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Inequality and the West - Robert Wade
Friday, 12 July 2013, 10:00 am | Bridget Williams Books
This stunning sweep of western societies by New Zealander Robert Wade, professor at the London School of Economics, reveals why inequality has risen internationally, how it’s been justified, and thearguments against it.BWB Texts offer a new form ... More >>
Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 4:17 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Fast growing inequality is one of the most important issues confronting New Zealand today. • Once known as an egalitarian society, New Zealand has seen inequality increasing more rapidly than almost anywhere else in the developed world. • International ... More >>
Jane Kelsey New Book On TPPA - Hidden Agendas
Friday, 10 May 2013, 4:30 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Forget the label “free trade agreement”. The TPPA, under negotiation between New Zealand, the USA and ten other countries, is a direct assault on our right to decide our own future. More >>
BWB Texts from Maurice Gee, Rebecca Macfie, & Kathleen Jones
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 4:04 pm | Bridget Williams Books
BWB Texts from Maurice Gee, Rebecca Macfie, & Kathleen Jones BWB Texts is a new short form digital imprint from award-winning publisher Bridget Williams Books. Commissioned as brief digital-only works, BWB Texts unlock diverse stories, insights ... More >>
Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 10:44 am | Bridget Williams Books
With the support of the Callaghan family, we release ' Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments ' on the first anniversary of his death, to celebrate the life of a remarkable New Zealander. This release also marks the launch of BWB Texts : a new short-form ... More >>
Treaty of Waitangi Settlements
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 4:43 pm | Bridget Williams Books
The settlement of iwi claims under the Treaty of Waitangi has been a prominent feature of New Zealand’s political and legal landscape over the last thirty years. It has drawn international attention, as other nations seek ways to build new relationships ... More >>
Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 4:40 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this charming narrative tell of new life arriving amidst a turbulent world. Tracing Māori and Pākehā experience in all parts of the country, this richly illustrated account of childbirth in nineteenth-century ... More >>
Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand’s Colonial Past
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 4:39 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Spread across the nineteenth-century colonial world was a tangled web of cultural and economic networks. In groundbreaking research, Tony Ballantyne positions New Zealand within these ‘webs of empire’, connecting Gore and Chicago, Māori and ... More >>
Judith Binney
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 5:25 pm | Bridget Williams Books
On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Dame Judith Binney died suddenly at home, after a long illness. More >>
No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking TPP FTA
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 1:52 pm | Bridget Williams Books
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is no ordinary free trade deal. Billed as an agreement fit for the twenty- first century, no one is sure what that means. For its champions in New Zealand a free trade agreement with the US is a magic bullet – opening closed ... More >>
The Carbon Challenge: NZ Emissions Trading Scheme
Thursday, 24 June 2010, 5:09 pm | Bridget Williams Books
If climate change is the defining issue of our generation, and the emissions trading scheme (ETS) New Zealand’s central response, is it up to the job? More >>
New Treaty Book Speaks to All
Saturday, 30 October 2004, 3:40 pm | Bridget Williams Books
new book from award-winning historian Claudia Orange is set to advance New Zealanders’ understanding of their history. An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi is launched on Monday 1 November by the Attorney-General, the Hon. Margaret Wilson, ... More >>
Book on New Zealand Deaf recognised
Friday, 6 December 2002, 2:58 pm | Bridget Williams Books
People of the Eye, an oral history of the Deaf community by Rachel McKee, with photographs by Bruce Connew, is singled out by the judges of the international Kiriyama Prize as one of the significant books of 2001. More >>
