Blue Blood - The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis by Andrea Vance
$36.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Beginning with the shock resignation of John Key, Blue Blood reveals the reasons behind one of the most dramatic falls in popularity in New Zealand's political history and tells the full story of how the National Party went to war with itself. Informed by campaign emails and internal party communication ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What 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 ...Show more
The War on the Uyghurs - China's campaign against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R Roberts
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it argues, have emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the name ...Show more
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
$15.99 NZD
Category: Politics
In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, preparing for a more hopeful tomorrow. 'For the left, elections are a brief interlude in a life of real politics, a moment to ask whether it's worth taking ti ...Show more
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall
$22.99 NZD
Category: Politics
'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW'My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect ... Essential reading' ELIZABETH GILBERTAll too often the focus of mainstream feminism i ...Show more
The Making of Us - Why School Matters by Clarissa Farr
$29.99 NZD
Category: Politics
What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools should work' David Bodanis In a brilliant blend of memoir and manifesto, renowned educator Clarissa Farr tells stories from the frontlines of schools to offer vital lessons for the wa ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$69.99 NZD
Category: Biography
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
From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake
$36.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Orwell Prize-nominated journalist Heidi Blake uncovers exclusive details of Vladimir Putin's worldwide meddling with dissident voices. This is the explosive and true story of how Russia operates in our cities, right under the noses of the most powerful nations in the world, and why even they can't stop ...Show more
Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
One dictator grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. One austere, incorruptible leader shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. The Libyan army officer who aut ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins by Karl Marx
$13.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.