Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
25.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is rigged against ordina ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
38.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
50 Democracy Ideas You Really Need to Know by Adam Fleming
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Adam Fleming introduces and explains the history, key ideas and tools of democracy developed by some of the world's greatest thinkers - spanning from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From the right to vote to the monarchy, viral politics to Brexit, 50 Democrac ...Show more
The Path of Peace - Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator 'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer 'A noble endeavour' New Statesman 'A haunting, intense, enjoyable and memorable book' Tristan Gooley 'Compelling and well-balanced... valuable and poignant' Times Literary Supplement ***A WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 PICK*** W ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
41.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: near fine
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food by Roanne van Voorst
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past.Though increasing numbers of people know that ...Show more
Freezing Order - A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
‘I was hooked from the first paragraph. More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tingingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, FREEZING ORDER has a stunning plot ... but with this stunning twist: it is all true' Stephen Fry Following his explo ...Show more
In the Jaws of the Dragon - How China is Taking Over New Zealand and Australia by Ron Asher
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: near fine
"China Inc., the business arm of China's repressive dictatorship, is trying to take over the world by buying key sectors of various countries' economies as part of its strategic plan for global control of the world's resources. China's rapid arms build-up suggests that it is preparing to back its ever i ...Show more
The Accidental Superpower - Ten Years On by Peter Zeihan
44.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years. Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired th ...Show more
Beijing Rules - China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship and repression . . . compelling' Daily Telegraph'A timely read . . . Chilling . . . Startling . . . A power ...Show more