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Antibiotic Resistance - The end of modern medicine? (BWB Texts) by Siouxsie Wiles
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: BWB Texts
In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, mic ...Show more
Beyond These Shores - Aotearoa and the World (BWB Texts) by Nina Hall
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: BWB Texts
In recent years, more people are calling for an independent, values-based foreign policy and parties of all political stripes are looking for new ideas to achieve that. This book brings together a diverse group of New Zealanders to outline their visions for New Zealands role in the world. It sparks a co ...Show more
Growing Apart: Regional Prosperity in New Zealand by Shamubeel Eaqub
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
New Zealand is a small place, but its regions are not the same. Shamubeel Eaqub highlights the changing economic fortunes of people in different parts of New Zealand - the growing wedge between our regions. It is time for a rethink - a considered and coherent set of policies that will transcend politica ...Show more
Home Truths : Confronting New Zealand's Housing Crisis (BWB Texts) by Philippa Howden-Chapman
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
Housing affordability. Unhealthy homes. Wealth inequality. Environmental sustainability. Social mobility. The state of New Zealand housing is central to major issues confronting this country. In this wide-ranging BWB Text, leading international housing researcher Philippa Howden-Chapman reveals how New ...Show more
Imagining Decolonisation (BWB Texts) by Bianca Elkington; Jennie Smeaton; Rebecca Kiddle; Ocean Ripeka Mercier; Mike Ross; Amanda Thomas
$18.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
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
Karearea ( Kārearea ) (BWB Texts) by Māmari Stephens
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Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts
My journey into law and mātauranga is one more defined by absence, understanding of loss, whakamā, accident and a sense of coming in from the cold, than by any programmatic acquisition of expertise. This collection of writing from Māmari Stephens (Te Rarawa) travels through introspection, loss and doub ...Show more
Living with the Climate Crisis - Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by Tom Doig (editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts
If much of the world can work together to beat a deadly pandemic, imagine what might happen if we turned our collective energy to tackling the climate crisis. The devastating summer of Australian bush fi res underlined the terrifying sense of a world pushed to the brink. Then came Covid-19, and with it ...Show more
Mountains to Sea: Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis (BWB Texts) by Mike Joy (editor)
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Category: Environment | Series: BWB texts
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
New Myths and Old Politics - The Waitangi Tribunal and the Challenge of Tradition (BWB Texts) by Tipene O'Regan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
Negotiating a claim before the Waitangi Tribunal can involve troubling challenges to an iwi's legitimacy, sometimes from unexpected places. In this unique behind-the-scenes account of the negotiation of Ngai Tahu's Waitangi Tribunal claim, Sir Tipene O'Regan describes what happened when claims of New Ag ...Show more
No Country for Old Maids? Talking Differently About the 'Man Drought' by Hannah August
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
In 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called 'man drought' is a hot topic for journalists and academics alike, who comment on how the situation might affect New Zealand women's chances of finding love. Yet they rarely st ...Show more
Old Asian, New Asian (BWB Texts) by K. Emma Ng
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
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
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: BWB Texts
'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