China Shakes the World - The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge
14.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
China Shakes The World : The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Compelling in-depth and authoritative account of how China's economic rise will affect the world. We have long been looking for a book on the new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition, becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world. James Kynge, China Bureau Chief of ...Show more
Selling Olga : Stories of human trafficking ans resistance by Louisa Waugh
59.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Need to Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence - out of print by Timothy Good
38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Climate Refugees by Collectif Argos
65.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"Our job is to tell stories we have heard and to bear witness to what we have seen. The science was already there when we started in 2004, but we wanted to emphasize the human dimension, especially for those most vulnerable." --Guy-Pierre Chomette, Collectif Argos We have all seen photographs of neighbo ...Show more
Bioethics in the Age of New Media by Joanna Zylinska
76.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Bioethical dilemmas - including those over genetic screening, compulsory vaccination, and abortion - have been the subject of ongoing debates in the media, among the public, and in professional and academic communities. But the paramount bioethical issue in an age of digital technology and new media, Jo ...Show more
Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America by William R. Freudenburg
24.99 NZD
42.95 (41% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig "Deepwater Horizon" blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo well. For months, oil gushed into the Gulf, spreading death and destruction. Americans watched real-time video of the huge c ...Show more
Sonic Warfare by Steve Goodman
79.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread--to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic ...Show more
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson QC
17.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
THE CASE OF THE POPEdelivers a devasting indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should h ...Show more
The Spirit Level - Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
32.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do ...Show more
The Shape of the Beast by Arundhati Roy
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare by a mind that has consistently and unhesitatingly engaged with its changing realities and often anticipated the way things have moved in the last decade. In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Ro ...Show more
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy by Arundhati Roy
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy. Beginning with the state-backed pogro ...Show more