Williams: 1396 books

Understanding Children and Childhood examines how and why children develop, and how they interact with the people and events in their lives. Emphasising that children grow up in diverse cultural contexts, Anne Smith’s book builds an understanding of childhood in New Zealand based on childhood studies...

You’re at the airport. You want a cab so you head for the long line of taxis sitting on the rank. You take the first. Chances are the driver will be a first generation migrant the taxi industry in New Zealand has become a microcosm of multiculturalism. Adrienne Jansen and Liz GrantMigrant Journeys...

This book builds on Claudia Orange’s award-winning Treaty of Waitangi, using a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings to bring the Treaty’s history to life.Depictions of key players and moments sit alongside a clear and informative text that helps explain the history of this key document....

In May 2017 the exhibition He Tohu opened at the National Library in Wellington. This celebrates three founding documents in New Zealand’s history He Whakaputanga: The Declaration of Independence (1835), the Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) and the Women’s Suffrage Petition (1893)....

Forget the old introvert you and find your swagger today Find out how to attain the swagger level you want Are you envious of extroverted people who seems to ooze confidence and swagger? Stop thinking about how life could be and start living the life you want. Learn how to get...

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...

Focusing on New Zealand’s comprehensive and accessible coroners’ records, John Weaver analyses some twelve thousand cases to determine the social and cultural factors that contribute to suicide rates. He examines the official investigations into sudden deaths, placing them within the context of major...

Ensure the success of your children Make your child goal-oriented and successful Are you concerned about your child's future? Of course you are. As are all parents when they think of their child's future. So what could better guarantee that he achieves success in everything he...

Achieve more by setting attainable goals Set smart goals and get the results you wanted Are you tired of not achieving what you set out to achieve? Are you tired of falling just short of what you wanted to do? People often get discouraged and fall into a habit of bad behavior because...

Leading historian James Belich presents Titokowaru, a Taranaki chief in the 1860s, as one of the great figures of New Zealand history. A leader in peace and war, he ran a stunning military campaign against colonial forces as he sought to save his people and their lands from European invasion.In a powerfully...

The parlous state of our freshwater ecosystems is just one signal that we face a more widespread, and unprecedented, environmental crisis.New Zealand’s dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden and not so hidden costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike...

‘If I began asking you questions about Wellington ways there would be no end of it …’ Katherine Mansfield‘I came home to Wellington, to a place half remembered, half real, half fantasy, half fact, remembered and a dream …’ Kirsty GunnFor London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning...

Award-winning New Zealand writers Martin Edmond, Maurice Gee, Kirsty Gunn and Owen Marshall explore life and memory in this bundle of BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. Martin Edmond’s...

In her first book, A Small Price to Pay, Ann Beaglehole traced the experiences of European refugees to New Zealand in the 1930s. In Facing the Past she focuses on the lives of a younger generation the children of those wartime immigrants, whose perceptions and experiences of both the old and the new...