Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes by Michael Grothaus
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Natalie Portman in an orgy; Donald Trump declaring nuclear war; the United States winning the World Cup. The only limit is the imagination. In a time where fake news and disinformation is becoming harder and harder to identify, it is ...Show more
Truth of the Palace Letters, The: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 by Paul Kelly; Troy Bramston
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous tenure as Governor-General of Australia. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of ...Show more
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
Unearthed - On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong by Claire Ratinon
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and stuck with the belief that success and status coul ...Show more
Unprepared - America in the Time of Coronavirus by Jon Sternfeld
$23.50 NZD
$47.00 (50% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
An essential volume. -E. J. Dionne, Jr. * A damning portrait -Publishers Weekly With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Timothy Egan, the riveting, eye-opening first-draft history of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unprepared is the sweeping history of the Covid-19 pandemic-a raw, primary-source ac ...Show more
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
$18.50 NZD
$37.00 (50% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the ambiguity of the reconstruction era, resistance and protest writing were a central part of slavery in America, and - ultimately - played a crucial ...Show more
Vienna Behind the Facades - A Personal Journey by Jennifer Haworth
$42.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. If you think you know Vienna, think again. Vienna: Behind the facades - a personal journey is the story of Jenny Haworth's life-long love affair with Vienna, a personal memoir that pulls back the curtain and reveals the secrets of a city that once considered itself the centre of the world. ...Show more
War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
As soon as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar took action. He circulated a petition that was signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That brave act led to a new law in Russia crimi ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Norman - New Zealand's Lost Leader by Denis Welch
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a visionary government with a clear moral purpose. His work also defined New Zealand as a progressive small state with a deep internationalism which became central to our national identity. When he died, we ...Show more
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks by Ilham Tohti
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incarcerated--whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date--is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a prolific writer, and formerly the host of a we ...Show more
When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
How to find tranquillity in your life, from the author of the million-copy internationally-bestselling The Things You Can See Only When You Slow DownEvery person's life is a journey toward themselves.The School for Broken Hearts, founded by bestselling mega-monk Haemin Sunim, provides a safe and caring ...Show more