Williams: 1396 books

The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ... the Fonterra botulism scare ... the Christchurch earthquakes in all these recent crises the role played by scientists has been under the spotlight.What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis to the government, to their employer, or to the wider public desperate...

'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. In this hard-hitting BWB Text, Professor Jane Kelsey picks apart the current negotiations surrounding the...

The non-violent defiance of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai, Tohu Kakahi and their followers at Parihaka is one of the great New Zealand narratives. This extract from the book by journalist Dick Scott which brought the story to the wider Pākehā world describes what happened when troops and settler volunteers invaded the village of Parihaka on 5 November 1881.

Since its publication in 1987, Claudia Orange’s book has become the standard guide to one of the key documents in New Zealand history, selling over 40,000 copies.The complexities of the Treaty, which have done so much to shape New Zealand history for nearly 200 years, are thoughtfully explored as Orange...

A BOOK OF ANIMALS FOR KIDS AGES 2 - 5 YEARS OLDMEET YOUR ZOO FRIENDSThe zoo is full of interesting animal friends!Lisa the Lion wants you to meet her new friends in the zoo. There's Ryan and there's Hal.Kia and Gary are also there. So are Sal and Tom. Find out what kind of...

You can make it up with your kid and win his love. Become your kid’s best friend. Make your presence felt in your kid’s world. How do you become your kid’s best friend? Children are a different world altogether. You need a different approach to make your presence felt in your kid’s...

How we think about income gaps, and how we decide to address them, will do much to alter New Zealand’s levels of inequality in the years to come.'The divide between New Zealand’s poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster...

A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 186364 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Māori and Pākehā relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the...

So here I am walking again an old path made new by the very fact that I am upon it once more, accompanied by familiar hordes: the fecund majority of the dead, the myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise, traversing memory’s infinite field.In the evocative...

As New Zealand's agricultural industry developed in the twentieth century, the rural worker shearer, labourer, musterer began to disappear from public view. In this fascinating study, John Martin uncovers the lives of these 'forgotten workers', describing their working lives, relationships with employers,...

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...

Unlike in Europe, North America, Australia and elsewhere, urban history has never been sustained as a distinct field of scholarship in New Zealand. This is surprising, considering that since the early twentieth century most New Zealanders have lived in towns and cities 86 per cent were urban in 2014....

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...

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...