How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson
24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy--and how the West crushed it When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an i ...Show more
OUR FINAL WARNING: SIX DEGREES OF CLIMATE EMERGENCY by Lynas, Mark
27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it's only looking worse. We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilis ...Show more
Free Speech And Why It Matters by Andrew Doyle
29.99 NZD
Category: Politics
FREE SPEECH AND WHY IT MATTERSFree speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should ...Show more
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael Wolff
37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. TrumpWith Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide Wolff closes the story ...Show more
The Reckoning: America's trauma and finding a way to heal by Mary Trump
32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. The Reckoning will examine America's national trauma, rooted in its history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral ...Show more
Peril by Bob Woodward
55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's account of the presidential transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 revealed the transition from President Trump to President Biden to be one of the most dangerous periods in American history, with the result of the elec ...Show more
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values--equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity--can provide both the basis for a critique ...Show more
Going Dark - The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner
24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Engaging and visceral ... Reads like a thriller' Financial Times 'Riveting and often deeply disturbing ... A punch to the stomach' Sunday Times 'Ebner has done some gutsy, thought-provoking research' Sunday Telegraph 'Fascinating and important' Spectator By day, Julia Ebner ...Show more
Reason in a Dark Time - Why the Struggle for Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future by Dale Jamieson
40.99 NZD
Category: Politics
From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamies ...Show more
New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place by Felix Marquardt
37.99 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
The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought down Russia's Secret Doping Empire by Grigory Rodchenkov
26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all***One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade''The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen'In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspende ...Show more
The Chief Witness: escape from China's modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive.I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their story, to tell about the darkness they ...Show more