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The Interregnum: Rethinking New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Morgan Godfery
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Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: good
'The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear' - Antonio GramsciIs New Zealand's political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we're entering the interregnum, that ambiguous moment ...Show more
The Piketty Phenomenon - New Zealand Perspectives (BWB Texts)
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Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty's assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than earned wealth has energised debate. Hailed as 'bigger than Marx' (The Economist) or dismissed as 'me ...Show more
Thorndon, Wellington and Home - My Katherine Mansfield Project (BWB Texts) by Kirsty Gunn
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Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
For London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning to the city of her birth to spend a winter in a tiny colonial cottage in Thorndon is an exciting opportunity to walk the very streets and hills that Katherine Mansfield left behind on her departure from New Zealand, but later longed to revisit. In this exq ...Show more
Time of Useful Consciousness : Acting Urgently on Climate Change (BWB Texts) by Ralph Chapman
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Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'The bottom line question is: what actions in this time period are truly vital, and will we take them?' 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 will it be too late? Ralph Chapman argues ...Show more
Towards a Warmer World: What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand's Future (BWB Texts) by Veronika Meduna
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Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
2014 was the hottest year since record keeping began back in 1880. July 2015 was recently confirmed as the globe's hottest month ever recorded, both on land and in the oceans. This December a major international meeting, to be held in Paris, seeks a new agreement to address climate change. Against th ...Show more
Urban Aotearoa: The Future for Our Cities (BWB Text) by David Batchelor, Bill McKay
$17.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: BWB Texts
Despite our agrarian mythology, Aotearoa New Zealand is overwhelmingly a country of urban dwellers.’ Urban Aotearoa: The Future for Our Cities takes a critical look at the evolution of New Zealand’s cities. Moving past the country’s rural image, the book addresses the realities of its urban majority, q ...Show more
Wealth and New Zealand by Max Rashbrooke
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Category: NZ Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The most recent NBR Rich List has revealed the biggest proportional increase in wealth since the list first appeared in 1986. But what do these figures mean and what else do we know about New Zealand's fortunes? Following his groundbreaking work on income inequality, Max Rashbrooke examines how wealth ...Show more