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The Piketty Phenomenon : New Zealand Perspectives (BWB Texts)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts
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
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal - The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
Mountains to Sea: Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis by Mike Joy
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
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? In Mountains to Sea, leading ecologist Mike Joy team ...Show more
Shouting Zeros and Ones: Digital technology, ethics and policy in New Zealand: 2020 (BWB Texts) by Andrew Chen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Politics
No Country for Old Maids?: Talking Differently About the New Zealand 'Man Drought'(BWB Texts) by Hannah August
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
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
New Myths and Old Politics : The Waitangi Tribunal and the Challenge of Tradition (BWB Texts) by Tipene O'Regan
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts Ser.
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
A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
$24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMES The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democr ...Show more
Thorndon: Wellington and Home, My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning to the city of her birth to spend a winter in a tiny colonial cottage in Thorndon is an exciting opportunity to walk the very streets and hills that Katherine Mansfield left behind on her departure from New Zealand, but later longed to revisit. In this exqu ...Show more
Uninhabitable Earth: Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. We've been taught that warming would be slow-but, barring very dramatic action, each of these impacts is likely to arrive within the length of a new mortgage signed this year. What will it be like to ...Show more
Beyond These Shores - Aotearoa and the World (BWB Texts) by Nina Hall
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics
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
The Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand by Kathleen Kuehn
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts Ser. | 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
The Great Successor - The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong un, Sun of the 21st Century by Anna Fifield
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody storie ...Show more