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The Covid Chronicles by Paul Little
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
The dramatic story of New Zealand's response to a global pandemic. For the first time in history, on 15 March 2020 the New Zealand government closed the country's borders. What followed was a story unprecedented in almost every way imaginable. Featuring Finance Minister Grant Robertson, science commun ...Show more
The Road To Hell: State violence against children in post war New Zealand by STANLEY ELIZABETH
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
From the 1950s to the 1980s, the New Zealand government took more than 100,000 children from experiences of strife, neglect, poverty or family violence and placed them under state care in residential facilities. In homes like Epuni and Kingslea, Kohitere and Allendale, the state took over as parent. The ...Show more
The Quiet Forest The Case Against Aerial 1080 by Fiona M F McQueen
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
This informative and well-researched book by Fiona McQueen drives a hole through the New Zealand Department of Conservation's mantra that the deadly and indiscriminate 1080 poison is necessary to protect native birds and other fauna. Anyone who genuinely cares about New Zealand's wonderful environment c ...Show more
Protecting Paradise: 1080 and the Fight to Save New Zealand's Wildlife by Dave Hansford
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
New Zealand’s native wildlife is in crisis, withering under a relentless assault from rats, stoats, possums and other introduced pests. If we are to realise the vision of a predator-free New Zealand, we must defend our biodiversity more doggedly, across a broader front than we do now. 1080 poison rema ...Show more
Rottenomics: The Story of New Zealand's Leaky Buildings Disaster by Peter Dyer
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
For over 25 years our building industry, economy and Government have failed to provide this basic guarantee: new buildings will not rot. Leaky buildings are the result of an unfortunate confluence of industrial, legislative, historical and cultural factors. Collectively, these elements stubbornly contin ...Show more
Fair Borders?: Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century by David Hall
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | 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
Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour by Nicky Hager; Jon Stephenson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Reading Level: Near Fine
In August 2010, a New Zealand soldier died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. In retaliation, the New Zealand SAS led a raid on two isolated villages in search of the fighters they suspected were responsible. They all knew the rules. Prior to firing weapons, their freshly issued orders said, `the ...Show more
Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis (BWB Texts) by Mike Joy
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand's dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden - and not so hidden - costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to such a degree that we face an environ ...Show more
Wellbeing Economics : Future Directions for New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Paul Dalziel
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
Seventy-five years after Labour's social security reforms of the 1930s, it is time for a major shift in how New Zealand regards the wellbeing of its people. Instead of measuring economic growth for its own sake, we should be assessing how well it enables New Zealanders to lead 'the kinds of lives they v ...Show more
No Country for Old Maids?: Talking Differently About the New Zealand 'Man Drought'(BWB Texts) by Hannah August
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called 'man drought' is a hot topic for journalists and academics alike, who comment on how the situation might affect New Zealand women's chances of finding love. Yet they rarely st ...Show more
Shouting Zeros and Ones: Digital technology, ethics and policy in New Zealand: 2020 (BWB Texts) by Andrew Chen
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
Understanding New Zealand: A Statistical Journey Through the Demographic Diversity of Aotearoa by Dan McGlashan
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
Across 58 chapters, this book tells you which Kiwi demographics voted for which parties in the 2017 and 2014 General Elections, how strongly those demographics supported each party and how that appears to be changing across time. It also discusses the various interrelations between age, income, sex, edu ...Show more