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
The End of Food by Paul Roberts
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
With an insightful global approach, Paul Roberts investigates the startling truth about the way we make, market, consume, and even think about food, and how this system is no longer compatible or safe for the billions of consumers that it was built to serve. The emergence of large-scale and efficient fo ...Show more
The Best Intentions : Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American world power by James Traub
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power Kofi Annan described 2004 as his annus horribilis. A man who had received the Nobel Peace Prize, who was widely counted one of the greatest UN secretaries general, was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Indeed, both Annan and the instituti ...Show more
Come Back to Afghanistan : My journey from California to Kabul by Said Hyder Akbar
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
An intimate memoir of an American teenager rediscovering his Afghani roots post-9/11Said Hyder Akbar's ordinary suburban Californian life was turned upside-down after September 11th. Hyder's father, a scion of an Afghan political family, left for Afghanistan to become the new president's chief spokesman ...Show more
The Place at the End of the World : Essays from the edge by Janine di Giovanni
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A collection from the frontline from the acclaimed war correspondent At the start of her career, the acclaimed foreign correspondent Janine di Giovanni was advised, 'Write about the small voices, the people who can't write about themselves.' For over fifteen years, she has been doing exactly that. From ...Show more
Mediated: How the Media Shape the World Around You by Thomas de Zengotita
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Here is the world we think we know presented to us as if for the very first time. From oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics, from Homer Simpson to O. J. Simpson, from Princess Diana's funeral to the aftermath of September 11, from reality TV to hip-hop nation, "Mediated" takes us on a provocat ...Show more
The End of Oil : The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order by Paul Roberts
32.99 NZD
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Oil has dominated every aspect of the last 100 years, but what happens when it runs out? In a single century we have evolved into a species for whom oil is as essential as air or water, and one that will go to inordinate lengths to protect it. In fact, petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our econom ...Show more
God's Politics : Why the American Right Gets it so Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis
19.99 NZD
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Jim Wallis' major new book is a scathing indictment of the way that conservative evangelicals in the US have self-righteously attempted to co-opt any discussion of religion and politics. And, while the Right argues that God's way is their way, the Left pursues an unrealistic separation of religious valu ...Show more
Contemporary Politics in the Middle East by Beverley Milton-Edwards
44.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The third edition of this dynamic book has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. This is a perfect introduction for undergraduates, covering key political, economic and social debates and providing updates and guidance for fur ...Show more
No Way to Run an Economy by Graham Turner
45.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In "The Credit Crunch", Graham Turner predicted that banks would be nationalised and interest rates would be reduced too slowly to halt the crisis. His predictions were correct. His new book, "No Way to Run an Economy", is the essential guide to the turbulent times ahead. Turner recommended radical meas ...Show more