Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
Dictators by Frank Dikotter
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year. 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR. 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR. 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No d ...Show more
News - And How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An A-Z guide on how we stay informed in the era of fake news, from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger. Nothing in life works without facts. A society that isn't sure what's true can't function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates. People eve ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship by Clementine Ford
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
Burn It Down! - Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs
$43.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In this landmark collection spanning three centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifesto raging and wanting, quarreling and provocative has always been central to feminism, and it's the angry, ...Show more
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to ...Show more
The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women by Linda Scott
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Women's economic development expert Linda Scott coined the paradigm-shifting concept of the 'double X economy' to describe both the shocking gender inequalities that are built into our global economy, and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to combat those inequalities. Drawing on a w ...Show more
Active Measures - The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
This startling history of secret psychological operations traces the century-long rise of organised deception from the Russian Revolution to contemporary internet troll farms.
The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The Man without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the " ...Show more
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recen ...Show more
Why We're Polarised by Ezra Klein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended? 'Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarised.' - Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post'It is likely to become the political bo ...Show more