A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
$60.00 NZD
Category: Politics
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
Authoritarian Nightmare - Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean; Bob Altemeyer
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he acts against their interests? To fully understand, John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joins with Bo ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's moves as he faces a global pandemic, ec ...Show more
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
$30.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK "An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature o ...Show more
Fridays with Jim: Conversations about our country with Jim Bolger by David Cohen
$45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A FORMER NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER CANDIDLY REVIEWS HIS LIFE AND THE STATE OF THE NATION. A self-taught son of Irish immigrants, devout Catholic, rough-hewn King Country farmer and farming lobbyist, Jim Bolger entered New Zealand political life in the 1970s. He was a flinty Minister of Labour under Rob ...Show more
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu
$32.00 NZD
Category: Politics
From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats. In Why Nations ...Show more
Hope in Hell - Confronting the Climate Emergency by Jonathon Porritt
$38.00 NZD
Category: Environment
'Brave and unflinching in setting out the reality of the hell towards which we're headed, but even more urgent, passionate and compelling about the grounds for hope if we change course fast enough, Hope in Hell is a powerful call to arms from one of Britain's most eloquent and trusted campaigners.' Caro ...Show more
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi Klein, Author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No is Not Enough. The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre ...Show more
Pull No Punches - Memoir of a Political Survivor by Judith Collins
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A candid and revealing memoir from one of politics' great survivors - National MP, and leader of the opposition, Judith Collins.
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
$30.00 NZD
Category: Environment
What does climate change mean? How will global warming affect our lives? Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts? Are these events inevitable? Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help u ...Show more
Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Toweris the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who t ...Show more