The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
32.99 NZD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'Truly eye-opening ...There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's tools ...economics has never been this cool' NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your i ...Show more
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
27.99 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the th ...Show more
"Al Jazeera" by Hugh Miles
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
With more than fifty million viewers, Al Jazeera is one of the most widely watched news channels in the world. It's also one of the most controversial. Set up by the eccentric Emir of Qatar, who turned a failed BBC Arabic television project into an Arab news channel, Al Jazeera quickly became a househol ...Show more
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India's volat ...Show more
The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st century by Will Hutton
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its development is stunning, a combination of ch ...Show more
America's Secret War by George Friedman
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
George Friedman's company, STRATFOR (Strategic Forecasting), has received incredible accolades for working ahead of the news media and being right on the pulse of political and military action as it unfolds across the globe. A private intelligence agency, it provides commercial organisations with the mo ...Show more
The Last Empire by Gore Vidal
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest. His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy Mc Veigh - who entered ...Show more
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael Lewis In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour c ...Show more
In Our Time by Melvyn Bragg (ed.)
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly entertains and fascinates substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and take us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, science and history to pol ...Show more
Starbucked by Taylor Clark
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
STARBUCKED will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fuelled its success. Part Fast Food Nation, part social history, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the coffee ...Show more
ID - The Quest For Identity In the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Our individuality is under attack as never before. Two huge new forces - technological advances and the rise in fundamentalism - are in their different ways combining to threaten our control of our minds and so the whole way our society functions. We have never more urgently needed to look at what we wa ...Show more
Enough by John Naish
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it: more status, more food, more info, more stuff. Then we chase again. It's how we survived famine, disease and disaster to colonise the world. But now, thanks to technolog ...Show more