A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts) by Jess Berentson-Shaw
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
We may be in the golden age of information, with access to more facts than ever before. Yet in the time of fake news and post-truth politics, it seems that conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are even harder to debunk. Battling over facts can be exhausting and polarising. For those committ ...Show more
The Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand by Kathleen Kuehn
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Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
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
Missing Pieces: Swedish Tourists' Murders The Haunting New Evidence by Ian Wishart
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: Very Good
John Hughes was New Zealand’s toughest cop, David Tamihere was New Zealand’s most wanted man, and the 1989 disappearance of Swedish tourists Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Hoglin in the Coromandel was the country’s most perplexing murder mystery. Heidi has never been found. In 1990, David Tamihere was jailed ...Show more
Who Dropped the Ball? - Democracy in Crisis by David Chapman
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand once prided itself on its commitment to equity and justice. Now we live in a country where terms like 'domestic violence', 'child poverty' and 'youth suicide' are all too familiar. How did this happen?
He Puapua; Blueprint for Breaking Up New Zealand
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
In Search of Consensus - New Zealand's Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy by Elizabeth Mcleay
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
In a series of backroom negotiations in 1956, the National Government and Labour Opposition agreed to put aside adversarial politics temporarily and entrench certain significant electoral rules. For any of these rules to be amended or repealed, Section 189 of the Electoral Act (now Section 268 of the 19 ...Show more
Crisis: Updated Edition by Alan Bollard, with Sarah Gaitanos
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard's bestselling Crisis was a first-hand account of the global financial meltdown. Two years on, this new edition of Crisis brings the story up to date. Crisis takes readers from the overheated markets of 2007, through the collapse of investment banks and stressful times ...Show more
Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour by Nicky Hager; Jon Stephenson
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: Near Fine
In August 2010, a New Zealand soldier died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. In retaliation, the New Zealand SAS led a raid on two isolated villages in search of the fighters they suspected were responsible. They all knew the rules. Prior to firing weapons, their freshly issued orders said, `the ...Show more
Water Rights for Ngai Tahu: A Discussion Paper by Te Maire Tau
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
There is perhaps no issue in New Zealand today more contentious than water rights. The Crown claims that no one owns water, but its use, irrigation and treatment are controlled by local governments empowered by the Crown. Since the 1990s resource consents for the taking of water, in Canterbury and South ...Show more
Elementary : The Explosive File of Scott Watson and the Disappearance of Ben & Olivia by Ian Wishart
$38.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
OF ALL THE BOOKS ON THIS CASE, YOU NEED TO READ THIS ONE...It's a murder mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes. It even has a Watson. Yet, solving the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope has proved anything but elementary. Some books on the case have argued so strongly for either innocence or guilt t ...Show more
New Zealand Political Cartoon Annual 2012 by Webb murray
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
The best of New Zealand's Editorial Cartoons. Featuring cartoons by: Tom Scott, Chicane, Hawkey, Klarc, Murray Webb, Malcolm Walker, Ekers, Evans, Tremain Hubbard, Body, Mark O'Brien, Hodgson, Fletcher and Nisbet
Criminal Justice by Gilbert Jarrod
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: Near Fine
An introduction to New Zealand's criminal justice system - from crime and policing to the courts - aimed at students and general readers. In this major new textbook, leading scholars from criminology, history, journalism, law, psychology, sociology and other fields take us inside New Zealand's criminal ...Show more