The Drinking Game: How big business, the media and politicians shape the way you drink by Guyon Espiner
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
An incisive analysis of how our drinking culture is influenced by the government, media and big business, by investigative journalist Guyon Espiner. Ever wondered why it always seems like a good time for a drink? Four years ago, investigative journalist Guyon Espiner gave up drinking alcohol. He had be ...Show more
Demonising a Good Doctor: A Medical Scandal that Wasn't by Helen Overton
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Demonising a Good Doctor details every aspect of an inquiry that should go down as one of the worst travesties in New Zealand’s legal and medical history. Screening is more complex than many people realise. Public controversy over screening issues broke out in the 1980s in New Zealand leading to a jud ...Show more
100% Pure Future - New Zealand Tourism Renewed (BWB Texts) by Sarah Bennett (ed.)
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$24.99 (40% off)
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on New Zealand tourism, but the industry was already troubled by unchecked growth and questionable governance that has put pressure on the environment, infrastructure and communities. In this urgent collection of essays, nine authors outline their vision for sustain ...Show more
Leaders Like You: NZ Leaders Share Stories of Courage by Nick Sceats
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Through candid interviews, Leaders Like You reveals what makes New Zealand leaders tick. Indoing so it debunks many myths about leadership, not the least being that leaders are super heroes. Leaders Like You shows that leaders are everyday Kiwis.
Justice: Speaking Up for Crime's Silent Victims by Garth McVicar
$42.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Garth McVicar is the quintessential Kiwi battler. A cow-cocky from the Hawke's Bay and a dedicated family man, he - like many New Zealanders - noticed an alarming increase in violent crime. Garth took it upon himself to ask the hard questions of the legislators, demanding fairness and honesty in crimina ...Show more
Get off the Grass: Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy by Shaun Hendy; Paul Callaghan
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
In a brilliant intellectual adventure that ranges from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to economic geography and the science of complex networks, Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan explore how New Zealanders can learn to live off knowledge rather than nature. The key to increasing New Zealand's prosperity, the ...Show more
The Rhetoric and the Reality: New Zealand Schools and Schooling in the 21st Century by David Hood
$39.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
The aim of The Rhetoric and The Reality is to provoke public debate about our current system of secondary schooling in New Zealand. It takes readers down the path of history to explain why our system is what it is; it exposes the inadequacies and absurdities of a model of schooling designed 100 years ag ...Show more
Human Rights in New Zealand: Emerging Faultlines by Judy McGregor, Sylvia Bell, Margaret Wilson
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
New Zealand has long taken pride in its human rights record - and with good reason. It's not only that we were the first country in the world to give women the vote and played a prominent part in the establishment of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - more recently New Ze ...Show more
Portacom City: Reporting on the Christchurch and Kaikoura Earthquakes: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Paul Gorman
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
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
Whale Oil - One Man’s Fight to Save His Reputation, then His Life by Margie Thomson
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
In May 2012 Auckland businessman Matt Blomfield found himself the target of a vicious online attack, the work of Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater. The attack came out of the blue, destroying Blomfield’s reputation and career, stealing his identity, turning him into a social outcast. Two years after the ...Show more
The New New Zealand: Facing Demographic Disruption by Paul Spoonley
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
A BOLD NEW BOOK ON POPULATION TRENDS AND THE NEED TO CONFRONT THEM. In 2030 there may be six million of us. One and a half million of us will live overseas. We will be clustered in Auckland, dependent on migration, and worried about a shortage of workers. We havent planned for this. We need to. This ma ...Show more
Twenty Good Summers: Work Less, Live More and Make the Most of Your Money - Fully Updated and Revised Edition by Martin Hawes
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
A personal finance guide for baby boomers to create income for a good semi-retirement. When financial expert Martin Hawes turned 50 he realised there were many more mountains he wanted to climb, but he wasn't getting any younger! So, he thought, he had to make the next twenty summers really count. Eigh ...Show more