The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$38.00 NZD
Category: Environment
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$33.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
The Shadow of the Mine - Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson; Huw Beynon
$43.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
The rise and fall of Britain's most important industry No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. Coal was central to the British economy, pow ...Show more
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
$32.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020! Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolit ...Show more
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
A masterpiece of investigative reporting on the AIDS crisis in the USA; an international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film. 'A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history.' - The New York Times 'S ...Show more
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The explosive new book by the bestselling author of The Mountbattens. Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and ...Show more
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl
$35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a ...Show more
The Reckoning: America's trauma and finding a way to heal by Mary Trump
$32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. The Reckoning will examine America's national trauma, rooted in its history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral ...Show more
Helen Kelly - Her Life by Rebecca Macfie
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When Helen Kelly died on a Wellington spring night in October 2016, with her partner by her side and a bunch of peonies, the first of the season, by her bed, Aotearoa New Zealand lost an extraordinary leader. Kelly was the first female head of the country’s trade union movement, but she was also much mo ...Show more
Of Bears and Ballots - An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics by Heather Lende
$33.50 NZD
Category: Politics
"This book will inspire people to work with and for their neighbors in all kinds of ways " --Bill McKibben, author of Falter The writer whom the Los Angeles Times calls "part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott" now brings us her quirky and compassionate account of holding local office. Heather Lende was ...Show more
Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Since 1843, the Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and how has the liberal message evolved? The World According to the Economistpresents a history of liberalism on the move, confronting the challenges t ...Show more
We Own This City - A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton
$33.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In his debut book, Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Justin Fenton adds to the line of classic true crime writing with the story of 'one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation' (New York Times). Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice f ...Show more