Overcoming Katrina by D'Ann R. Penner
51.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This books brings together the narrated autobiographies of black New Orleanians, united by their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. At its heart are stories of abandonment and evacuation, heroism and terror, prejudice and generosity, and displacement and rebuilding in ...Show more
Politics by Andrew Heywood
79.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This highly successful text is the best-selling text to introductory politics and offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of politics, written from a truly international perspective. The third edition of Politics has substantial new material and it also takes into account throughout the increas ...Show more
The Spectre at the Feast by Andrew Gamble
54.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
After a long feast of prosperity in the western world, the crisis in the financial markets has conjured up an old spectre -- the spectre of capitalist crisis, which many thought had been finally exorcised. On past experience, a full-blown capitalist crisis would bring with it the threat of slump, collap ...Show more
Connected by Daniel Altman
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Oil prices go up, the stock market goes down. Currency exchange rates fluctuate, the Chinese economy is booming, and new technologies are changing the way we do business. What if you could look behind the headlines of the global economy, to see how it really works? Instead of listening to pundits, polit ...Show more
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere - from Pearl Harbour to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana. Bookshop shelves threaten to collapse under the weight of texts devoted to proving myriad conspiracy theories true, while even quality newspapers and ...Show more
American Fascists : The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A startling and terrifying expose of the political ambitions of the Christian Right in America - and a clarion call for everyone who cares about freedom. They disseminate their ideas on the alternative broadcast networks and through their own publishers and schools. Their intellectual leaders demand ...Show more
The Second Plane : September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
44.99 NZD
49.99 (10% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for "The Guardian" beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.' In the years that passed since then, he has returned to the subject again and again, in revi ...Show more
Breaking the Chain by Willy Voet
26.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any chance of playing a competitive part in the 1998 Tour de France. The car was searched, he was immediately arrested and so the story that has been undermining the ...Show more
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal
28.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand," writes a ...Show more
Easeful Death : Is there a case for assisted dying? by Mary Warnock & Elizabeth Macdonald
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The legal choices confronting those caring for the terminally ill, and indeed those patients themselves who may be facing intolerable suffering towards the end of ...Show more
Reparations
240.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Reparations is an idea whose time has come. From civilian victims of war in Iraq and South America to descendents of slaves in the US to citizens of colonized nations in Africa and south Asia to indigenous peoples around the world - these groups and their advocates are increasingly arguing for the impo ...Show more
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
57.50 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics