Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech by Ronan Lee
$43.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on thousands of hours of interviews and testimony from the R ...Show more
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close...' Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March ...Show more
How Democracies Die - What History Reveals about Our Future by Steve Levitsky; Daniel Ziblatt
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
How does a democracy die? What lessons does history teach us? What can we do to save our own? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Z ...Show more
How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
$24.99 NZD
Category: Politics
George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in - the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions w ...Show more
The War Below: Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives by Ernest Scheyder
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
An unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder. A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of othe ...Show more
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
$15.99 NZD
Category: Politics
In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, preparing for a more hopeful tomorrow. 'For the left, elections are a brief interlude in a life of real politics, a moment to ask whether it's worth taking ti ...Show more
Beijing Rules - China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
$29.99 NZD
Category: Politics
LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship and repression . . . compelling' Daily Telegraph'A timely read . . . Chilling . . . Startling . . . A power ...Show more
Chronicles of Dissent by Noam Chomsky
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thought. In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on independent thought; how historical r ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order by MENON RAJAN & RUMER EUGENE
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Boston Review Originals Ser.
The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean peninsula and Russia's relations with the West. The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO ...Show more
Day of the Assassins - A History of Political Assassination by Michael Burleigh
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has been enormous speculation on what lay behind notorious individual political assassinations - from Gaius Julius Caesar to John F. Kennedy - the phenomenon it ...Show more