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Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321260
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater written by Albert Wendt and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Vaipe has the Roman Catholic Cathedral at its western boundary, the court and police station to the east, the market and harbour in front, and the swamps behind it. These are convenient boundaries that I’ve turned into a symbolic fence for the marvellous world of the Deadwater.’ Albert Wendt crosses into new and deeply personal territory in this stirring BWB Text. Returning to his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, sees Wendt confront elemental questions: Is the Vaipe he has created in his stories, poetry and novels really the Vaipe that existed and exists in real life? Or is it real only in his books? Is there a di erence between the two? And does it matter? The responses form a vivid narrative that draws on a life of award-winning writing, and returns full circle to the symbolic world of the Deadwater.

Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908321278
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater written by Albert Wendt and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Wendt recalls his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, just metres from the local cinema, and his life-changing schooling as a scholarship student at an initially foreign New Plymouth Boys' High School. Wendt also explores his fascination with traditional pre-Christian Samoan religion, banned by the missionaries, and while he laments its decline and partial disappearance, he also celebrates its richness and depth.

Always Song in the Water

Author : Gregory O’Brien
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776710479
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Always Song in the Water written by Gregory O’Brien and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in Northland and heading into the blue beyond, Always Song in the Water is a book of encounters and epiphanies, a dinghy ride through New Zealand’s oceanic imagination.Every spring on Gregory O’Brien’s front lawn, on a ridgetop in Hataitai, an upside-down dinghy blooms with flowering clematis. In this book, O’Brien takes his metaphorical dinghy to the edges of New Zealand – starting with a road trip through Northland and then voyaging out into the Pacific, to lead us into some under-explored territories of the South Pacific imagination.With creative spirits such as Janet Frame, Ralph Hotere, Robin White, John Pule and Epeli Hau‘ofa as touchstones, O’Brien suggests how we New Zealanders might be re-imagining ourselves as an oceanic people on a small island in a big piece of water.Always Song in the Water is a book of encounters, sightings and unexpected epiphanies. It is a high-spirited, personal and inventive account of being alive at the outer extremities of Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘This is my field notebook, my voyaging logbook,’ Gregory O’Brien writes, ‘this is my Schubert played on a barrel organ, my whale survey, my songbook.’Among the many artists whose work is featured are John Pule, Robin White, Phil Dadson, Fiona Hall, Euan Macleod, Laurence Aberhart and the Sydney-based painter Noel McKenna, who produced numerous works specifically for this book.

The Bike and Beyond

Author : Laura Williamson
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0947518029
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Bike and Beyond written by Laura Williamson and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bicycle is a time machine, a link to the past. But sometimes the bicycle also feels like a link to the future – not the future we once imagined, the one with flying cars and replicators, but more like the one the Victorians might have pictured: streets crowded with bikes, strange ones of all kinds. The bicycle – cheap, healthy and little-changed in more than a century – is, for Laura Williamson, more than just about sport or transport. Riding a bike brings moments of joy, liberation, revolution and change. From cycling suffragists to the Christchurch rebuild, life on two wheels spins us out beyond well-trod paths to a fresh and fast-moving take on New Zealand.

The Platform

Author : Melani Anae
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988587409
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book The Platform written by Melani Anae and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that is both deeply personal and highly political, Melani Anae recalls the radical activism of Auckland’s Polynesian Panthers. In solidarity with the US Black Panther Party, the Polynesian Panthers was founded in response to the racist treatment of Pacific Islanders in the era of the Dawn Raids. Central to the group’s philosophy was a three-point ‘platform’ of peaceful resistance, Pacific empowerment and educating New Zealand about persistent and systemic racism.

New Oceania

Author : Matthew Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000576612
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book New Oceania written by Matthew Hayward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have been as creatively engaged in the construction and representation of modernity as any of their global counterparts. In the second half of the twentieth century, driving a still ongoing process of decolonisation, Pacific Islanders forged an extraordinary cultural and artistic movement. Integrating Indigenous aesthetics, forms, and techniques with a range of other influences — realist novels, avant-garde poetry, anti-colonial discourse, biblical verse, Indian mythology, American television, Bollywood film — Pacific artists developed new creative registers to express the complexity of the region’s transnational modernities. New Oceania presents the first sustained account of the modernist dimensions of this period, while presenting timely reflections on the ideological and methodological limitations of the global modernism rubric. Breaking new critical ground, it brings together scholars from a range of backgrounds to demonstrate the relevance of modernism for Pacific scholars, and the relevance of Pacific literature for modernist scholars.

Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook

Author : Alice Te Punga Somerville
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988587700
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook written by Alice Te Punga Somerville and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, No. 29: With a Non-argument that’s Actually an Argument. Captain Cook? It’s all so very complex. I’m going to sit on the fence. (Whose fence? On whose land? Dividing what from what? You only have a fence when you fear something or when you’re trying to keep something in. Or, as a renovation show on TV informed me, when you want to upgrade your street appeal.) Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook’s global colonial legacy in this revealing and defiant BWB Text.

100% Pure Future

Author : Dave Bamford
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988587654
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book 100% Pure Future written by Dave Bamford and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on New Zealand tourism, but the industry was already troubled by unchecked growth and questionable governance that has put pressure on the environment, infrastructure and communities. In this urgent collection of essays, nine writers outline their vision for sustainable tourism, the barriers to achieving it and how they can be overcome. This BWB Text is a rallying call for a genuine tourism ‘reset’ that puts the environment first and creates more meaningful exchanges between visitors and their hosts.

Towards a Warmer World

Author : Veronika Meduna
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321740
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Warmer World written by Veronika Meduna and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2014 was the hottest on record since we’ve begun collecting global temperature measurements in 1880. Even at its midway point, 2015 was already promising to take over this dubious record. As new thresholds are breached, acclaimed Radio New Zealand science writer Veronika Meduna explores our future in a warmer world. Beginning with lessons from our ancient geological past, this BWB Text draws on current observations and increasingly sophisticated climate models to describe possible end-of-century scenarios for New Zealand. Distorted ecosystems, extreme weather, new landscapes and adapted foods are just some of the likely changes that amount to a radically different future for our country.

Polluted Inheritance

Author : Mike Joy
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321627
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Polluted Inheritance written by Mike Joy and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parlous state of our freshwater ecosystems is just one signal that we face a more widespread, and unprecedented, environmental crisis. New Zealand’s dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden – and not so hidden – costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to an alarming degree. This situation, he argues, has arisen primarily through governmental policy that prioritises short-term economic growth over long-term environmental sustainability. This BWB Text is a call to arms, urging New Zealand to change course or risk the wellbeing of future generations.

Late Love

Author : Glenn Colquhoun
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0947492909
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Late Love written by Glenn Colquhoun and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I have fought a running battle with medicine for much of my career. I have wanted to leave it for poetry. This is the story of how that has come to change for me. And how both those worlds have at last arrived at some sort of reconciliation.’ As a youth worker, doctor and award-winning poet and children’s writer, Glenn Colquhoun has led a ‘life lived in two parts’. Writing and reading has always transported him to a world ‘flickered’ by colour, warmth and connection. Meanwhile his work as a GP in the Horowhenua has confronted him daily with scenes of doubt, dislocation and disadvantage. Late Love is a meeting of these worlds, a moving attempt to show what it is, as a doctor and writer, to be alongside people.

Why Science Is Sexist

Author : Nicola Gaston
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 090832166X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Why Science Is Sexist written by Nicola Gaston and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science changes the world because the creation of knowledge opens up new pathways for us to explore new ways of doing things, and new questions to ask. My optimism lies in the fact that I think that the answer to why science is sexist does all of these things. In this eye-opening BWB Text, Nicola Gaston, President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, reveals the ways in which the discipline of science is sexist. From the under-representation of women to the argument that mental capabilities are gendered, Gaston demonstrates the extent of our unconscious bias against female scientists, and warns of its damaging consequences for science and for society. In asking what can be done to combat this bias, she calls for us to rethink not just our attitudes towards gender, but also towards scientific knowledge and inquiry.

Sea Change

Author : Bronwyn Hayward
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988533252
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Sea Change written by Bronwyn Hayward and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our seas are literally rising, but under the surface of our politics too, something is also happening. Everywhere there is a growing mood for change, increasing unease and greater efforts to live more sustainably. World leaders and scientists agree that climate change is real, and around the world we can see its effects. Yet despite the scientific and political agreement, meaningful action by governments eludes us. Bronwyn Hayward tackles this inertia head-on. In Sea Change, she argues that our best hope of combating climate change lies in people-driven climate action. She shows how to reclaim our status as political actors and come together to work towards social and climate justice.

Wealth and New Zealand

Author : Max Rashbrooke
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321589
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Wealth and New Zealand written by Max Rashbrooke and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are heading towards Thomas Piketty’s predicted steady state of wealth being worth six times national income. We are not immune to his prognosis of a return to Victorian-style levels of inequality. 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 shapes our experience. Drawing on previously unpublished data, he explores what constitutes wealth in New Zealand – where, how and why it is held. In doing so, he addresses how wealth has come to be so unevenly distributed, and why this imbalance is something we can no longer ignore.

Christchurch Ruptures

Author : Katie Pickles
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321309
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Christchurch Ruptures written by Katie Pickles and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch in 2011 did more than rupture the surface of the city, argues historian Katie Pickles. It created a definitive endpoint to a history shaped by omission, by mythmaking, and by ideological storytelling. In this multi-layered BWB Text, Pickles uncovers what was lost that February day, drawing out the different threads of Christchurch’s colonial history and demonstrating why we should not attempt to knit them back together. This is an incisive analysis of the way a city’s character is interlinked with its geo-spatial appearance: when the latter changes, so too must the former.

Better Lives

Author : Julie Fry
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988533767
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Better Lives written by Julie Fry and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Lives provides a comprehensive overview of immigration in New Zealand, showing how immigration is not just an economic imperative that needs to be managed, but an opportunity to enhance people's lives. This book shifts immigration debate in Aotearoa in exactly the right direction.

The Stolen Island

Author : Scott Hamilton
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0947518126
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Stolen Island written by Scott Hamilton and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘What had happened to the stolen islanders? Had any survived slavery?’ One day in 1863 a strange ship stopped at ‘Ata, a tiny island in the wild seas between Tonga and New Zealand, and sailed away with one hundred and forty-four men, women and children. The ‘Atans were never heard from again, and in Tonga their fate became the subject of legends and superstitions. Uncovering the tragedy of ‘Ata takes Scott Hamilton on a journey to the kava circles and caves of Tonga and back to the streets of Auckland. The Stolen Island is a twenty-first century true sea story revealing slavers, mutinies, castaways, pirates and a cruel streak in Pacific history that is often overlooked but not forgotten.