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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The settlement of iwi claims under the Treaty of Waitangi has drawn international attention, as other nations seek ways to build new relationships between indigenous peoples and the state.Here leading scholars consider the impact of Treaty settlements on the management and ownership of key resources...
The Quiet Revolution
Turbulence and Transition in Contemporary New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In The Quiet Revolution, leading political commentator Colin James analyses New Zealand's market-based reforms of the 1980s as they are happening. Writing a first draft of history, he examines how the 'quiet revolution' is seen alternately as a betrayal, a dangerous experiment and a liberation.Combining...
Thought for Food
Why What We Eat Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We are no longer like our ancestors. We no longer depend on our skills as foragers, gatherers, scavengers, hunters and fishers for food. We are only part-time food raisers at best. . . Our biology, on the other hand, has changed far less. Now there is a mismatch between who we are and what we eat....
The Edge of Life
Controversies and Challenges in Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
‘The world beyond the thought horizon is as vast as the universe, and probing it is the stuff of dreams, imaginative thinking and new technologies.’The gap between rapid scientific progress and public understanding faces unprecedented challenges. Leading research scientist Mike Berridge explores...
Generation Rent
Rethinking New Zealand’s Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
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...
Bombing the Rainbow Warrior
The Intimate Story of Two French Agents and the New Zealand Police
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
They seemed like a nice enough French couple, touring New Zealand in a campervan in 1985. But Auckland police suspected they were in fact experienced French agents Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, part of a dozen-strong team behind the bombing of the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior. This fascinating...
Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater
A Writer’s Early Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
‘The Vaipe has the Roman Catholic Cathedral at its western boundary, the court and police station to the east, the market and harbour in front, and the swamps behind it. These are convenient boundaries that I’ve turned into a symbolic fence for the marvellous world of the Deadwater.’Albert Wendt...
Aunts & Windmills
Stories from My Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
In this charming book, Pauline O’Regan, the author of A Changing Order, turns her characteristic warmth and wit onto the world of her childhood.Accounts of climbing windmills and other adventures growing up in a West Coast farming community are interspersed with meditations on the religious faith that...
Richard Wagner and his Poetical Work From Rienzi to Parsifal
(English Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
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Will the reader kindly look upon the first pages of this book as a fragment of reminiscences, which I hope some day to publish; not that my life in itself is worth relating, but it has been frequently brought in contact with that of celebrated artists....
Safeguarding the Future
Governing in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
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...
Wellbeing Economics
Future Directions for New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
New Zealand is recognised as having been a pioneer in creating in 1938 what was arguably the Western world’s first comprehensive welfare state … we argue in this book that more than seventy-five years later there is a new opportunity for New Zealand to pioneer a further transformation in how a...
Sugar, Rum and Tobacco
Taxes and Public Health in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
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...
Inequality
A New Zealand Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The divide between New Zealand’s poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries.New Zealand society is being reshaped, stretching to accommodate new distance between those who ‘have’ and...
Time of Useful Consciousness
Acting Urgently on Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
‘The speed with which the storm is gathering leaves little time for complacency or half-hearted action if we are to retain a democratic future.’Our climate is changing, in ways that will have long-term impacts for us and for our children. Yet still we fail to take meaningful action. Why? And when...