Ecomyth: Challenging the Dogmas and Ideology of the International 'green' Movement by Lance Kennedy
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This book examines the issues which are crucial to our future and, using critical research and critical thinking, delivers a new, more optimistic message.
Lifeswork : Celebrating Older Workers in New Zealand by Judy McGregor
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This collection of stories of 13 inspiring New Zealanders examines the lives of older workers who in their seventies, eighties and nineties positively contribute to the labour market and their communities. First published 2005.
A Magpie Stole My Heart : Ten Years of the Whitireia Writing Programme by Sue McCauley (ED.)
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
"Here we have, perhaps, the 'alternative' face of emerging New Zealand writing. One of the functions of literature is, I think, to show us what kind of society we live in, and this collection is a literary profile of New Zealand in the 21st century; multicultural, passionate, funny, sad, surprising." ...Show more
People of the Land: A Pacific Philosophy by Patterson, John
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This sequel to the author's acclaimed first book on Maori philosophy, "Exploring Maori Values", develops the idea that we humans can and need to become "people of the land" in the Maori sense (tangata whenua), developing a harmonious interdependence with the environment in which we live rather than cont ...Show more
The Ombudsman in New Zealand by Gilling, Bryan
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This book tells the story of the Office of the Ombudsman and places its work in its political and legal contexts, noting the role individuals have played, and outlining some of the tens of thousands of investigations they have undertaken.
You'll be a Man if You Play Rugby : Sport and the construction of gender by Graeme W. Ferguson
$24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Sport and the Construction of Gender Given that, as a nation , we often define ourselves through sport, it is appropriate to ask what role sport plays in the developmentof gender amongst our young. This book explores how a group of students interpret themselves through their involvement in sport, and ...Show more
Localizing Asia in Aotearoa by Paola Voci and Jacqueline Leckie (editors)
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Essays and personal narratives contributed by fifteen writers reflect upon the diversity and complexity of Asian experiences, examine geographical, social and cultural locations and different perspectives in which Asia is actualised, embodied and imagined. Different ethnic and national groups are discus ...Show more
Making Our Place: Growing Up PI in New Zealand by Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
$34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Pacific Islanders have been travelling to New Zealand for over a hundred years, striving to realise their migration dreams against an increasingly changing New Zealand. These stories highlight the great diversity of New Zealand's PI community today and capture the intense pride in Pacific Island identit ...Show more
The Fortex Story by Sandra Martin
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Fortex, a small South Island meat processing company, captured the public imagination when it became Company of the Year in 1990.Four short years later it was bankrupt, and in 1996 its charismatic founder and managing director Graeme Thompson, was sentenced to imprisonment for fraud. This insightful st ...Show more