All That Remains - A Life in Death by Sue Black
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality. Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, ...Show more
The Final Choice: End of Life Suffering: Is Assisted Dying the Answer? by Caralise Trayes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
BE INFORMED FOR YOUR VOTE AT THE REFERENDUM On 17 October 2020 A Kiwi journalist on the hunt for the truth about assisted dying and the End of Life Choice Act. Join her on a journey of discovery as she tells the stories of those with terminal illness and interviews lawyers, doctors, ethicists and cleric ...Show more
No Country for Old Maids? Talking Differently About the 'Man Drought' by Hannah August
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
In 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called 'man drought' is a hot topic for journalists and academics alike, who comment on how the situation might affect New Zealand women's chances of finding love. Yet they rarely st ...Show more
Old Asian, New Asian (BWB Texts) by K. Emma Ng
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
In 2010, the Human Rights Commission found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand. Yet although anti-Asian prejudice has a long history in New Zealand, it is seldom publicly acknowledged.K. Emma Ng shines light onto the persistence of anti-Asia ...Show more
Towards a Warmer World: What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand's Future (BWB Texts) by Veronika Meduna
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
2014 was the hottest year since record keeping began back in 1880. July 2015 was recently confirmed as the globe's hottest month ever recorded, both on land and in the oceans. This December a major international meeting, to be held in Paris, seeks a new agreement to address climate change. Against th ...Show more
New Myths and Old Politics - The Waitangi Tribunal and the Challenge of Tradition (BWB Texts) by Tipene O'Regan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
Negotiating a claim before the Waitangi Tribunal can involve troubling challenges to an iwi's legitimacy, sometimes from unexpected places. In this unique behind-the-scenes account of the negotiation of Ngai Tahu's Waitangi Tribunal claim, Sir Tipene O'Regan describes what happened when claims of New Ag ...Show more
The Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand by Kathleen Kuehn
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
Only sustained public pressure can prevent the complicit submission and cultural amnesia that seems to follow every new revelation about surveillance in everyday life. Recent revelations about the nature and extent of global surveillance programmes have shocked many. But what are their implications in t ...Show more
Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
One dictator grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. One austere, incorruptible leader shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. The Libyan army officer who aut ...Show more
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger Hotter Smarter World by Amanda Little
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-con ...Show more
Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany for People Who Love Books by Jane Mount
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The ultimate gift for book lovers, this volume brims with literary treasures, all delightfully illustrated by beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf, Jane Mount.Book lovers, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through h ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
The Ministry of Truth - A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
$38.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a ...Show more