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Navigating the Oil and Mining Debate in New Zealand
Wednesday, 8 November 2017, 11:58 am | Bridget Williams Books
There is a deep dysfunction in the way we talk about oil and mining. Oil and mining developments in New Zealand are always contentious. From the 40,000 people who marched through Auckland in 2010 to protest mining in conversation areas, to protests against ... More >>
3 Former PMs to Attend 'The 9th Floor' Launch at Te Papa
Wednesday, 6 September 2017, 10:37 am | Bridget Williams Books
Former Prime Ministers to attend Te Papa event marking the publication of The 9th Floor More >>
Sugar, Rum and Tobacco a new BWB Text on sugar taxes
Monday, 7 August 2017, 2:28 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Sugar, Rum and Tobacco - a new BWB Text on sugar taxes ‘Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life…which are…objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.’ ... More >>
Max Harris returns to NZ for nationwide speaking tour
Tuesday, 18 July 2017, 12:53 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Max Harris , author of The New Zealand Project , is returning to New Zealand to give talks around the country in July and August. More >>
Old Asian, New Asian – a new BWB Text
Friday, 7 July 2017, 12:35 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Old Asian, New Asian – a new BWB Text by K. Emma Ng A 2010 Human Rights Commission report found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand. This discrimination (and the prejudice from which ... More >>
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds – a new BWB Book
Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 4:44 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds – a new BWB Book by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins More >>
The Whole Intimate Mess - A memoir by Holly Walker
Monday, 12 June 2017, 3:26 pm | Bridget Williams Books
'The Whole Intimate Mess: Motherhood, Politics, and Women's Writing' - A memoir by Holly Walker I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal distress, ... More >>
Fair Borders? Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Thursday, 8 June 2017, 2:01 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Fair Borders? Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century – a new BWB Text edited by David Hall More >>
Barbara Brookes’ History of NZ Women Winner! Ockham Award
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 9:54 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Barbara Brookes’ History of New Zealand Women Winner! Ockham NZ Book Award, Illustrated Non-Fiction Section More >>
We need to talk about why we pay taxes
Monday, 8 May 2017, 11:03 am | Bridget Williams Books
Tax policy can be dry and technical, yet it also cuts to the heart of whether New Zealand can be considered an egalitarian country. In this new instalment from the BWB Texts series, tax experts Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher provide an accessible ... More >>
The Best of e-Tangata
Thursday, 6 April 2017, 11:02 am | Bridget Williams Books
The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. The best of these have been collected together into a new BWB Text by the magazine’s editors, Tapu Misa and Gary Wilson ... More >>
Antibiotic Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine?
Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 10:36 am | Bridget Williams Books
The prediction is that, without urgent action, by 2025 we could see a return to the pre-antibiotic era when a simple stubbed toe could mean amputation or death. – Siouxsie Wiles More >>
A new type of book for the new world ahead
Monday, 3 April 2017, 1:33 pm | Bridget Williams Books
I haven’t lived long enough yet to have lost a sense of hope or a sense of the possible. But I’ve lived long enough to know that things are moving too slowly for those of us with hope, who want to make the impossible possible. And I’ve lived ... More >>
New book on governing in an uncertain world
Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 4:09 pm | Bridget Williams Books
We live in a complex and uncertain world, one that poses unprecedented challenges for governments in democratic societies. Short electoral cycles, impatient voters, populist movements, ‘alternative facts’, 24/7 news cycles and powerful vested ... More >>
Book published today about the gender pay gap in New Zealand
Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 1:43 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Today well-known feminist economist Prue Hyman has published a new book, Hopes Dashed? The Economics of Gender Inequality . This timely book directly speaks to many of the issues raised in recent reports on New Zealand’s gender pay gap. Hyman analyses ... More >>
New book explores the economics of gender inequality in NZ
Friday, 3 March 2017, 4:40 pm | Bridget Williams Books
In the early 2000s New Zealand could boast women simultaneously occupying its highest seats of power – Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Governor-General and Chief Executive of its largest corporate. An appropriate and fitting list for the first country where ... More >>
New Zealand's place in the changing world of surveillance
Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 12:11 pm | Bridget Williams Books
'The post-Snowden world is one in which we accept surveillance as part of what enables us to be free. Behind the scenes, however, a global range of political and economic institutions, networks, actors and entities are working hard to normalise these conditions ... More >>
New Zealand perspectives on a Trump world: The Interregnum
Thursday, 10 November 2016, 1:03 pm | Bridget Williams Books
In March of this year we published The Interregnum , a collection of young New Zealand voices asking: 'are we entering the interregnum, that ambiguous moment between society-wide discontent and political change?' More >>
The first comprehensive history of our cities
Tuesday, 18 October 2016, 3:41 pm | Bridget Williams Books
The rebuilding of post-earthquake Christchurch and the attempts to grapple with Auckland’s growth and liveability have brought New Zealand’s urban centres into critical focus. The state of our cities and their future development is a pressing national concern. ... More >>
PM’s Award for Literary Achievement – Atholl Anderson
Wednesday, 12 October 2016, 9:33 am | Bridget Williams Books
One of New Zealand’s most distinguished scholars, Emeritus Professor Atholl Anderson (Ngāi Tahu), has been honoured with this year’s Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in the Non-Fiction category. More >>
