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#NoFly - Walking the Talk on Climate Change (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ | 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
$14.99 NZD
Category: Science/Philosophy | 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
On Coming Home (BWB Texts) by Paula Morris
$14.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'The declamatory return; a homeland as a 'wearying enigma'. This all makes sense to me. The New Zealand that's home to me may be a place of sheep and rugby and number-eight wire, whatever that is, but it's also none of those things. Am I still a New Zealander?' Award-winning writer Paula Morris confront ...Show more
Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater : A Writer’s Early Life (BWB Texts) by Albert Wendt
$14.99 NZD
Category: Political/World | 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
$14.99 NZD
Category: Nature/Eco | 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
$14.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Rebuilding the Kainga - Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri (BWB Texts) by Jade Kake
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Category: NZ | Series: BWB texts | Reading Level: very good
Home can and should be a source of wellbeing, a place that connects us to our whanau, community, land, culture and history. Pre-nineteenth-century Maori society was complex: rich tribal economies were built and flourished, and there was a focus on valuing the whenua and resources that supported all. The ...Show more
Safeguarding the Future - Governing in an Uncertain World (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
$14.99 NZD
Category: Science/Philosophy | 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
$14.99 NZD
Category: Political/World | 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)
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Category: NZ | 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
Silencing Science (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
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Category: No Category | 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
Still Counting - Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-Making (BWB Texts) by Marilyn Waring
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Category: Political/World | 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