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The Ruby Princess by Duncan McNab
$40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the passenge ...Show more
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy by Robert W. McChesney
$54.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour-or its greatest moment The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. The end ...Show more
The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy by Paul Gilding
$25.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The 'Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not sim ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
$25.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of he ...Show more
Are We Screwed? How a New Generation Is Fighting to Survive Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki
$28.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
A declaration of independence, and a call for systemic change, from the generation that will be most impacted by climate change. If anyone doubted the potential political power of the Millennial generation, Bernie Sanders' campaign put it in the spotlight. Are We Screwed? makes clear that the ardor for ...Show more
People Like Us: How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West by Waleed Aly
$38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
No two civilisations have spoken so many words about each other in recent years as those of Islam and the West. And no two seem to have communicated less. People Like Us confronts the themes that define this chasm head-on: women, jihad, secularism, terrorism, reformation and modernity. Its piercing exam ...Show more
Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
$25.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
Living in A Warmer World: How a Changing Climate Will Affect our Lives by Jim Salinger
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Living in a Warmer World goes beyond the debate over how and why, and describes what is actually happening as our world gets warmer. Readable, relevant and fascinating, in Living in a Warmer World, Dr Jim Salinger brings together some of the world's leading scientists to describe how a hotter planet is ...Show more
That Was the Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People by Andrew Brown
$37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence. In Engl ...Show more
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism - its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, its imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consu ...Show more
Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad - the Ten-year Search for Osama Bin Laden by Peter Bergen
$39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, as well as the recent campaign that gradually tightened the noose around him. Other key elements of the book will include: a careful account of Obama's decisi ...Show more
The End of Food by Paul Roberts
$38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
The emergence of large-scale food production gave us unprecedented abundance - but at a steep and ultimately unsustainable price. Relentless cost-cutting has made our food systems vulnerable to contamination and disease. More than a billion people are overweight or obese, yet roughly the same number are ...Show more