Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
$29.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six ...Show more
Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings. 'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY Our world is losing its humanity. Too many d ...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
The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime by Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time. "What Michael Lewis did for baseball in Moneyball, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden do brilliantly for the world of ransomware and hackers. Cinematic, big in scope, and meticulous ...Show more
Pain Hustlers - Film Tie-In by Evan Hughes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Now a major film streaming on NETFLIX'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning author of Empire of Pain'Everyone should read this book' - Sheelagh Kolhatkar, author of Black EdgeJohn Kapoor had already made a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he ...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
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Rise and Fall of the American Dream by DAVID. LEONHARDT
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR) The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The Morning" newsletter. Two decades into the twenty-first ...Show more
New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
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
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 d ...Show more
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
$42.00 NZD
Category: Politics
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
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
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
*A Telegraph Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World Wa ...Show more