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A Promised Land: The Presidential Memoirs (Vol 1. HB) by Barack Obama
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Know Your Place by Golriz Ghahraman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history When she was just nine, Golriz Ghahraman and her parents were forced to flee their home in Iran. After a terrifying and uncertain journey, they landed in Auckland where they were able to seek asylum and - ult ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (PB) by Ben Macintyre
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. I ...Show more
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Rona ...Show more
The Purpose of Power - How to Build Movements for the 21st Century by Alicia Garza
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In a powerful exploration of recent racial history, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter examines the moment we're in, how we got here, and how together we can build movements to create a just and equal world. Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag when Alicia Garza wrote what she calls 'a love letter to ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's moves as he faces a global pandemic, e ...Show more
The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An illuminating, provocative new book by the master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years. George Friedman turns to the future of the United States, predicting that the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy, economics ...Show more
No Friend But The Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani; Omid Tofighian (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
The Political Years by Marilyn Waring
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful had been Members of Parliament in the hundred or so years that followed. I was number 15!" In 1975, Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament a ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
Twilight of Democracy by ANNE APPLEBAUM
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Anne Applebaum is a leading historian of communism and a penetrating investigator of contemporary politics. Here she sets her sights on the big question, one with which she herself has been deeply engaged in both Europe and America: how did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document, written wi ...Show more
Truth Is Trouble by Malcolm Knox
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
