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
The Child Poverty Debate : Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Series: BWB Texts
Short books on big subjects from great New Zealand writers.
The Whole Intimate Mess (BWB Texts) by Holly Walker
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Reading Level: Very Good
'I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal distress, I started telling myself a united story: the truth, or as close as I could get to it.' A Rhodes scholar and former Green MP, Holly Walker tells the sto ...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
The Inequality Debate - An Introduction by Max Rashbrooke
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | 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 Ground Between: Navigating the Oil and Mining Debate in New Zealand: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Sefton Darby
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | 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 New New Zealand: Facing Demographic Disruption by Paul Spoonley
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics
A BOLD NEW BOOK ON POPULATION TRENDS AND THE NEED TO CONFRONT THEM. In 2030 there may be six million of us. One and a half million of us will live overseas. We will be clustered in Auckland, dependent on migration, and worried about a shortage of workers. We havent planned for this. We need to. This ma ...Show more
In the Jaws of the Dragon - How China is Taking Over New Zealand and Australia by Ron Asher
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Reading Level: near fine
"China Inc., the business arm of China's repressive dictatorship, is trying to take over the world by buying key sectors of various countries' economies as part of its strategic plan for global control of the world's resources. China's rapid arms build-up suggests that it is preparing to back its ever i ...Show more
The Case for Cannabis Law Reform by Vince McLeod
35.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
The Case For Cannabis Law Reform makes the comprehensive argument for reforming our cannabis laws. Across 58 fully-referenced chapters, this book covers the practical, moral, economic, cultural, medicinal, historical and spiritual reasons to repeal cannabis prohibition - among others Compiled by former ...Show more
Three Cities - Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene by Rod Oram
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Orthodox is obsolete; conventional is kaput. We thought we knew how we make economics, politics, technology and nature work for us. But increasingly, they are failing to run by the rules and systems we've honed over recent decades. Boom-bust economies, fractured and destructive politics and a deeply deg ...Show more
Too Much Money - How Wealth Disparities Are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand by Max Rashbrooke
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
Today, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults – a club of some 40,000 people – has a net worth 68 times that of the average New Zealander. Too Much Money is the story of how wealth inequality is changing Aotearoa New Zealand. Possessing wealth opens up opportunities to live in certain areas, ge ...Show more
Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Survival Guide by Geoffrey Palmer; Gwen Palmer Steeds
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics
A survival guide to democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book aims to unravel the mysteries of our political system and show how ordinary people can navigate the political world and influence decisions made by our government. Its 40 chapters include a succinct history of government in Aotearoa New Ze ...Show more