Eye on Politics by Nick Lindo
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Nick Lindo's collection of about ninety-five of his most recent articles from the six hundred or so he has written for the Ashburton Guardian over the last fourteen years. They vary from the whimsical to the almost acerbic with a variety of opinions in between. It is not a propaganda volume for any p ...Show more
A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts) by Jess Berentson-Shaw
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
We may be in the golden age of information, with access to more facts than ever before. Yet in the time of fake news and post-truth politics, it seems that conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are even harder to debunk. Battling over facts can be exhausting and polarising. For those committ ...Show more
Towards Democratic Renewal by Palmer Geoffrey and Andrew Butler
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Towards Democratic Renewal reinforces Palmer and Butler's argument for a robust and democratic framework that will safeguard our political system against future challenges, from climate change to earthquakes, `post-truth' politics and surveillance.
Criminal Justice by Gilbert Jarrod
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: Near Fine
An introduction to New Zealand's criminal justice system - from crime and policing to the courts - aimed at students and general readers. In this major new textbook, leading scholars from criminology, history, journalism, law, psychology, sociology and other fields take us inside New Zealand's criminal ...Show more
Crisis: Updated Edition by Alan Bollard, with Sarah Gaitanos
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard's bestselling Crisis was a first-hand account of the global financial meltdown. Two years on, this new edition of Crisis brings the story up to date. Crisis takes readers from the overheated markets of 2007, through the collapse of investment banks and stressful times ...Show more
New Zealand Political Cartoon Annual 2012
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
The best of New Zealand's Editorial Cartoons. Featuring cartoons by: Tom Scott, Chicane, Hawkey, Klarc, Murray Webb, Malcolm Walker, Ekers, Evans, Tremain Hubbard, Body, Mark O'Brien, Hodgson, Fletcher and Nisbet
A Bit Mental: One Man's Mission to Lilo the Waikato & Live More Awesome by Jimi Hunt
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
In an effort to conquer his depression, Jimi Hunt decided to travel the length of New Zealand's longest river...on a lilo. Jimi Hunt is a man who has spent most of his life doing ridiculous things for his own amusement. Things like building the country's biggest waterslide; playing golf through the stre ...Show more
Groundchange : The story of Trade Aid by Sally Blundell
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
The local Trade Aid store has become a ubiquitous feature in the New Zealand high street. Its story, however, is the largely untold history of the founders of Trade Aid, New Zealand couple Vi and Richard Cottrell, who travelled to India to work with Tibetan refugees in the 1970s. It also covers the deve ...Show more
Elementary : The Explosive File of Scott Watson and the Disappearance of Ben & Olivia by Ian Wishart
$38.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
OF ALL THE BOOKS ON THIS CASE, YOU NEED TO READ THIS ONE...It's a murder mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes. It even has a Watson. Yet, solving the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope has proved anything but elementary. Some books on the case have argued so strongly for either innocence or guilt t ...Show more
Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour by Nicky Hager; Jon Stephenson
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: Near Fine
In August 2010, a New Zealand soldier died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. In retaliation, the New Zealand SAS led a raid on two isolated villages in search of the fighters they suspected were responsible. They all knew the rules. Prior to firing weapons, their freshly issued orders said, `the ...Show more
Big Questions: What Is New Zealand's Future? by Various Authors
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is at a crossroads. People are increasingly concerned about where we are headed. Can we improve our appalling statistics on poverty and violence? What about work - will we all be replaced by robots? Will our children (let alone our grandchildren) be able to afford to buy a house? Can we clea ...Show more
Who Dropped the Ball? - Democracy in Crisis by David Chapman
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand once prided itself on its commitment to equity and justice. Now we live in a country where terms like 'domestic violence', 'child poverty' and 'youth suicide' are all too familiar. How did this happen?