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Luminous Moments by Paul Callaghan
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Acknowledged internationally for his ground-breaking scientific research in the field of magnetic resonance, Sir Paul Callaghan was a scientist and visionary with a rare gift for promoting science to a wide audience. Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments brings together some of his most significant writing, ...Show more
Mountains to Sea: Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis (BWB Texts) by Mike Joy (editor)
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The state of New Zealand's freshwater has become an urgent public issue in recent years. From across the political spectrum, concern is growing about the pollution of New Zealand's rivers and streams. We all know they need fixing. But how do we do it? 'It strikes me with great clarity that if you look ...Show more
No Country for Old Maids? Talking Differently About the 'Man Drought' by Hannah August
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In 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called 'man drought' is a hot topic for journalists and academics alike, who comment on how the situation might affect New Zealand women's chances of finding love. Yet they rarely st ...Show more
#NoFly - Walking the Talk on Climate Change (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
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What happens when a leading New Zealand scientist (and frequent traveler) rules out flying for a year? From overnight buses to epic train journeys, Shaun Hendy's experiences speak to our desire to do something -anything- in the face of growing climate anxiety. #NoFly confronts the hard questions of one ...Show more
On Coming Home (BWB Texts) by Paula Morris
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'The declamatory return; a homeland as a 'wearying enigma'. This all makes sense to me. The New Zealand that's home to me may be a place of sheep and rugby and number-eight wire, whatever that is, but it's also none of those things. Am I still a New Zealander?' Award-winning writer Paula Morris confront ...Show more
Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater : A Writer’s Early Life (BWB Texts) by Albert Wendt
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In this BWB Text, Manualaivao Albert Wendt offers his readers a short but tantalising tour of his early life – and the influences that shaped him as a novelist and poet. The context and contours, the sights and sounds, the myths and memories of his Samoan upbringing, in the swampy Vaipe of Apia’s back ...Show more
Playing for Both Sides : Love Across the Tasman (BWB Texts) by Stephanie Johnson
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For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stories, was actually published in Australia. She was described then as a young Australian writer, something ...Show more
Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis by Mike Joy
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New Zealand's dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden - and not so hidden - costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to such a degree that we face an environ ...Show more
The Bike and Beyond: Life on Two Wheels (BWB Texts) by Laura Williamson
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'The bicycle is a time machine, a link to the past. But sometimes the bicycle also feels like a link to the future - not the future we once imagined, the one with flying cars and replicators, but more like the one the Victorians might have pictured: streets crowded with bikes, strange ones of all kinds. ...Show more
The Climate Dispossessed -Justice for the Pacific in Aotearoa? (BWB Texts) by Teall Crossen
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The world is heating up beyond the capacity of some countries to cope. Entire populations of Pacific islands are threatened, jeopardising the sovereign rights of these countries and the security of the region. This book explores what a just response to the risk of climate change displacement in the Paci ...Show more
The First Migration : Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450 (BWB Texts) by Atholl Anderson
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Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants. Taken fro ...Show more
The Health of the People (BWB Texts) by David Skegg
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In August 2016, forty per cent of the residents of Havelock North were suddenly struck down by a serious bacterial infection. The outbreak of campylobacter, caused by the contamination of the water supply with sheep faeces, hospitalised forty-five people and left at least three dead. Eminent public heal ...Show more