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In the Jaws of the Dragon by Ron Asher
$35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"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 Final Choice: End of Life Suffering: Is Assisted Dying the Answer? by Caralise Trayes
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: near fine
BE INFORMED FOR YOUR VOTE AT THE REFERENDUM On 17 October 2020 A Kiwi journalist on the hunt for the truth about assisted dying and the End of Life Choice Act. Join her on a journey of discovery as she tells the stories of those with terminal illness and interviews lawyers, doctors, ethicists and cleric ...Show more
Fridays with Jim - Conversations about Our Country with Jim Bolger by David Cohen
$45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A FORMER NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER CANDIDLY REVIEWS HIS LIFE AND THE STATE OF THE NATION. A self-taught son of Irish immigrants, devout Catholic, rough-hewn King Country farmer and farming lobbyist, Jim Bolger entered New Zealand political life in the 1970s. He was a flinty Minister of Labour under Rob ...Show more
How I Became a Socialist by William Morris
$24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The definitive collection of political writings from William Morris William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is little known. This collection, the first of his political writings published for nearly 50 years, shows Morris as one of the mo ...Show more
The Art of Fairness - The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean by David Bodanis
$37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Money and Power - The World Leaders Who Changed Economics by Vincent Cable
$36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A captivating economic history of government all over the world.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
$32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Zero day- a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world's computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant and shut down the power ...Show more
Privacy Is Power - Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz
$37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it. The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organi ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand by Laura Tingle
$30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In a tumultuous year, Australia and New Zealand have never been closer, as we move towards a shared travel zone. But why, despite being so close, do we seem to know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at lea ...Show more
The Wake-Up Call - How the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West - and How to Fix It by John Micklethwait; Adrian Wooldridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
An urgent and informed look at the challenges Britain and world governments will face in a post-Covid-19 world. The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where politics in the US an ...Show more
Azadi - Freedom. Fascism. Fiction by Arundhati Roy
$17.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESK The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see a ...Show more
A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
$24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMES The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democr ...Show more