Identity, Ignorance, Innovation - Why the Old Politics Is Useless - and What to Do about It by Matthew d'Ancona
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
This book is a provocative intervention in a global debate that has been paralysed by the continued use of out-dated categories of political analysis. In it political journalist Matthew D'Ancona will propose a new way of understanding the crises of developed societies in the early 21st Century - and plo ...Show more
Oneness vs the 1% Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom by Vandana Shiva with Kartikey Shiva
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, economic polarisation... have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet – and all its people – to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs The 1%, Vandana Sh ...Show more
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were whe ...Show more
A Problem from Hell - America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
$27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2003 A shattering history of the last hundred years of genocidal war that itemises in authoritative, persuasive manner exactly what the West knew and when, and what it chose to do, and what not to do, with that knowledge. Winner of the US National Book Crit ...Show more
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Written by one of Australia's former prime ministers and China expert, this book challenges the politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and Cold War. Possibly even the unthinkable: war itself. ...Show more
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament by Margaret Wilson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an unlikely law student in the 1960s in a class with a few other women, and an emerging socialist feminist who read radical texts and attended women’s conventio ...Show more
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
$49.99 NZD
Category: Politics
THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decis ...Show more
Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour by Nicky Hager; Jon Stephenson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: Near Fine
In August 2010, a New Zealand soldier died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. In retaliation, the New Zealand SAS led a raid on two isolated villages in search of the fighters they suspected were responsible. They all knew the rules. Prior to firing weapons, their freshly issued orders said, `the ...Show more
Unfair Trade: How Big Business Exploits the World's Poor - and Why It Doesn't Have To by Conor Woodman
$28.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Many of our favourite brands now openly espouse 'ethical' credentials, so how is it that they can import billions of pounds' worth of goods from the developing world every year while leaving the people who produce them barely scraping a living? Are they being cynically opportunistic? Or is it that globa ...Show more
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Kim Jong Un | Reading Level: very good
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody storie ...Show more
Beyond These Shores - Aotearoa and the World (BWB Texts) by Nina Hall
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
In recent years, more people are calling for an independent, values-based foreign policy and parties of all political stripes are looking for new ideas to achieve that. This book brings together a diverse group of New Zealanders to outline their visions for New Zealands role in the world. It sparks a co ...Show more