A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
28.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearIn his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues - sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplac ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
39.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris Joh ...Show more
New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China's juggernaut economy. 'Essential reading' - Tony Blair Although China's economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is oftenbased on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin burrowsdee ...Show more
Freedom to Think: Protecting a Fundamental Human Right in the Digital Age by Susie Alegre
28.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and even shape our everyday thoughts and choices - from who we date to whether we vote. Our mental freedom is under threat like never before. But this is just the latest fron ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
29.00 NZD
Category: Current Events | Reading Level: good-very good
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...Show more
White Torture - Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners - WINNER of the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 by Narges Mohammadi; Amir Rezanezhad (Translator)
25.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons Fourteen women testify to the shocking human rights abuses in Iranian prisons WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utt ...Show more
The Big Fail: How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most by Bethany McLean
42.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
A damning indictment of American capitalism, as exposed through the failures of the government, private sector and overall economic resilience throughout the COVID pandemic.From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-an ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
42.00 NZD
Category: Current Events | Reading Level: near fine
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Events | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S Goodman
38.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of reporting and explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world has transformed 21st century life and dangerously destabilised democracy. "A biting, uproarious yet vital and deadly serious acco ...Show more
In the Streets of Tehran - Woman, Life, Freedom by Nila; Poupeh Missaghi
33.00 NZD
Category: Current Events
INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTION I've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I know that nothing can stop one of them from raising his gun and targeting me. But this is for the greater good. Following the death of Mahsa-Jina Amini in September 2022, the angry cries of th ...Show more