All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar
29.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved ...Show more
The End of the Liberal Order? by Niall Ferguson
18.99 NZD
Category: Politics
`No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.' -Niall Ferguson `We do not need to invent the world anew. The international order established by the United States after World War II is in need of expansion and repair, but not reconception.' -Fareed Zakaria Fears of a ...Show more
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump : 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy Lee
44.99 NZD
Category: Politics
More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being. This is not normal. Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated th ...Show more
Truth to Power: An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore
39.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times bestseller The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth and companion to Vice President Al Gore's new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, this new book is a daring call to action. It exposes the reality of how humankind has aided in the des ...Show more
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency (HB) by Joshua Green
55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump-the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political histo ...Show more
Destined for War: America, China and Thucydides's Trap by Graham Allison
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause- a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's ...Show more
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
32.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life, the essayist and ...Show more
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way by Steve Richards
32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Something strange has been happening. All over the World, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls in America. Corbyn promises a new socialism in the UK. Tsipras in Greece. Podemos in Spain. Marine Le Pen in France. Norbert Hofer in A ...Show more
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Bastian Obermayer; Frederik Obermaier
21.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history. In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer ...Show more
Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
30.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times BestsellerWith a New AfterwordIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from ...Show more
How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
21.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it " Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, well ...Show more
How the Hell Did This Happen?: The US Election of 2016 by P. J. O'Rourke
32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P.J. O'Rourke brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business. How ...Show more