Walking in People’s Worlds: A practical and philosophical guide to social work by Nicki Weld & Cherie Appleton
$32.99 NZD
Category: Health
This book offers students and professionals alike a reflexive exploration of the practical, emotional and spiritual components of social work practice. Examples from practitioners' experiences working with families and children are provided throughout and include the often unseen, positive contribution ...Show more
Working with Families: Strengths-Based Approaches by Jackie Sanders and Robyn Munford
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Working with Families: Strengths-Based Approaches is written with both the student of social and community work and the practising social and community worker in mind. All aspects of social and community work are covered in this book that builds on and substantially extends the authors' earlier work Sup ...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
Talanoa: Building a Pasifika Research Culture by Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop & Eve Coxon (eds)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Education
The Talanoa post-graduate discussions - using Access Grid technology to facilitate a national (and then international), 'virtual' face-to-face venue - were established as a joint project across New Zealand universities to help attract Pacific post-graduates into the social sciences and to enhance Pacifi ...Show more
Ravaged Beauty: An Environmental History of the Manawatu by Catherine Knight
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
While "Ravaged Beauty" is about the environmental history of one North Island region, the impact of human settlement and accompanying development for improving human settlement conditions is typical of many New Zealand regions. This impact, graphically illustrated in this well researched and entertainin ...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
From Outlaw to Citizen: Making the Transition from Prison in New Zealand by Anne Opie
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Society
This book addresses a major gap in knowledge about what it means to be released from prison in New Zealand. It reports on released prisoners' experiences during their first year of transition from prison. It identifies the obstacles to (re)settling in a community and desisting from reoffending, and the ...Show more
The Art of Being Employed by Jacqueline S. Rowarth
$32.99 NZD
Category: Education
This well-known author says that successful employment leading to a stellar career is an art - the skills can be learned, honed and will reward those who take up the challenge. This book is for everybody who wants to have a challenging and rewarding career. It is a concise guide, with easy-to-relate-to ...Show more
Sari: Indian Women at Work in New Zealand by Edwina Pio
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society | Reading Level: Very Good
Showcases the lives of Indian women working in New Zealand through four generations, in their own words and through official data. Stories of fabulous success merge with underemployment and no employment. Memories of Maori friendships and Maori relatives intertwine with mentoring by Pakeha women. Sewn i ...Show more
Queer in Aotearoa New Zealand by Lynne Alice
$34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Society
The diverse contibutions in this book discuss how the reframing of 'queer' as a proud, border-crossing identity challenges conventional views of gay, lesbian, transsexual and heterosexual identities. They bring together wide-ranging commentaries on the history, politics and culture of thirty years of se ...Show more
Planning to House A Nation: The life & work of Reginald B Hammond by Caroline Miller
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Society
In writing this book (her first was The Unsung Profession) Caroline Miller again demonstrates her passion and commitment to the profession of Planning and to documenting the important people and history in New Zealand in this field. REGINALD HAMMOND, the author of this country’s first Planning legislat ...Show more
Real Media, Real People (out of print) by Wiebe Zwaga
$0.00 NZD
Category: NZ Society
Provides a summary of the development of New Zealand's broadcasting privacy principles and precedent-setting decisions since 1990. Reports on the views of five key stakeholder groups and presents the findings of a major public opinion survey of 1200 New Zealanders.