How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Property will cost us the earth The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a ris ...Show more
Killing Thatcher - The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret ThatcherKILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet - an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ire ...Show more
Indigenous Women's Voices - 20 Years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies by Emma Lee (Editor); Jennifer Evans (Editor)
43.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. When Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies was first published, it ignited a passion for research change that respected Indigenous peoples and knowledges, ...Show more
Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick
36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings. Our world is losing its humanity. Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about power than the people who vote for them. ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein
50.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky "No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book." —The InterceptThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populat ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier
56.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn't computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them "loopholes." We call exploits "tax avoidance strategies." And there is an entire industry of "black hat" hackers intent on findi ...Show more
Rethinking Our World - An Invitation to Rescue Our Future by Maja Gopel; David Shaw (Translator)
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
We have never been so well off; but at the same time, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look-and our systems are under stress. In this book, economist Maja Göpel, co-founder of the Scientists for Future initiative, says we do not solely face an environmental crisis, but also a social one. It' ...Show more
The Edge of the Plain - How Borders Make and Break Our World by James Crawford
36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Blending history, travel and reportage, this is a wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an examination of their role in shaping our world today
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
What if the solution to the climate crisis is . . . capitalism? Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism ...Show more
The End of Reality: How four billionaires are selling out our future by Jonathan Taplin
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns. At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that re ...Show more