Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin; Tom Lee-Devlin
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout his ...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
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearIn his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues - sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplac ...Show more
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
This is a provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down t ...Show more
Cigar Style by Nick Foulkes
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Memoire Ser.
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man s enjoymentof his cigar. To ignite a cigar to watch the glossy tobacco transmute into silvery ash and blue smoke and to savor its complex and lingering flavors is to practice a ritual that has been performed for centur ...Show more
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump : 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy Lee
$44.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
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
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree by Nice Lengete
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
HOW ONE GIRL FOUGHT TO SAVE HERSELF, HER SISTER AND THOUSANDS OF GIRLS WORLDWIDE An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng ...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