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
Planet on Fire by Laurie Laybourn-Langton Mathew Lawrence
32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The environment is collapsing at a rapid rate, and in increasingly unpredictable ways. Everyone knows that this is happening, and yet the only politics that is emerging to tackle it are coming from the increasingly nativist far-right. How should the left respond?In Planet on Fire, two rising stars of th ...Show more
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Dr. Carl L. Hart
37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
From one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy life Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and f ...Show more
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Philip Carol; Rucker Leonnig
32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he r ...Show more
Wake Up: Why the World has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
It's time we get back to common sense. It's time to cancel the cancel culture. It's time to Wake Up. If, like me, you're sick and tired of being told how to think, speak, eat and behave, then this book is for you. If, like me, you think the world's going absolutely nuts, then this book is for you. If, l ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: Leading With Empathy by Supriya Vani, Carl A Harte
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century, based on interviews with the New Zealand Prime Minister herself. Jacinda Ardern was swept into office in 2017, with a wave of popular adulation dubbed ‘Jacindaman ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
37.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
'Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding' - Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard, on Prisoners of Geography If you want to understand what's happening in the world, look at a map. Tim Marshall's global bestseller ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A. C. Grayling
24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled, and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary-among them addressing the imbalance of power be ...Show more
American Kompromat: How the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery by Craig Unger
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Kompromat n.--Russian for "compromising information" American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive inter ...Show more