The 9th Floor - Conversations with Five New Zealand Prime Ministers by Guyon Espiner; Tim Watkin
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
What does government look like from the ninth floor of the Beehive? The 9th Floor collects together interviews with five former Prime Ministers of New Zealand: Geoffrey Palmer, Mike Moore, Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark.
State of Threat: Challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand's National Security by Wil Hoverd (Editor); Deidre McDonald (Editor)
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Increasing US-China tensions, Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, disruptions to supply chains and maritime trade, right-wing extremism and evolving digital currencies . . . the international and domestic security environment is dynamic and fraught. In State of Threat, local and international academics an ...Show more
Heartland Strong by Brown Margaret
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
The future of New Zealands rural communities is often in the news. Empty shops, depopulation and lack of jobs are offered as signs that many towns are dying. However, the strength of social ties and development of digital technologies, the innovations in rural entrepreneurship and the functioning inform ...Show more
Patched by Jarrod Gilbert
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
From 'bikie' gangs to skinheads, the Mongrel Mob to Black Power, gangs have had a massive impact on our society. Based on intensive research within gangs, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand. Jarrod Gilbert traces the story from the early bodgies and widgies, the rise of Hell' ...Show more
Free to be Children by Robyn Salisbury
$24.99 NZD
$39.99 (37% off)
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
Sexual abuse of children wrecks lives, families and communities. In this landmark book, well-known registered clinical psychologist Robyn Salisbury seeks the wisdom of those who have devoted many years, each in their own domain, to working with child sexual abuse. Driven by Salisbury's wish to challenge ...Show more
Unquiet Time: Aotearoa/New Zealand in a Fast Changing World by Colin James
$39.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
In Unquiet Time, Colin James describes a world in disorder as it rebalances politically, economically and demographically; a technology that is changing the way we live and ‘work’ and globalising us in new ways; looming environmental limits, climate change and biosecurity and pandemic threats; a need fo ...Show more
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more
Naked Truth: Lifting the Lid on the New Zealand Sex Industry by Rachel Francis
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
Former prostitute Rachel Francis, once described as 'New Zealand's most famous madam' and author of Laid Bare, is back with another no-holds-barred expose. Through intimate conversations with key personalities in the New Zealand sex industry, Rachel lifts the lid once more on a hidden world. Those inter ...Show more
Not Dead Yet: What Future for Labor? by Mark Latham
$26.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Labor is not dead yet, but it desperately needs to change. In this book, Mark Latham and several leading young progressive thinkers look to the future. Not Yet Deadshows how Labor became a party of factional warlords. Latham proposes reforms to limit their power and renew the party, and outlines a new w ...Show more
Scott Guy : His Parents Story of Love, Betrayal, Murder and Courage by Tony Farrington
$9.99 NZD
$34.99 (71% off)
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Everyone has demons. Few people admit to them, let alone conquer them. Because one person succumbed to his, a handsome young farmer, Scott Guy, was cut down in the prime of life in the driveway of his Feilding home on July 8, 2010. The tragedy held New Zealand spell bound - particularly the arrest and m ...Show more
Child Poverty in New Zealand by Jonathan Boston; Simon Chapple
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
Between 175,000 and 265,000 New Zealand children live in poverty, depending on the measure used. These disturbing figures are widely discussed, yet often poorly understood. If New Zealand does not have ‘third world poverty’, what are these children actually experiencing? Is the real problem not poverty ...Show more
Solving Relationship Property Problems in New Zealand by Garth Cameron
$17.00 NZD
$24.99 (31% off)
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
This book explains: *What relationships are subject to the law of relationship property *That the cost of a property dispute is far more than the money spent on legal fees *How to access the law and other relevant resources *Why it helps to know the law and procedure but it is not a good idea to be your ...Show more