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
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An expert on China's global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. From the ocean floor to outer space, China's digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China's surveilla ...Show more
Democracy and Its Crisis by A C Grayling
23.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
28.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Ser.
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
Twelve Who Don't Agree by Valery Panyushkin
25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Here is another Russia. Twelve brave men and women pitted against the Putin regime.
Command - The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the political circumstances in which they are operating. Command in war is about forging effective strategi ...Show more
War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
As soon as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar took action. He circulated a petition that was signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That brave act led to a new law in Russia crimi ...Show more
Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
18.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
40.00 NZD
Category: History
" An elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-The Wall Street Journal"A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago."-Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsONE OF ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guervara
26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycleAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcyc ...Show more
Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization by Nadav Eyal
25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
<b>‘A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal’s interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.’ </b>– <b>Yuval Noah Harari, author of <i>Sapiens</i></b> <i>Revolt</i> is an eloq ...Show more