Ambition: What New Zealanders Think and Why it Matters by Julie Fry & Hayden Glass
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Many commentators say New Zealanders lack ambition, and that aspects of the New Zealandcharacter or our comfortable lives limit our achievements. We are said to be too keen on time off, too concerned about everyone fitting in, suspicious of people who try too hard, enthusiastic about humility, afraid of ...Show more
The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: General Adult
"ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY". (Observer). "EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED". (Michael Palin). FOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMB. Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, sh ...Show more
China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$36.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
'A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . . . Combined with this linguistic skill, Dikutter has a writer's gift' EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake ...Show more
UPROAR!: Scandal and Satire in Georgian London by Alice Loxton
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK’s most exciting young historians** ‘Alice Loxton is the star of her generation … the next big thing in history’ DAN SNOW London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his ...Show more
Mountains to Sea: Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis (BWB Texts) by Mike Joy (editor)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB texts | Reading Level: very good
The state of New Zealand's freshwater has become an urgent public issue in recent years. From across the political spectrum, concern is growing about the pollution of New Zealand's rivers and streams. We all know they need fixing. But how do we do it? 'It strikes me with great clarity that if you look ...Show more