A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age by Matt Richtel
33.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology's vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic "texting-while-driving" car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In this am ...Show more
A Buzz in the Meadow by Dave Goulson
28.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
From the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Sunday Times bestseller A Sting in the Tale In 2003 Dave Goulson bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow. Over the course of a decade, he created a place for his beloved bumblebees to thrive ...Show more
End Game - Tipping Point for Planet Earth? by Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth A Hadly
33.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling natural resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ...will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens if population pressures finally hit a threshold that tumbles the domi ...Show more
Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? by Mick Hume
33.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can't-Say-That. The cold-blooded murder of the Charlie Hebdo carto ...Show more
End of Plenty: the Race to Feed a Crowded World by Bourne Joel
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Introducing a new generation of farmers and scientists on the frontlines of the next green revolution. When Malthus famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success of modern agriculture. New seeds, chemicals and irrigation, coupled with free trade, dr ...Show more
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky Ilan Pappé
18.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region. Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never be ...Show more
Move Up: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't by Clotaire Rapaille
48.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
This is an irreverent and controversial examination of why some nations succeed that will overturn all received wisdom. With an abundance of data and evidence, Move UP explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectuall ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History by Ben Mezrich
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
This is a gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House. Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the larger-than-life billionaire oligarchs who surfed the wav ...Show more
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we em ...Show more
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