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
Inside the Red Mansion by Oliver August
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In 1999, shortly after arriving in Beijing as The Times"'s China correspondent, Oliver August set out on the trail of China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing. An illiterate peasant from the coastal city of Xiamen, Lai created his own shipping empire from nothing before vanishing abruptly when the Communi ...Show more
Ill Fares the Land - A Treatise on Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt
32.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever re ...Show more
Gangs II by Ross Kemp
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In this sequel to the bestselling Gangs, Ross Kemp once again infiltrates groups of the deadliest criminals in countries as varied and far-reaching as Argentina, Thailand and Kenya. In Poland while investigating Neo-Nazi football hooligans, Ross is tear-gassed at a football match as he shadows an eli ...Show more
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Why has Europe's half-century of mass immigration failed to produce anything resembling the American melting pot? Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighbourhoods have now forced Europeans, caught up in a demographic revolution they never expected, to question its success and to confront th ...Show more
The Looming Tower : Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
39.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction 2007. Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of i ...Show more
Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'You want something heartwarming? Buy a puppy. But if you want just the facts, ma'am - facts rarely cuddly or cute - here's your book. Before you enter these pages, I should warn you: I am not a nice man. But I'm not prejudiced: it's not just Oval Office residents that make me gag, it's holders of offic ...Show more
Thatcher and Sons by Simon Jenkins
69.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The history of Britain in the last thirty years, under both Conservative and Labour governments, has been dominated by one figure - Margaret Thatcher. Her election marked a decisive break with the past and her premiership transformed not just her country, but the nature of democratic leadership. In his ...Show more
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health by Rick Smith
41.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
When environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie decided to tell the story of pollution in our modern world by using their own bodies as laboratories, they could not have known what they were about to discover. They ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround us all the time, from mercury-lade ...Show more
The Family by Jeff Sharlet
37.00 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
They are The Family - fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the 'new chosen': congressmen, generals and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a 'leadership led by God', to be won n ...Show more