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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 >>
The First Migration - a new BWB Text by Atholl Anderson
Tuesday, 10 May 2016, 3:33 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Some five thousand years ago, the people who would become the Polynesians moved from South China through the Asian archipelago, eventually pushing out into the Pacific Ocean. New Zealand was the last place to be settled, by the people who ‘became ... More >>
Silencing Science - a new BWB Text by Shaun Hendy
Monday, 9 May 2016, 3:02 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Silencing Science - a new BWB Text by Shaun Hendy In late 2014 the New Zealand Association of Scientists invited scientists around the country to take part in an online survey: ‘Have you ever been prevented from making a public comment on a controversial issue ... More >>
Being Chinese: A New Zealander's Story
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 3:02 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Three decades ago I began a quest – the search for my Chinese identity. My journey unravelled the personal, professional and historical threads in my life, and revealed how bound together they are by ‘being Chinese’. But I am a New Zealander too. ... More >>
Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand
Friday, 11 March 2016, 11:12 am | Bridget Williams Books
Migration is one of the great contemporary touchstone issues, as we move into an increasingly globalised world experiencing unprecedented movement of people beyond country borders. Yet the subject is also poorly understood and ripe for misinterpretation ... More >>
A thought-provoking historical assessment
Thursday, 10 March 2016, 3:29 pm | Bridget Williams Books
A thought-provoking historical assessment of the Christchurch earthquakes On 14 February 2014, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Christchurch, a frightening reminder of the deadly event of 22 February 2011, delivered just eight days short of its fifth ... More >>
Is New Zealand's political settlement beginning to fray?
Thursday, 10 March 2016, 3:08 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Is New Zealand's political settlement beginning to fray? It seems that political struggle is back, acting as the bridge between a persistent sense of unfairness and the hope for something better, helping solve the antagonism between the historical ... More >>
Experts speak out about what climate change actually means
Friday, 27 November 2015, 3:09 pm | Bridget Williams Books
On Monday next week the 21st annual Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will begin in Paris. Over the two weeks of CoP21, 147 heads of state will attempt to negotiate a global agreement to ... More >>
Leading inequality writer returns to New Zealand
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 2:57 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Leading inequality writer returns to New Zealand Robert Wade, one of the world's most incisive analysts of inequality, trade and the global financial system, will be speaking in Wellington on Thursday 26 November . Wade, a professor of political ... More >>
New Zealand has lost its way on housing, says researcher
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 11:08 am | Bridget Williams Books
Over the past twenty-five years, the quality and affordability of New Zealand housing has declined drastically, says the University of Otago’s Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman in a new BWB Text. More >>
NZ no longer clean, green or economically rational
Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 3:17 pm | Bridget Williams Books
In the latest addition to the BWB Texts series, DrMike Joy offers a damning assessment of the state of New Zealand’s freshwater environments. He points out that in the past two or three decades, 'freshwater environmental protection has been left weakened, ... More >>
Effects of climate change already being seen in New Zealand
Thursday, 5 November 2015, 10:45 am | Bridget Williams Books
Amongst the vast amount of information on the global impacts of climate change, little has been published on how New Zealand in particular will be affected. More >>
Wealth and New Zealand, a new BWB Text by Max Rashbrooke
Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 12:08 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Role of wealth in New Zealand society exposed in new book by award-winning writer More >>
Sexism in science is rife
Thursday, 22 October 2015, 1:49 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Sexism in science is rife, says President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists in new book More >>
