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For over three decades, books published by Bridget Williams have contributed to critical scholarship in New Zealand; they have told our stories, and deepened our understanding of what it is to inhabit these islands. The BWB Publishing Trust was established in 2006 to ensure that this work continues. The Trust shares the commitment expressed in BWBs publishing: a commitment to the signicance of New Zealand publishing in a digital age. It is through books the printed page between two covers and words emerging on screen that ideas are captured, stimulated, debated and documented. And it is through books that we understand our history and know the present better. For New Zealanders, this exploration has a special urgency, as our cultural identity encounters the neutralising impact of globalisation. The economics of publishing serious New Zealand non-ction are framed by a small immediate market and a more remote international one. Under an innovative concept, the BWB Publishing Trust will enhance and sustain the work of a highly creative and commercially astute company. Trust funds will enable BWB books to be written, published and digitised. The BWB Publishing Trust will seek funding through grants and donations, and accept support from state institutions, other trusts, corporates and individuals. Charlotte Macdonald, Chair
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TrUstees Charlotte Macdonald Margaret Calder John Harkness CHAIr Charlotte Macdonald charlotte.macdonald@vuw.ac.nz SETTLOR Hugh Rennie LeGAl ADVIser John Harkness, Harkness Law Ltd BUsINess ADVIser Sue McPherson, ilumin ltd ADMINIstrAtIoN Bridget Williams, bridget.williams@bwb.co.nz John Schiff, johnschiff1@gmail.com PO Box 12474, Wellington 6144 +64 4 473 8128 trust@bwb.co.nz
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Row 1 ( from left): Entrance to the Valley of the Wairau from Cloudy Bay, 1847 (detail), George Angas [Alexander Turnbull Library, PUBL-0029-271]; Shane Cotton, detail from Pouerua, 2003; Row 2 ( from left): Soldiers from the New Zealand Pioneer (Mori) Battalion, 1914 [Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/2-013414-G]; The head of a chief of New Zealand, Sydney Parkinson, 1769 [Alexander Turnbull Library, PUBL-0037-16]; Row 3 ( from left): Hkoi, April 2004 [Getty Images, 56092413]; Boy, 2010 [NZ Film Commission]; Row 4 ( from left): Kete from Puketoi, Central Otago [Otago Museum, D24-574]; Ringat hui, Wainui, 1964 [Ans Westra].
Atholl Anderson (Ngi Tahu) is Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University. An experienced archaeologist, he has published on early New Zealand and Pacic history, and on Ngi Tahu history. Judith Binney was Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland, and an award-winning author of many books on Mori history. Aroha Harris (Ngpuhi, Te Rarawa) is a member of the Waitangi Tribunal, who teaches history at the University of Auckland. Her publications include history, ction and poetry.
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RRP$145.00 hardback Prepublication price $99.99 Publication: May/June 2014 ISBN 9781927131411 ISTC A022012000022331
496 pages 290 x 245 mm Approx 500 illustrations Full colour throughout History/Mori
RRP$49.99 Publication: May 2014 e-book: May 2014 ISBN 9781927247860 ISTC A02201300000618B 300 pages 240 x 170 mm Contemporary Issues
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Top: Journeying out of Panguru: catching the barge across the Hokianga Harbour to Rawene in 1962. Photograph courtesy of Jill Paaka. Middle: Nellie Williamss baby son, Anthony, ready to take a stroll from their inner-city home on Vincent Street in 1957. Photograph courtesy of Anthony Williams. Bottom: Melissa Matutina Williams by Bruce Foster.
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RRP$49.99 Publication: June 2014 e-book: June 2014 ISBN 9781927247839 ISTC A022013000006178 350 pages 240 x 170 mm Contemporary Issues
Inequality
A New Zealand Crisis Edited by Max Rashbrooke
The divide between New Zealands poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries. New Zealand society is being reshaped, stretching to accommodate new distance between those who have and those who have not. In this book, scholars, journalists, researchers, business leaders, workers and parents tackle the question of what income inequality means for New Zealand and its diverse communities. Inequality is a crisis that affects us all.
Inequality means watching people close to you persistently struggling ... to keep their households aoat, to do their best for their children and to make good decisions by weighing up the constrained range of choices on offer. Karlo Mila
Contributors: Max Rashbrooke, Robert Wade, Ganesh Nana, Jonathan Boston, Karlo Mila, Philippa HowdenChapman, Sarah Bierre, Chris Cunningham, Kim Workman, Tracey McIntosh, Cathy Wylie, Evan Te Ahu Poata-Smith, Paul Barber, Paul Dalziel, Nigel Haworth, Mike OBrien, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Around the country With the support from the J.R.McKenzie Trust, BWB has organised public lectures around New Zealand, given by international economist Robert Wade and journalist Max Rashbrooke. Seminars and discussion groups are continuing to emerge around this important issue. Editor Max Rashbrooke won the Bruce Jesson Award in 2011 to work on Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis. Maxs portfolio includes writing for the Guardian, Time Out and the Economist Intelligence Unit as well as New Zealand magazines and newspapers. He is committed to clear, well-argued commentary on current issues.
RRP$39.99 e-book rrp$20.00 Publication: June 2013 ISBN 9781927131510 ISTC A0220120000222C3 278 pages 240 x 170 mm Contemporary Issues Published with the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services
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Challenging ideas, recent research and theories are presented in plain English, alongside alternative viewpoints that add balance and clarity. Anne Meade, Research leader, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa | New Zealand Childcare Association The new edition is very well written and will appeal to an audience of students, teachers and parents interested in learning more about childrens development. Jenny Ritchie, Unitec Institute of Technology | Te Whare Wnanga o Wairaka
Anne B. Smith is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University, New South Wales, and a former Director of the Childrens Issues Centre.
Sorrows of a Century
Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 19002000 John C. Weaver
A powerful and poignant analysis of the motives for suicide, set amidst the challenges of the twentieth century. Focusing on New Zealands 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 events and societal changes, and turns to witnesses statements, suicide notes and medical records to remark on prevention strategies. A profoundly moving account of loss and suffering, and an insightful assessment of psychiatry and psychology in the last century.
Sorrows of a Century makes important contributions to New Zealand history, to histories of suicide, and to the wider scholarship of historical and archival methods. Impressively researched and thoroughly analysed, it is clearly the work of an accomplished historian and writer. Catherine Coleborne, History Programme, School of Social Sciences, University of Waikato
RRP$59.99 Publication: Feb 2014 e-book: Feb 2014 BWB/McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 9781927277232 ISTC A022013000006284 456 pages 230 x 155 mm History/Contemporary Issues
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John C. Weaver is Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University and the author of A Sadly Troubled History: The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age and The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 16501900 (both published by McGill-Queens University Press).
rrp$39.99 Publication: 2001 e-book: 2014 ISBN 9781877242083 ISTC A02201200002128C 264 pages 240 x 170 mm Deaf Studies
RRP$59.99 Publication: 2003 ISBN 9781877242113 ISTC A0220120000222AD 560 pages 240 x 172 mm Deaf Studies
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BWB Texts
Forthcoming Texts include Kirsty Gunn (the 2013 New Zealand Post Book of the Year award winner) exploring the resonances of Katherine Manselds Thorndon; Max Rashbrookes acclaimed introductory chapters from Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis; journalist Tracey Barnett looking hard at the major changes in New Zealands legislation for asylum seekers; John Pratt asking why New Zealands imprisonment rates have risen signicantly when crime has fallen; Ranginui Walker continuing his appraisal of Mori experience, through the transformations of recent decades; and Paul Dalziel and Caroline Saunders presenting a vision for how economic policy can be made to work better for New Zealanders.
Digital Strategy
BWB supplies a forum for our best writers to contribute not as practitioners of their especial genre, but as citizens, voicing a point of view about life in this country at this point in its history. They have something to say, the means to say it well, and in the BWB Texts series, the perfect forum in which to say it. Fiona Farrell
Supporting BWB Digital Copyright Licensing New Zealand Creative New Zealand New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women (Otago and Wellington) New Zealand Historical Association Sisters of Compassion
In 2013 we released our rst e-books drawn from three decades of publishing, and produced new titles in simultaneous print and electronic formats. From this activity we also launched an exciting new digital imprint. BWB Texts realises the opportunities offered by our agile content strategy and shortform digital publishing. Produced swiftly in-house and distributed globally online, BWB Texts break new ground in New Zealand. Informed by the vision of Amazons Kindle Singles compelling ideas expressed at their natural length BWB Texts unlock rich opportunities for narrative non-ction. These succinct narratives from some of the countrys best writers span history, contemporary issues, memoir, science, and more. The release of Paul Callaghans Luminous Moments in March 2013 marked the launch of BWB Texts. Other works include Maurice Gee reecting on childhood; Rebecca Mace reporting on the Christchurch earthquake (published in association with the New Zealand Listener); and Hamish Campbell introducing one of New Zealands great contemporary science debates. The publisher for BWB Texts, Tom Rennie, has worked closely with Geoff Walker, commissioning editor, on these initial releases, backed by Bridget Williams. Commissioning editor Max Rashbrooke completes the team behind BWB Texts. The hybrid future of New Zealand publishing is seen in upcoming releases of selected BWB Texts in print. Starting with The Inequality Debate and Creeks and Kitchens, attractive pocket-sized print editions of BWB Texts will be available in bookstores, libraries and for direct purchase. Please visit our website (www.bwb.co.nz/texts) for a range of options on purchasing BWB Texts, while our Quickstart Guide (www.bwb.co.nz/quickstart) helps those new to reading e-books get started. BWB Texts operate against the background of our wider digital publishing, with works from the full BWB list emerging regularly as e-books. The BWB list draws on the intellectual property of Bridget Williams publishing from the 1980s to the present, with award-winning books from the imprints of Port Nicholson Press and Allen & Unwin joining those published from the last two decades under the BWB imprint. These are books of critical scholarship produced for a wide range of readers; they are referenced, indexed, often richly illustrated, and always produced to exacting standards. Taking this wonderful body of knowledge into a digital future opens new pathways to the people, places and histories that have helped shape modern New Zealand. Over one hundred e-books will be released in the coming months, including works new to BWB such as Peter Adamss Fatal Necessity and New Zealand Sign Language: A Learners Grammar. The care placed on the production of our digital works is reected in our dedicated online covers designed by Neil Pardington at Base Two, using distinct branding for e-books and Texts. All of these digital publications are available through a growing range of retailers in New Zealand and abroad, including eBooks.com, Amazon, Kobo Books and local affiliates. Library e-book lending is also coming on-stream and we will continue to explore, with libraries and institutions, other pathways into our digital collections.
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Back from the Brink The Creation of a NuclearFree New Zealand Kevin Clements
229 pages 210 x 137 mm 1988 A&U/PNP ISBN 9780868615158 ISTC A0220120000210A0 e-book 2013
Houses are an important part of everyday life in New Zealand, but we rarely stop to think about what our homes mean to us. These lively essays draw on historical analysis to examine many aspects of the New Zealand home work, domesticity, leisure, style, and even the development of national culture.
In 2002 global capitalism was in crisis. New Zealand stood at the crossroads: there were crucial choices facing the countrys government and its people. These essays reject market-led approaches to nation-building, and argue for strategies that put people at the centre. An exciting set of propositions outlines some pathways to just such a vision.
Pauline ORegan turns her warmth and wit onto the world of her childhood in a West Coast farming community. Accounts of climbing windmills and other adventures are interspersed with meditations on the religious faith that led her to become an activist nun. These autobiographical stories are by turns exuberant and contemplative.
This history of New Zealand policy on nuclear power charts the growth of the anti-nuclear movement that culminated in the 1984 Labour Governments No Nukes policy. A meticulously researched examination of the implications of this stance, the book traces the countrys involvement in the nuclear arms race.
Beyond Expectations Fourteen New Zealand Women Write about Their Lives Margaret Clark (ed)
205 pages 216 x 140 mm 1986 A&U/PNP Illustrations ISBN 9780868616506 ISTC A0220120000210B3 e-book 2014 B W B title S to J ulY 2 0 1 4 | 1 2
The Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold, Bridget Williams (eds)
772 pages 227 x 150 mm 1991 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9780908912049 ISTC A022012000021336 e-book 2014
A testament to the intense post-1970 debates that feminism created about womens place in society. This collection of frank and perceptive accounts of origins, choices and life courses, has become a unique portrait of an era and of some wonderful personalities and achievements.
This compilation of over 300 womens biographical portraits has been acclaimed as a groundbreaking reference work in womens history. It remains the denitive work in its eld. Wideranging, comprehensive and lively, it is an invaluable resource.
A remarkable account of a journey from conformity to a tentative and painful independence, of the growth and end of a marriage, and of the questioning and discovery of self. Eloquent and assured, this is the second volume of autobiography from an outstanding writer. Lauris Edmond later revised this text, which forms part of her Autobiography (BWB, 1994).
Before the Plunket Society, before antibiotics, before safe Caesarean sections and registered midwives, women giving birth in nineteenth-century New Zealand faced many different challenges and experiences. Drawing on Mori and Pkeh sources, the narrative is centred on mothers, their babies and families.
Boundary Markers Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand Giselle Byrnes
168 pages 240 x 170 mm 2001 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781877242908 ISTC A0220120000210EC e-book 2014
The Carbon Challenge New Zealands Emissions Trading Scheme Geoff Bertram, Simon Terry
240 pages 240 x 170 mm 2010 BWB: Series 21 ISBN 9781877242465 ISTC A022012000021349 print rrp$39.99 e-book 2013
The Cartwright Papers Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry, 19871988 Joanna Manning (ed)
224 pages 240 x 170 mm 2009 BWB: Series 21 ISBN 9781877242458 ISTC A02201200002135C print rrp$39.99 e-book 2014
A vivid portrait of an educated Englishwoman forging a new life in early New Zealand society. Living through some of the colonys most tumultuous times, Jane Maria Atkinson was an acute and entertaining observer, as this award-winning biography shows.
In a country where land disputes were the chief cause of conict between coloniser and the colonised, surveying could never be a neutral, depoliticised activity. In Boundary Markers, Giselle Byrnes offers an alternative reading of European colonisation.
This important guide to New Zealands emissions trading scheme argues for a more equitable distribution of responsibility. This country has many options for cutting emissions, but courageous political leadership is needed.
When the Cartwright Inquiry reported that staff at the National Womens Hospital had conducted unethical research on women with cervical cancer, it was a watershed moment in medical history. Cogent arguments are presented in support of the Inquirys ndings, outlining the impact of the unfortunate experiment.
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Pauline ORegan entered a convent at twenty-one. Thirty years later, she and two other nuns moved into a raw suburban development in Christchurch to create a new form of vocational community. The move changed her views and led her to public protest and activism. This is the story of her life, faith and activism and the story of a radically changing order.
Between 175,000 and 265,000 New Zealand children live in poverty: these alarming gures are widely discussed, yet often poorly understood. Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple look hard at the questions, and identify some real options for action. This is a vitally important book for New Zealand today.
Does the failure of a traditional idea of God spell the end of the Christian tradition? Or does it simply mean the end of conventional doctrine? Christianity Without God affirms the latter, treating Christian culture as a living, evolving stream. Lloyd Geering turns for inspiration to the wisdom of Christianity, not dependence on beliefs about a supernatural saviour.
This essential guide contains illustrations for over 2,500 commonly used signs, a clear and accessible introduction to NZSL, and a full index and English words and phrases. Based on the comprehensive Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language, it is a vital tool for those who use or are learning NZSL.
A Controversial Churchman Essays on George Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and Licheld, and Sarah Selwyn Allan Davidson (ed)
300 pages 240 x 170 mm 2011 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781877242519 ISTC A022012000021028 print rrp$49.99 e-book 2014
Counting for Nothing What Men Value and What Women are Worth Marilyn Waring
310 pages 210 x 138 mm 1988 A&U/PNP ISBN 9780868615714 ISTC A02201200002110B e-book 2014
Dancing on Our Bones New Zealand and South Africa, Rugby and Racism Trevor Richards
300 pages 227 x 150 mm 1999 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781877242007 ISTC A02201200002111E print rrp$39.99 e-book 2013
New Zealands rst Anglican bishop won few friends by speaking out against Crown practices that dispossessed Mori. Yet George and Sarah Selwyn were amongst the young colony's most inuential people.
Womens work fuels the economies of every country in the world. Yet no value is placed on this labour. Marilyn Waring's analysis from a feminist perspective explores the implications of discounting the work of half the worlds population. A challenge to the assumptions on which power rests.
Widely regarded as one of New Zealands greatest writers, Maurice Gee has written little non-ction. But in this BWB Text two exquisite childhood reminiscences are combined into a remarkable memoir. Gee writes in fascinating detail about his boyhood in West Auckland, and offers illuminating insights into some of the creative forces that have driven his ction.
This history of New Zealand opposition to playing sport with South Africa is traced from an early 1921 SpringboksMori rugby match to the protests generated by the 1981 tour and beyond. What does an issue that sparked so much controversy over so many years tell us about ourselves?
The Fabric of Welfare Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand 18402005 Margaret Tennant
296 pages 240 x 170 mm 2007 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781877242373 ISTC A02201200002136F print rrp$49.99 e-book 2013
Facing the Past Looking Back at Refugee Childhood in New Zealand 1940s1960s Anne Beaglehole
209 pages 216 x 140 mm 1990 A&U/PNP ISBN 9780044421757 ISTC A0220120000222B0 e-book 2014
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Book of the Year at the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards, this richly illustrated history sets out how Thoe were alienated from their land over the course of a century, and their attempts to regain authority over the Urewera region. Encircled Lands contextualises Thoe's ongoing quest for a constitutional agreement.
This history looks at the work of agencies and people who have created New Zealand's welfare services over 150 years. Tracing the complex dealings of voluntary groups and government social services, it offers a rich and detailed account of caring for others in New Zealand.
The children of prewar European immigrants were caught between the past (always remember) and the future (start from now). Based on a wide range of interviews and documentary evidence, this is a fascinating account of the lives of these immigrant children.
A detailed examination of the circumstances leading to British intervention and hence to the Treaty of Waitangi, Fatal Necessity was rst published in 1977. Now re-issued as an e-book, this key text in Treaty studies emphasises that the dual aim of British policy was to protect both settlers and Mori; the reality, however, proved very different.
The Forgotten Worker The Rural Wage Earner in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand John Martin
228 pages 245 x 185 mm 1991 A&U/PNP Illustrations ISBN 9780046582609 ISTC A022012000021372 e-book 2014
Geering and God: 196571 The Heresy Trial that Divided New Zealand Lloyd Geering
44 pages 2013 BWB Text ISBN 9781927131930 ISTC A0220130000060D1 e-book rrp$4.99
The FIRE economy nance, insurance and real estate is now the worlds principal source of wealth creation. Its rise has transformed our political, economic and social landscapes. In detailing the barriers the FIRE economy presents to change in New Zealand, Jane Kelsey points towards socially progressive, post-neoliberal futures.
The rural world was changing fast in the late nineteenth century, endangering the livelihoods of farm labourers, shearers, musterers and other country workers. This book documents the radical transformation of rural work; many historical photographs are included.
The trial of theology professor Lloyd Geering for heresy in the late 1960s was unprecedented in New Zealand history. The dramatic events leading up to the trial, and the aftermath through the 1970s, are vividly described. This Text comes from the central chapters in Lloyd Geerings autobiography, Wrestling with God.
The Hauraki Gulf was a hotly contested area during the rst hundred years of European settlement. Rich in timber, gold and other resources, it became the site of loss and devastation for Mori as the land was systematically alienated. Hauraki Contested was joint winner of the J.M. Sherrard Award (2004).
Hidden Agendas What We Need to Know about the TPPA Jane Kelsey
84 pages 2013 BWB Text ISBN 9781927131909 ISTC A0220130000060CE e-book rrp$4.99
Histories, Power and Loss Uses of the Past A New Zealand Commentary Andrew Sharp, Paul McHugh (eds)
250 pages 210 x 150 mm 2001 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781877242205 ISTC A022012000021147 e-book 2014
I Have in my Arms Both Ways Stories by Ten Immigrant Women Adrienne Jansen
168 pages 215 x 137 mm 1990 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9780908912865 ISTC A02201200002116D e-book 2014 B W B title S to J ulY 2 0 1 4 | 1 5
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, Jane Kelsey takes apart the current negotiations surrounding the proposed TPPA and comes to some disturbing conclusions.
In the late twentieth century, the claims presented to the Waitangi Tribunal and the ensuing settlements gave rise to a powerful body of historical writing. These essays bring new, and sometimes challenging, perspectives to notions about history, power and loss.
Isnt nineteen an interesting age? It was, for Lauris Scott, in wartime Wellington. Based on letters to her mother, this charming memoir tells of a young girls passage into womanhood. Friends, books, betrayals, ideals, all lifes vicissitudes appear with a sparkle that conrms a writers hand. Later published as part of Lauris Edmond's superb Autobiography.
Ten women, who arrived in New Zealand between 1969 and 1986, speak about growing up in their rst countries and their lives in New Zealand. Despite difficulties of poverty, language and social adjustment, strength and optimisim shine through. Engaging and insightful.
Titokowarus War
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Titokowaru was one of New Zealands greatest leaders. He worked in both peace and war to save the Taranaki people from European invasion in the nineteenth century. This compelling narrative by eminent historian James Belich won the Adam Award in 1990.
This stunning chapter from Kathleen Joness biography Katherine Manseld: The Story-teller (2010) describes Manselds last days and death at a chateau near Paris, the centre of a spiritual movement led by the mysterious Russian philosophermystic Georges Gurdjieff.
The history of the Treaty comes to life with a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings. People and events are vividly present in images alongside a clear and informative text that helps explain the history of this key document. A companion volume to The Treaty of Waitangi, this authoritative text is written for the general reader.
Marilyn Waring, a former Member of Parliament and an academic, wrote an occasional column for the Listener. A selection of these columns, together with new writing, covers international questions, politics, feminist issues, women of inuence, and life on the farm. Acute and witty, with a profound sense of humanity.
In/visible Sight The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand Angela Wanhalla
220 pages 240 x 170 mm 2009 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781877242434 ISTC A0220120000211A9 print rrp$39.99 e-book 2014
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The divide between New Zealands poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarm ingly over recent decades. Setting out the complex shape of rising inequality, this book has earned respect across a broad spectrum of readers and commentators. Inequality is an issue confronting the western world, and one that impacts on all New Zealanders today.
This stunning sweep of western societies by New Zealander Robert Wade, professor at the London School of Economics, reveals why inequality has risen internationally, how its been justied, and the arguments against it. This Text makes one of the key chapters of Inequality available to a wide readership. Wade is an international commentator whose New Zealand lecture series in July 2013 drew large audiences.
Centring her story on the Otago community where her greatgrandparents were born, Angela Wanhalla (Ngi Tahu) explores the less visible side of colonialism the world of kinship networks, families and communities. A ground-breaking study of interracial intimacy.
James K. Baxter played an important part in New Zealands literary world and exercised an extraordinary inuence on society. An eloquent rst account of the poets life by his contemporary, historian and poet Bill Oliver. It concentrates on Baxter's poetry as both source and justication for biography.
Justice and Identity Antipodean Practices Margaret Wilson, Anna Yeatman (eds)
223 pages 227 x 150 mm 1995 BWB ISBN 9780908912605 ISTC A0220120000211CF e-book 2014
Last Words Approaches to Death in New Zealands Cultures and Faiths Margot Schwass
198 pages 210 x 150 mm 2005 BWB ISBN 9781877242342 ISTC A0220120000211D2 print rrp$34.99 e-book 2014
The way Antipodean countries tackle issues of sovereignty, governance and democracy is challenged in a series of essays by lawyers, Mori leaders, sociologists and political commentators. The essays offer a challenging and incisive perspective on postcolonial issues where justice and identity intersect.
Death is a part of all our lives yet we often nd it difficult to discuss. This handbook looks at ways of acknowledging death in different cultures and religions in New Zealand. It includes sections on: cultures and faiths; Mori perspectives; facing death; and attending to grief.
Lauris Edmonds eloquent threepart autobiography tells the story of a Hawkes Bay childhood, student days, and years as a young mother, before her life as a writer began. The prose and the poetry together amount to a major work of identity construction, related to and just as deliberate as James K. Baxters or Janet Frames in this countrys literature. K.O.Arvidson
Missionary Thomas Kendall arrived in New Zealand in 1814. He was one of the rst to learn te reo Mori and make his way, problematically, in the Mori world. This remarkable study of cross-cultural experience won the F.P. Wilson Award in 1968 for Judith Binney as a young historian.
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Suzanne Aubert, a radical nun, had an eventful 91-year life. She wrote copious letters reecting her rich friendships, her challenges to the church hierarchy, and her engagement with politicians. She wrote, above all, about the congregation she founded, the Sisters of Compassion.
Novelist, journalist, publisher, soldier John Mulgan was part of a gifted yet uneasy group of young New Zealanders who made their mark between the wars. He saw New Zealand as a place of challenge and austere demands. Vincent OSullivan draws a vivid portrait of an heroic yet enigmatic New Zealander.
Bill Oliver, a central gure in New Zealands intellectual landscape, reects on the decades of his own life, and the history that has shaped him. A wide-ranging account by a poet and historian, it is perceptive, wry and sometimes painfully honest. In 2008, he was honoured with the Prime Ministers Award for Non-ction, for his contribution to history.
Matiatia Bay is the gateway to Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf. Establishing the signicance of the past, this book tells Matiatias story from early Mori occupation to the present day. But change is ever near, and today this beautiful heritage site is threatened by development. A charming and timely short history.
Mihaia The Prophet Rua Kenana and his Community at Maungapohatu Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin, Craig Wallace
256 pages 265 x 195 mm 2011 BWB 2nd Edition Illustrations ISBN 9781927131305 ISTC A022012000021217 print rrp$49.99 e-book 2014
The various paths by which two families came to the southern hemisphere are central to this work. Encounters in Scottish and Pacic villages, visits to country churches in New Zealand, are woven into exploration of migration. Rod Edmond reects on identity and migration with ... penetrating insight... Fleur Adock
Early in the twentieth century, Rua Kenana established an unusual community at Maungapohatu in the Urewera. Mihaia traces the life of this community through to the police assault of 1916, and on to the 1930s.
Between these two generations of mothers and daughters lies extraordinary social change. The women talk about the different worlds they inhabit. At times the two worlds can never meet, while for others there has been an ongoing close relationship. With her usual insight, Alison Gray captures a key transition point for many New Zealand women in the late twentieth century.
My Hand will Write what my Heart Dictates The Unsettled Lives of Women in NineteenthCentury New Zealand As Revealed to Sisters, Family and Friends Frances Porter, Charlotte Macdonald (eds)
518 pages 227 x 150 mm 1996 BWB/AUP ISBN 9781869401290 ISTC A02201200002123D e-book 2014
Put aside preconceptions of Victorian womanhood: here is an altogether more authentic picture, told by the women themselves.
The New Zealand Experiment A World Model for Structural Adjustment? Jane Kelsey
407 pages 227 x 150 mm 1995 BWB/AUP ISBN 9781869401306 ISTC A022012000021398 e-book 2014
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This is a book about issues, and about personalities. It is a book about women's history and about women's struggle for equality. The exhilarating variety of women's lives is reected throughout as Dorothy Page carefully charts the history of a national organisation that has made a signicant contribution to New Zealand society.
An analysis of the turbulent years of the late 1980s and early 1990s, by one of New Zealands leading political commentators. Colin James looks at the way Labours structural reforms shattered the prosperity consensus that had gone before, setting the changes of the 1980s in a broader political and economic context.
Jane Kelseys bestselling critique of the economic policies of the 1980s and 1990s lays bare the social and economic consequences of the market-based reforms. This analysis of neoliberalism delves into every aspect of the structural reforms that had profound consequences for society.
Published initially as an e-book, this resource supports individuals learning New Zealand Sign Language: families and friends of Deaf people, school teachers, librarians, and public officials. A clear account of language structure and use, the grammar is illustrated with drawings and photographs.
The New Zealand Pregnancy Book A Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and a Babys First Three Months Sue Pullon and Cheryl Benn
432 pages 250 x 190 mm 2008 BWB 3rd Edition Illustrations ISBN 9781877242403 ISTC A0220120000213AB print rrp$54.99 e-book 2014
No Ordinary Deal Unmasking the TransPacic Partnership Free Trade Agreement Jane Kelsey (ed)
220 pages 240 x 170 mm 2010 BWB: Series 21 ISBN 9781877242502 ISTC A022012000021279 print rrp$39.99 e-book 2014
Each step of pregnancy, birth and the babys rst months is set out with detailed information, photographs and diagrams. An invaluable New Zealand guide to pregnancy and childbirth.
These moving oral histories recount the lives of eight Mori women brought up in small rural communities associated with the Ringat faith, and its visionary leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. The women are not only survivors, but also the chosen ones, the leaders of their communities.
This magnicent narrative tells of Ngi Tahus migration from the Wellington area into the South Island. The history draws on early accounts by elders, recorded in the Carrington text. The result is a unique text that explains how Ngi Tahu settled, fought and intermarried, establishing their right to the land.
Despite the global nancial crisis, New Zealand is negotiating a controversial free-trade agreement. The contributors argue that the Trans-Pacic Partnership Free Trade Agree ment threatens to undermine New Zealands ability to make its own political decisions.
Panguru and the City: He Kinga Rua An Urban Migration History Melissa Matutina Williams
300 pages 260 x 185 mm June 2014 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781927247921 ISTC A02201300000619E print rrp$49.99 e-book June 2014
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This new interpretation of Mori urban migration is told through the stories of the people of Panguru. For them, the shift to the city was more a matter of a co-existent home place than of leaving the past behind. Melissa Matutina Williams writes from the centre of this narrative, as an urban member of a Panguru family.
The break-up of the Cheviot Estate, an enormous North Canterbury sheep run and a symbol of impregnable wealth, signalled radical change in late nineteenth century New Zealand. It heralded the rst great battle of a government championing the rights of land-hungry settlers. This is local history at its best.
Sir Paul Callaghan was a scientist with a rare gift for writing about the science he loved. Luminous Moments brings together some of his most signicant late essays. Whether describing a Wanganui childhood, reecting on the beauty of science or discussing fatherhood, Callaghan offers eloquent narratives that will endure in this countrys literature.
Whatever the collective memory of New Zealand as a welfare laboratory, the reality was always more complex. Highlighting the conditions that drove men and (especially) women to seek charitable aid, Margaret Tennnant chronicles debates that laid the foundations of New Zealands welfare system.
The People and the Land / Te Tangata me Te Whenua An Illustrated History of New Zealand, 18201920 Judith Binney, Judith Bassett, Erik Olssen
352 pages 287 x 215 mm 1990 A&U/PNP Illustrations ISBN 9780046140137 ISTC A0220120000213BE e-book 2014
People of the Eye Stories from the Deaf World Rachel McKee
264 pages 240 x 170 mm 2001 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781877242083 ISTC A02201200002128C print rrp$39.99 e-book 2014
A visual and narrative history of two communities, Mori and Pkeh, during more than a hundred years of settlement in New Zealand. It reveals how the two cultures saw their history through very different eyes.
In a language rarely translated into print, the people of the eye tell their stories, bringing to life a world little known outside Deaf culture. The storytellers are old and young, and their lives reect the diversity and commonality of Deaf experience. Photographs by Bruce Connew accompany an illuminating text.
Mori prophetic movements from the late nineteenth century are widely known. This book looks at the twentieth-century leader, Hori Enoka Mareikura, from the Ruapehu district. For over ninety years the Mrama tanga has ourished, and Marei kuras prophetic sayings continue to guide the lives of the people.
Lauris Edmond concludes her three-book memoir in the wider world of writing, travel, friends, and literary debate. The honesty that marked Hot October and Bonres in the Rain tells us now about the pains and joys of loving, about friendship and its possibilities, about the exploration of different ways to live. Later published as part of An Autobiography.
The Quiet Revolution Turbulence and Transition in Contemporary New Zealand Colin James
212 pages 190 x 134 mm 1986 A&U/PNP ISBN 9780868617220 ISTC A0220120000213D4 e-book 2014 B W B title S to J ulY 2 0 1 4 | 2 0
Reclaiming the Future New Zealand and the Global Economy Jane Kelsey
430 pages 227 x 150 mm 1999 BWB ISBN 9781877242014 ISTC A0220120000212A2 e-book 2014
New Zealand in 1986 was characterised by nothing so much as change. Reform was everywhere. In a prescient commentary on the times, Colin James examines how the quiet revolution was seen alternatively as betrayal, a dangerous experiment and a liberation.
Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern history suddenly legislate for mass detention? Geographically isolated and previously a world leader in fair treatment of refugees, New Zealand has suddenly changed tack. Columnist and blogger Tracey Barnett questions this controversial new policy and its effect on asylum seekers.
A thorough study of the impact of globalisation on New Zealand. Jane Kelsey argues that globalisation is not inevitable, invincible or intrinsically good. This bold challenge points the way for open-eyed engagement with the economic realities of the future. Published with the University of Toronto Press.
Redemption Songs traces the life of one of nineteenth century New Zealands most signicant and controversial gures, the Mori prophet, guerrilla ghter and leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. He was a man of enormous vitality and large paradoxes, who sought to give the land and his people new life.
Rolling Back the State Privatisation of Power in Aotearoa/New Zealand Jane Kelsey
391 pages 210 x 137 mm 1993 BWB ISBN 9780908912421 ISTC A0220120000212C8 e-book 2014
Selsh Generations? The Ageing of New Zealands Welfare State David Thomson
233 pages 214 x 137 mm 1991 BWB ISBN 9780908912025 ISTC A0220120000212DB e-book 2013
The Shaping of History Essays from the New Zealand Journal of History, 19671999 Judith Binney (ed)
400 pages 210 x 147 mm 2001 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781877242175 ISTC A0220120000213E7 e-book 2014
Rebecca Maces rst-hand accounts of the Christchurch earthquakes provide a searing account of the disaster. They are powerful and immediate because Mace herself lived there, personally affected by the devastation. Written for the New Zealand Listener over a period of two years, Report from Christchurch traces the citys struggle to recover from the disaster and plan for the future.
1984 saw the dawning of the free market in New Zealand. The entire political, economic and social structure was turned on its head. Jane Kelsey analyses these shifts of power between 19841994. Her insights are farreaching, with a concern about the power of the private sector and the centralised state.
The future of the welfare state is under question today, as it was on publication of this book in 1991. David Thomson contends that welfare has shifted over the years to benet an ageing generation, at the cost of support for the young. A critical and unsentimental analysis of a political issue that remains critical.
Judith Binney, the editor of the New Zealand Journal of History for many years, selected these essays to offer readers insights into contemporary historical writing. Sharp analysis makes the collection an essential resource for understanding how New Zealand history is shaped.
A Small Price to Pay Refugees from Hitler in New Zealand 193646 Ann Beaglehole
172 pages 210 x 137 mm 1988 A&U/PNP ISBN 9780868616353 ISTC A0220120000214CA e-book 2014
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Ann Beaglehole traces the experiences of European refugees who arrived in New Zealand in the 1930s. This is the rst book to document the lives of a genera tion who have made a remarkable impact on a place they can call their own. The difficulties they encountered were, as many said, a small price to pay.
This study describes how personal relationships, work, poverty, war, illness and legal troubles have driven some people to ultimate despair. A profoundly moving account of loss and suffering, and an insightful assessment of psychiatry and psychology in the last century.
Fourteen New Zealand women describe how and why they took a new challenge in mid-life, sometimes from necessity, but more often from choice. Sociologist Alison Gray again draws on oral history to document the changes taking place in womens lives in the late twentieth century.
These stories without end stand alongside Judith Binneys remarkable publications of forty years. They form narratives that ow one into another lling out histories, bringing people out of the shadows, making scholarship live. These essays from one of New Zealands greatest scholars make a particular contribution to Mori history.
Strong, Beautiful and Modern National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 19351960 Charlotte Macdonald
256 pages 240 x 170 mm 2011 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781927131404 ISTC A02201200002130D print rrp$49.99 e-book 2014
The Summer Book A New Zealand Miscellany Bridget Williams, Roy Parsons (eds)
152 pages 245 x 185 mm 1982 PNP Illustrations ISBN 9780908635054 ISTC A02201200002231B e-book 2014
The Treaty of Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This short and lively history brings the story of the Treaty right up to the present. Generously illustrated, this popular book is now printed in full colour, ensuring its place on the bookshelves of future generations. For schools, students and general readers.
A beautifully written biography of a radical nun who became a symbol of political commitment and caring for others. Suzanne Aubert founded a religious congregation in 1892, and worked for the poor and dispossessed throughout her long life. Book of the Year, Montana Book Awards, 1997.
State-sponsored national tness programmes were a feature of the mid-twentieth century across the British world as governments encouraged citizens to be healthier and more active. Co-published with University of British Columbia Press.
A lively collection of prose and verse, photographs and painting, history and ction. From Katherine Manseld to Brian Brake to Dan Davin. A beautifully produced book that tells us what was being read at Christmas 1982. A timeless gem a book designed for summer reading and Christmas giving.
The Summer Book 2 A New Zealand Miscellany Bridget Williams, Roy Parsons, Lindsay Missen (eds)
144 pages 245 x 185 mm 1983 PNP Illustrations ISBN 9780908635085 ISTC A02201200002232E e-book 2014 B W B title S to J ulY 2 0 1 4 | 2 2
Tangata Whenua An Illustrated History Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
496 pages 290 x 245 mm Hardback May/June 2014 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781927131411 ISTC A022012000022331 print rrp$145.00 e-book 2014
Another eclectic and delightful mix, from Christmas 1983. Contributions come from Marti Friedlander, Colin James, Keith Sinclair, Ernst Plischke, Vincent OSullivan, Owen Marshall, Joy Cowley, Marilynn Webb, Anne Kirker, Sharon Crosbie, E.H.McCormick and more.
This landmark publication places Mori at the centre of this countrys story. It portrays the sweep of Mori history from Pacic origins to the present. The narrative offers a striking overview, grounded in specic localities and histories. This is brought to life with some 500 paintings, photographs and maps.
Acting as a meeting pool for Mori and Europeans in the early nineteenth century, the Kerikeri Basin is today one of the countrys major heritage sites. This richly illustrated collection of essays by leading scholars draws on many strands of history, local expertise, archaeology and architecture. A vivid story about a signicant place.
Lloyd Geering offers a distillation of a lifetimes reading and reection on religious questions. He argues that the world we live in is largely a product of our own making, and that we supply its meaning. Thus God, a central symbol of meaning, is entirely a human creation. An important theological work.
The standard guide to the Treaty. Winner of the Goodman Fielder Wattie Award in 1988, the book looks at the place of the Treaty in New Zealand history from its making in the early nineteenth century through to the renewed engagement of the present. This second edition brings the discussion up to 2010, covering such contentious issues as the Foreshore and Seabed Act of 2004.
Settlement of iwi claims has been a feature of the political and legal landscape over the last thirty years. It has drawn international attention, as nations seek ways to build new relationships between indigenous peoples and the state. Leading scholars provide a comprehensive account of the Treaty settlement process.
In this new edition of a key text, international expert Anne Smith examines the latest thinking on childrens learning and development. Her multi-disciplinary approach emphasises the diverse cultural contexts of New Zealand childhood. An important book on early childhood for both students and parents.
Alan Wards account reveals a Treaty made and then repeatedly breached. This is a compelling case for fair and reasonable treatment, and for the rigorous continuation of the claims process. The impact of the past upon the present has rarely been analysed to such immediate purpose.
Up From Under Women and Liberation in New Zealand, 19701985 Christine Dann
153 pages 210 x 147 mm 1985 A&U/PNP Illustrations ISBN 9780868615707 ISTC A02201200002147B e-book 2014
The Vote, the Pill, and the Demon Drink A History of Feminist Writing in New Zealand, 18691993 Charlotte Macdonald (ed)
260 pages 230 x 150 mm 1993 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9780908912407 ISTC A02201200002142C e-book 2014
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The late twentieth century saw a renewal of feminist activism, as women worked hard for equal rights and better opportunities. This lively account of the womens liberation movement comes from one of its participants. Up from Under recounts changes that had far-reaching effects on New Zealander's lives.
The struggle for womens rights is traced in articles and pamphlets from the suffrage movement of the 1880s to 1993 the centenary of womens suffrage in New Zealand. A powerful collection about an often overlooked narrative.
The Waitangi Tribunal was established in 1975 to hear claims by Mori against the Crown arising under the Treaty of Waitangi. This book brings together the work of leading historians, lawyers, and analysts to review the Tribunals role in reshaping Mori identity and society, and its contribution to ideas of justice and reparation.
A tangled web of cultural and economic networks spread across the colonial world. Tony Ballantyne positions New Zealand within these webs of empire; his essays break open the narrative of colonisation to offer sharp new perspectives on our history. Co-published with University of British Columbia Press.
A Woman of Good Character Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth Century New Zealand Charlotte Macdonald
283 pages 217 x 140 mm 1990 A&U/PNP Illustrations ISBN 9780046582586 ISTC A02201200002104E e-book 2014
Women in History Essays on European Women in New Zealand Barbara Brookes, Charlotte Macdonald, Margaret Tennant (eds)
202 pages 212 x 138 mm 1986 A&U/PNP Illustrations ISBN 9780868616100 ISTC A022012000021491 e-book 2014
Women in History 2 Essays on European Women in New Zealand Barbara Brookes, Charlotte Macdonald, Margaret Tennant (eds)
321 pages 215 x 138 mm 1992 BWB ISBN 9780908912230 ISTC A02201200002148E e-book 2014
Between the 1840s and 1880s thousands of young single women came to New Zealand. This detailed study of forgotten lives, highlights the experiences of an important migrant group.
An exploration of the impact of 1980s economic policy on women. Economist Prue Hyman challenges orthodox economic analysis and argues that the contribution of women as workers and consumers needs to be taken into account. A timely contribution to debate about issues that remain current.
These essays bring together research on the lives of women in New Zealand over the last 100 years. Topics covered include attitudes towards female sexuality, prostitution, votes for women, and the education and welfare systems.
Expanding the scope of Women in History, this collection reaches into the twentieth century. The writers explore such topics as the status of Mori women, domestic work, rural life, mental illness, delinquency, adoption, and wartime work.
Workers in the Margins Union Radicals in Post-War New Zealand Cyble Locke
260 pages 240 x 170 mm 2012 BWB Illustrations ISBN 9781927131398 ISTC A0220120000214A4 print rrp$49.99 e-book 2014
The Zealandia Drowning Debate Did New Zealand Sink Beneath the Waves? Hamish Campbell
40 pages Nov 2013 BWB Text ISBN 9781927131961 ISTC A0220130000060E4 e-book rrp$4.99
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In the tumultuous years of the late twentieth century, many workers found themselves on the margins of the labour force. Last hired in times of plenty and rst red in times of recession, marginalised workers were frequently in and out of employment, and usually peripheral in the union.
The World to Come sets out Lloyd Geerings vision of a new global spirituality that may enable humankind to survive, even ourish, on planet earth. Geering has dared to view our situation, our history, and our prospects from an Olympian height. The result is persuasive and profoundly illuminating. John B. Cobb
'I am my life story, as yet still open-ended and unnished ... thus to nd out who I am, I must recall the story of my life as clearly and honestly as I can. Geering writes autobiography with his usual sharp analysis. This is the story of a man who came to personify New Zealands debates over the meaning of religious belief in a secular age.
Did the entire New Zealand land mass sink beneath the waves 23 million years ago? If so, where did our distinctive ancient ora and fauna (such as our tree ferns and the tuatara) come from? A provocative treatment of the Drowning Zealandia controversy by geologist Hamish Campbell.
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