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The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation (BWB Text) by Matthew Scobie, Anna Sturman
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
What do the economics of decolonisation mean for the future of Aotearoa? This question drives the work of Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman as they explore the complex relationship between tangata whenua and capitalism. By weaving together historical insights and contemporary analysis, this Text reveals ...Show more
The First Migration : Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450 (BWB Texts) by Atholl Anderson
14.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: good
Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants. Taken fro ...Show more
The Ground Between: Navigating the Oil and Mining Debate in New Zealand: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Sefton Darby
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | 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 History of a Riot (BWB Texts) by Jared Davidson
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.' In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions through petitions, strikes and, ultimately, violence. Yet ...Show more
The Inequality Debate - An Introduction by Max Rashbrooke
14.99 NZD
Category: InBox | 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 Piketty Phenomenon - New Zealand Perspectives (BWB Texts)
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty's assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than earned wealth has energised debate. Hailed as 'bigger than Marx' (The Economist) or dismissed as 'me ...Show more
The Platform - The radical legacy of the Polynesian Panthers (BWB Texts) by Melani Anae
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
In a book that is both deeply personal and highly political, Melani Anae recalls the radical activism of Auckland's Polynesian Panthers - the movement modelled on the US Black Panther Party 'but without guns'. The Polynesian Panthers was founded in response to the racist treatment of Pacific Islanders i ...Show more
The Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand by Kathleen Kuehn
14.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Only sustained public pressure can prevent the complicit submission and cultural amnesia that seems to follow every new revelation about surveillance in everyday life. Recent revelations about the nature and extent of global surveillance programmes have shocked many. But what are their implications in t ...Show more
The Stolen Island : Searching for 'Ata (BWB Texts) by Scott Hamilton
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
One day in 1863 a strange ship stopped at 'Ata, a tiny island in the wild seas between Tonga and New Zealand, and sailed away with one hundred and forty-four men, women, and children. The 'Atans were never heard from again, and in Tonga their fate became the subject of legends and superstitions. Uncover ...Show more
The Struggle for Sovereignty - New Zealand and Twenty-First Century Statehood (BWB Texts) by Margaret Wilson
14.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: BWB texts | Reading Level: very good
In the era of public choice and free markets, does the New Zealand state still have the best interests of its individual citizens at heart? Since 1984, as Margaret Wilson argues, the shift to a neo-liberal public policy framework has profoundly affected the country's sovereignty. In this far-sighted ...Show more
Thorndon, Wellington and Home - My Katherine Mansfield Project (BWB Texts) by Kirsty Gunn
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
For London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning to the city of her birth to spend a winter in a tiny colonial cottage in Thorndon is an exciting opportunity to walk the very streets and hills that Katherine Mansfield left behind on her departure from New Zealand, but later longed to revisit. In this exq ...Show more
Three Cities - Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene by Rod Oram
14.99 NZD
Category: InBox | 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