Local Government in New Zealand: Challenges & Choices by Jean Drage
$47.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: Near Fine
Local government in New Zealand faces major challenges. Among the most pressing are continual legislative change, threats to its autonomy, the gradual erosion of community voices in council planning and decision-making, and the need for funding solutions to ensure property rates remain affordable. As we ...Show more
At the UN: Addresses from Helen Clark's First Term Leading the United Nations Development Programme by Helen Clark
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
At the UN brings together a selection of addresses by Helen Clark to international audiences during her first term leading the UN Development Programme. These speeches reflect Helen Clark's passion for reducing poverty in the world and helping people and nations to plan their own development. They are i ...Show more
Longing & Belonging : Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African peoples in New Zealand by Edwina Pio
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Longing & Belonging by Edwina Pio is a rich resource that explores the ethnic diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand today. It is a stimulating mix of hard facts, stories of adaptation by recent and older immigrants, and ThinkPieces
Welcome to Our World? Immigration and the Reshaping of New Zealand by Paul Spoonley & Richard Bedford
$42.99 NZD
Category: NZ Society | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is one of the classic immigrant-dependent societies but the nature of migrant flows into the country has changed dramatically since the 1960s. The historic reliance on immigrants from the UK and Ireland was supplemented and then replaced by migrants from elsewhere in the Pacific and then glo ...Show more
Along A Fault-Line: New Zealand's Changing Local Government Landscape by Jean Drage et al (eds.)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Local government in New Zealand is experiencing major upheaval. The creation of an urban unitary council for Auckland, the overthrow of elected representation for the Canterbury region and other instances of intrusion of central government power into local councils (e.g for managing earthquake recovery ...Show more
Balancing Acts - Reflections Of A New Zealand Diplomat by Gerald McGhie
$34.99 NZD
Category: Politics
This is Gerald McGhie'sfascinating and insightful account of some of the highlights of almost 40 years service as a New Zealand diplomat - most notably in the Soviet Union - twice - first during the Brezhnev years of the Cold War; and second from 1990 when he witnessed the dramatic events that led to th ...Show more
Twelve Thousand Hours: Education and Poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand by Ed. Vicki Carpenter & Sue Osborne
$39.99 NZD
Category: Education
There is well-documented concern regarding the links between poverty and education; statistics demonstrate, over many decades, that the economically poorer the New Zealand child's family, the more likely it is the child will not reach her/his potential. The blame for such inequitable outcomes is various ...Show more
Beyond the Free Market: Rebuilding a just society in New Zealand by Edited by David Cooke, Claire Hill, Pat Baskett & Ruth Irwin
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Beyond the Free Market is essential reading for all those who seek to live in a society built on humanitarian concerns. It is a searching analysis of the changes wrought by market-based economics in New Zealand society of the last thirty years. It presents appropriate strategies to enable us to re-estab ...Show more
Persona Non Grata: Breaking the Bond - Fiji and New Zealand 2004-2007 by Michael Green
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
This is the account by (the late) Michael Green, NZ High Commissioner in Fiji, of his years and role in Fiji until the surprising announcement of his change in diplomatic status to "Persona Non Grata" (unwelcome person) in 2007, a status that prevented any further diplomatic activities or role for him i ...Show more
For the Record: Lange and the 4th Labour Government by Margaret Clark (ed.)
$34.95 NZD
Category: Politics
The Fourth Labour Government was an extremely controversial one and David Lange, its intelligent, quick-witted and charismatic leader, has attracted both criticism and accolade for his role and prime-ministership. That NZ today is a more dynamic, varied, exciting and colourful place than in 1984 can in ...Show more
Peter Fraser: Master Politician by Margaret Clark
$34.95 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
Peter Fraser was New Zealand's Prime Minister 1940-49 and much of his time and energy was directed towards New Zealand's war effort. He also made notable contributions to education, cultural affairs, economic policy, race relations and foreign affairs.Contributors to the book include some who knew and w ...Show more
Muldoon Revisited by Margaret Clark
$39.95 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Sir Robert Muldoon's impact upon those with whom he worked was always dramatic. In this fascinating and insightful collection, many people who worked closely with Muldoon - as colleagues, opponents, civil servants, advisors, academics or journalists - offer fascinating and revelationary accounts and mem ...Show more