Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture by Mark Bergen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The story of YouTube, the global phenomenon which single-handedly upended traditional media and transformed Google into one of the world's most profitable companiesSince 2005, YouTube has exploded, giving a platform to unique and valuable voices, but also to propaganda, misinformation and illicit videos ...Show more
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
$27.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder’s Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st cen ...Show more
Privilege in Perpetuity - Exploding a Pākehā Myth (BWB Texts) by Peter Meihana
$18.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'The idea of Maori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Maori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' The 'idea of Maori privilege', as Peter Meihana describes it, is deeply embedded in New Zealand culture. Many New Zealande ...Show more
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, "an essential book for our times" (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech's breakneck race to drive engagement--and profits--at all costs fractured the world We all have a vague sense that social media ...Show more
Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland by Karl Schlogel
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical ...Show more
Why Governments Get It Wrong: and how they can get it right by Dennis C. Grube
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Sometimes governments seem clueless. At other times, they are able to project a sense of calm competence. Some decisions leave people confused, whilst others make sense even to those who oppose them. Why? Why Governments Get it Wrong argues that governments are at their most effective when they get the ...Show more
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matt Huber
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hu ...Show more
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
*Named one of TIME magazine's Most Anticipated Titles of 2022*From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race.In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 20 ...Show more
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"A compelling-and illuminating-look at how our daily habits impact the environment."--Vanity Fair "If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing."--Vogue "Show ...Show more
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
‘I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he’s a national treasure.’ Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US t ...Show more