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Growing Apart: Regional Prosperity in New Zealand by Shamubeel Eaqub
16.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is a small place, but its regions are not the same. Shamubeel Eaqub highlights the changing economic fortunes of people in different parts of New Zealand - the growing wedge between our regions. It is time for a rethink - a considered and coherent set of policies that will transcend politica ...Show more
Haerenga : Early Maori Journeys Across the Globe (BWB Texts) by Vincent O'Malley
15.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts
Māori and Europeans were encountering one another for the first time not just along the shorelines of New Zealand but also on the streets of Melbourne, Liverpool and New York. From the late eighteenth century, Māori travellers spread out from New Zealand across the globe. They travelled for a variety of ...Show more
He Pou Hiringa - Grounding Science and Technology in Te Ao Maori (BWB Texts) by Katharina Ruckstuhl (ed.); Merata Kawharu (ed.); Maria Amoamo (ed.)
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
This book brings together writing on the big questions about the role of Maori, tikanga and matauranga in shaping science and technological innovation. Written by Maori from diverse disciplines, it explores the potential for novel approaches, theories, methods and community engagement models in science ...Show more
Home Truths : Confronting New Zealand's Housing Crisis (BWB Texts) by Philippa Howden-Chapman
15.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Housing affordability. Unhealthy homes. Wealth inequality. Environmental sustainability. Social mobility. The state of New Zealand housing is central to major issues confronting this country. In this wide-ranging BWB Text, leading international housing researcher Philippa Howden-Chapman reveals how New ...Show more
Hopes Dashed?: The Economics of Gender Inequality by Prue Hyman
15.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'What has happened to New Zealand women's economic and social status over the last twenty years?'In 1994, economist Prue Hyman published Women and Economics, an overview of the status of women in the New Zealand economy. Much has changed since then - but how much? Has the promise of equality been fulfil ...Show more
Imagining Decolonisation (BWB Texts) by Bianca Elkington; Jennie Smeaton; Rebecca Kiddle; Ocean Ripeka Mercier; Mike Ross; Amanda Thomas
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Decolonisation is a term that scares some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and bewildering concept for many New Zealanders yet needed if we are going to build a country that is fair and equal for all who live there. This book sets out the case for decolonisation by illuminating through ...Show more
Kainga - People, Land and Belonging (BWB Texts) by Paul Tapsell
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
Is New Zealand ready to not just tick the Treaty partnership box, but actually open it and accept that Māori community-driven world views concerning their whenua is equally valid science, capable of underpinning, guiding and reshaping agricultural science and farming practices? This book calls for poli ...Show more
Karearea ( Kārearea ) (BWB Texts) by Māmari Stephens
15.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
My journey into law and mātauranga is one more defined by absence, understanding of loss, whakamā, accident and a sense of coming in from the cold, than by any programmatic acquisition of expertise. This collection of writing from Māmari Stephens (Te Rarawa) travels through introspection, loss and doub ...Show more
Late Love (BWB Texts) by Glenn Colquhoun
18.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'Most of the time I have no idea what to do with them or what to say in response to them.' Award-winning New Zealand poet Glenn Colquhoun is also a doctor who works with struggling young people at the margins, painfully aware of the limits of his role. In this BWB Text he offers penetrating insight int ...Show more
Living with the Climate Crisis - Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by Tom Doig (editor)
18.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
If much of the world can work together to beat a deadly pandemic, imagine what might happen if we turned our collective energy to tackling the climate crisis. The devastating summer of Australian bush fi res underlined the terrifying sense of a world pushed to the brink. Then came Covid-19, and with it ...Show more
Mountains to Sea: Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis (BWB Texts) by Mike Joy (editor)
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Series: BWB texts | Reading Level: very good
The state of New Zealand's freshwater has become an urgent public issue in recent years. From across the political spectrum, concern is growing about the pollution of New Zealand's rivers and streams. We all know they need fixing. But how do we do it? 'It strikes me with great clarity that if you look ...Show more
New Myths and Old Politics - The Waitangi Tribunal and the Challenge of Tradition (BWB Texts) by Tipene O'Regan
18.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Negotiating a claim before the Waitangi Tribunal can involve troubling challenges to an iwi's legitimacy, sometimes from unexpected places. In this unique behind-the-scenes account of the negotiation of Ngai Tahu's Waitangi Tribunal claim, Sir Tipene O'Regan describes what happened when claims of New Ag ...Show more