Why Don't You Get off Your Phone and Learn Something New Instead? - Fun, Quirky and Interesting Alternatives to Browsing Your Phone by Kate Freeman
$22.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Things you could be doing instead of being on your phone: Learning some Cockney rhyming slang Doing the tree pose Bottling a whole pear There's more to life than looking at your phone. Beyond that tiny screen there's a whole world of fun, cool and weird things you could be doing instead! Whether ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
$26.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
Beware of Small States by David Hirst
$59.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
For 34 days in the summer of 2006, Israel invaded Lebanon to recover two kidnapped soldiers and break the power of Hizbullah, in the process attracting a mass of international attention. Rarely has such great significance been ascribed to a conflict so limited in scope and inconclusive in its outcome, w ...Show more
Wikileaks - Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh; Luke Harding
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
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 Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a ...Show more
How The End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III by Ron Rosenbaum
$42.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times by Mohamed ElBaradei
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which Dr. ElBaradei stepped - featuring Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim ...Show more
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England's most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter a ...Show more
Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next by John D. Kasarda & Greg Lindsay
$19.99 NZD
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Category: General Non-Fiction
From Dubai to Amsterdam, Memphis to South Korea, a phenomenon reshapes the way we live and transforming the way we do business: the aerotropolis. This title looks at how the metropolis brings us together - and how, in our globalized, 'flat' world, connecting people and goods is as important as digital c ...Show more
50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
At a time of corrosive popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater: the forces of Terrorism and Fundamentalism endanger our Security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to Liberty, Democracy a ...Show more
On the State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution by Alaa Al Aswany
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In the novels and short stories of Alaa Al Aswany, characters struggle with class differences, police brutality, poverty, sexual harassment and political corruption; now, in a new collection of essays, Al Aswany considers these same issues that torment modern Egyptian society. He has a great deal to say ...Show more
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U
$49.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching and timely book about a remote region that is suddenly becoming a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, the civilizations of China and India have been walled off from each other, not only by the towering summits of the Himalayas, but ...Show more