Gareth Morgan: 18 books
Kimchi Kiwis
Motorcycling North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Join Gareth and Jo Morgan and their companions as they rattle and splash their way around North Korea on their epic Motorcycle Adventure. Experience with them the thrill of riding through North Korea, the hermit kingdom itself. Above all, discover with them the truth behind the headlines that define...
Silk Riders
Jo and Gareth Morgan's Incredible Journey on the Trail of Marco Polo
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Marco Polo’s legendary journey overland from Xanadu in China to his home in Italy has fired the imaginations of travellers for 700 years. Even today, traversing the 20,000km Silk Road between Europe and the Far East is a perilous undertaking. But it sounded like just the challenge for Wellington economist...
Ice, Mice and Men
The Issues Facing Our Far South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In February 2012, Gareth Morgan trapped ten of New Zealand’s top experts on the region in a boat with 40 ordinary Kiwis for a month. Together with Geoff Simmons, he grilled them about the issues facing the region and Ice, Mice and Men is the result. What they found was startling. Our Far South –...
Under African Skies
Jo and Gareth Morgan's Epic Ride from Cape Town to London
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
From the contrasts of Cape Town to the litter drifts of Libya, Joanne and Gareth Morgan and their team of World by Bikers rode 20,000 kilometers by motorcycle. They rode over rough roads and smooth, through rich nations and poor, past ruins ancient and modern, and loved every minute of it. They saw a...
Up the Andes
Travel the Andes from North to South from Top to Bottom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
A ride from the Alto Plano of Bolivia and Peru to the frozen tip of Patagonia; on the world's most dangerous road, where the stakes are high, on to Argentina's fabled Ruta 40, where the steaks are large and cheap. Across salt pans, into mud holes, up the Andes and down again; past the ruins of the ruins...
by Professor Gareth Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Since its first publication over twenty years ago, Images of Organization has become a classic in the canon of management literature. The book is based on a very simple premise—that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that stretch our imagination...
Appetite for Destruction
Food the Good, the Bad and the Fatal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
We are literally eating ourselves to death. In the move from cooking to convenience food we have given up control of what we eat. As a result our food is heavy on sugar, fat and salt, and light on the nutrients our body needs. This is causing a hidden health crisis that will swamp our hospitals just...
The Big Kahuna
Turning Tax and Welfare in New Zealand on its head.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
One day, when he was contributing to the Tax and Welfare Working Group, economist Gareth Morgan made an off-the-cuff remark that the solution to all of New Zealand's tax and welfare woes lay in abolishing the present welfare system and radically overhauling the tax system. He called this idea the big...
Hook, Line and Blinkers
Everything Kiwis Never Wanted to Know about Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
As his fish bins filled up on another successful raid on the Cook Strait groper fishery, economist and dedicated fisherman Gareth Morgan found himself wondering whether it could possibly be right that he should be allowed to do this. Is it still true, he wondered, that there are plenty more fish in the...
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Originally published in 1979. A classic in its field, Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis argues that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assumptions with regard to the nature of social science and the...
Contemporary Wine Studies
Dancing with Bacchus
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The purchase and consumption of wine, whether in hospitality environments or domestic settings, has huge anthropological significance underpinned by a discourse of wine appreciation. It can be seen as a multi-sensory and symbolically status-rich activity framed by historical, social, cultural and...
The Piketty Phenomenon
New Zealand Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Piketty’s book is a bombshell, promising a Kuhnian scientific revolution. Geoff BertramPiketty erects a floodlight that illuminates the shadows ignored by economists for too long. Hautahi KingiFew books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight...
Are We There Yet?
The Future of the Treaty of Waitangi
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Three questions: ‘Where have we got to with the Treaty of Waitangi?’; ‘Is where we have got to a good place?’ and ‘Where do we go from here?’ Simple questions we thought. But nothing is simple when you start asking questions about the Treaty of Waitangi. Two years later we have emerged battered...
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The authors argue in this book that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assumptions with regard to the nature of social science and the nature of society. The four paradigms - Functionalist, Interpretive, Radical Humanist...
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