Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
$17.99 NZD
Category: Political/World | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
$38.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
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
Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin; Tom Lee-Devlin
$36.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout his ...Show more
The Abuse of Power by Theresa May
$39.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and ...Show more
A Year at the Circus - Inside Trump's White House by Jon Sopel
$26.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
In this book, Jon Sopel takes you inside Trump's West Wing and explores the impact this presidency has had on the most iconic of American institutions. Each chapter starts inside a famous Washington room, uncovering its history and its new resonance in the Trump era. You are invited to step inside the O ...Show more
The End of Reality: How four billionaires are selling out our future by Jonathan Taplin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns. At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that re ...Show more
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
$42.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. From greedy to generous, from cold to kind-hearted, from rogue to hero, Bill Gates is an extraordinarily complex public figure. Yet over th ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$42.00 NZD
Category: Political/World | Reading Level: near fine
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
$39.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis by Dana Sachs
$32.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
As hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help. In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, ...Show more
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
The first account from a prisoner of war in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. A shocking, hugely powerful memoir by British-born Ukrainian marine Aiden Aslin, who spent six months in Russian captivity.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing ...Show more
Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny by John Sweeney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces ...Show more