21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy by Lucinda Holdforth
$23.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$47.82 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$32.99 NZD
Category: Politics
A Vindication of the Rights of girl: with Strictures on Political and ethical subjects is a work of feminist philosophy by means of Mary Wollstonecraft. Written in 1792, the writer dicusses the perspective that women need to no longer obtain a rational schooling, and argues no longer only that they must ...Show more
Base Nation - How U. S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World by David Vine; Simon Winchester (Foreword by)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Politics
American military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, a little-noticed part of the Pentagon's vast ope ...Show more
Big Book of Conspiracy Theories by Tim Rayborn
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Did America fake the moon landing? Was 9/11 an inside job? What is the government hiding at Area 51? From secret societies to aliens and assassinations, decode history's greatest cover-ups and decide for yourself. Humanity has long been obsessed with the unexplained, and we have ascribed many mysteries ...Show more
Blue Blood - The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis by Andrea Vance
$36.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Beginning with the shock resignation of John Key, Blue Blood reveals the reasons behind one of the most dramatic falls in popularity in New Zealand's political history and tells the full story of how the National Party went to war with itself. Informed by campaign emails and internal party communication ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
$43.47 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 (HB) by Ed Dowd
$69.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Children's Health Defense Ser.
What is killing young healthy Americans? Edward Dowd, a former Wall Street analyst and BlackRock portfolio manager, examines the epidemic of sudden deaths in America. Throughout his stock picking career, he utilized pattern recognition to get ahead of his peers and the street before his bullish or beari ...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
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
$36.99 NZD
Category: Politics
When the fate of the nation is in your hands, who do you call?
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us by Brian Klaas
$27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
'Illuminating . . . reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others' - Adam Grant'Passionate, insightful, and occasionally jaw-dropping . . . Corruptible sets out the story of the intoxicating lure of power-and how it has shaped the modern world' - Peter Frankopa ...Show more