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100% Pure Future - New Zealand Tourism Renewed (BWB Texts) by Sarah Bennett (ed.)
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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
A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts) by Jess Berentson-Shaw
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Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
We may be in the golden age of information, with access to more facts than ever before. Yet in the time of fake news and post-truth politics, it seems that conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are even harder to debunk. Battling over facts can be exhausting and polarising. For those committ ...Show more
Antibiotic Resistance - The end of modern medicine? (BWB Texts) by Siouxsie Wiles
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Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, mic ...Show more
Christchurch Ruptures (BWB Texts) by Katie Pickles
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Category: Canterbury & Christchurch | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch in 2011 did more than rupture the surface of the city, argues historian Katie Pickles. It created a definitive endpoint to a history shaped by omission, by mythmaking, and by ideological storytelling. In this multi-layered BWB Text, Pickles uncovers what ...Show more
Complacent Nation (BWB Texts) by Gavin Ellis
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Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
New Zealanders are too complacent about the continuing erosion of their right to know what government is doing on their behalf. Political risk has become a primary consideration in whether official information requests will be met, and successive governments have allowed free speech rights to be over-ri ...Show more
Fair Borders?: Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century by David Hall
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Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Debates over immigration are heating up - with grave political consequences. It is no coincidence that calls to restrict national borders are intensifying at a time when people are more mobile than ever. But closed borders are no more imaginable in the foreseeable future than perfectly open borders. The ...Show more
Generation Rent - Rethinking New Zealand's Priorities (BWB Texts) by Shamubeel Eaqub; Selena Eaqub
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Category: Business & Finance | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
House prices may boom or bust but the long-term trend is clear: for more New Zealanders than ever, home ownership is out of reach. Incomes simply have not kept pace with skyrocketing property prices. 'Generation Rent' calls into question priorities at the heart of New Zealand's identity.In this BWB Text ...Show more
Going Places : Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Julie Fry
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Category: Business & Finance | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Migration and the movement of people is one of the critical issues confronting the world's nations in the twenty-first-century. This book is about the economic contribution of migration to and from New Zealand, one of the most frequently discussed aspects of the debate. Can immigration, in economic ter ...Show more
Hopes Dashed?: The Economics of Gender Inequality by Prue Hyman
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Category: Popular Science | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'What has happened to New Zealand women's economic and social status over the last twenty years?'In 1994, economist Prue Hyman published Women and Economics, an overview of the status of women in the New Zealand economy. Much has changed since then - but how much? Has the promise of equality been fulfil ...Show more
Imagining Decolonisation (BWB Texts) by Bianca Elkington; Jennie Smeaton; Rebecca Kiddle; Ocean Ripeka Mercier; Mike Ross; Amanda Thomas
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Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Decolonisation is a term that scares some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and bewildering concept for many New Zealanders yet needed if we are going to build a country that is fair and equal for all who live there. This book sets out the case for decolonisation by illuminating through ...Show more
Ko Taranaki Te Maunga (BWB Texts) by Rachel Buchanan
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Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In 1881, colonial troops invaded the village of Parihaka on the Taranaki coast. In an attempt to quell the non-violent direct action taken by the community against land confiscations, the government sent over 1500 troops into the village. Many people were expelled, buildings destroyed, and chiefs Te Whi ...Show more
Living with the Climate Crisis - Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by Tom Doig (editor)
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
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