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Island Time - New Zealand's Pacific Futures (BWB Texts) by Damon Salesa
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Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts
New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a fuller understanding of what life is really like on these shores. After all, Salesa argues, in man ...Show more
Kainga - People, Land and Belonging (BWB Texts) by Paul Tapsell
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Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
Is New Zealand ready to not just tick the Treaty partnership box, but actually open it and accept that Māori community-driven world views concerning their whenua is equally valid science, capable of underpinning, guiding and reshaping agricultural science and farming practices? This book calls for poli ...Show more
Karearea ( Kārearea ) (BWB Texts) by Māmari Stephens
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Category: NZ Non Fiction | 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)
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Category: NZ Fiction | 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: NZ Non Fiction | 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
#NoFly - Walking the Talk on Climate Change (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
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Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
What happens when a leading New Zealand scientist (and frequent traveler) rules out flying for a year? From overnight buses to epic train journeys, Shaun Hendy's experiences speak to our desire to do something -anything- in the face of growing climate anxiety. #NoFly confronts the hard questions of one ...Show more
Old Asian, New Asian (BWB Texts) by K. Emma Ng
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Category: NZ Non Fiction | 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: Culture & Life | 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
Pesticides and Health - How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection (BWB Texts) by Neil Pearce
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Category: Sports, Hobbies, 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
Portacom City: Reporting on the Christchurch and Kaikoura Earthquakes: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Paul Gorman
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Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts
When natural disaster strikes, how much is the public entitled to know - even when the scientists aren't sure? What obligations do they have to a general public thirsty for information about what will happen next? Should they wait until they have all the facts before they say anything? Caught up in t ...Show more
Rebuilding the Kainga - Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri (BWB Texts) by Jade Kake
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Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB texts
Home can and should be a source of wellbeing, a place that connects us to our whanau, community, land, culture and history. Pre-nineteenth-century Maori society was complex: rich tribal economies were built and flourished, and there was a focus on valuing the whenua and resources that supported all. The ...Show more
Sea Change: Climate Politics and New Zealand by Bronwyn Hayward
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Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
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