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The Best of e-Tangata by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collected together here i ...Show more
The Best of e-Tangata, Volume Two (BWB Texts) by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
$17.99 (16% off)
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
A thought-provoking set of Maori, Pasifika, and tangata Tiriti writers combine in this celebration of some of the best writing from E-Tangata. Traverse a landscape of contemporary and historical issues through the lens of a mother's loss, a man's hard-won expertise, a homesick student abroad and with th ...Show more
The Bike and Beyond: Life on Two Wheels (BWB Texts) by Laura Williamson
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'The bicycle is a time machine, a link to the past. But sometimes the bicycle also feels like a link to the future - not the future we once imagined, the one with flying cars and replicators, but more like the one the Victorians might have pictured: streets crowded with bikes, strange ones of all kinds. ...Show more
The Child Poverty Debate : Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
$14.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: BWB Texts
Short books on big subjects from great New Zealand writers.
The Climate Dispossessed -Justice for the Pacific in Aotearoa? (BWB Texts) by Teall Crossen
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
The world is heating up beyond the capacity of some countries to cope. Entire populations of Pacific islands are threatened, jeopardising the sovereign rights of these countries and the security of the region. This book explores what a just response to the risk of climate change displacement in the Paci ...Show more
The Edge of Life : Controversies and Challenges in Human Health (BWB Texts) by Mike Berridge
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Eminent research scientist Mike Berridge unpacks the myths around some of the most popular health issues, including cancer, vaccination, sugar consumption, and water fluoridation. This is not just a clear and current exposition of public health matters that are often mired in misinformation: it is also ...Show more
The First Migration : Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450 (BWB Texts) by Atholl Anderson
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: good
Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants. Taken fro ...Show more
The Ground Between: Navigating the Oil and Mining Debate in New Zealand: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Sefton Darby
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Battles over oil and mining developments in New Zealand are fierce and polarised. Often presented as a simple trade-off between conservation or quick profit, the debate leaves little space for discussion across ideological divides. The Ground Between provides a rare account from someone who has worked w ...Show more
The Health of the People (BWB Texts) by David Skegg
$14.99 NZD
$18.00 (16% off)
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In August 2016, forty per cent of the residents of Havelock North were suddenly struck down by a serious bacterial infection. The outbreak of campylobacter, caused by the contamination of the water supply with sheep faeces, hospitalised forty-five people and left at least three dead. Eminent public heal ...Show more
The History of a Riot (BWB Texts) by Jared Davidson
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Category: NZ History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.' In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions through petitions, strikes and, ultimately, violence. Yet ...Show more
The Inequality Debate - An Introduction by Max Rashbrooke
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
The divide between New Zealand's poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries. Max Rashbrooke's succinct introduction to these changes in our society, drawn from the larger work Inequality: A ...Show more
The Interregnum: Rethinking New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Morgan Godfery
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Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: good
'The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear' - Antonio GramsciIs New Zealand's political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we're entering the interregnum, that ambiguous moment ...Show more