Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and ...Show more
GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change by Ehsan Masood
$25.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A highly topical look at the formula that dominates economics, and why it has outlived its usefulness. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the world's economic health-check, an influential ranking of global prosperity. A rising number is manna for markets and keeps business buzzing; a falling one is a porte ...Show more
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of ...Show more
The Interest - How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer.In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British col ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more
Morbid Symptoms - An Anatomy of a World in Crisis by Donald Sassoon
$43.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A health check on our corrupt and broken political system by one of our finest historians The deadly coronavirus spread across societies already riddled with political ills: rampant xenophobia and corruption, privatisation run amok, Brexiteer vainglory of 'a global Britain', a Euroland dominated by self ...Show more
Blood Gun Money by Ioan Grillo
$33.00 NZD
Category: War
From the author of El Narco, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings.The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the ...Show more
Joe Biden - American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A concise, brilliant and incisive examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency This definitive history of Joe Biden tells the poignant story of the man – both his life in politics and the series of personal tragedies that have marked him – drawing on extensive co ...Show more
Skin Deep - Dispelling the Science of Race by Gavin Evans
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Everything you need to know about race (but were afraid to ask).MYTH- Early Europeans were white.REALITY- The first Europeans had dark skin, black, curly hair and blue eyes.MYTH- Between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a 'cognitive revolution' led to the birth of culture in Europe.REALITY- Modern intellige ...Show more
Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump by Kim Darroch
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
@realDonaldTrump: 'The wacky ambassador that the UK foisted on the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy ... We will no longer deal with him' Kim Darroch was British Ambassador to the US as the age of Trump dawned and Brexit unfolded. As one of the UK's most experienced ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda - International Power and Domestic Political Cohesion by Kingsley Edney
$169.95 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Asia Today Ser.
This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power within the domestic political environment and its prominent recent attempts to use propaganda overseas to increase China's international power.