The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
$44.99 NZD
Category: Politics
An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend and don't h ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$26.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment ...Show more
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
$32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. In 2018, Sally Hayden received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” It was from an Eritrean man who had been held in a Libyan detention centre for months. Every ...Show more
Liberalism and its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher.
Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order by MENON RAJAN & RUMER EUGENE
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Boston Review Originals Ser.
The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean peninsula and Russia's relations with the West. The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO ...Show more
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. We are in a new era- authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power ...Show more
Danger On Our Doorstep by Jim Molan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
An unsettling assessment of how - and when - war with China might break out and the consequences for the world, from bestselling author, ex-major general Jim Molan What are Australia's options in confronting a rising and belligerent China?For the first time in nearly 80 years, war on our doorstop is not ...Show more
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
$70.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it. We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy ...Show more
The House of Government - A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
$54.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, a ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky Edward S Herman
$34.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals ...Show more
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine. Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Cheche ...Show more
Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity and Democracy by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Pegasus is almost certainly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed. Installed by as little as a missed WhatsApp call, once on your phone it can record your calls, copy your messages, steal your photos and secretly film you. Those that control it can find out your daily movements: exactly wher ...Show more