The End of Reality: How four billionaires are selling out our future by Jonathan Taplin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns. At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that re ...Show more
New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China's juggernaut economy. 'Essential reading' - Tony Blair Although China's economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is oftenbased on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin burrowsdee ...Show more
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
$42.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. From greedy to generous, from cold to kind-hearted, from rogue to hero, Bill Gates is an extraordinarily complex public figure. Yet over th ...Show more
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
$39.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
For several decades Chinese ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of soft power. The stories of their reach are breathtaking - Chinese-sponsored reporting in national newspapers and academia; the gagging of sports stars and huge Western brands; Hollywood self-censor ...Show more
How to Fix Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty
$39.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
A highly topical and original investigation into the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement. ‘Deeply researched and often revelatory… variegated and sensitive’ Literary Review It is twenty-five years since the Good Friday Agre ...Show more
Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky & C. J. Polychroniou
$26.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
In these wide-ranging and incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the rapidly deteriorating quality of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. Noam Chomsky examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the ...Show more
Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny by John Sweeney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces ...Show more
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran
$40.00 NZD
Category: Political/World
A frank, funny and galvanising exploration of masculinity, and a manifesto for male allyship, from million-copy bestseller and feminist powerhouse Caitlin Moran. As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' ...Show more
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
$27.99 NZD
Category: Political/World | Reading Level: near fine
In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
$37.99 NZD
Category: Political/World | Reading Level: near fine
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels wit ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
$28.99 NZD
Category: Political/World | Reading Level: good-very good
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...Show more
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
$19.99 NZD
Category: Political/World
David Baddiel examines the -ism that woke culture and identity politics leave behind: antisemitism. Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you.It is t ...Show more