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Urban Aotearoa: The Future for Our Cities (BWB Text) by David Batchelor, Bill McKay
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
Despite our agrarian mythology, Aotearoa New Zealand is overwhelmingly a country of urban dwellers.’ Urban Aotearoa: The Future for Our Cities takes a critical look at the evolution of New Zealand’s cities. Moving past the country’s rural image, the book addresses the realities of its urban majority, q ...Show more
Wealth and New Zealand by Max Rashbrooke
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The most recent NBR Rich List has revealed the biggest proportional increase in wealth since the list first appeared in 1986. But what do these figures mean and what else do we know about New Zealand's fortunes? Following his groundbreaking work on income inequality, Max Rashbrooke examines how wealth ...Show more
Why Science is Sexist (BWB Texts) by Nicola Gaston
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In June 2015, Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt resigned from the Faculty of Life Sciences at University College London after making a dismissive remark about female scientists. The incident is just the tip of the iceberg, argues Nicola Gaston, President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists. In this ti ...Show more