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Truth in a Post-Truth World
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 1:41 pm | Bridget Williams Books
In a digital world consumed by fake news and toxic social media, conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are increasingly hard to debunk. Manipulation of information and the spread of misinformation on online platforms is now widely recognised as ... More >>
An Insider's Account of New Zealand Political Campaigning
Thursday, 2 August 2018, 6:56 pm | Bridget Williams Books
An Insider's Account of New Zealand Political Campaigning: New from BWB Texts While I’ve spent enough time in universities to understand the meaning of various freedoms, I’ve also spent enough time in the world to see the opposite of freedom: persecution, ... More >>
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds wins Ockham Book Award
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 2:40 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Social Investment: A New Zealand Policy Experiment
Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 11:25 am | Bridget Williams Books
The idea of social investment has obvious intuitive appeal. But is it robust? Is it built on sound philosophical principles and secure analytical foundations? Will it deliver better outcomes? More >>
New BWB Text about reporting on Canterbury Earthquakes
Tuesday, 5 December 2017, 3:46 pm | Bridget Williams Books
On 4 September 2010, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck 30 kilometres west of Christchurch. Half a year later, a 6.3 aftershock hit Christchurch, killing 185 people and causing widespread damage throughout the city. More >>
Island Time: New Zealand's Pacific Futures
Monday, 4 December 2017, 7:13 pm | Bridget Williams Books
The task of living in modern New Zealand – and especially in modern Auckland – is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened. More >>
New Book by Martin Edmond - 'The Expatriates'
Thursday, 9 November 2017, 11:37 am | Bridget Williams Books
Martin Edmond ’s deft and illuminating new book, The Expatriates , is a compelling history of four extraordinary New Zealanders. Their inclinations, expertise and circumstances led them to lives and careers in Europe, where for the most part they remained. They ... More >>
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 >>
