Hey! Nietzche! Leave Them Kids Alone!: The Romantic Movement, Rock and Roll, and the End of Civilisation as We Know it by Craig Schuftan
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Why do goths wear black? Why do rock singers make that 'jesus' shape on stage? Why do songs about death and despair make us feel good? And why can't you get no satisfaction? According to Craig Schuftan, it all began about two hundred years ago. Hey! Nietzche! is the first book to uncover the hidden root ...Show more
Maralinga : Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up by Alan Parkinson
32.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Nothing to Envy: Love, Life and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions during political rallies to make sure you were sincere in your expressions and your thoughts? If you couldn't turn the dials of your ...Show more
Red Square Blues: A Beginner's Guide to the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union by Kim Traill
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good
In 1990, Kim Traill set off on her own youthful adventures in a country renowned for its bad food, dreadful weather and surly service: the Soviet Union. She would discover a Russia few tourists see, a country which is both surprising and brutal. Lively, funny and utterly readable, this is a memorable po ...Show more
Will the Boat Sink the Water? by Chen Guidi & Wu Chuntao (tr from Chinese Zhu Hong)
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The controversial bestseller that shocked China. "We have seen unimaginable poverty, unimaginable evil, unimaginable suffering and desperation, unimaginable resistance and silence. We are not heroes, because we have no power and no money. All we have are our writing pens...This book was written for the ...Show more
Will the Boat Sink the Water? by Chen Guido & Wu Chuntao (tr from Chinese Zhu Hong)
36.99 NZD
39.00 (5% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
One of the first in-depth exposes of the abuses endured by Chinese farmers. The authors, who were themselves peasant families, spent three years travelling the countryside, interviewing hundreds of people who live in poverty and desolation. First published 2006.
Inhaling the Mahatma by Christopher Kremmer
26.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'When a Gandhi dies, nobody is safe.' An assassination and a romance. A hijacking, several nuclear explosions and a religious experience ...just some of the ingredients in the latest tour de force from the bestselling author of The Carpet Wars. In the searing summer of 2004, Christopher Kremmer returns ...Show more
Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places by Eric Campbell
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
As a foriegn correspondent for ABC television, Eric Campbell has seen a lot. This, his first book, documents the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth, while juggling life, love, friendship and fatherhood.
The Carpet Wars by Christopher Kremmer
29.99 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good
This tells of foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's, fascinating and timely account of over a decade spent living, travelling, and reporting from Asia, and the Middle East. During this time he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession that saw him trace the threads of c ...Show more
The Carpet Wars : A Journey Across the Islamic Heartlands by Christopher Kremmer
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
In 1990, Christopher Kremmer arrived in Afghanistan to interview the doomed communist president, Dr Najibullah as rampaging factions of mujahideen massed on the outskirts of Kabul. He found himself intrigued by the politics and culture of the land, and his book provides revealing, often first-hand portr ...Show more
World Poverty for Dummies by Sarah Marland
38.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: For Dummies Ser.
Created especially for the Australian customer Uncover the global building blocks of poverty Ending world poverty is possible -- and you can help. With World Poverty For Dummies, you find out about the building blocks of poverty, as well as its varying causes and manifestations in different regions ar ...Show more
The Last Oil Shock by David Strahan
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international terrorism, and more ...Show more