All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, no-one has put all the pieces of the financial crisis together. This title explores the motivations of everyone from CEOs and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers and Wall Street traders.
War Games : the Story of War and Aid in Modern Times by Linda Polman
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this brilliantly written and at times blackly funny work of reportage shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the world over are locked in a cycle of mutual support. Drawing on her decades of first-hand experience, Linda Polman's ...Show more
False Economy by Alan Beattie
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Time and again, world leaders have failed to learn the lessons of economic history, and their mistakes continue to have surprising and catastrophic consequences. Beattie uses stories of economic triumph and disaster to explain how some countries went wrong while others went right, and why it's so diffic ...Show more
On Royalty by Jeremy Paxman
65.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
What does it mean to be royal? At a time when the monarch no longer rules by divine right and governing powers fall to our elected leaders, the concept of royalty grows ever more elusive. The intellectual argument for the abolition of the monarchy is strong, and yet public interest in the royals continu ...Show more
Rupert's Adventures in China: How Rupert Murdoch Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife by Bruce Dover
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
How Murdoch Lost a Fortune and Found a WifeStarting his foray into China in the mid-80s, Rupert Murdoch quickly discovered that the rules were different in the Middle Kingdom: unlike in the West, the China's Communist leadership didn't need the support of the media to retain power. Dover paints a person ...Show more
The Storm - What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist by Ivor Van Heerden; Mike Bryan
14.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
The ultimate inside story: how bureaucracy, politics, and a disregard of science combined to cripple -- perhaps forever -- a great American city As deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, Ivor van Heerden had for years been warning state and local officials about New Orlean ...Show more
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly, M.F
58.99 NZD
73.00 (19% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A refreshing view of technology as a living force in the world. This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks ...Show more
Uranium by Tom Zoellner
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield Uranium is a common element in the earthas crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global orderawhoever could master uranium could mast ...Show more
Minnows of Triton:Policing, politics, crime and corruptions in the South Pacific (2007 revised ed) by john murray
56.99 NZD
62.00 (8% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
reprinting - November 2008
The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid it by Julian Cribb
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In the coming half century humanity faces a planetary crisis that will affect everyone. A doubling in human demand for food is set to collide with increasing scarcities of the very resources needed to grow our food - water, land, energy, nutrients and knowledge - under the lash of a changing world clim ...Show more
Pacific Tsunami "Galu Afi" (Freight charges may apply) by Lani Wendt Young
47.50 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
On the 29th of Sept, 2009, an earthquake and resultant tsunami devastated the islands of Samoa, American Samoa and Northern Tonga, killing 189 people, wiping out entire villages and causing economic losses estimated conservatively at USD $200 million - making the Pacific Tsunami, the "deadliest document ...Show more
Pakistan: A Personal History by Imran Khan
44.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The fascinating story of Pakistan, seen through the eyes of its most famous son, Imran Khan. Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history. Undermined by a ruling elite hungry for money and power, Pakistan now stands alone as the only Islamic c ...Show more