Bwb Texts imprint: 30 books
by Rachel Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
'Parihaka was a place and an event that could be lost and found, over and over. It moved into view, then disappeared, just like the mountain.'
In 1881, over 1,500 colonial troops invaded the village of Parihaka near the Taranaki coast. Many people were expelled, buildings destroyed, and chiefs...
Hopes Dashed?
The Economics of Gender Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
‘What has happened to New Zealand women’s economic and social status over the last twenty years?’
In 1994 economist Prue Hyman published Women and Economics, an overview of the status of women in the New Zealand economy. Much has changed since then but how much? Has the promise of equality...
Antibiotic Resistance
The End of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In ten years’ time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?
In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this...
by Nicola Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Science changes the world because the creation of knowledge opens up new pathways for us to explore new ways of doing things, and new questions to ask. My optimism lies in the fact that I think that the answer to why science is sexist does all of these things.In this eye-opening BWB Text, Nicola Gaston,...
Towards a Warmer World
What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The year 2014 was the hottest on record since we’ve begun collecting global temperature measurements in 1880. Even at its midway point, 2015 was already promising to take over this dubious record.As new thresholds are breached, acclaimed Radio New Zealand science writer Veronika Meduna explores...
No Country for Old Maids?
Talking About the ‘Man Drought’
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Hannah August's intelligent and humane study illuminates, sometimes uncomfortably, the ways in which our demographics are changing and our attitudes are not. This is public intellection that is curious, rigorous, and highly relevant to our time.' Eleanor CattonIn 2013, there were over 66,000 more...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Māori, Pasifika and Pākehā writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collected together here into this BWB Text by the magazine’s editors, Tapu Misa and Gary Wilson.
Generation Rent
Rethinking New Zealand’s Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
House prices may boom or bust but the long-term trend is clear: for more New Zealanders than ever, home ownership is out of reach. Incomes simply have not kept pace with skyrocketing property prices. ‘Generation Rent’ calls into question priorities at the heart of New Zealand’s identity.In this...
Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater
A Writer’s Early Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
‘The Vaipe has the Roman Catholic Cathedral at its western boundary, the court and police station to the east, the market and harbour in front, and the swamps behind it. These are convenient boundaries that I’ve turned into a symbolic fence for the marvellous world of the Deadwater.’Albert Wendt...
Safeguarding the Future
Governing in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
In an era of populist politics, Brexit, Donald Trump, 24-hour news cycles and perpetual election campaigning, how do we govern well for the future? How do we take the long view, ensuring that present-day policy decisions reflect the needs and safeguard the interests of future generations?In...
Time of Useful Consciousness
Acting Urgently on Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
‘The speed with which the storm is gathering leaves little time for complacency or half-hearted action if we are to retain a democratic future.’Our climate is changing, in ways that will have long-term impacts for us and for our children. Yet still we fail to take meaningful action. Why? And when...
The Struggle for Sovereignty
New Zealand and Twenty-First Century Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
In the era of public choice and free markets, does the New Zealand state still have the best interests of its individual citizens at heart? Since 1984, as Margaret Wilson argues, the shift to a neo-liberal public policy framework has profoundly affected the country’s sovereignty. In this far-sighted...
Doing Our Bit
The Campaign to Double the Refugee Quota
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
'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, detention, and the slow drag of less obvious oppressions.'
In 2013, Murdoch Stephens began a campaign to double...
The Whole Intimate Mess
Motherhood, Politics, and Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
‘I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal distress, I started telling myself a united story: the truth, or as close as I could get to it.’
A Rhodes scholar and former Green MP, Holly Walker...