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Value(s): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Our world is full of fault lines – growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: The successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament by Kate Ellis
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency and Trust by James Comey
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
This will not come as a surprise to anyone, including even to the President's most ardent defenders: Donald Trump lied to me from the start Saving Justice is James Comey's searing memoir and guide to reclaiming truth in the institutions of justice, which have been so badly damaged under Trump. Whether o ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford
$24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez 'Seriously important' Bill Bryson 'A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience' Guardian Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal ...Show more
CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping by Kerry Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has ...Show more
False Alarm - How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
$50.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The New York Times-bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than goodHurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate c ...Show more
How Not to Be Wrong - The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O'Brien
$24.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"There's no point having a mind if you never change it." In How To Be Right, James provided an invigorating guide to how to talk to people with bad opinions. And yet the question he always gets asked is 'If you're so sure about everything, haven't you ever changed your mind?' In an age of us vs. them, ...Show more
The Truth Is Not Enough - How to Stop Fascism in a Post-Viral World by Paul Mason
$50.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it. In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offe ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: Leading With Empathy by Supriya Vani, Carl A Harte
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century, based on interviews with the New Zealand Prime Minister herself. Jacinda Ardern was swept into office in 2017, with a wave of popular adulation dubbed ‘Jacindaman ...Show more
Midnight's Borders by Vijayan, Suchitra
$60.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It i ...Show more
The Chief Witness: Escape from China's Modern-day Concentration Camps by Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive.I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their story, to tell about the darkness they ...Show more
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were whe ...Show more