No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Trump, as extreme as he is, is less an aberration than a logical conclusion - a pastiche of pretty much all the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half century. A one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands . . . ' Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump ...Show more
Fair Borders?: Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century by David Hall
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Debates over immigration are heating up - with grave political consequences. It is no coincidence that calls to restrict national borders are intensifying at a time when people are more mobile than ever. But closed borders are no more imaginable in the foreseeable future than perfectly open borders. The ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars: A Brief History (The New Zealand Series) by Matthew Wright
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: The New Zealand Series
From 1845 to 1875, New Zealand experienced a succession of conflicts that stretched from the Bay of Islands to Wellington. What they meant has been debated ever since. To some they were land wars, to others, the Maori wars; lately we are calling them the New Zealand wars. Why were they fought? Who reall ...Show more
Totara by Simpson Phillip
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
The 'mighty totara' is one of our most extraordinary trees. Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the 1980's: the story of New Zealand can be told ...Show more
Haunted New Zealand Road Trip by Mark Wallbank
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In search of 'ghosts on the road', Mark Wallbank, founder of Haunted Auckland, goes roadtrippin' with his ghost hunting gadgets, cameras and other recording equipment to investigate paranormal legends and Auckland's allegedly haunted locations. Join Mark as he sets out with his team to document wanderin ...Show more
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II by A. T. Williams
30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of justice in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity. But it was only a fragment of retribution as, with their Allies, the British embarked on the largest programme of war crimes investigations a ...Show more
Women Leading by Christine Nixon
38.00 NZD
Category: Business
Women Leading smashes tired prescriptions that women should lead like men, highlighting a long history of innovative female leadership. Christine Nixon and Amanda Sinclair draw on their own and thousands of others' experiences to argue it is women who provide new inspiration for change towards inventive ...Show more
Green is the New Black: Inside Australia's Hardest Women's Jails by James Phelps
40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Ivan Milat, the notorious backpacker serial killer, is not the most feared person in the prison system. Nor is it Martin Bryant, the man responsible for claiming 35 lives in the Port Arthur massacre. No, the person in Australia controversially ruled 'too dangerous to be released', the one who needs chai ...Show more
Caesar's Last Breath by Sam Kean
40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, whic ...Show more
The Black Hand by Stephan Talty
40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matr ...Show more
The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany by David King
37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
The hitherto untold story of the scandalous courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution. Seventee ...Show more
Portholes to the Past by Lloyd Geering
24.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Reflections on the 20th century At nearly 99 years old, Lloyd Geering is well qualified to look back over the last century, consider the massive social changes he has lived through, and evaluate human progress. Born in 1918, Lloyd reflects on two world wars, the Great Depression, and changes he has expe ...Show more