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Words and deeds, Helen Watson White
The Political Years Marilyn Waring Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9781988545936 The cover of Marilyn Waring’s book The Political Years shows a telling photograph of the 1979 National Party caucus in the Beehive: row upon row of suited men, with…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Helen Watson White, Issue 128, Marilyn Waring, Summer 2019
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Articulating an alternative, Julienne Molineaux
Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-scale Collective Action Max Rashbrooke Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781988545080 This is an optimistic book that aims to re-set the narrative on collective action and, in particular, how we discuss…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 126, Julienne Molineaux, Max Rashbrooke, Winter 2019
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Whose history? Simon Hay
wThe Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World Helen Bones Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781988531175 The Expatriates Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781988533179 Helen Bones aims to dismantle the “myth” that New Zealand writers, in…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Helen Bones, Issue 123, Martin Edmond, Otago University Press, Simon Hay, Spring 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Gloomy agreement, Tom Brooking
The New Zealand Project Max Harris Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780947492588 New Zealand: Paradise Squandered? Reflections on What We’ve Lost and Where We’re Heading John Hawkes John Hawkes, $40.00, ISBN 9780473375553 Two New Zealanders at either end of their…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 120, John Hawkes, Max Harris, Summer 2017, Tom Brooking
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Town and country, Simon Upton
The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840-1920 Ben Schrader Bridget Williams Books, $60.00, ISBN 9780947492434 I live in a very large city – Paris. It is a melting-pot of anonymity, dynamic and dangerous. There are futuristic experiments in eco-design and…
Tagged with: Ben Schrader, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 118, Simon Upton, Winter 2017
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Walking in more than one world, Paula Morris
Being Chinese Helene Wong Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780947492380 Going Places: Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand Julie Fry and Hayden Glass BWB Texts, $15.00, ISBN 9780947492694 The First Migration: Maori Origins 3000 BC – AD 1450…
Tagged with: Atholl Anderson, Bridget Williams Books, BWB Texts, Hayden Glass, Helene Wong, Huia, Issue 116, Julie Fry, Linitā Manu’atu, Marilyn McPherson, Mere Kēpa, Paula Morris, Summer 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Driving home, Ann Beaglehole
Migrant Journeys: New Zealand Taxi Drivers tell their Stories Adrienne Jansen and Liz Grant (Michael Hall photographer) Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9781927277331 In Adrienne Jansen’s 1990 book I Have in My Arms Both Ways, 10 immigrant women told their…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Autumn 2016, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 113, Liz Grant, Michael Hall
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The archaeologist of memory, Ingrid Horrocks
The Dreaming Land Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780908321490 The Dreaming Land is Martin Edmond’s first full-length work of autobiography, but he’s been working in the territory of life writing and memoir for a long time. He is…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Bridget Williams Books, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 113, Martin Edmond
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Dangerous confusion, Tim Hazledine
The Fire Economy: New Zealand’s Reckoning Jane Kelsey Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781927247839 “Imagine,” said the great physicist Richard Feynman, “how much harder physics would be if electrons had emotions!” Harder still, if not just emotions but consciousness, memory…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 112, Jane Kelsey, Summer 2015, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review