Pages closes after document is closed

I found the solution to this somewhere once, but it wasn't in reference to pages. Under Mavericks with Pages 5, the app will close if I've closed out the only document I've been working on and often need to restart it. Not exactly earth-shattering, but what is the setting to prevent Pages from closing when a single document is closed?

Apps closing when documents are closed is the norm on Windows and Linux.
Apple has confused matters on the Mac by sometimes doing it* and sometimes not doing it, leaving the user to puzzle out what the pattern is, or isn't.
Peter
* Notes, iWeb, Garageband, Unarchiver, Renamer, UnRARX, and others that I only notice in passing annoyance.

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