Bwb Texts imprint: 30 books
Late Love
Sometimes Doctors Need Saving as Much as Their Patients
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
‘I have fought a running battle with medicine for much of my career. I have wanted to leave it for poetry. This is the story of how that has come to change for me. And how both those worlds have at last arrived at some sort of reconciliation.’ As a youth worker, doctor and award-winning poet and...
by Deborah Russell, Terry Baucher
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
The world has changed a lot in the last thirty years, but New Zealand’s tax system hasn’t. Since the 1980s New Zealand’s taxation policy has remained the same, despite substantial economic and social changes. The system may be familiar, but is it fair?
Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher’s...
by Max Rashbrooke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
We are heading towards Thomas Piketty’s predicted steady state of wealth being worth six times national income. We are not immune to his prognosis of a return to Victorian-style levels of inequality.The most recent NBR Rich List has revealed the biggest proportional increase in wealth since the list...
Ruth, Roger and Me
Debts and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In 'Ruth, Roger and Me', Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’....
The Child Poverty Debate
Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
What is child poverty, what evidence is there of such poverty in New Zealand and why does it matter? These questions regularly attract answers accompanied by conjecture and prejudice. This short book uses the latest evidence and a non-partisan approach, identifying child poverty as a critical issue for...
The Post-Snowden Era
Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Surveillance is confusing. Should we give up on expecting privacy because we're all being watched, or stop worrying because it's all exaggerated? Actually, neither of those is right. A much better idea is to find a book that is sane, well researched and easy to read, so you understand, don't fear...
Haerenga
Early Māori Journeys Across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
From the late eighteenth century, Māori travellers spread out from New Zealand across the globe. They travelled for a variety of reasons curiosity, adventure, commerce, political missions or duress and were part of an international movement of Māori of surprisingly large scale. Most travellers eventually...
The Bike and Beyond
Life on Two Wheels in Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The bicycle is a time machine, a link to the past. But sometimes the bicycle also feels like a link to the future not the future we once imagined, the one with flying cars and replicators, but more like the one the Victorians might have pictured: streets crowded with bikes, strange ones of all kinds.'The...
by K. Emma Ng
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
A 2010 Human Rights Commission report found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand.
K. Emma Ng shines light onto the persistence of anti-Asian sentiment in New Zealand. Her anecdotal account is based on her personal experience as a...
The Stolen Island
Searching for 'Ata
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
‘What had happened to the stolen islanders? Had any survived slavery?’
One day in 1863 a strange ship stopped at ‘Ata, a tiny island in the wild seas between Tonga and New Zealand, and sailed away with one hundred and forty-four men, women and children. The ‘Atans were never heard from...
Fair Borders?
Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
‘Our migration policy impacts on New Zealand citizens, on recent immigrants and on people who are never permitted to set foot on this land. It creates prosperity for some and hardship for others.’
Debates over immigration are heating up with grave political consequences. Fair Borders draws...
Better Lives
Migration, Wellbeing and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Migration is at historically high levels and more than a quarter of the New Zealand population was born overseas. Yet immigration remains a deeply contentious issue, with the debate more often shaped by emotion than evidence.
Julie Fry and Peter Wilson have developed a new framework that broadens...
Thought for Food
Why What We Eat Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We are no longer like our ancestors. We no longer depend on our skills as foragers, gatherers, scavengers, hunters and fishers for food. We are only part-time food raisers at best. . . Our biology, on the other hand, has changed far less. Now there is a mismatch between who we are and what we eat....
The Edge of Life
Controversies and Challenges in Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
‘The world beyond the thought horizon is as vast as the universe, and probing it is the stuff of dreams, imaginative thinking and new technologies.’The gap between rapid scientific progress and public understanding faces unprecedented challenges. Leading research scientist Mike Berridge explores...