Transforming the Welfare State (BWB Texts) by Jonathan Boston
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Jonathan Boston tackles one of the most urgent questions in contemporary New Zealand: how should we transform the welfare state? Not only do we need to alleviate our current serious social problems, but we also need to meet the challenges of the future in a way that enhances intergenerational fairness a ...Show more
Going Places : Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Julie Fry
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | 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
Sugar, Rum and Tobacco (BWB Texts) by Mike Berridge
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | 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
The Ground Between: Navigating the Oil and Mining Debate in New Zealand: 2017 (BWB Texts) by Sefton Darby
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Battles over oil and mining developments in New Zealand are fierce and polarised. Often presented as a simple trade-off between conservation or quick profit, the debate leaves little space for discussion across ideological divides. The Ground Between provides a rare account from someone who has worked w ...Show more
Antibiotic Resistance - The end of modern medicine? (BWB Texts) by Siouxsie Wiles
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | 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
The Writer Abroad : Literary Travellers from Austria to Uzbekistan by Lucinda Hawksley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
From the grand tour to the global village, novelists and poets have made particularly observant travellers. Many writers have been prone to wanderlust, eager to explore the world and draw inspiration from their travels. They recorded their notes in letters, journals, essays and books. In some cases, the ...Show more
On 1984 - A Biography by D J Taylor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named f ...Show more
Charles Dickens and His Circle by Lucinda Hawksley
$11.00 NZD
$21.99 (49% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: NPG Companions
'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that moment, I had only known him as one of my ancestors.' -- Lucinda Hawksley Those who had known Charles Dickens as a child must have been astonished at his rise f ...Show more
The Life And Times Of Henry Wynn Williams by Wynn-Williams R. B.
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: Near Fine
May Your Shadow Never Grow Less : The Life and Times of Henry and Jane Holland, Canterbury, New Zealand 1863-1945 by Helen Thomas
$49.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: Near Fine
Rise of the Robots Technology and the threat of mass unemployment by Martin Ford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment ...Show more
Samuel Ironside in New Zealand 1839 – 1858 by W.A. Chambers
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs