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Luminous Moments by Paul Callaghan
$14.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Acknowledged internationally for his ground-breaking scientific research in the field of magnetic resonance, Sir Paul Callaghan was a scientist and visionary with a rare gift for promoting science to a wide audience. Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments brings together some of his most significant writing, ...Show more
Mountains to Sea: Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis (BWB Texts) by Mike Joy (editor)
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Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB texts | 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? '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
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Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
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
Old Asian, New Asian (BWB Texts) by K. Emma Ng
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Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
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
Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis by Mike Joy
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Category: Natural History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
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
Portacom City: Reporting on the Christchurch and Kaikoura Earthquakes: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Paul Gorman
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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
Ruth, Roger and Me: Debts and Legacies (BWB Texts) by Andrew Dean
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Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'Your words of "discomfort, loss, and disconnection" don't resonate with me at all.' Ruth Richardson to Andrew Dean, 16 December 2014. A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In Ruth, Roger and Me, Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought ...Show more
Safeguarding the Future - Governing in an Uncertain World (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
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Category: Popular Science | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In an era of populist politics, Brexit, Donald Trump, 24-hour news cycles and perpetual election campaigning, how do we govern well for the future? How do we take the long view, ensuring that present-day policy decisions reflect the needs and safeguard the interests of future generations?In this timely ...Show more
Silencing Science (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ...the Fonterra botulism scare ...the Christchurch earthquakes - in all these recent crises the role played by scientists has been under the spotlight.What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis - to the government, to their employer, or to the wider public despera ...Show more
Still Counting - Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-Making (BWB Texts) by Marilyn Waring
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Category: Children | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
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
Sugar, Rum and Tobacco (BWB Texts) by Mike Berridge
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Category: Wine, Beer & Spirits | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Can a sugar tax improve public health? Even if it can, is it the right thing to do? One of New Zealand's foremost health scientists, Mike Berridge, teams up with tax expert Lisa Marriott to explore the issue.This BWB Text explains the relationship between sugar and ill-health, and explores how taxes can ...Show more
Tax and Fairness by Deborah Russell
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Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The world has changed a lot in the last thirty years, but New Zealand's tax system hasn't. Since the 1980s New Zealand's taxation policy has remained the same, despite substantial economic and social changes. The system may be familiar, but is it fair?Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher's lively analysis ...Show more