (The Waimate Conspiracy) - Andrew Adamson (the Shrek man) 21. Weta Workshop and Digital - Richard Taylor, Tania Rodger, Peter Jackson, Jamie Selkirk, George Port, Jim Booth and others (Prop and costume design); Bibliography; About the author;