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The Bike and Beyond: Life on Two Wheels (BWB Texts) by Laura Williamson
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'The bicycle is a time machine, a link to the past. But sometimes the bicycle also feels like a link to the future - not the future we once imagined, the one with flying cars and replicators, but more like the one the Victorians might have pictured: streets crowded with bikes, strange ones of all kinds. ...Show more
The Child Poverty Debate : Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
$14.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
Short books on big subjects from great New Zealand writers.
The Climate Dispossessed -Justice for the Pacific in Aotearoa? (BWB Texts) by Teall Crossen
$14.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
The world is heating up beyond the capacity of some countries to cope. Entire populations of Pacific islands are threatened, jeopardising the sovereign rights of these countries and the security of the region. This book explores what a just response to the risk of climate change displacement in the Paci ...Show more
The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation (BWB Text) by Matthew Scobie, Anna Sturman
$17.99 NZD
Category: 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 Edge of Life : Controversies and Challenges in Human Health (BWB Texts) by Mike Berridge
$14.99 NZD
Category: health | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Eminent research scientist Mike Berridge unpacks the myths around some of the most popular health issues, including cancer, vaccination, sugar consumption, and water fluoridation. This is not just a clear and current exposition of public health matters that are often mired in misinformation: it is also ...Show more
The Health of the People (BWB Texts) by David Skegg
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In August 2016, forty per cent of the residents of Havelock North were suddenly struck down by a serious bacterial infection. The outbreak of campylobacter, caused by the contamination of the water supply with sheep faeces, hospitalised forty-five people and left at least three dead. Eminent public heal ...Show more
The History of a Riot (BWB Texts) by Jared Davidson
$14.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | 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: Non Fiction | 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 Interregnum: Rethinking New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Morgan Godfery
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: good
'The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear' - Antonio GramsciIs New Zealand's political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we're entering the interregnum, that ambiguous moment ...Show more
The Piketty Phenomenon - New Zealand Perspectives (BWB Texts)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Business | 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: New Zealand 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: New Zealand Non Fiction | 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