In the Skin of a Jihadist: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle
33.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Twenty year-old Melanie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Facebook. In forty-eight hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her day and night, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria to enjoy a life of paradise - and join his jihad. Anna Erelle is the undercov ...Show more
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes
44.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in northern Nigeria. Is there some thread tying these frightening international security crises together? In a riveting account that weaves hist ...Show more
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture. First published in 1993, the writings ...Show more
Hack Attack : How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies
28.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Award-winning journalist Nick Davies spent more than six years uncovering the truth about the crimes at the News of the World. Hack Attack is the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal. This book tells for the first time how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities worked tirele ...Show more
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey
29.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism - its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, its imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consu ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
26.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it ...Show more
Online Gravity by Paul X. McCarthy
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Why have local video shops disappeared and been replaced by Netflix? Why are hotels being replaced by AirBNB? Why is your taxi driver from UBER? Why is Amazon the only company who can sell you the book you want to read? And why is there no Pepsi in cyberspace? They are all under the influence of Online ...Show more
Trouble in Paradise by Slavoj Zizek
49.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a w ...Show more
Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs to uncover its secrets - and he found that there is a startling gap between what we have been told and what is really going on. ...Show more
Looting Machine by Tom Burgis
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. Africa: the world's poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. While accounting for just 2 percent of global GDP, it is home to 15 per cen ...Show more
Swallow This : What the Food Industry Wants You to Eat by Joanna Blythman
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered questions about the food we consume every day. How 'natural' ...Show more