The day the raids came: Stories of survival and resistance to the state terror raids by Valerie Morse (ed.)
25.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
On Monday, October 15th 2007, more than 300 police carried out dawn raids on dozens of houses all over Aotearoa New Zealand. They police blockaded roads, invaded homes and imprisoned 17 people. Police claim the raids were in response to 'concrete terrorist threats' from indigenous activists, and they tr ...Show more
Passing Bells by W. J. Foote
25.99 NZD
40.00 (35% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Wars, Non-Violence and Common Morality In this book, Will Foote looks at the appalling human cost of wars, particularly those in which our country has been engaged, and considers the real and given reasons for those wars. He shows that there have always been non-violent alternatives to war and looks ...Show more
Saving Globalization: Why Globalization and Democracy Offer the Best Hope for Progress, Peace and Development by Mike Moore
44.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Globalization is not new, nor is it a policy, it's a process that has existed as long as man looked over the horizon, travelled and traded. It can't be stopped but it can be slowed. It came to a grinding halt in August 1914 and the Marxist detour cost millions of lives and lost three generations their o ...Show more
No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos
39.99 NZD
42.99 (6% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discuss first-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme No One Would Listen is the thrilling story of how the Harry Markopolos, a little-known number cruncher from a Boston equity derivatives firm, and his investigative team uncovered Bernie Madoff' ...Show more
The Devil's Casino by Vicky Ward
42.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
They were the Rat Pack of Wall Street. Four close friends: one a decorated war hero, one an emotional hippie, and two regular guys with big hearts, big dreams, and noble aims. They were going to get rich on Wall Street. They were going to prove that men like them with zero financial training - could mor ...Show more
Swim Against the Current by Jim Hightower
22.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Pssssst! Bookstore browsers! Don't look around, but the corporate and political powers that be want you to put this book down, right now. It definitely is NOT on their approved list. "Swim against the Current" is one of those books that the power elites don't like seeing in stores, much less in your han ...Show more
Poorly Made in China by Paul Midler
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"Poorly Made in China" chronicles the experiences of an American working for a U.S. outsourcing firm in Chinese manufacturing and highlights the disturbing and dangerous practice known as 'quality fade' - the deliberate and secretive habit of widening profit margins through a reduction in the quality of ...Show more
Jewcentricity: Why the Jews are Praised, Blamed, and Used to Explain Just About Everything by Adam M. Garfinkle
47.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A wise and wide-ranging explanation of never-ending exaggeration - by both philo-Semites and anti-Semites - about the Jews. Hamas blames the financial crisis on Jews. Mel Gibson blamed all the wars on Jews. Jews win a disproportionate number of Nobel prizes. Dishy Danish citizen Scarlett Johansson is Je ...Show more
Cigarette Century by Allan Brandt
62.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Industrial Manufacture of cigarettes began in the late nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the invention of the modern consumer advertising campaign--pioneered by cigarette brands--that the product really took off at the turn of the century. The cigarette became an indispensable accessory of gla ...Show more
Cool It! The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Global warming has become one of the permanent concerns of our time, with ever stronger calls to combat it via drastic programs, like the Kyoto Protocol. In this highly controversial book, Bjorn Lomborg (author of the bestselling The Skeptical Environmentalist) claims that the arguments for such action ...Show more
Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by Michael Dowd
28.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
With evidence from contemporary astrophysics, biology, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology, "Thank God for Evolution" lays out a compelling argument for how religion and science can be mutually enriching forces. Illustrations throughout.