The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
33.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Chronicles of Dissent by Noam Chomsky
38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thought. In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on independent thought; how historical r ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
36.00 NZD
Category: Politics
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...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
The Fight of Our Lives - My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come.In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of ...Show more
Hell and Other Destinations - A 21st Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
“Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat.” -New YorkerWith a new epilogueIn this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among the world's most admired and tireless public servants-reflects on t ...Show more
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
39.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
29.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...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
We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins
25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'John le Carré demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' Financial Times'Uplifting . . . Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs ...Show more
Free - Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
38.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost ...Show more