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The War on Women in Israel : A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom by Elana Maryles Sztokman
$48.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Across Israel, women are being threatened as a rising Orthodox Jewish faction seeks to suppress them. In this gripping expose, leading women's activist Elana Sztokman investigates the struggles of Israeli women against increasing religious and political oppression, from segregation on public buses to be ...Show more
China : The truth about humna rights by Frank Ching
$17.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
China is one of the great nations of the world. Containing roughly twenty per cent of the population of the globe, its economy is booming, and its role on the world's stage is increasingly influential. Yet, this fascinating country is as complex as it is unusual: its inhabitants are denied some of their ...Show more
Population 10 Billion by Danny Dorling
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by ...Show more
Schott's Almanac: 2011 by Ben Schott
$39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
"Schott's Almanac" is designed to be a practical and entertaining annual volume that tells the real stories of the year. Section headings are: Chronicle; World; Society & Health; Sci, Tech, Net; Celebrity & Media; Music & Cinema; Books & Arts; Travel & Leisure; Money; Parliament & ...Show more
China Since Tiananmen by Joseph Fewsmith
$58.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In a new edition of his path-breaking analysis of political and social change in China since the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Joseph Fewsmith traces developments since 2001. These include the continuing reforms during the final years of Jiang Zemin's premiership and Hu Jintao's succession in 2 ...Show more
Hack Attack : How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning journalist Nick Davies spent more than six years uncovering the truth about the crimes at the News of the World. Hack Attack is the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal. This book tells for the first time how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities worked tirele ...Show more
Curveball by Bob Drogin
$25.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
'Curveball' was the codename given to the mysterious defector whose first-hand evidence on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction proved vital in giving the Bush administration the excuse it needed to invade Iraq. The only problem - this 'evidence' was nothing more than a pack of lies. Pulitzer Prize-winn ...Show more
A Short History of Stupid: The Decline of Reason and Why Public Debate Makes Us Want to Scream by Helen Razer
$24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
How did everything get so dumb?..How did we become hostages to idiocy?..What must we do to be freed from a captor whose ransom note simply reads, 'D'oh'?..The deteriorating quality of our public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture can drive you to despair and rage. It ...Show more
Poisoned Planet by Julian Cribb
$38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
From morning to night, we are surrounded by man-made chemicals, most of them untested, many of them toxic. It's the price we pay for convenient, cheap products. The effects on our health are just now becoming known. We want things to be cheap, convenient and useful. Our food arrives contaminated with pe ...Show more
Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism by Eric Hobsbawm
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us - in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the p ...Show more
The World's Emergency Room by Michael VanRooyen
$44.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care. I ...Show more
Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
$38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber - one of the most prominent and provocative thinkers working today - takes a journey through ancient an ...Show more