The Undesirables by Mark Isaacs
$34.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
On Friday 19th July 2013, it was reported in the Australian media that over 150 asylum seekers had rioted and razed the Nauru Regional Processing Centre to the ground. The Nauruan community were mobilised into an emergency police force in an attempt to subdue the men. Asylum seekers, Nauruans and Austra ...Show more
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and several centuries' worth of competing territorial claims, the South China Sea in particular is a ...Show more
Hunting Season: James Foley, the Islamic State, and the Real Story of the Kidnapping Campaign That Started a War by James Harkin
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America', the clip depicted the final moments of the life of kidnapped American journalist James Foley - and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executione ...Show more
Trump's America: The Complete Loser's Guide by Scott Dikkers
$49.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
This book is important, and not just because it's about Donald Trump. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to discover the official Trump Brand Origin Story, to learn his positions on vital issues like the militaryAre These the Biggest Missiles We Have?," science If Einstein Was So Smart, Why Wa ...Show more
Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? by Mark Thompson
$70.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State have in common with Donald Trump? We've never had more information or more opportunity to debate the issues of the day. Yet the relationship between politician ...Show more
And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engel
$28.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A major New York Times bestseller by NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel—this riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen close up “should be required reading” (Booklist, starred review).In 1997, young Richard Engel, working freelance for Arab news ...Show more
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The result of the 2016 presidential election was widely thought to be a foregone conclusion: a historic victory for an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced and admired candidate against an opponent seen as not just unelectable but unfit for office. As we know, it didn't work out like that. So how ...Show more
Revolution of Man by Phillip Barker
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
The performance of being a man, from the moment we open our eyes, until we gasp our last breath, is damaging us, and those around us. Phil Barker has written thousands of words about being a man in these strange and terrible times. As a journalist, he has spent years investigating the modern epidemics ...Show more
50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
At a time of corrosive popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater: the forces of Terrorism and Fundamentalism endanger our Security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to Liberty, Democracy a ...Show more
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree by Nice Lengete
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
HOW ONE GIRL FOUGHT TO SAVE HERSELF, HER SISTER AND THOUSANDS OF GIRLS WORLDWIDE An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng ...Show more
Totalitaria: What If the Enemy is the State? by Ian Wishart
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Never before in human history have governments had the power to totally control your life. Today, they do. That sort of power does strange things to human ambition. Even with the best of intentions, Lord Acton famously noted, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. Hard-won freedoms that our grandpa ...Show more