Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern BritainIn Britain, imperialism is everywhere - though we often choose not to see it. From the way we travel and the foundation of the NHS to the nature of our racism and wealth, it is central to the way we think and conduct poli ...Show more
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
27.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ‘The most important book of the year’ Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers ‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’ In The War o ...Show more
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
15.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
Killing Thatcher - The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret ThatcherKILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet - an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ire ...Show more
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species by Paul Hellyer
42.00 NZD
Category: Politics
This book reflects the mature judgment of an author with broad experience in and out of public life. It sets out in stark and unvarnished terms most of the world's major problems. The Human Species is hell bent for extinction unless we change our attitudes and actions with an urgency appropriate to impe ...Show more
AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
17.99 NZD
Category: Politics
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoes ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we're taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as ...Show more
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by David Shaw, Maja Gopel
37.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout ...Show more
My Russia: War or Peace? by Mikhail Shishkin
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontro ...Show more