Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In FREEDOM NEXT TIME Pilger looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting. Once again John Pilger gives a voice to the people living through these momentous times and, in gripping detail, shows u ...Show more
How to leave twitter : My Time as Queen of the Universe and Why This Must Stop by Grace Dent
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Three years ago columnist and author Grace Dent joined new social network site Twitter, mainly as a place to dump her surplus jokes, rant about garbage TV and post exclusive j-pegs of her hot new toenail-varnish. But as every 're-tweet' and 'Follow Friday' saw her audience figures soar by tens of thousa ...Show more
Ship of Fools - How corruption and stupidity sank the Celtic tiger
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in the heat of the global financial meltdown. For years ...Show more
War plc : The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary by Stephen Armstrong
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from executive boardrooms worldwide. Whether they're ex-special forces, CIA spooks or Foreign Legionnaires, you'll find them exchanging gunfire with insurgents in Baghdad, patrolling gov ...Show more
Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq by Patrick Cockburn
35.00 NZD
37.00 (5% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Muqtada al-Sadr's men are killing more British troops than any other group in the world today. Cleric, militia leader and fiercely anti-American politician, Muqtada's combination of nationalism and religious fervour appealed to countless angry and impoverished Shias, and as US control of Iraq disintegra ...Show more
Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern by John Gray
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'The suicide warriors who attacked Washington and New York on September 11th, 2001, did more than kill thousands of civilians and demolish the World Trade Center. They destroyed the West
Atlantic Ocean : Essays on Britain and America by Andrew O'Hagan
59.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our cultural and political life. Through the reported essays that first made O'Hagan's n ...Show more
Beware of Small States : Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East by David Hirst
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A History of Lebanon from one of the greatest historians of the Middle East. Beware of Small States wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. He could have meant Lebanon: a sectarian state no bigger than Wales that has become battleground for one of the defining conflicts of twentieth-century history. Through ...Show more
Kluge* : The haphazard construction of the human mind by Gary Marcus
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A 'kluge' is an engineering term for a makeshift solution, an inelegant construction that somehow works. This is Gary Marcus' analogy for the way the human mind has evolved. Arguing against a whole tradition that praises our human minds as the most perfect result of evolution, Marcus shows how imperfect ...Show more
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs* (* a low culture manifesto) by Chuck Klosterman
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, breakfast cereal, serial killers, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the rea ...Show more