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Safeguarding the Future - Governing in an Uncertain World (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
$14.99 NZD
Category: Science | 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)
$14.99 NZD
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
$14.99 NZD
Category: Political/World | 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
$14.99 NZD
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
Student Political Action in New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Sylvia Nissen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Political/World | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Exploring the terrain between activism and apathy, Sylvia Nissen considers what it means to be a political actor from the perspective of students today. Drawing on in-depth interviews with New Zealand tertiary students, she traces their 'desires' for different types of politics, the 'demands' they exper ...Show more
Sugar, Rum and Tobacco (BWB Texts) by Mike Berridge
$14.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Can a sugar tax improve public health? Even if it can, is it the right thing to do? One of New Zealand's foremost health scientists, Mike Berridge, teams up with tax expert Lisa Marriott to explore the issue.This BWB Text explains the relationship between sugar and ill-health, and explores how taxes can ...Show more
Tax and Fairness by Deborah Russell
$14.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The world has changed a lot in the last thirty years, but New Zealand's tax system hasn't. Since the 1980s New Zealand's taxation policy has remained the same, despite substantial economic and social changes. The system may be familiar, but is it fair?Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher's lively analysis ...Show more
The Best of e-Tangata by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collected together here i ...Show more
The Best of e-Tangata, Volume Two (BWB Texts) by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
A thought-provoking set of Maori, Pasifika, and tangata Tiriti writers combine in this celebration of some of the best writing from E-Tangata. Traverse a landscape of contemporary and historical issues through the lens of a mother's loss, a man's hard-won expertise, a homesick student abroad and with th ...Show more
The Bike and Beyond: Life on Two Wheels (BWB Texts) by Laura Williamson
$14.99 NZD
Category: Transport | 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 Climate Dispossessed -Justice for the Pacific in Aotearoa? (BWB Texts) by Teall Crossen
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ | 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