The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Inside Story by Sebastian Payne
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The Fall of Boris Johnson is the fascinating inside account of how the prime minister lost his grip on power. Sebastian Payne, Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times, tells the essential behind-the-scenes story, charting the series of scandals that felled Johnson: from the blocked suspension of Owen P ...Show more
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by Jacob Helberg
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
From the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wake-up call” (Publishers Weekly) that explains the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy. From 2016 to 2020 ...Show more
AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
$17.99 NZD
Category: Politics
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoes ...Show more
Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
$27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions ...Show more
JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the ...Show more
Ego: Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party's Civil War by AARON PATRICK
$37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Malcolm Turnbull's campaign against Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party is one of the greatest acts of revenge in Australian political history. This account explores the egos, deception and thwarted power that has left a trail of personal destruction across the political world. Friends have been turned ...Show more
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Philip Carol; Rucker Leonnig
$32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Secondhand. THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A blockbuster . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN 'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVER The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors ...Show more
The Coddling of the American Mind - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The New York Times bestseller Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of mo ...Show more
How to be a Politician: 2,000 Years of Good (and Bad) Advice by Vince Cable
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'Always forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.' JFK'What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.' David Lloyd George'Unchallenged master of the self-infl ...Show more
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith
$36.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar ...Show more
That's Not Funny - How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them by Matt Sienkiewicz; Nick Marx
$47.99 NZD
Category: Politics
A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a tho ...Show more
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre
$45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They ...Show more