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By: Sarah Bennett

ISBN: 9781988587684
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on New Zealand tourism. This BWB Text is a rallying call for a genuine tourism 'reset' that puts the environment first and creates more meaningful exchanges between visitors and their hosts.


(Paperback)

By: Jess Berentson-Shaw

ISBN: 9781988545387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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'A Matter of Fact' explores the science of communicating and presents innovative ways to talk effectively (and empathetically) about contentious information. The discussion is based on contemporary examples such as immunisation, the gender pay gap, and climate change.


(Paperback)

By: Griffin Leonard

ISBN: 9781991033529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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In an era of escalating global conflicts, this book challenges the conventional belief that nation-states need military forces to ensure their security and contribute to international peace.


(Paperback)

By: Wilson Margaret

ISBN: 9781988587844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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A policy-focused campaigner, reluctant to join a political tribe and uncomfortable with the combative attitudes and personal jockeying that politics seemed to entail, this is the story of one of New Zealand's most eminent political actors.


(Hardback)

By: Damon Salesa

ISBN: 9781991033604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific.


(Paperback)

By: Siouxsie Wiles

ISBN: 9780947518653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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In this BWB Text, microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explores the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance and its threat to New Zealand.


(Paperback)

By: Martin Edmond

ISBN: 9781927277676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Martin Edmond's Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood.


(Paperback)

By: Helene Wong

ISBN: 9780947492380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Helene Wong writes eloquently of her New Zealand childhood, student life in the 1960s, coming of age in Muldoon's New Zealand, and coming to terms with 'being Chinese'.


(Paperback)

By: Nina Hall

ISBN: 9781988545639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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This BWB Text asks that we fundamentally rethink Aotearoa's role in the world, offering practical ideas grounded in progressive values and evidence from a range of contributors.


(Hardback)

By: Jared Davidson

ISBN: 9781991033406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted.


(Paperback)

By: Lana Lopesi

ISBN: 9781988587998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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This wayfinding set of essays explores the overlap of being Samoan and a woman, as experienced 'from diaspora', by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi.


(Paperback)

By: Alison Clarke

ISBN: 9781927131428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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(Paperback)

By: Cybele Locke

ISBN: 9781988587899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Comrade tells a riveting story of labour activism and social change. Historian Cybele Locke recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades.


(Paperback)

By: Maurice Gee

ISBN: 9781927277430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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(Paperback, 3rd New edition)

By: Hazel Riseborough

ISBN: 9781991033666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Days of Darkness tells the story of events surrounding the invasion of Parihaka, chronicling the governments quest to assert British law and supremacy in Taranaki during the late nineteenth century.


(Paperback)

By: Judith Binney

ISBN: 9781990046148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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'Story telling is an art deep within human nature.' A timely collection of writings on history, from one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished scholars. These essays bring forth important questions for New Zealand history about autonomy, restoration and power that continue to reverberate today.


(Paperback)

By: Lana Lopesi

ISBN: 9781988533858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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In this BWB Text, Lana Lopesi argues that globalising technologies and the adaptability of Moana peoples are now turning the ocean back into the unifying continent that it once was.


(Paperback)

By: Karen Nairn

ISBN: 9781990046681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Youth activism has been a defining feature of Aotearoa's recent political landscape. Amidst these unsettling political times haunted by climate change, colonisation, ongoing inequality and the upheaval of the pandemic, the political actions of young New Zealanders are a source of inspiration, challenge and renewal.


(Paperback)

By: Joanna Kidman

ISBN: 9781990046483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text, a team of five researchers, several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars, reflect on these questions of memory and loss locally.


(Paperback)

By: Merja Myllylahti

ISBN: 9781990046933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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In From Paper to Platform, prominent New Zealand media scholar, Merja Myllylahti, scrutinises how major digital platforms exert ever-growing influence over news, journalism, our everyday lives, personal rights and access to information.


(Paperback)

By: Julie Fry

ISBN: 9780947492694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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This book is about the economic contribution of migration to and from New Zealand, one of the most frequently discussed aspects of the debate.


(Paperback)

By: Max Rashbrooke

ISBN: 9781988545080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Max Rashbrooke goes beyond anecdote and ideology, delving deep into the latest research about the sweeping changes made to the public services that shape our lives together. What he unearths is startling, suggesting that the market-based reforms have often been a failure, and that classic government action is surprisingly effective.


(Paperback)

By: Vincent O'Malley

ISBN: 9780908321193
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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This book tells the history of Maori travel and exploration, providing fresh light on a little known yet absorbing aspect of early New Zealand.


(Hardback, New edition)

By: Vincent O'Malley

ISBN: 9781991033031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It was a powerful assertion of mana and rangatiratanga.

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