The Italians by John Hooper
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper's marvellously entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. ...Show more
Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In this Freak 'how-to' guide, the mavericks behind the Freakonomics phenomenon teach you their secrets: how to challenge conventional wisdom, unravel life's secret codes and think differently - that is, think like a Freak. Levitt and Dubner see the world like no-one else. Now you can too. "My gut reacti ...Show more
The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History by Becca Stevens
$34.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
What started as an impossible dream-to build a cafe that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars. Becca Stevens ...Show more
I Call Myself a Feminist - The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty by Victoria Pepe
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them. We hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati (an eighteen-year-old activist), ...Show more
Extraordinary Uses Ordinary Things by Reader's Digest
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by The Guardian
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New and Updated edition - It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in North Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. ...Show more
Truth about Trump by Michael D'Antonio
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American businessman had played the role of provocateur so often that pundits, reporters, and voters struggled to be ...Show more
Complacent Nation (BWB Texts) by Gavin Ellis
$14.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
New Zealanders are too complacent about the continuing erosion of their right to know what government is doing on their behalf. Political risk has become a primary consideration in whether official information requests will be met, and successive governments have allowed free speech rights to be over-ri ...Show more
Truevine by Beth Macy
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The year was 1899, as the old people told the story; the place a sweltering tobacco farm in Truevine, Virginia, the heart of the Jim Crow South, where everyone they knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. The Muse brothers, George and Willie, were just six and nine years old, ...Show more
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus by Matt Taibbi
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
"The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll ...Show more