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Pesticides and Health - How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection (BWB Texts) by Neil Pearce
$15.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts
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
$15.00 NZD
Category: Farming | Series: BWB Texts
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
Still Counting - Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-Making (BWB Texts) by Marilyn Waring
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: BWB Texts
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
The Bike and Beyond: Life on Two Wheels (BWB Texts) by Laura Williamson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: BWB Texts
'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 History of a Riot (BWB Texts) by Jared Davidson
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: BWB Texts
'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 Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand by Kathleen Kuehn
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
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
Towards a Warmer World: What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand's Future (BWB Texts) by Veronika Meduna
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
2014 was the hottest year since record keeping began back in 1880. July 2015 was recently confirmed as the globe's hottest month ever recorded, both on land and in the oceans. This December a major international meeting, to be held in Paris, seeks a new agreement to address climate change. Against th ...Show more
Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB Texts) by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
"Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy"--Back cover.