How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
A Zero Waste Life by Anita Vandyke
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Anita Vandyke wants to show you that by living zero waste, you actually gain more - more time, more money and more life.A Zero Waste Lifeis the ultimate guide to radically reducing your waste, without losing your lifestyle. In her thirty-day challenge, Anita provides you with the rules, tips and tricks ...Show more
The Great Successor - The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong un, Sun of the 21st Century by Anna Fifield
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody storie ...Show more
New Myths and Old Politics - The Waitangi Tribunal and the Challenge of Tradition (BWB Texts) by Tipene O'Regan
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Negotiating a claim before the Waitangi Tribunal can involve troubling challenges to an iwi's legitimacy, sometimes from unexpected places. In this unique behind-the-scenes account of the negotiation of Ngai Tahu's Waitangi Tribunal claim, Sir Tipene O'Regan describes what happened when claims of New Ag ...Show more
A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
$24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy ...Show more
No Country for Old Maids? Talking Differently About the 'Man Drought' by Hannah August
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
In 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called 'man drought' is a hot topic for journalists and academics alike, who comment on how the situation might affect New Zealand women's chances of finding love. Yet they rarely st ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
$32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Michelle Duff sweeps up all the misogyny that's accompanied Ardern's career so far and show how it undermines women in politics. It's engaging, enraging, illuminating and funny. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has ...Show more
Tax and Fairness by Deborah Russell
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The world has changed a lot in the last thirty years, but New Zealand's tax system hasn't. Since the 1980s New Zealand's taxation policy has remained the same, despite substantial economic and social changes. The system may be familiar, but is it fair?Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher's lively analysis ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen MATTHEWS
$32.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge the man John le Carre called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and ...Show more
The Piketty Phenomenon - New Zealand Perspectives (BWB Texts)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty's assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than earned wealth has energised debate. Hailed as 'bigger than Marx' (The Economist) or dismissed as 'me ...Show more
A Rope from the Sky - The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State by Zach Vertin
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The untold story of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from europhric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. South Sudan's independence was celebrated around the world--a triumph for global justice and an end to one of the world's most devastating wars. But the party would not last long: So ...Show more
Identity, Ignorance, Innovation - Why the Old Politics Is Useless - and What to Do about It by Matthew d'Ancona
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
This book is a provocative intervention in a global debate that has been paralysed by the continued use of out-dated categories of political analysis. In it political journalist Matthew D'Ancona will propose a new way of understanding the crises of developed societies in the early 21st Century - and plo ...Show more