Price of Honour by Jan Goodwin
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Muslim women, symbols of honour for their men, speak out and take us into the volatile heartland of Islam, the world's fastest growing religion. Price of Honour recounts a wide range of telling, often horrific stories about the ways in which Muslim women are abused and oppressed by their menfolk, and sh ...Show more
The Converging World : How one community's path to zero waste is helping save our planet by John Pontin
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Converging World tells the incredible story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. Faced with the challenge of making the English village of Chew Magna a 'zero waste' society, Pontin developed a groundbreaking non-profit scheme that twinned them with Tamil Nadu, a poor rura ...Show more
Guns for Hire by Tony Geraghty
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The vast expansion of commercial and politicised warfare - in the wake of the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq - is examined in this enthralling, highly controversial book.The freelance soldier, whether fighting for money or an adopted case, has always been a fascinating but little understood phenomenon ...Show more
Richistan by Robert Frank
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In this riveting book, Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank explores the lives and lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires and billionaires - many of them self-made and from blue-collar backgrounds - and how this new gilded age is affecting wider society. Profiles of 'instapreneurs', dot-com bill ...Show more
Sustainagility - smart innovation by DIXON Patrick
42.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical an ...Show more
The New Cold War : How the Kremlin Menaces Russia and the West by Edward Lucas
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In the 1990s, Russia was the sick man of Europe, but the rise to power of former KGB officer Vladimir Putin in 1999 coincided with a huge hike in world oil and gas prices, and after Yeltsin's downfall Putin set about re-establishing Russian autocracy. Now with its massive gas and oil reserves Russia has ...Show more
The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg
49.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A character study of one of the presidents in American history. It analyses Bush, his idolisation of Ronald Reagan, and his devout Christianity. It also studies the language that he uses and is the starting point for a debate about undoing the damage wrought by him.
The Hot Topic : How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On by David King
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Hot Topic is a collaborative work by one of the most respected scientists and one of the most dynamic writers in the field of climate change. Sir David King, world-renowned scientist and the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, is widely credited with persuading Tony Blair to act on climate change ...Show more
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
At the time George W. Bush ordered forces to invade Iraq, 70 per cent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. When asked to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, voters most frequently named two Bush TV ads that played to fears of terrorism. How did the US get here? And how ...Show more
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared attem ...Show more
The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making by Al Gore
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 per cent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terr ...Show more