The Broken Estate - Journalism and democracy in a post-truth world (BWB Texts) by Mel Bunce
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Category: BWB Text | Reading Level: very good
"It is easy to look at the extremity of `post truth' politics in the US and conclude that we must be doing something ok in New Zealand. But in many ways, the foundations of our media system are in worse shape." In the age of Trump, fake news and celebrity headlines, it is easy to despair about the futur ...Show more
Introducing He Whakaputanga (BWB Texts) by Vincent O'Malley and Jared Davidson
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Category: BWB Text | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It wa ...Show more
Introducing the Women's Suffrage Petition 1893 (BWB Texts) by Barbara Brookes and Jared Davidson
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Category: BWB Text
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least tw ...Show more
Introducing Te Tiriti o Waitangi (BWB Texts) by Claudia Orange and Jared Davidson
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Category: BWB Text | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. In 1840, over 500 Maori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, ...Show more
The Piketty Phenomenon - New Zealand Perspectives (BWB Texts)
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Category: BWB Text | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty's assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than earned wealth has energised debate. Hailed as 'bigger than Marx' (The Economist) or dismissed as 'me ...Show more
Old Asian, New Asian (BWB Texts) by K. Emma Ng
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Category: BWB Text | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
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
On Coming Home (BWB Texts) by Paula Morris
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Category: BWB Text | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'The declamatory return; a homeland as a 'wearying enigma'. This all makes sense to me. The New Zealand that's home to me may be a place of sheep and rugby and number-eight wire, whatever that is, but it's also none of those things. Am I still a New Zealander?' Award-winning writer Paula Morris confront ...Show more
More Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Anna Pendergrast (Edited by) , Kelly Pendergrast (Edited by)
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Category: BWB Text
Many of today's digital technologies inadvertently amplify the power structures and prejudices of wider society. By examining the way digital tools and platforms are designed, built, and maintained, this BWB Text aims to identify where and what we can do better for everyone in Aotearoa. Following on fro ...Show more
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