A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident ...Show more
Property - The Myth That Built the World by Rowan Moore
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of ...Show more
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth. In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$39.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped i ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that ...Show more
The Perennials: Unleashing the Power of our Postigenerational Society by Mauro Guillen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
For the first time ever, eight generations live side by side - this groundbreaking new book reveals what we must chaneg and how to all benefit from our multigenerational society. For the first time in history, eight defined generations live side by side with each other, from Alphas to the Greatest Gene ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Ser.
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fully updated and revised edition, now including the 2020 election and New Zealand's Covid-19 response, the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, Ardern's shock resignation and what she's doing now. Michelle Duff ...Show more
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. Why has success been so elusive? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the second decade of the twenty-first century wa ...Show more
Mad on Meth - How New Zealand Got Hooked on P by Benedict Collins
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The eye-opening evolution of crystal meth in New Zealand and what can be done about it Only fifty years ago in New Zealand, methamphetamine was a publicly prescribed drug used as widely as by housewives, shift workers, students, and anybody looking to party. Legal for decades, meth was about to undergo ...Show more
This is Europe The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossi ...Show more
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more