The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings by Robert Fisk
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday Independent. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's war-torn recent history. He is best known for his writing abou ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, tha ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
28.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the unique human habits of exchange and specialisation, our species has found in ...Show more
Stuff Matters: genius, risk and the secret of capitalism by Bingham, Harry
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Harry Bingham used to be an economist and a banker and thought he understood money. Then, in autumn 2008, the world stood on the edge of calamity and Harry realised that all the things he knew had been proven utterly wrong.
Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands by Christina Lamb
25.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
An extraordinary collection of reportage that tells the story of some of the most important world events of the past 16 years, from one of the most talented and intrepid female journalists at work today.Since leaving England aged 21 with an invitation to a Karachi wedding and a yearning for adventure, C ...Show more
The Brotherhood by Steven Knight
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This is a classic and highly controversial expose of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of "Inside the Brotherhood". The Freemasons have long fascinated outsiders. The subject of Dan Brown's new novel - set for release in 2007 - this secret and ex ...Show more
What's Left? by Nick Cohen
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
How Liberals Lost Their WayFrom the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought. Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother would search the supermarket she ...Show more
Apocalypse 2012 : An Investigation into the End of Civilization by Lawrence E. Joseph
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Is the world really coming to an end in 2012? According to the Bible, I Ching and the Mayans it is. And, wouldn't you know it, there are already several rock bands, including Houston's very own Downfall 2012, getting ready to party. "Apocalypse 2012" is cheerful sceptic Laurence E Joseph's investigation ...Show more
The Great War for Civilisation - The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
40.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
Decorated British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has been based in the Middle East for the last twenty-five years, reporting from the world's worst trouble-spots. This is his first-person account of fifty years of bloodshed and tragedy in the area, from the Palestinian-Israeli bloodbath to the shock ...Show more
What Works : Success in Stressful Times by Hamish McRae
38.00 NZD
39.99 (4% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A lively, engaging and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from across the globe, and what Michelle Obama referred to as 'the flimsy difference between success and failure'. In this lively and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from across the globe, award-winning journalist Ha ...Show more
The Other Side of Israel - My journey across the Jewish/Arab divide by Susan Nathan
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
This is the pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth. Susan Nathan's revelatory book about her new life across the ethnic divide in Israel is already ...Show more
A Problem from Hell : America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
29.99 NZD
37.95 (20% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power--a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy--asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to sto ...Show more