Westlessness by Samir Puri
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
- What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet? - The receding of Western power is speeding up, shaking the ground under our feet - In Westlessness, Dr Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hu ...Show more
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. We are in a new era- authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power ...Show more
Putin's Killers - The Kremlin and the Art of Political Assassination by Amy Knight
$27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity and Democracy by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Pegasus is almost certainly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed. Installed by as little as a missed WhatsApp call, once on your phone it can record your calls, copy your messages, steal your photos and secretly film you. Those that control it can find out your daily movements: exactly wher ...Show more
Three Tigers, One Mountain - A journey through the bitter history and current conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
'The next Bill Bryson' (New York Times) explores international relations past and present between three East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea and China - in this lively, absorbing travelogue China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? More than neighbours, these ...Show more
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
$70.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it. We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy ...Show more
Blowout - Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Oil. Corrupt? Yes. Unimaginably lucrative? Of course. But, the enemy of democracy? Blowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before, as told by America's most incisive political journalist, Rachel Maddow. A blackly comic journey from Washington to Siberia ...Show more
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
$44.99 NZD
Category: Politics
An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend and don't h ...Show more
The House of Government - A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
$54.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, a ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$26.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment ...Show more
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine. Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Cheche ...Show more
Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar's Colombia by David Arrowsmith
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Pablo Escobar had one obsession. Not drugs, not money, not power... football.Narcoball uncovers the incredible story of Colombian football during the early 1990s - shaped by drug lords, rivalries, and ambition. It uncovers a football empire backed by cartels - where victory was a currency of its own, an ...Show more