Bøker av Sheila Smith

This is a story and account of my life so far. The first book in "The Seeds Are Sown," "The New Zealand Dream" trilogy will take you on my journey from birth, growing up in a beautiful country town, painting the background of "The New Zealand Dream."The second book, "Growth And Destruction," I move to the suburbs and discover New Zealand's underground.You will meet characters you may relate to and characters that will shock you.I will lead you into the world that surrounded me, strangled me, and nearly killed me.In the third book, "The Healing," I will show you how I turned my life around.

First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa's past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards.

Focussing on a Fieldwork study of the West Usambaras in Tanzania, this study deals with processes of class formation and capitalist accumulation, and the dynamics of rural poverty and gender relations. It argues that rural differentiation is systematically reinforced by the socialist state.

This well respected textbook has been fully updated to reflect how economic policies on housing, crime, the environment, pensions among other areas, have changed in recent years. The book offers a lucid, non-technical introduction to important economic concepts, showing how they are applied in a real world setting.