Bwb texts (49 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Everyone lives a messy, unusual life. There is no normal. The sooner our politics understands this, the better off we will all be. Morgan Godfery is one of New Zealands most energising young thinkers. In just a few years he has become a leading voice in the countrys social and political life. Starting…

Paperback. Condición: 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. For…

Paperback. Condición: Good. '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 that we have only 'a small and shrinking window of time' before the pressures from climate change become…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Through his own experience and the stories of his tipuna, Paul Tapsell (Te Arawa, Tainui) charts the impact of colonisation on his people. Alienation from kainga and whenua becomes a wider story of environmental degradation and system collapse. This book is an impassioned plea to step back from the ed…

Paperback. Condición: New. In 1840, over 500 Maori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, moko or marks they were making an agreement with the British Crown. At stake was the sovereignty of the country, the governance of the land. The histo…

Paperback. Condición: New. In 1840, over 500 Maori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, moko or marks they were making an agreement with the British Crown. At stake was the sovereignty of the country, the governance of the land. The histo…

Paperback. Condición: New. In 1840, over 500 Maori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, moko or marks they were making an agreement with the British Crown. At stake was the sovereignty of the country, the governance of the land. The histo…

Paperback. Condición: New. '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 environmental crisis. This perilous situation, he argues, has arisen primarily through governmental policy that prioritises sho…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'The idea of Maori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Maori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' The 'idea of Maori privilege', as Peter Meihana describes it, is deeply embedded in New Zealand culture. Many New Zealand…

Paperback. Condición: New. ''What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities. 'History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all acro…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'In 2010, the Human Rights Commission found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand. Yet although anti-Asian prejudice has a long history in New Zealand, it is seldom publicly acknowledged.K. Emma Ng shines light onto the persistence of anti-Asi…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Albert Wendt recalls his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, just metres from the local cinema, and his life-changing schooling as a scholarship student at an initially foreign New Plymouth Boys' High School. Wendt also explores his fascination with traditional pre-Christian Samoan religi…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Maori and Europeans were encountering one another for the first time not just along the shorelines of New Zealand but also on the streets of Melbourne, Liverpool and New York.' From the late eighteenth century, Maori travellers spread out from New Zealand across the globe. They travelled for a variety…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Class lines between settlers and labourers had been drawn.What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.' In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions…

Paperback. Condición: New. Foreword by Damon Salesa. '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 conti…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Behind the foreground narratives of justification, real or symbolic wounds are stored in the archives of cultural memory.' From curriculum to commemoration to constitutional reform, our society is in the grip of memory, a politics and culture marked by waves of loss, grief, absence and victimhood. Why…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Ma\0304ori, Pasifika and Pa\0304keha\0304 writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collecte…

Paperback. Condición: New. Foreword by Damon Salesa. '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 conti…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Class lines between settlers and labourers had been drawn.What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.' In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Behind the foreground narratives of justification, real or symbolic wounds are stored in the archives of cultural memory.' From curriculum to commemoration to constitutional reform, our society is in the grip of memory, a politics and culture marked by waves of loss, grief, absence and victimhood. Why…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Ma\0304ori, Pasifika and Pa\0304keha\0304 writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collecte…