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A Promised Land 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
The Wake-Up Call - How the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West - and How to Fix It by John Micklethwait; Adrian Wooldridge
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An urgent and informed look at the challenges Britain and world governments will face in a post-Covid-19 world. The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where politics in the US an ...Show more
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
President-elect Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.' - Joe B ...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
The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times by Lionel Barber
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'An extraordinary personal and professional insight into fifteen years of tumultuous times.' - Tony Blair 'Riveting - a world of power, money, ego and disaster, as witnessed from the front row' - Philippe Sands 'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny ... don't miss it' - Misha Glenny 'As FT editor, I ...Show more
Dances with Death by Tuma Hazou
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Perilous encounters reporting on hostilities in the turbulent Middle East.
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
Why We're Polarised by Ezra Klein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended? 'Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarised.' - Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post'It is likely to become the political bo ...Show more
Five Rules for Rebellion: How to Change the World Ourselves by Sophie Walker
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
5 rules for rebellion from the Founding Leader of the Women's Equality Party. 'As it becomes depressingly clear that those presently in power are not taking the urgent action required on climate change, poverty and inequality, we must ourselves take action wherever and whenever we can. This book - b ...Show more
Trust - America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'His campaign was historic for all America' Guardian Trust will be our essential tool as we face unique challenges of the decades ahead. In a century warped by terrorism, Trumpism, financial collapse, populism, systemic racism, Russian interference and a global pandemic, trust within and among nations ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more
The Force of Nonviolence - The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." - Cornel West "Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging and influential thinkers of our time." - J. M. Bernstein. Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected t ...Show more
