Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization by Nadav Eyal
25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
<b>‘A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal’s interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.’ </b>– <b>Yuval Noah Harari, author of <i>Sapiens</i></b> <i>Revolt</i> is an eloq ...Show more
Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator by Jung H. Pak
27.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account' Sunday TimesWhen Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, many expected his rule to be short. Years later, he remains the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state with weaponry capable of threatening the West. ...Show more
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
35.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we em ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
29.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...Show more
The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies by Richard Kerbaj
30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations. The Times best political books of 2022 'This thought-provoking and informative book suggests that the era of globetrotting lone agents such as James Bond ...Show more
Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years by DAVIS, STEPHEN
37.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: near fine
**Soon to be a major TV drama** The true story behind the secret of Flight 149 and the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years. On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 4 ...Show more
Chronicles of Dissent by Noam Chomsky
38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thought. In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on independent thought; how historical r ...Show more
Team of Vipers - My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims
45.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy. He soon found himself pulled into the President's inner ci ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
33.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
26.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
38.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
36.00 NZD
Category: Politics
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more