Futilitarianism - Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness by Neil Vallelly
55.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers
A proposal for countering the futility of neoliberal existence to build an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future. If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as many of us currently maximize ...Show more
Woke - A Guide to Social Justice by Titania McGrath
38.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The most important debut you'll read this year - from Twitter sensation Titania McGrath In Woke, Titania McGrath demonstrates how everybody can play their part in the pursuit of social justice. As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, Titania is uniquely placed to guide her readers thr ...Show more
Putin's World Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world--and increased Russia's status on the global stage. How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage ...Show more
Warning to the West by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
18.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger...to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world? I was swallowed myself. I have been in the dragon's belly, in its red-hot innard ...Show more
Killing Thatcher - The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
38.00 NZD
Category: History
The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret ThatcherKILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet - an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ire ...Show more
The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work by Yascha Mounk
25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 * ‘Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book’ ANNE APPLEBAUM One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracie ...Show more
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kohei Saito
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Can green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying? Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth's life support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates in one of the most astonishing bestsellers of recent times. Drawing on cutting-edge research acro ...Show more
Free - Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
38.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost ...Show more
Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong by David Orrell
28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
When Economyths was first published in 2010, David Orrell showed how mainstream economics is based on key myths such as fair competition, rational behaviour, stability and eternal growth - and how these myths lead paradoxically to their opposites: inequality, an irrational economy, financial instability ...Show more
What's Left? by Nick Cohen
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
How Liberals Lost Their WayFrom the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought. Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother would search the supermarket she ...Show more
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future. In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture ...Show more
Democracy and Its Crisis by A C Grayling
23.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more