How Civil Wars Start - And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
“When one of the world’s leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book.” - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die. Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's great ...Show more
Politics: a Very Short Introduction by Kenneth R. Minogue
$24.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. The author prompts the reader to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in the society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twent ...Show more
Betrayal - The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Picking up where the New York Times bestselling Front Row at the Trump Show left off, this is the explosive look at the aftermath of the election--and the events that followed Donald Trump's leaving the White House--from ABC News' chief Washington correspondent.Nobody is in a better position to tell the ...Show more
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mindDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and personal goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD- raised in a so ...Show more
I'll Take Your Questions Now by Evan Hollings
$56.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lad ...Show more
Brilliant Maps: An Atlas for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
$33.00 NZD
Category: Reference
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas. WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM HARFORD Which nations have North Korean embassies? Which region has the highest number of death metal bands per capita? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the 'wron ...Show more
News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World by Alan Rusbridger
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A society that isn't sure what's true can't function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We're barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more?At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age o ...Show more
Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament by Margaret Wilson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an unlikely law student in the 1960s in a class with a few other women, and an emerging socialist feminist who read radical texts and attended women’s conventio ...Show more
Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years by DAVIS, STEPHEN
$37.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
**Soon to be a major TV drama** The true story behind the secret of Flight 149 and the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years. On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 4 ...Show more
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. 'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital ... has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani i ...Show more
Vibrant Matter - A Political Ecology of Things by BENNETT JANE
$63.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: A\John Hope Franklin Center Book Ser.
In "Vibrant Matter" the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman force ...Show more