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
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
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
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
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
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
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
One of the world's leading philosophers on how we can restore social solidarity and overcome our rancorous politicsThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequ ...Show more
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder’s Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st cen ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
Assignment Moscow - Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin by James Rodgers
39.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off. From the revolutionary period of the First World ...Show more
The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place by Felix Marquardt
28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.We' ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
29.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more