A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea by Jonathan White
45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A revealing history of the future as a political idea, from the Enlightenment to the current climate crisis Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and p ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies by Richard Kerbaj
30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations. The Times best political books of 2022 'This thought-provoking and informative book suggests that the era of globetrotting lone agents such as James Bond ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
42.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
Seven Ways to Change the World: How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face by Gordon Brown
28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'His vision, ideas and passion shine through on every page' Ed Balls 'Compelling, challenging, inspiring and very timely' Piers Morgan 'Immensely powerful and persuasive...I found it exhilarating throughout' Joanna Lumley When the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the ...Show more
A Problem from Hell - America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
28.00 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
Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny by John Sweeney
30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why ...Show more
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X by Moshik Temkin
45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Across the world, and throughout time, there have been people who have risen to the challenge of leading others. Sometimes their power is undeserved, sometimes it's ill-used, but always their actions have impact. But do leaders really make history, or does history make leaders? And how might we harness ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
26.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Shadow State - Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West by Luke Harding
28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
No terrorist group has deployed a nerve agent in a civilian area or used a radioactive mini-bomb in London. The Kremlin has done both. Shadow State is a gripping investigative account of how Russia’s spies helped elect Donald Trump, backed Brexit, murdered enemies and threatened the very basis of we ...Show more