The Punishment of Virtue by Sarah Chayes
39.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
An NPR correspondent presents an account of the return to the violence and corruption of warlord activity in Afghanistan after the displacement of the Taliban, revealing how the U.S. government assisted the return of corrupt militia commanders to the country. 100,000 first printing.
Acting on Conscience : How can we responsibly mix law, religion and politics by Frank Brennan
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This is an intelligent and controversial volume that examines the role personal beliefs play in politics. Can a devoutly Catholic male politician make fair and objective decision on women's medical issues such as the right to contraception or abortion? When politicians invoke church leaders' support in ...Show more
Flat Earth News : An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies
59.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession.' When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignor ...Show more
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart
24.99 NZD
50.99 (50% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering - their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the n ...Show more
Animal Spirits: How human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism by George A. Akerlof
34.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclai ...Show more
Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays by Joel Waldfogel
22.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and-gift giving. Lots and lots - and lots - of gift giving. It's hard to imagine any Christmas without this time-honored custom. But let's stop to consider the gifts we receive - the rooster sweater from Grandma or the singing ...Show more
Delete by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
49.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"Delete" looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyber ...Show more
Portfolios of the Poor by Daryl Collins
61.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
About forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, mor ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
49.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Sir Popper, Karl Raimund
49.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A critical appraisal of political and historical philosophies, delineating the threat to freedom posed by several classical thinkers.
Voltaire's Bastards by J. Saul
36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In a wide-ranging, provocative anatomy of modern society and its origins, novelist and historian John Ralston Saul explores the reason for our deepening sense of crisis and confusion. Throughout the Western world we talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet Saul shows that there has never before been su ...Show more
Saturday is for Funerals by Unity Dow
49.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In the year 2000, the World Health Organization estimated that 85 per cent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In "Saturday Is for Funerals", we learn why that won't happen. Unity Dow and Max Essex tell the true story of lives ravaged by AIDS - of orphans, bereaved parents, an ...Show more