Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Megan Davis, George Williams
35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
30.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON
A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelagois Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven ...Show more
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope
33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access ...Show more
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman
75.00 NZD
Category: Military
Throughout history, the concept of command - as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority - has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since th ...Show more
Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
30.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky & C. J. Polychroniou
26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In these wide-ranging and incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the rapidly deteriorating quality of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. Noam Chomsky examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the ...Show more
The Edge of the Plain - How Borders Make and Break Our World by James Crawford
37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Blending history, travel and reportage, this is a wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an examination of their role in shaping our world today
Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense by Richard Denniss
35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'Economics is like a tyre lever- it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.'What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevit ...Show more
Liberalism and its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher.
New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China's juggernaut economy. 'Essential reading' - Tony Blair Although China's economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is oftenbased on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin burrowsdee ...Show more
Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture by Mark Bergen
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The story of YouTube, the global phenomenon which single-handedly upended traditional media and transformed Google into one of the world's most profitable companiesSince 2005, YouTube has exploded, giving a platform to unique and valuable voices, but also to propaganda, misinformation and illicit videos ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
37.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these que ...Show more