New ReleaseEmpire at the Edge of the World
One man's lust for empire sent fifteen people into the Arctic - only one came back. 1913, the Arctic circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it would control the future - air routes, resources, even the balance of power in the northern hemisphere,...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
New ReleaseThe Nerd Reich
Who really rules our future? When Silicon Valley says it is ‘moving fast and breaking things’, the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule. Drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, Durán traces this ideology from its philosophical roots...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$4199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Nun of Ravensbrück
In the cold winter of 1944, Sr Kate McCarthy—Irish nun and French Resistance leader—arrives at the gates of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for women. She has endured four years of horrendous suffering in various prisons, still having the courage to resist the Nazi regime, a journey that began at the outbreak of World War II when she joined the resistance movement....Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
On Democracies and Death Cults
NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the Palestinian cause is ultimately playing into the hands of a much more dangerous force.Drawing from intensive on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, Murray presents a compelling case that places...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Anything Could Happen
In this illuminating and beautifully written book, Grant Robertson reflects on the major events in his life, from growing up in a loving but complex family, to his highly successful career as a Labour politician and becoming Finance Minister in the Ardern government during one of New Zealand history's most tumultuous times. A natural storyteller, Robertson writes memorably about his...Paperback$3399Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
War
Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST POLITICS BOOKS of 2024 War is the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars – Ukraine, the Middle East, and the struggle for the American presidency, told by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward. The book is both intimate and sweeping, capturing one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American...Hardback$4800Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Liberalism and Its Discontents
A TIMES BEST PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS BOOK OF 2022 A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher 'We need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama digging their fingers into the soil of our predicament' - The New York Times 'A brilliantly acute summary of the way some aspects of liberal thought have consumed themselves' - Guardian 'One of the...Paperback$1999Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
New ReleaseFront Row Seat
Responding to the terrorist attack on a Christchurch mosque and a global pandemic, the volcanic eruption at Whakaari/White Island and the occupation of Parliament grounds, for six years Dame Juliet Gerrard stood next to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her successors to provide the insights that science might bring to decisions on issues of public importance. Sometimes these were emergencies:...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Red Notice
Red Notice by Bill Browder is a harrowing account of one man's fight against the corruption and brutality embedded within the highest echelons of Russian power. Blending personal memoir, geopolitical intrigue, and a true-crime narrative, this book takes the reader on an electrifying journey from the flourishing financial markets of New York and London in the 1990s to the lethal...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The War on the West
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ‘The most important book of the year’ Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers: ‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’ In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks:...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon is a profoundly influential text that delves into the pervasive impacts of colonisation and the relentless drive for liberation. Set against the backdrop of the Algerian struggle for independence from French colonial rule, the book dissects the psychological, cultural, and political effects of colonialism on both the oppressed and the oppressor. Published...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Invisible Women
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez is a groundbreaking and meticulously researched exploration into the pervasive gender bias that infiltrates every aspect of our society. Through compelling case studies and thorough analysis, this book unveils the hidden ways women are systematically disadvantaged in a world predominantly designed by and for men. Perez's revelations stretch across various sectors including government policy,...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid November-
The Origins of Political Order
The Origins of Political Order, the first of a major two-volume work by Francis Fukuyama, embarks on an ambitious journey to trace the evolution of political systems from the dawn of human history to the threshold of the French Revolution. Beginning with the primal politics of our primate ancestors, Fukuyama meticulously guides readers through the formation of tribal societies, the...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Te Tiriti, Equality and the Future of New Zealand Democracy
In this major work, the leading Māori political scientist Dominic O’Sullivan draws on theories of republicanism and the commonwealth to challenge understandings of Te Tiriti as a partnership between races, or between Māori people and the Crown. O’Sullivan also critiques the idea that Te Tiriti created one people, assimilating Māori into colonial ways of governing. Instead, he proposes a new...Paperback$3699Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Monster of Harrods
An unflinching exposé of Mohamed Al-Fayed’s 25-year reign at Harrods DECADES OF ABUSE. DOZENS OF VICTIMS. NO CONSEQUENCES. To the public, he was the eccentric owner of one of the world’s great department stores. But behind closed doors, Fayed ruled with cruelty, humiliation and unchecked abuse. Why were his crimes ignored? Why did those in power look the other way?...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Animal Farm and 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
Two modern classics in one volume. George Orwell is one of the finest and most influential writers of the twentieth century. Here in one volume, are two of his best-known works of electrifying political fiction, 1984 and Animal Farm.Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party and the omnipresent Big...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Fascism and Democracy
Brilliant essays from Orwell's political writing during World War II, released to coincide with Orwell Day on the 21st of January. Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the potential of reform, the meaning of literature and free speech in times of...Paperback$699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Viral Justice
'A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.' - Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Democracy for Realists
Democracy for Realists, by renowned political scientists Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels, offers a compelling critique of the foundational theories underlying democratic politics. It challenges the traditional notion that well-informed citizens can effectively guide state policies through their electoral choices. Instead, the authors present a thought-provoking and empirically grounded argument that unveils the complexities and limitations of democratic...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail is an incisive and inspiring piece of writing that remains a touchstone in the history of civil rights and social justice. Composed in 1963 while King was imprisoned for his participation in nonviolent protests against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, the letter is a powerful and eloquent defence of civil disobedience in...Paperback$699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Agent Sonya
Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre is an enthralling and meticulously researched narrative that uncovers the astonishing life of the greatest female spy in history. This gripping biography sheds light on the life of Ursula Kuczynski Burton, a woman whose espionage endeavours were pivotal during the tumultuous times of the twentieth century. Ursula Kuczynski Burton, known by her codename "Agent Sonya",...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Leaders Eat Last
In Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, readers are taken on an insightful journey into the dynamics of leadership and the essential components that build successful and highly effective teams. Sinek delves into the crucial role that leaders play in fostering an environment where trust and cooperation flourish. The book is based on real-life stories and thorough research, providing a...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Doppelganger
A wild ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different,...Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Free
An unforgettable coming-of-age story, Free by Lea Ypi explores the profound meanings of freedom—personal, collective, and political—through the eyes of a young girl growing up in one of the most isolated countries on earth. Albania, where communist ideals replaced religion, stood as the last Stalinist stronghold in Europe, virtually impossible to visit or leave. It was a land of scarcity...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Imagining Decolonisation
Decolonisation is a term that scares some and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and bewildering concept for many New Zealanders, yet it is needed if we are going to build a country that is fair and equal for all who live there. Imagining Decolonisation sets out the case for decolonisation by illuminating—through anecdotal, real-life examples—what decolonisation might...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Spy and the Traitor
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre is a spellbinding Cold War thriller that unravels the true story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB double agent who risked everything to aid the British in the battle against Soviet oppression. In meticulously researched detail, Macintyre paints a vivid portrait of espionage, double-crossing, and unparalleled bravery, giving readers a riveting glimpse into...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
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They Called Me Renée
The pacing and personal voice of Ruth makes for a gripping, focused story where the stakes are high. If you loved The Nightingale, you will love They Called Me Renée. - Heather Morris, internationally bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Extraordinary... a luminous portrait of survival and a powerful reminder of the light that can be found in humanity's...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Ringside
Mike Munro spent nearly 22 years working inside the political domain in Wellington. He reported on politics from the parliamentary press gallery for 10 years and then switched to the dark side, becoming the only person to serve as chief press secretary to one Labour prime minister, and later as chief of staff to another. His days as a political...Paperback$3799Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Chain of Ideas
A revelatory account of the racist conspiracy theory that pervades global politics - from the National Book Award winner and number-one-bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi A revelatory account of the racist conspiracy theory that now pervades global politics - from the prize-winning author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist Throughout the world, authoritarian movements are radically reshaping...Paperback$3699Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Elements of Power
How we became addicted to a supply chain that wreaks havoc across the globe. Epic, shocking, and deeply reported, The Elements of Power tells the story of the war for the global supply of battery metals—essential for the decarbonisation of our economies—and the terrible, bloody human cost of this badly misunderstood industry. Congo is rich. Swaths of the war-torn African...Paperback$3099Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Limitarianism
A world-leading expert in inequality makes the case for a hard limit on personal wealth. We all notice when the poor get poorer—when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn't change. Or at...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Storm Before the Calm
In a US election year, the master geopolitical forecaster combines an erudite analysis of US history with a clear-sighted view of the future, including what COVID-19 will mean for America. An illuminating, provocative new book by the master geopolitical forecaster George Friedman predicts that the 2020s will bring to the United States dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy,...Paperback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
From the author of Women, Race and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts. In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Technofeudalism
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world. Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords—replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The World After Gaza
From one of our foremost public intellectuals, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications. Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe's civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify...Hardback$3500Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Calling In
From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together. In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s Rape Crisis Center when she...Hardback$5600Elsewhere:$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
True Believer
This is seriously good… the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it – so read it while you can! — Lee Child A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come. — Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell is a gripping and meticulously researched biography that unveils the untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman who became one of the most formidable spies of World War II. In September 1941, Virginia Hall, disguised as a journalist, arrived in Lyon, Vichy France. Despite the wooden leg she acquired from a...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently, wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Myth of American Idealism
From the brilliant minds of Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson comes The Myth of American Idealism, a powerful examination of the profound discrepancies between America's democratic ideals and its foreign policy actions. This compelling book shatters the facade of altruism that has long been associated with US global operations, offering readers an unflinching look at the realities behind American...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Manufacturing Consent
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman offers a critical examination of the news media and its role in shaping public perception. Far from the popular notion of the press as an obstinate seeker of truth, this book argues that news is heavily influenced by elite interests who control the marketplace and the economics of publishing. Through meticulous...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Future of Geography
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to communication, economics, military strategy and international relations on Earth. Now, it...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son is a seminal work of social and cultural criticism by James Baldwin, one of the most distinguished intellectuals of the twentieth century. First published in 1955, this powerful collection of essays captures Baldwin's reflections on the intricate dynamics of race and identity during the formative years of the civil rights movement. Written when Baldwin was...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition. A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in Penguin Classics. Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes,...Hardback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Unwomanly Face of War
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich is a hauntingly powerful oral history that delves into the seldom-heard experiences of Soviet women during the Second World War. Through meticulous storytelling and unwavering commitment to truth, Alexievich illuminates the profound and often heart-wrenching realities faced by these women, transcending the boundaries of conventional war narratives. This extraordinary book presents the...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Bible & Treaty: Missionaries Among the Maori-A New Perspective
Bible & Treaty: Missionaries Among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance, and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand. It brings a fresh perspective to the missionary story, from the lead-up to Samuel Marsden's first sermon on New Zealand soil, and the intervening struggle for survival and...Paperback$5000Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Start With Why
ISN'T IT TIME YOU READ Start With Why? 'One of the most incredible thinkers of our time,' Steven Bartlett, podcaster and author of Diary of a CEO ----------- Simon Sinek's iconic global bestseller has sold more than three million copies by asking a simple fundamental question: Why are some people and organisations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid November 
New ReleaseProfits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings
From the bestselling author of Guns, Germs and Steel, an exploration of the influence of leaders in politics, business, sport and religion. We often read history as the biographies of 'great men' who shaped the world. But are leaders, whichever field they are in, really that influential? Should CEOs be given large bonuses when a company performs well? Why, when...Paperback$4199Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Gangland
New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs 'The best true-crime book of the year by a long stretch.'- Steve Braunias, Newsroom 'A series of rip-snorting yarns about gangs, drugs, fancy cars, wads of cash, violence, and guns - Aotearoa New Zealand style.'- Simon Bridges In Gangland, author and award-winning investigative reporter Jared Savage takes readers on a gripping...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
New Release
Outlawed
What if someone told you your debts were fake, your mortgage illegal, your taxes voluntary, and that with the right words you could free yourself from the system forever? Across the world, people are falling for pseudolaw—a fast-growing movement built on conspiracy theories, quasilegal rituals, and the promise that ordinary people can outsmart governments, banks, and courts. Its followers call...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book. Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$3599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Prince: Popular Penguins
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was deeply familiar with the swift and often ruthless changes in political power. In The Prince, Machiavelli presents a pragmatic and unflinching analysis of the mechanics of power, leadership, and statecraft. Written in 1513, this seminal work remains a cornerstone of political theory and an essential read for anyone interested...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
New ReleaseWhat a Time to be Alive!
What a Time to be Alive! So let's remember Liz Truss, relive the last days of the Tories, meet the guy they called No-Drama Starmer, and succumb to hyper-resistant superbug Nigel Farage. Travel stateside to meet our supranational Silicon Valley overlords, Donald Trump and his cavalcade of henchmen – then head for infinity and beyond with Lauren Sanchez and Jeff...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
New ReleaseHow Not to Save the World
As the world burns, wars are claiming thousands of innocent lives and governments do nothing, activism offers the antidote to our growing sense of hopelessness. But then why does it sometimes feel like direct action is hindering rather than helping? Shouldn’t people be addressing the climate catastrophe head-on, rather than gluing themselves to trains at rush hour or throwing soup...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Among Kinabuhi sa Aotearoa
Among Kinabuhi sa Aotearoa is a glimpse into the lives of 14 Filipinos—the third-largest Asian group in Aotearoa— trailblazers who build community in their adopted home, uphold the struggles of their people in the Philippines and stand in solidarity with tangata whenua. This collection brings together a diverse group of artists, academics and activists engaged in the practice of radical...Paperback$2799Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Nord Stream Conspiracy
The explosive inside story of the most daring act of sabotage in modern history—the bombing of the $20 billion Nord Stream Pipeline. Written by the award-winning Chief European Political Correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. 'Totally fascinating... As compelling as a spy thriller'Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Jaw-dropping... a pearl of a story'Rory Carroll 'All the elements of a fictional thriller... I...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
New ReleaseHow to Eat an Elephant
After Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Sarah Longwell did what she's done nearly every week for the past eight years: She sat down with voters. She conducted hundreds of focus groups, listening to thousands of ordinary Americans--Republicans, Democrats, and the politically homeless--with the goal of understanding politics through the eyes of the people who will decide our country's future....Hardcover$6400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Bonfire of the Murdochs
When Rupert Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir. Twenty-five years later, that gamble would tear apart one of the world’s most powerful families and trigger a multi-billion dollar reckoning in a succession battle featuring betrayals, lawsuits, and revenge plots....Paperback$3499Elsewhere:$4199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Children of the Third Reich
Every mother of good blood will be sacred to us, wrote Heinrich Himmler, as he founded his Lebensborn ('Fount of Life') programme in 1935. The Lebensborn programme was founded in Nazi Germany to breed racially pure Aryans, from mothers who believed it was their national duty to provide 'A Child for Hitler', and fathers who served in the SS, selected...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Is a River Alive?
From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book— which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings—who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Everybody Loves Our Dollars
From the bestselling author of Butler to the World, Everybody Loves Our Dollars reveals how organised criminals move vast amounts of dirty money around the globe, how they escape the eyes of law enforcement, and how they turn their ill-gotten income into vast amounts of legitimately recognised wealth. Without the existence of money laundering, few crimes of acquisition would be...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Nature of Drugs
The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact, Volume 1 presents lectures from Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin's popular course on what drugs are, how they work, how they are processed by the body, and how they affect our society. Transcribed from the original lectures recorded at San Francisco State University in 1987, The Nature of Drugs series highlights Shulgin's engaging...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Building the Commune
Since 2011, a wave of popular mobilisations has swept the globe, from Occupy to the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain and the uprisings in Greece. Their demands were varied, but what they share is a commitment to ideals of radical democracy, and a willingness to experiment with new forms of organisation to achieve this. In fact, the countries of Latin...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Sacred Space Between
The Sacred Space Between follows a devout iconographer tasked with painting an exiled saint in this sumptuous gothic romantasy. Full of slow-burn tension and windswept moors, it appeals to fans of Divine Rivals and A Study in Drowning. 'Nothing less than blasphemy brought you to me,' Jude told her. Maeve trembled. He was an open flame. Any closer, and she’d...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. 'An eye-watering account of the president's abuse of the rules of golf' The Sunday Times 'Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming' The New Yorker Commander in...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
50 Years of The Waitangi Tribunal
Fifty Years of the Waitangi Tribunal celebrates decisions, results and reports of the Waitangi Tribunal over half a century. The Waitangi Tribunal has been a unique and integral part of the Aotearoa New Zealand judicial and legislative process, upholding te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing expertise on historical claims, Maori language, land, resources and contemporary issues.This collection contains chapters on...Softcover$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Seven Rules of Trust
Trust: like water, like electricity, our society can’t function without it. It’s a treasure, a living thing that can be cultivated and grown. But it can also wither and die, and it is increasingly under threat. From neighbourhoods to nations, we must get serious about trust and act before this precious resource runs out entirely. When Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The War on Cops
Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
12 Rules for Strife
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic, Jeff Sparrow and...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Ask Not
The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024 A Mail on Sunday ‘Best Holiday Read 2024’ ‘A searing exposé’ Glamour ‘A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men who crave power’ – Observer From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Voices from the Grave
Ed Moloney's A Secret History of the IRA is the best-informed account yet written of the IRA's evolution from ruthless guerrilla army into governmental party, ruling Northern Ireland alongside its most intransigent former enemies. But reconciliation between political figures who until very recently wished each other dead or in jail has not been accompanied by very much truth-telling about the...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Nazi Mind
A propulsive narrative history of the motivation and mentality behind the Nazis and their supporters. How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly—often enthusiastically—oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In The Nazi Mind, bestselling author Laurence Rees combines history and the...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Breakneck
From an indispensable voice on China (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress. America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China's astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West....Hardback$5500Elsewhere:$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Nice Racism
An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour. Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialised. She also...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Democracy in America
In 1831, Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him nine months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville's study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society remains a key point of reference...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Legacy of Ashes
Winner of the National Book Award Legacy of Ashes is described as "an extraordinary story" that "reads like tragedy and thriller." Impeccably sourced, utterly absorbing, dazzling and very, very dark, according to Time Out. The all-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective image of the CIA, as portrayed in countless films and novels, is misleading. This shocking book, based on thousands of...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
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Who Rules the World?
The most influential political writer alive today presents a state-of-the-world look at America's global power and politics. 'As long as the general population is diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, the powerful can do as they please...' In the post-9/11 era, America's policy-makers have prioritised the pursuit of power above all else—human rights, democracy, even security. From expanding...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
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The Revisionists
Gripping, propulsive and intelligent, The Revisionists is a tour de force, an absorbing, unputdownable novel about ambition—and how we curate our own stories and rescript our memories in order to survive. Upper East Side, Manhattan, 2023: Christine Campbell, former journalist, turns on the television to watch a documentary paying homage to her Pulitzer Prize-shortlisted coverage of the unrest in 1999...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
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My Story
I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation. Three years and three days for you to judge. On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Capital
The forgotten second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories. The forgotten second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
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