Gambling by Mike Atherton
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"Gambling" is a fascinating account of gambling through history, from Greek mythology and the ancient role of lots, dice and cards, to the high profile cricket and football match throwing and 'super casinos' of today. Mike Atherton explores this controversial and captivating phenomenon and the way that ...Show more
Brainwash by Dominic Streatfeild
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits? - Is "The Manchurian Candidate" fact or fiction? - Is it possible to erase memories, or to implant them ...Show more
The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe by Peter Godwin
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In mid-2008, after thirty years of increasingly tyrannical rule, Robert Mugabe lost an election. Instead of conceding defeat, his supporters launched a brutal campaign of terror. Zimbabweans called it, simply, The Fear. Peter Godwin travels, at considerable risk, to see the havoc raging at the heart of ...Show more
Prisoners : A Muslim and A Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Jeffrey Goldberg moved from Long Island to Israel while still a college student. In the middle of the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, the Israeli army sent him to serve as a prison guard at Ketziot, the largest jail in the Middle East. Realizing that among the prisoners were the future leaders of Pa ...Show more
Out of Mao's Shadow : The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip Pan
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
More than fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet Union, China is engaged in the largest experiment in authoritarianism in the world. By launching market reforms while continuing to restrict political freedom, the Chinese Communist Party has challenged the Western assumption that economic growth must ...Show more
Standard Operating Procedure : A War Story by Philip Gourevitch & Errol Morris
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Standard Operating Procedure is the story of the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs of prisoner abuse, as seen through the eyes and told through the voices of the soldiers who took them and appeared in them. It is the story of how those soldiers were at once the instruments and victims of a great injustice ...Show more
Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip Pan
49.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
More than fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet Union, China is engaged in the largest experiment in authoritarianism in the world. By launching market reforms while continuing to restrict political freedom, the Chinese Communist Party has challenged the Western assumption that economic growth must ...Show more
My Holy War : Dispatches from the Home Front by Jonathan Raban
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Struck by memories of his own adolesecent atheism, Jonathan Raban felt he had some understanding of why young people suffering from cultural alienation and moral uncertainty might turn to a backward-looking version of Islam as one way to resist the upheavals of modernity. Yet this understanding was larg ...Show more
Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart
28.00 NZD
34.00 (17% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, a young Biritish diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority's deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronte ...Show more
Temptations of the West : How to be modern in India and beyond by Pankaj Mishra
28.00 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
From Bollywood stars in Bombay worrying whether they are sexy enough to a heroin addict in Pakistan mocking jihad; from Indian mafia dons with political ambitions to Afghans waiting for American benevolence; from Kashmiri Muslims longing for democracy to Tibetan Buddhists fighting to preserve religion i ...Show more
Dining with Terrorists : Meetings with the world's most wanted terrorists (revised edition 2006) by Philip Rees
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Featuring a brand new chapter on the London bombings, this fiercely intelligent expose is the culmination of twenty years research. By infiltrating the most inaccessible political resistance groups, hardened reporter Phil Rees has sought to understand what motivates the "terrorist" or "freedom fighter" ...Show more
The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics by Dennis Sewell
15.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"The Political Gene" is a fascinating examination of the way that many scientists and politicians have sought to use Charles Darwin's ideas to solve social problems, or to bolster political ideologies. Sewell's beautifully crafted narrative shows us what drove people to put a black man on display in a z ...Show more