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No Country for Old Maids? Talking Differently About the 'Man Drought' 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
#NoFly - Walking the Talk on Climate Change (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
15.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
What happens when a leading New Zealand scientist (and frequent traveler) rules out flying for a year? From overnight buses to epic train journeys, Shaun Hendy's experiences speak to our desire to do something -anything- in the face of growing climate anxiety. #NoFly confronts the hard questions of one ...Show more
Old Asian, New Asian (BWB Texts) by K. Emma Ng
16.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In 2010, the Human Rights Commission found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand. Yet although anti-Asian prejudice has a long history in New Zealand, it is seldom publicly acknowledged.K. Emma Ng shines light onto the persistence of anti-Asia ...Show more
Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater : A Writer’s Early Life (BWB Texts) by Albert Wendt
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In this BWB Text, Manualaivao Albert Wendt offers his readers a short but tantalising tour of his early life – and the influences that shaped him as a novelist and poet. The context and contours, the sights and sounds, the myths and memories of his Samoan upbringing, in the swampy Vaipe of Apia’s back ...Show more
Pesticides and Health - How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection (BWB Texts) by Neil Pearce
15.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand has been one of the world's heaviest users of pesticides, including some contaminated with dioxin, a notorious toxic chemical. In this BWB Text a leading epidemiologist uses the example of dioxin to illustrate how badly New Zealand handles problems of environmental pollutants, and why we can ...Show more
Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis 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
Portacom City: Reporting on the Christchurch and Kaikoura Earthquakes: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Paul Gorman
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
When natural disaster strikes, how much is the public entitled to know - even when the scientists aren't sure? What obligations do they have to a general public thirsty for information about what will happen next? Should they wait until they have all the facts before they say anything? Caught up in t ...Show more
Ruth, Roger and Me: Debts and Legacies (BWB Texts) by Andrew Dean
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'Your words of "discomfort, loss, and disconnection" don't resonate with me at all.' Ruth Richardson to Andrew Dean, 16 December 2014. A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In Ruth, Roger and Me, Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought ...Show more
Safeguarding the Future - Governing in an Uncertain World (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In an era of populist politics, Brexit, Donald Trump, 24-hour news cycles and perpetual election campaigning, how do we govern well for the future? How do we take the long view, ensuring that present-day policy decisions reflect the needs and safeguard the interests of future generations?In this timely ...Show more
Sea Change: Climate Politics and New Zealand by Bronwyn Hayward
15.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The scientific consensus is clear - our climate is changing and action is needed urgently. Yet at the same time, it can seem that the solutions needed are too large and the problem too insurmountable for New Zealand to tackle. Bronwyn Hayward is an international expert on sustainability, youth politics ...Show more
Shouting Zeros and Ones - Digital technology, ethics and policy in New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Andrew Chen (editor)
15.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
‘Understanding how the zeros and ones increasingly influence and control our lives is critical to understanding how we can reciprocate influence and control back onto those zeros and ones.’ This vital book is a call to action: to reduce online harm, to protect the integrity of our digital lives and to u ...Show more
Still Counting - Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-Making (BWB Texts) by Marilyn Waring
15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
30 years ago, Marilyn Waring's ground-breaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women's unpaid work. Counting for Nothing became a phenomenon: it was read and discussed around the world, and ev ...Show more