The Big Mo: Why Momentum Now Rules Our World by Mark Roeder
36.99 NZD
38.00 (2% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Fans of 'Freakonomics' and 'The Tipping Point' will love the fascinating and timely story of how momentum and the ever-increasing speed of information is shaping our economy and society. This book will change how you think the world works. this book will change how you think the world works. Recent disc ...Show more
Killer company James Hardie Exposed by Matt Peacock
36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Peacock rips the cloak of secrecy from one of the greatest corporate scandals in Australia. His research reveals how the Reid family amassed a fortune as its asbestos company expanded, killing in its wake thousands of workers and customers, and oversaw a strategy that ignored the dangers of asbestos and ...Show more
Hey! Nietzche! Leave Them Kids Alone!: The Romantic Movement, Rock and Roll, and the End of Civilisation as We Know it by Craig Schuftan
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Why do goths wear black? Why do rock singers make that 'jesus' shape on stage? Why do songs about death and despair make us feel good? And why can't you get no satisfaction? According to Craig Schuftan, it all began about two hundred years ago. Hey! Nietzche! is the first book to uncover the hidden root ...Show more
Maralinga : Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up by Alan Parkinson
32.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Nothing to Envy: Love, Life and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions during political rallies to make sure you were sincere in your expressions and your thoughts? If you couldn't turn the dials of your ...Show more
Red Square Blues: A Beginner's Guide to the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union by Kim Traill
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good
In 1990, Kim Traill set off on her own youthful adventures in a country renowned for its bad food, dreadful weather and surly service: the Soviet Union. She would discover a Russia few tourists see, a country which is both surprising and brutal. Lively, funny and utterly readable, this is a memorable po ...Show more
Will the Boat Sink the Water? by Chen Guidi & Wu Chuntao (tr from Chinese Zhu Hong)
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The controversial bestseller that shocked China. "We have seen unimaginable poverty, unimaginable evil, unimaginable suffering and desperation, unimaginable resistance and silence. We are not heroes, because we have no power and no money. All we have are our writing pens...This book was written for the ...Show more
Will the Boat Sink the Water? by Chen Guido & Wu Chuntao (tr from Chinese Zhu Hong)
36.99 NZD
39.00 (5% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
One of the first in-depth exposes of the abuses endured by Chinese farmers. The authors, who were themselves peasant families, spent three years travelling the countryside, interviewing hundreds of people who live in poverty and desolation. First published 2006.
Inhaling the Mahatma by Christopher Kremmer
26.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'When a Gandhi dies, nobody is safe.' An assassination and a romance. A hijacking, several nuclear explosions and a religious experience ...just some of the ingredients in the latest tour de force from the bestselling author of The Carpet Wars. In the searing summer of 2004, Christopher Kremmer returns ...Show more
Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places by Eric Campbell
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
As a foriegn correspondent for ABC television, Eric Campbell has seen a lot. This, his first book, documents the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth, while juggling life, love, friendship and fatherhood.
The Carpet Wars by Christopher Kremmer
29.99 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good
This tells of foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's, fascinating and timely account of over a decade spent living, travelling, and reporting from Asia, and the Middle East. During this time he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession that saw him trace the threads of c ...Show more
The Carpet Wars : A Journey Across the Islamic Heartlands by Christopher Kremmer
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
In 1990, Christopher Kremmer arrived in Afghanistan to interview the doomed communist president, Dr Najibullah as rampaging factions of mujahideen massed on the outskirts of Kabul. He found himself intrigued by the politics and culture of the land, and his book provides revealing, often first-hand portr ...Show more