Never Succumb to Beige by Frances Manwaring
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Not succumbing to beige is about wearing your metaphorical high viz vest with flair and panache—being true to who you are and what you bring to the world. In extended essays drawn from her own colourful life, and traversing the joys of schadenfreude, strategic giftbuying, the value of teeth, and lessons ...Show more
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E Sanger
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitzer ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In thi ...Show more
Nuku: Stories of 100 Indigenous Women by Qiane Matata-Sipu
$65.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
NUKU is a powerful and important snapshot of Indigenous wāhine today. Through wide-ranging voices this ambitious social documentary showcases diverse representations of leadership, systems change and success. Readers obtain authentic insight into life as an Indigenous woman in a way like never before. ...Show more
On 1984 - A Biography by D J Taylor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named f ...Show more
Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity by Timothy Snyder
$12.00 NZD
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Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think abou ...Show more
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Rise and Fall of the American Dream by DAVID. LEONHARDT
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR) The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The Morning" newsletter. Two decades into the twenty-first ...Show more
P.S. Burn This Letter Please by Craig Olsen
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society, determined to live authentically, despite the atte ...Show more
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph Stiglitz
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power, and Profits, a few corporations now dominate entire sectors, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own re ...Show more
Philip's Street Atlas of London
$9.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Philip's Street Atlas Ser.
This is a fully revised edition of the definitive London Atlas. Every street is named, the Congestion Charging Zone is highlighted, bus, tube and rail maps are featured, an index is given of hospitals and places of interest, postcodes are given, and theatres, cinemas and shopping are shown on a separate ...Show more
Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning by Elliot Ackerman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
In a refugee camp in southern Turkey, Elliot Ackerman sits across the table from Abu Hassar, who fought for Al Qaeda in Iraq and has murky connections to the Islamic State. At first, Ackerman pretends to have been a journalist during the Iraq War, but after he establishes a rapport with Abu Hassar, he r ...Show more