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andromedasummer · 7 months

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cannot understate how useful and wonderful BWB texts are. having a supply of such cheap, easily digestible and expertly written essays and insights on new zealand history, politics, social problems, indigenous rights and pacific rights and history, tragedies, media and more is such a boon in an era where misinformation is so easily spread and when its so difficult to find thoroughly researched writing on often niche topics like news media in nz or the coverage of the christchurch earthquakes or the history of unionization in the country. i hope one day say ive read and own them all

#theyre 18 nzd full price #and consistently $8 at secondhand stores #and theyre SO FUCKING USEFUL i was having a convo with a bookstore employee yesterday #because of how theyre marked (similar to penguin books or classics) you can easily pick them out and know youre getting information from #experts and well researched figures from pacific circles #and it's hugely important! said employee had read all their media texts and had a lot of the information and nuance #on social media regulation and news media within the country that only a university degree (which is not fucking cheap) gave me #thats good!!! more people should have this information!!! they can make more informed decisions from there!!!#next week im stopping by to get their books in relation to te tiriti and māori health because those have been in the news and at risk #from our government recently and if im (inevitably) going to argue with family about it then i need to make sure im coming #from a place of fact and research

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