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Move Up: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't by Clotaire Rapaille
$48.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
This is an irreverent and controversial examination of why some nations succeed that will overturn all received wisdom. With an abundance of data and evidence, Move UP explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectuall ...Show more
Chronicles : On Our Troubled Times by Thomas Piketty
$37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
With Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty wrote a bestselling book that was widely agreed to be 'extraordinarily important' (Martin Wolf, Financial Times). His powerful, evidence-based analysis and solutions - including progressive wealth taxes to reduce inequality - were praised as much ...Show more
Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That's Changing How We Live and Who We are by James Harkin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Once there was no text messaging. No email and no social network sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. The way we live has apparently been transformed by new ways of communicating. But where did these trends start? And if they can change our behaviour, can they also change the way we think? In Cyburbia ...Show more
The Illusion of Victory by Ian Bickerton
$39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Analysing two centuries of warfare involving Western nations, this book systematically demolishes every argument that is put forward to justify going to war. By looking at the victors and the vanquished at the end of a major war and then a generation later, Ian Bickerton finds that the rewards of victor ...Show more
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
$34.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had the door slamm ...Show more
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Bastian Obermayer; Frederik Obermaier
$22.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history. In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer ...Show more
This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bests ...Show more
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised Edition 2006) by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical question ...Show more
The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat by Louise Gray
$23.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
We should all know exactly where our meat comes from. But what if you took this modern day maxim to its logical conclusion? What if you only ate animals you killed yourself? Fed up of friends claiming to care about the provenance of their food, Louise Gray decides to follow the argument to its logical e ...Show more