Make It Happen - How to Be an Activist by Amika George
$22.99 NZD
Category: Politics
GET UP. SPEAK UP. DON'T GIVE UP. In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every schoolgirl who couldn't afford tampons or sanitary towels. Three years later, in January 2020, these products became freely available to every schoolgirl in England for ...Show more
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match our lived experiences?Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most pernicious problem facing modern parents--how progressive relationships become traditional ones when ch ...Show more
What Can I Do? The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It by Jane Fonda
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. It's too late for moderation. In the fall of 2019, frustrated with the obvious inaction of politicians and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, J ...Show more
From Suffrage to a Seat in the House by Jenny Coleman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
New Zealand has always proudly worn its status of being the first country to enfranchise women. But not many know that it took a further 40 long years to get the first woman elected to Parliament. In fact women were not even entitled to stand as candidates in national elections until 1919 - 26 years aft ...Show more
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen shows what opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower -- a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly ap ...Show more
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Kim Jong Un
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
I Spy: My Life in MI5 by Tom Marcus
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Tom Marcus, former MI5, grew up on the streets in the north of England. He joined the Army at sixteen and went on to become the youngest member of the Armed Forces to pass the six-month selection process for Special Operations in Northern Ireland.He was hand-picked from the Army into MI5 as a Surveillan ...Show more
The 9th Floor - Conversations with Five New Zealand Prime Ministers by Guyon Espiner; Tim Watkin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
What does government look like from the ninth floor of the Beehive? The 9th Floor collects together interviews with five former Prime Ministers of New Zealand: Geoffrey Palmer, Mike Moore, Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark.
Solved: How Other Countries Have Cracked the World's Biggest Problems and We Can Too by Andrew Wear
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Sometimes the solutions are closer than we think. Denmark will reach 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030. Iceland has topped gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. Singaporean students beat almost all others in maths and reading. South Koreans will soon live longer than an ...Show more
Blood on the Page: A Murder, a Secret Trial, a Search for the Truth by Thomas Harding
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'Meticulous and gripping - a thriller that disturbs for revelations about a singular act of murder, and the national security state which we call home' PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD*** A groundbreaking examination of a terrifying murder and its after ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's ...Show more
Climate Justice: A man-made problem with a feminist solution by Mary Robinson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. --Sierra MagazineAn urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Ma ...Show more