Couchsurfing in China: Encounters and Escapades Beyond the Great Wall by Stephan Orth
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
China can be a challenging travel destination, with its strict visa conditions, the language barrier and internet censorship. Couchsurfer Stephan Orth chooses a different path than most and gains an insider view of the nation, directly from the living rooms of locals. He talks to them about their dreams ...Show more
Deception - The Great Covid Cover-Up by Rand Paul
$90.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the Covid pandemic and shut down scientific dissent. One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America's Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physi ...Show more
Democracy Awakening - Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading Americans into authoritarianism and creating a disaffected population.Many books tel ...Show more
Democracy and Its Crisis by A C Grayling
$22.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika - Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union by Scott Ritter
$59.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sides went to "trust, but verify" this successful and unique historic disarmament process. It demonstrates ...Show more
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$32.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are inherent ...Show more
Economists in the Cold War - How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas by Alan Bollard
$85.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of economic ideas, a fight between cent ...Show more
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A brilliant big-picture explanation of our age of instability from the pioneering co-founder of Cliodynamics, the ground-breaking science of historyPeter Turchin, one of the most interesting thinkers today, has infused the study of history with insights from other fields for over a quarter of a century. ...Show more
Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It is made. by Alex von Tunzelmann
$27.99 NZD
Category: Politics
'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy this book.' Suzannah Lipscomb, author, award-winning historian and broadcaster'Lik ...Show more
Free - Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$34.99 NZD
Category: Politics
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more