The Power in Our Truth, The Truth of Our Power: Recollections of Moana Jackson by 34 contributors
$40.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
“So now, this thinker, this gifted communicator, this provocateur, this great role model, this gentleman, this Rangatira is no longer with us. But let’s not dwell on that. He has left us with a pathway to follow, work to do. And the way to best honour him is to take up the challenges, do the mahi and le ...Show more
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Created under President Kennedy, the Sit Room has been the epicentre of crisis management for presidents for more than six decades. Time and again, ...Show more
The Quiet Hero: Andrew Bagshaw by Philip Matthews
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Genetic scientist Andrew Bagshaw put his life on hold to help the people of Ukraine. His selfless actions would cost him his life. This is his story. Andrew Bagshaw was many things - a genius-level geneticist, keen cricketer and sailor, private pilot, much-loved son, brother and uncle, as well as a hug ...Show more
Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
$18.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
The essays in The Art of Libromancy explore the politics, philosophies, technologies, emotional experience, and craft of selling books in the twenty-first century. In a society filled with misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda, true storytelling and story-reading are more ...Show more
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION ON BRITAIN’S RESPONSE TO THE UKRAINE CRISIS ‘Shockingly timely’ Mail on Sunday ‘A savage analysis of Britain’s soul. As essential as Orwell at his best’ Peter Pomerantsev ‘Horribly brilliant’ James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the ...Show more
What Iranians Want by Arash Azizi
$50.00 NZD
Category: Politics
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced dead. By Sunday, women have taken to the streets across Iran, se ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics | 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
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
Still Lives: A Memoir of Gaza by Marilyn Garson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Four years, two wars and one most unlikely social enterprise. Marilyn Garson was an experienced aid professional who created jobs at the edge of war. In 2011, she was invited to move to the Gaza Strip. Friends warned her that nothing worked behind the Gaza blockade. Unable to resist that challenge, Mari ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Ser.
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels wit ...Show more