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
Perilous Power : The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy: Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War and Justice by Noam Chomsky & Gilbert Achcar (ed Stephen R Shalom)
37.00 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct U.S. intervention. Two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world are Noam Chomsky, the preem ...Show more
At The Same Time by Susan Sontag
55.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and th ...Show more
Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties by Sheldon Krimsky
64.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime. Th ...Show more
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death by Jim Frederick
42.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
Quite possibly the defining book about the Iraq War, a masterpiece of reportage that reads like a thriller. Iraq's "Triangle of Death", 2005: A platoon of young soldiers from a US regiment known as the "Black Heart Brigade" is deployed in a veritable meat grinder of counter-insurgency just south of Bagh ...Show more
The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to Al-Qaeda by Jerrold M. Post
50.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
When confronted with trying to understand why terrorists do what they do, most people assume that they must be insane. However, as Jerrold M. Post, a professor of psychiatry and political psychology shows, the psychological make-up of a terrorist does not distinguish him or her from the average person o ...Show more
Overcoming Katrina by D'Ann R. Penner
51.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This books brings together the narrated autobiographies of black New Orleanians, united by their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. At its heart are stories of abandonment and evacuation, heroism and terror, prejudice and generosity, and displacement and rebuilding in ...Show more
Politics by Andrew Heywood
79.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This highly successful text is the best-selling text to introductory politics and offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of politics, written from a truly international perspective. The third edition of Politics has substantial new material and it also takes into account throughout the increas ...Show more
The Spectre at the Feast by Andrew Gamble
54.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
After a long feast of prosperity in the western world, the crisis in the financial markets has conjured up an old spectre -- the spectre of capitalist crisis, which many thought had been finally exorcised. On past experience, a full-blown capitalist crisis would bring with it the threat of slump, collap ...Show more
Connected by Daniel Altman
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Oil prices go up, the stock market goes down. Currency exchange rates fluctuate, the Chinese economy is booming, and new technologies are changing the way we do business. What if you could look behind the headlines of the global economy, to see how it really works? Instead of listening to pundits, polit ...Show more
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere - from Pearl Harbour to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana. Bookshop shelves threaten to collapse under the weight of texts devoted to proving myriad conspiracy theories true, while even quality newspapers and ...Show more
American Fascists : The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A startling and terrifying expose of the political ambitions of the Christian Right in America - and a clarion call for everyone who cares about freedom. They disseminate their ideas on the alternative broadcast networks and through their own publishers and schools. Their intellectual leaders demand ...Show more