Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$69.99 NZD
Category: Politics
From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament A political journey through turbulent times Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a pol ...Show more
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times ... 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan .... *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archiv ...Show more
Encountering China - New Zealanders and the People's Republic by Duncan Campbell (ed.); Brian Moloughney (ed.)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good
December 2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of diplomatic relationsbetween China and New Zealand. In 1972, when the communiqué was signed, itmarked the end of New Zealand's keeping China at arm's length, in deference to theUnited States' unwillingness to treat with it. In 2022, the Unite ...Show more
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
$38.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
Truthteller: An Investigative Reporter's Journey Through the World of Truth Prevention, Fake News and Conspiracy Theories by Stephen Davis
$29.99 NZD
Category: Politics
There is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. Truthteller is an essential guide to how governments and corporations cover up murder, corruption and catastrophe, for teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to know the facts, not fake news. Using exclusive documents and interviews from a ...Show more
CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping by Kerry Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has ...Show more
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
$32.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world 'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and ...Show more
Boris Johnson - The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnson's turbulent time as prime minister, from the highs of a landslide election victory to the lows of his car-crash resignation. In Boris Johns ...Show more
Typhoon by Charles Cumming
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war' JOHN NICHOL________'Dragon, we've got reports of a mortar firing team t ...Show more
The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World by Andrew Doyle
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Engaging, incisive and acute, The New Puritans is a deeply necessary exploration of our current cultural climate and an urgent appeal to return to a truly liberal society.The puritans of the seventeenth century sought to refashion society in accordance with their own beliefs, but they were deep thinkers ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$32.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more