Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson by Ferdinand Mount
55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.There is a c ...Show more
The China Tightrope - Navigating New Zealand's Relationship with a World Superpower by Sam Sachdeva
37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An incisive analysis of the flashpoints of the New Zealand-China relationship. As foreign affairs minister Nanaia Mahuta has cautioned, we are moving beyond a 'relationship of firsts' into new territory – and the terrain is more treacherous than ever. The China Tightrope offers unique analysis and ins ...Show more
Invasion: Inside Russia's War on Ukraine by Luke Harding
37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The first account of the Ukraine war, from the award-winning journalist and #1 New York Times selling author of Collusion and Shadow State who forecasted Putin's dark adventurist ambitions. For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And ye ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own ...Show more
The Spoils of War - Power, Profit and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn
45.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Why Does America Go to War?In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers of Islamists. US Solders are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to act as the righteous arbiters of the rule of law. ...Show more
No One Man Should Have All That Power - How Rasputins Manipulate the World by Amos Barshad
30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An exploration of infamous, controversial figures and how they exert control. Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders--he's interested in their scheming advisors, the dark figures who wield power in the shadows. And, as Barshad shows in No ...Show more
Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time by David Miliband
14.00 NZD
23.00 (39% off)
Category: Politics | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
'A THOUGHTFUL, CAREFULLY ARGUED AND MORALLY PERSUASIVE CASE FOR DOING MORE' FINANCIAL TIMES 'PART CALL TO ARMS, PART COLLECTION OF STORIES (INCLUDING HIS OWN), IT IS A POWERFUL INVITATION TO CARE ABOUT REFUGEES, TO SEE THEM AS HUMANS, JUST LIKE YOU OR ME, WHO DESPERATELY NEED OUR HELP' REDWe are in the ...Show more
New Cold Wars: China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West by David E Sanger
50.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitze ...Show more
Second Class - How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women by Batya Ungar-Sargon
75.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it's my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way.-- Greg Lukianoff, CEO of the ...Show more
The Great Wave: The Era Of Radical Disruption And The Rise Of The Outsider by Michiko Kakutani
37.99 NZD
Category: Politics
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave of ...Show more
But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I d ...Show more
Adventures in Democracy by Erica Benner
65.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A political philosopher explores the elusive promises of popular government around the world 'There's no simple way to measure how strong a democracy is, or how weak.' Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in kee ...Show more