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100% Pure Future - New Zealand Tourism Renewed (BWB Texts) by Sarah Bennett (ed.)
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on New Zealand tourism, but the industry was already troubled by unchecked growth and questionable governance that has put pressure on the environment, infrastructure and communities. In this urgent collection of essays, nine authors outline their vision for sustain ...Show more
A Careful Revolution: Towards a Low-Emissions Future by David Hall (editor)
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Climate change is happening and the potential long-term costs are incalculable. But how do we manage the short-term costs of mitigation? How do we undertake a low-emissions transition that wont undermine the public support that it relies upon? This book makes the case for a careful revolution and provid ...Show more
A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts) by Jess Berentson-Shaw
$14.99 NZD
$18.00 (16% off)
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
We may be in the golden age of information, with access to more facts than ever before. Yet in the time of fake news and post-truth politics, it seems that conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are even harder to debunk. Battling over facts can be exhausting and polarising. For those committ ...Show more
Antibiotic Resistance - The end of modern medicine? (BWB Texts) by Siouxsie Wiles
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, mic ...Show more
Barefoot Years by Martin Edmond
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory's infinite field.' Martin Edmond's Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. It is evocative and poignant, detailed yet fragmentary, f ...Show more
Beyond These Shores - Aotearoa and the World (BWB Texts) by Nina Hall
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
In recent years, more people are calling for an independent, values-based foreign policy and parties of all political stripes are looking for new ideas to achieve that. This book brings together a diverse group of New Zealanders to outline their visions for New Zealands role in the world. It sparks a co ...Show more
Christchurch Ruptures (BWB Texts) by Katie Pickles
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch in 2011 did more than rupture the surface of the city, argues historian Katie Pickles. It created a definitive endpoint to a history shaped by omission, by mythmaking, and by ideological storytelling. In this multi-layered BWB Text, Pickles uncovers what ...Show more
Complacent Nation (BWB Texts) by Gavin Ellis
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
New Zealanders are too complacent about the continuing erosion of their right to know what government is doing on their behalf. Political risk has become a primary consideration in whether official information requests will be met, and successive governments have allowed free speech rights to be over-ri ...Show more
Creeks and Kitchens: A Childhood Memoir by Maurice Gee
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
When someone says the word 'kitchen' I get an instant flash of that room, with its black stove and drying rack, its brown lino, its worn mat and wooden table, the Philco radio on the mantelpiece. And 'creek' works in a similar way. These are things that can start me writing.... Widely regarded as one of ...Show more
Fair Borders?: Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century by David Hall
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Debates over immigration are heating up - with grave political consequences. It is no coincidence that calls to restrict national borders are intensifying at a time when people are more mobile than ever. But closed borders are no more imaginable in the foreseeable future than perfectly open borders. The ...Show more
False Divides (BWB Texts) by Lana Lopesi
$14.99 NZD
$18.00 (16% off)
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa is the great ocean continent. While it is common to understand ocean and seas as something that divides land, for those Indigenous to the Pacific or the Moana, it was traditionally a connector and an ancestor. Imperialism in the Moana, however, created false divides between islands a ...Show more
Geering and God 1965-71 - The Heresy Trial That Divided New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Lloyd Geering
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
The events surrounding the 'trial' of Lloyd Geering for heresy in the late 1960s were unprecedented in New Zealand. Charged with 'doctrinal error' and 'disturbing the peace and unity of the church', Geering was thrust into the heat of public debate. Sourced from his autobiography Wrestling With God, the ...Show more