Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. Wolpert explores the different types of ...Show more
The Complex by Nick Turse
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Pentagon works with Hollywood to develop new robot weapons systems, and encourages Hollywood to glorify and sanitise military violence. The military works with computer manufacturers to develop more efficient ways of killing, and the products from that collaboration are fed back as cool new kit for ...Show more
The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own by Periel Aschenbrand
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"A compelling addition to the annals of exhibitionism" New York Times 'Every generation has a young woman who brings a certain spark of charisma and sexuality
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include "Heroes and Hidden Voices", have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark times'. In "Freedom Next Time", he looks at five cou ...Show more
The Extreme Future : The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years by James M Canton
45.00 NZD
49.99 (9% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Dr. James Canton, a renown futurist, CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, and Fortune 1000 advisor, charts a course to steer you through the volatile changes that lie 5, 10, and 20 years ahead. The Extreme Future is this generations Future Shock, Alvin Tofflers classic book on what's next and how to ...Show more
The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust by Elisabeth Wynhausen
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Elisabeth Wynhausen was working at her desk in the newsroom of "The Australian", writing a story about people being given the pink slip, when she was given a pink slip of her own. 'The Short Goodbye' tells the story of the people who were crunched in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: people like her, wh ...Show more
My Israel Question by Antony Loewenstein
36.99 NZD
37.99 (2% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good
The election of Barack Obama brought hope to millions around the world. Change was promised. But the Israel/Palestine conflict remains mired in brutality and occupation. The election of a far-right Israeli government, the indiscriminate Gaza war and the illegal expansion of West Bank colonies seems to i ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Man in the World by Andrew Fowler
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Most Dangerous Man in the World is the definitive account of WikiLeaks and the man who is as secretive as the organisations he targets. Through interviews with Julian Assange, his inner circle and those who fell out with him, Andrew Fowler tells the story of how a man with a turbulent childhood and ...Show more
Unknown Nation - Australia After by CURRAN James WARD St
44.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Unknown Nation unravels the origins, influence and implications of our hesitant coming of age. The Unknown Nation is an illuminating history of Australia’s putative ‘search’ for national identity. James Curran and Stuart Ward document how the receding ties of empire and Britishness posed an unprece ...Show more
Where Have All the Liberals Gone? Race, Class, and Ideals in America [BT] by James Robert Flynn
59.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Professor James R. Flynn is renowned for his belief that the IQ gap between black and white Americans is not genetic, but environmental in origin. Flynn's controversial new book offers an alternative to the vision of American society popularized by Herrnstein and Murray in The Bell Curve and is a must-r ...Show more