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ISBN / ISSN:
9780140279511
Collapse : How societies choose to fail or suceed
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Jared Diamond
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
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From groundbreaking writer and thinker, Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future.
Why do some societies flourish, while others founder?
What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids?
Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct,
Collapse
also shows how unlike our ancestors we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.
First published 2005.
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9781921470332
Facebook Effect
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Author:
David Kirkpatrick
Published by:
Simon & Schuster
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IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran.
Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere ...
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9780007312658
GCHQ: The Uncensored story of Britain's most secret intelligence agency
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Author:
Aldrich, Richard
Published by:
harper collins
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The gripping inside story of the last unknown realm of the British secret service GCHQ (Government Communication Headquarters). GCHQ is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. During the past 60 years this successor to the famous Bletchley Park has commanded more staff than MI5 and MI6 combined, and has produced a number of intelligence triumphs as well as some notable failures. Since the end of the Cold War it has played a pivotal role in shaping Britain's secret state. And yet we know almost nothing about it.
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9781847376749
Hello Dubai : Skiing,Sand & Shopping in the World's Weirdest City
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Author:
Joe Bennett
Published by:
Simon & Schuster
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Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years. How? And can it go on? Has it sold itself to the corporate dollar? Is it anything more than a mall in the desert? Will the sands return? Joe Bennett goes to find out.
First published June 2010.
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9780241145012
Hopes and Prospects
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Author:
Noam Chomsky
Published by:
Hamish Hamilton
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In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (even under Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli assalt on Gaza and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward - in the so-called democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements which suggest 'real progress towards freedom and justice'.
Hopes and Prospects
is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race and is wondering where to find a ray of hope.
First published 2010.
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9780340980538
In Our Time (A Companion to the Radio 4 series)
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Author:
Melvyn Bragg
Published by:
Hodder Paperback
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Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly entertains and fascinates substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and take us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, science and history to politics, literature and art. We can discover the reasons for the fall of the Byzantine empire, and why women were persecuted as witches in the seventeenth century. What happened in the peasant's revolt? What is the real American West behind the glamour of Hollywood films? What shape is the universe? Where does our calendar come from? Melvyn Bragg orchestrates the ideas of leading experts in each field so that the dynamic and lively discussion from the programmes comes through vividly on the page. In Our Time brings to life the flashpoints of history, the moments that fundamentally changed the world as we know it, and the individuals and ...
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9780007340774
No Logo (10th Anniversary Edition)
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NZ$ 32.99 each
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Author:
Naomi Klein
Published by:
Harper Collins
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No Logo
was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For it's 10th anniversay Naomi Klein has updated this iconic book.
By the time you're twenty-one, you'll have seen or heard a million advertisements. But you won't be happier for it.
This is a book about that much-maligned, much-misunderstood generation coming up behind the slackers, who are being intelligent and active about the world in which they find themselves. It is a world in which all that is 'alternative' is sold, where any innovation or subversion is immediately adopted by un-radical, faceless corporations. But, gradually, tentatively, a new generation is beginning to fight consumerism with its own best weapons; and it is the first skirmishes in this war that this abrasively intelligent book documents brilliantly.
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9780141036250
Outliers : The story of success
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
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Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and, why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. Like "Blink", this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
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9780141029917
The Age of Turbulence
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Alan Greenspan
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
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The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was ...nothing. What would have once meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to the efforts of the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan.
The post 9/11 global economy is a new and turbulent system - vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even twenty years ago.
The Age of Turbulence
is an incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good or ill, channelled through Greenspan's own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure.
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9781847390011
Where Underpants Come From : From Checkout to Cotton Field - Travels in the New China
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NZ$ 29.00 each
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Author:
Joe Bennett
Published by:
Pocket Books
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When Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of 'Made in China' underpants in his local New Zealand hypermarket for $8.59, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange.
How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how are the pants made? And who decides on the absorbent qualities of the gusset?
Where Underpants Come From
tells you all you need to know - in fact, probably more - about this mystery of global commerce. Leaving his supermarket trolley behind Joe embarks on an odyssey to the new factory of the world, China, to trace his pants back to their source. Along the way he discovers the extraordinarily balanced and intricate web of contacts and exchanges that makes global trade possible - and rapidly elevating China to the status of world economic superpower. He also grapples with chopsticks, challenges his own prejudices and marvels at the contrasts in one of the world's ...
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9781877333781
Who Owns the High Country? The Controversial Story of Tenure Review in New Zealand
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author:
Ann Brower
Published by:
Craig Potton Publishing
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The last 20 years have seen massive change in the iconic high-country stations of the South Island. Traditionally, a lease between the Crown and the runholder gave the right to farm in perpetuity. Recently there has been an initiative to reform this ownership structure in a process called tenure review. This has seen deals struck between runholders and the Government that allow the runholder to privatise (and subsequently develop) parts of their farm and in exchange offer other parts of the farm back to the Crown to be 'retired' as conservation land. On paper this appeared to be a win-win scenario. The reality, however, has been very different.
Through her research, the author exposed the fact that in most cases of tenure review, the Crown was actually paying the runholder to conclude these agreements, while at the same time leaving the runholder with the freedom to develop their newly freeholded land for massive profits. Examples ...
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9781605093307
2048. Humanity's Agreement to Live Together.
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NZ$ 29.99 each
Author:
Boyd, J. Kirk
Published by:
Woodslane
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2048 tells the story of the most
important social movement in the
21st century humanity's
agreement, in writing, to create a
social order that will allow people
to live together in peace and
prosperity based upon human
rights and the rule of law. Many of
the problems the world faces, such
as war, poverty, and environmental
ruin are the by-product of a flawed
international social order.
Fortunately, there is an
international agreement, the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights which all countries signed
in 1948, that promises a social
order of justice, equality, and
freedom. But although agreed to
by all countries it is only a
declaration and is unenforceable
in courts of law. The 2048 Project,
launched by the author and his
colleagues at the University of
California School of Law and from
which the book gets it's name, is a
movement to make the
fundamental ...
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9781741757293
A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century
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Author:
Jacques Attali (tr from French by Jeremy Leggatt)
Published by:
Allen & Unwin
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What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? In 2050? In the year 2100?
Prescient and convincing, in the tradition of Alvin Toffler's
Future Shock
and Alan Weisman's
The World Without Us
, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future.
Never has the world offered more promise to future generations, nor been more fraught with dangers. In this powerful and sometimes terrifying work, Attali analyses the past and pinpoints nine distinct periods of human history, each with its world center of power and prestige, and predicts what the tenth will bring by the end of this century. Attali foresees the disappearance of individual countries and the dominance of a world government, with democracy prevailing. However, the ultimate, burning question he asks is: Will we leave our children and grandchildren a world that is not only viable but better? Or will we bequeath to them a planet that will be a ...
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9780732279837
Absurdistan : A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places
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Author:
Eric Campbell
Published by:
HarperCollins Australia
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A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places.
An award-winning journalist's gritty and compelling account of life reporting from the edge.
As a foreign correspondent for ABC television, Eric Campbell covered Boris Yeltsin's drunken demise in Russia, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and the public madness in Britain following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He's been arrested, drugged, robbed, stoned by the Taliban, threatened with expulsion from China and thrown into a variety of tricky situations - such as dating in Moscow and eating a sheep's head (while hung over) in Afghanistan. In 2003, while covering the war in Iraq, he was wounded in a suicide bombing which killed his cameraman and friend, Paul Moran.
Absurdistan
, Eric's first book, documents the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth while juggling life, ...
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9780091936150
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense : The Incredible Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author:
McDonald Larry & Patrick Robinson
Published by:
Ebury Press
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1
When Lehman Brothers bank went under, the world gasped. One of the world's biggest and most successful banks, its downfall was the event that sparked the slide of the world economy toward a Great Depression II. This is the gripping inside story of the dark characters who ruled Lehman, who refused to heed warnings that the company was headed for an iceberg: the world-class, mid-level people who valiantly fought to get Lehman off its disastrous course; the crash that didn't have to happen. A news-breaking explanation that answers the question everyone still asks: 'why did it happen?' Larry McDonald, a former vice-president at Lehman Brothers in charge of distressed debt trading and convertible securities, was right at the center of the meltdown of the company and gives an intimate look at the mad house that Lehman became. This book shows beyond a doubt that Richard Fuld, the long-time CEO of Lehman, and his top executives, were totally ...
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9780091900113
Affluenza : How to be successful and stay sane
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author:
Oliver James
Published by:
Vermilion
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There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver James travelled around the world to try and find out why. He discovered how, despite very different cultures and levels of wealth, affluenza is spreading. Cities he visited include Sydney, Singapore, Moscow, Copenhagen, New York and Shanghai, and in each place he interviewed several groups of people in the hope of finding out not only why this is happening, but also how one can increase the strength of one's emotional immune system. He asks: why do so many more people want what they haven't got and want to be someone they're not, despite being richer and freer from traditional restraints?
First published 2007.
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9780091927042
Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures With Coca-Cola
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Author:
Mark Thomas
Published by:
Ebury Press
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Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space.
From Istanbul to Mexico City, Mark travels the globe investigating the stories and people Coca-Cola's iconic advertising campaigns don't mention.
Child labourers in the sugar cane fields of El Salvador. Indian workers exposed to toxic chemicals. Colombian union leaders falsely accused of terrorism and jailed alongside the paramilitaries who want to kill them. And many more...
Provocative, funny and stirring,
Belching Out the Devil
investigates the truth behind one of the planet's biggest brands.
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9781877517006
Castles in the Sand : What's happening to the New Zealand coast?
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NZ$ 49.99 each
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Author:
Raewyn Peart
Published by:
Craig Potton Publishing
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1
Tells the story of the New Zealand coast - what it means to New Zealanders and what we need to do to care for it for future generations. It describes the natural processes that have sculpted the coast, the flora and fauna that inhabit it, and the ways it was utilised by early Maori and European settlers. Castles in the Sand is a timely evaluation and call to action.
First published August 2009, Nelson
230x230mm / 276pp paperback
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9780753519790
Codename - Renegade : The Inside Account of How Obama Won the Biggest Prize in Politics
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author:
Richard Wolffe
Published by:
Virgin Books
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Written by British political reporter Richard Wolffe, "Renegade" is an election epic as well as an insightful biography of the new President of the United States. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama told Wolffe that, 'You'll get more access than anyone else', resulting in a riveting first-hand account of the 21-month journey from candidate to president. Wolffe covers the campaign in untold detail as well as revealing how Obama learned his personal and political skills in his youth and early career, which led him from his university lecturer's office in Iowa, to his nomination as the Democratic candidate, and finally to the Oval Office in Washington. Combining history, political psychology and biography, "Renegade" is an essential guide to understanding the president.
Review: The first of the President Obama books--and a good one--insightful, thorough and straight Many journalists covered the 2008 presidential campaign for ...
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9781846142468
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
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Author:
Peter Maass
Published by:
Allen Lane
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Oil makes the world work. It has become so vital that even a small reduction in output can cause economic chaos. We know that our reliance on oil is potentially disastrous but what we are less clear about is the terrible damage it inflicts on the countries that produce it. The people who should benefit most from the riches of oil are, quite often, harmed by it. "Crude World" offers a passionate look at some of the most awful places in the world - the violent, repressive and polluted countries where oil is extracted. Peter Maass follows the journey of oil and shows how the substance sullies so much of what it touches, poisoning land and rivers, promoting political bloodshed and creating corruption on a staggering scale. We tend to gauge the price of oil by its cost at the petrol station or its role in global warming, but Maass vividly shows an altogether different price paid by people who live in countries that are rich in petroleum but ...
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