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The Villa at the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Reading Level: Very Good
A provocative and insightful exploration of rebuilding our homes, communities and cities after their devastation. Where are we? How did we get here? Where do we go now? From nineteenth-century attempts to create Utopias to America's rustbelt, from Darwin's study of worms to China's phantom cities, this ...Show more
The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities by Austin Troy
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of The Very Hungry City. Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains for general readers how a city with a high 'urban energ ...Show more
Tell You What : Great New Zealand Nonfiction, 2015 by Susanna Andrew
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Reading Level: Very Good
On the web and the wireless, in magazines and journals, at prizegivings and pōwhiri, New Zealanders are talking and writing about the world right now. We’ve been producing essays and articles, speeches and submissions, tweets and travelogues – nonfiction, in other words. This book collects some of New Z ...Show more
Christchurch Ruptures by Katie Pickles
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | 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
Unquiet Time: Aotearoa/New Zealand in a Fast Changing World by Colin James
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
In Unquiet Time, Colin James describes a world in disorder as it rebalances politically, economically and demographically; a technology that is changing the way we live and ‘work’ and globalising us in new ways; looming environmental limits, climate change and biosecurity and pandemic threats; a need fo ...Show more
Antibiotic Resistance (BWB Text) by Siouxsie Wiles
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | 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
Why Science is Sexist (BWB Texts) by Nicola Gaston
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In June 2015, Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt resigned from the Faculty of Life Sciences at University College London after making a dismissive remark about female scientists. The incident is just the tip of the iceberg, argues Nicola Gaston, President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists. In this ti ...Show more
The Catch : How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Ocean by Michael Field
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Reading Level: Very Good
On November 9, 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific, a Korean ship came alongside Tai Ching 21. The Taiwan-flagged fishing boat was eerily silent. Three life rafts were missing, and all 29 of the Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino crew. A quest to discover the men's identities led jou ...Show more
The Interregnum: Rethinking New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Morgan Godfery
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | 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
Silencing Science (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ...the Fonterra botulism scare ...the Christchurch earthquakes - in all these recent crises the role played by scientists has been under the spotlight.What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis - to the government, to their employer, or to the wider public despera ...Show more
Twelve Thousand Hours: Education and Poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand by Ed. Vicki Carpenter & Sue Osborne
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
There is well-documented concern regarding the links between poverty and education; statistics demonstrate, over many decades, that the economically poorer the New Zealand child's family, the more likely it is the child will not reach her/his potential. The blame for such inequitable outcomes is various ...Show more
The Dirty Game by Andrew Jennings
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
In The Dirty Game, investigative reporter and BBC Panorama presenter Andrew Jennings, who has been heralded around the world for his decade-long pursuit of this story, uncovers the eye-watering level of fraud and criminal activity at the heart of FIFA, which has been described as the biggest sporting sc ...Show more