Half-Earth Socialism: A Manifesto to Save the Future by Troy Vettese; Drew Pendergrass
$23.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Our fossil fuel driven society has run out of time. Only by rapidly giving up our reliance on carbon can we pay down the debt of fossil capital and buy a liveable future without a mass extinction or global warming. In this visionary and incisive manifesto, environmental scholars Troy Vettese and Drew Pe ...Show more
Dark Shadows - Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan by Joanna Lillis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin's Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinping's China, this vast oil-rich state is carving out its place in the wor ...Show more
Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Survival Guide by Geoffrey Palmer; Gwen Palmer Steeds
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A survival guide to democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book aims to unravel the mysteries of our political system and show how ordinary people can navigate the political world and influence decisions made by our government. Its 40 chapters include a succinct history of government in Aotearoa New Ze ...Show more
Movement: How To Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives by Thalia Verkade, Marco te Brömmelstroet
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Our dependence on cars is damaging our health - and the planet's. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities. Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking the fundamental question- who do ...Show more
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A biting satire of corporate power - how it works, how it harms us and what we can do about it. Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it. The Playbook is an expose of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to deny the scientific facts - ar ...Show more
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources by Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
$24.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source.'Gripping' Economist'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times'Riveting' Financial Times'Fascinating' ReutersThe modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the ...Show more
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$13.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers ...Show more
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
$17.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller. Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medus ...Show more
The Black Experience in Design - Identity, Expression and Reflection by Anne H. Berry (Editor); Kareem Collie (Editor); Penina Acayo Laker (Editor); Lesley-Ann Noel (Editor); Jennifer Rittner (Editor); Kelly Walters (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily favor European modernist influences, the work and experiences of Black designers have been ...Show more
Crooked Alleys: Deliverance and Despair in Iran by Soraya Lennie
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
By 2013, Iranians were suffocating, as though the streets had become narrower, the buildings taller, the dirty air thicker. In electing Hassan Rouhani, they chose a new, reformist leader, burying the days when a Holocaust-denying president had pushed Iran to the edge of economic collapse and conflict. B ...Show more
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it — and explains why they have died today.Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What Yo ...Show more
50 Politics Classics - Revised Edition by Tom Butler-Bowdon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
What if you didn't have to read the 50 most important books on Politics to know the most important ideas? This is the thinking person's guide to the big political texts from across the centuries, from the original pioneers to the contemporary. With insightful commentary for each of the 50 books, key ...Show more