Lebanon : A house divided by Sandra Mackey
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
With the West's economic and security interests increasingly at stake in the Middle East, it is impossible to ignore Lebanon - a nation divided and tormented by the interplay between the West and the Arab world. Sandra Mackey delineates the multifarious culture that is Lebanon; stripping away the comple ...Show more
Uberpower by Josef Joffe
59.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Effortlessly mixing military history with diplomatic analysis, Josef Joffe examines the transformation of the United States from a coalition-building superpower to a sprawling and surly uberpower, constrained only by the consequences of its unilateral actions. America is now tempted to throw its weight ...Show more
Kingdom Coming by Michelle Goldberg
59.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Taking the reader on a journey through a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism, Michelle Goldberg demonstrates how the growing influence of dominionism - the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule non-believers - is threatening the foundations of American democracy. She offers ...Show more
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations by David Warsh
59.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations" is a stimulating and inviting tour of modern economics centred on the story of one of its most important breakthroughs. In 1980, graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later, he solved it. This book tells the story of ...Show more
The Spiders of Allah : Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War by James Hider
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The bloodshed perpetrated in the name of religion in the world today is nowhere more obvious than in the Middle East. Whether we are talking about hardcore Zionist settlers still fighting ancient Biblical battles in the hills of the West Bank or Shiite death squads roaming the lawless streets of Iraq in ...Show more
The Global Warming Survival Kit by Brian Clegg
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Climate change is upon us. Make no mistake: disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are the tip of a rapidly melting iceberg. While we must still press our governments to take action to mitigate the most extreme effects of global warming, it is now beyond doubt that prevention will not be enough. We clearly ...Show more
The Next 100 Years - A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
65.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
George Friedman has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, sought out for his thoughtful assessment of current trends and explanation of near-future events. In THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS, Friedman turns his keen analytic eye on the future. Drawing on a profound understanding of history
Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness by Ariel Gore
64.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Happiness has become a serious business. Where twentieth century psychology focused on depression and illness, in the new millennium scientists have begun focusing on 'positive psychology' - the study of happiness. Ariel Gore first became intrigued by this subject when she discovered that Positive Psych ...Show more
Art of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday - What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them by Sheena Iyengar
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go? Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose ag ...Show more
Dear Undercover Economist: The Very Best Letters from the "Dear Economist" Column by Tim Harford
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Are there tangible benefits in flossing? Is it wrong to fake orgasms? What does the perfect online dating ad look like? Should we bother doing the ironing? Is it really impossible to buy the perfect Christmas gift? (Other than this book, of course.) Economists might not be the first people you would thi ...Show more
Fool's Gold by Gillian Tett
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In the mid 1990s, at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach, dozens of bankers from JP Morgan gathered for what was to become a legendary off-site meeting. It was a wild weekend. But among the drinking, nightclubbing and fist-fights lay a more serious purpose - to assess the possibility of buil ...Show more