Recessional - The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch by David Mamet
57.99 NZD
Category: Politics
"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air." The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, who wrote the classic films The Verdict and Wag the Dog sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates. In Recessional he calls out, ...Show more
What Jacinda Cant Say - The Difficult Truth about Climate Change by David Chapman
20.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Written by one of Australia's former prime ministers and China expert, this book challenges the politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and Cold War. Possibly even the unthinkable: war itself. ...Show more
The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan - A Chronicle Foretold by Tariq Ali
22.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpest and most prescient. Rarely has there been such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which greeted the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. ...Show more
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future. In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture ...Show more
Barack Obama Selected Speeches (Word Cloud Classics) by Barack Obama
26.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Find inspiration in these selected speeches from the 44th president of the United States. This curated collection of landmark speeches chronicles Barack Obama's presence on the national stage, covers his signature policy initiatives, and addresses major moments in American life and history during his e ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
35.00 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
Shadow State - Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West by Luke Harding
24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
No terrorist group has deployed a nerve agent in a civilian area or used a radioactive mini-bomb in London. The Kremlin has done both. Shadow State is a gripping investigative account of how Russia’s spies helped elect Donald Trump, backed Brexit, murdered enemies and threatened the very basis of we ...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.
Free - Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
38.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
32.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson
24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy--and how the West crushed it When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an i ...Show more