Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
$8.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Nation Bks. | Reading Level: good
Essays question the consensus view of the causes behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, and examine the erosion of American civil liberties as a result of the war on terrorism.
Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam by Amina Wadud
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
In this engaging study, Dr Amina Wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, its textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements. Beginning with her own place in the effort for greater justice for women in Islam, Wadud goes on ...Show more
Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality by Martin S. Weinberg; Colin J. Williams; Douglas W. Pryor
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good
For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious--and potentially illuminating--variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of ...Show more
The Post - American World by Fareed Zakaria
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the Un ...Show more
Conversations with Lew Binford: Drafting the New Archaeology by Jeremy A. Sabloff
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Meatanomics by Simon Robinson David
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
Few consumers are aware of the economic forces behind the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. Yet omnivore and herbivore alike, the forces of meatonomics affect us in many ways. Most importantly, we've lost the ability to decide for ourselves what - and how much - to eat. Those decisions are made ...Show more
The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations by Lee Smith
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America's future success in the region. Seeking the motivation behind the September 11 attacks, Smith moved to Cairo, where he discovered that the ...Show more
Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations: Selected Essays by J. R. Miller
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Heritage Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller. The collection, comprising pieces that were written over a period spanning nearly two decades, deals with the ev ...Show more
The Peace of Europe, the Fruits of Solitude and Other Writings by William Penn
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Everyman Ser. | Reading Level: good
Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.
German Question-Jewish Question: Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner by Paul Lawrence Rose
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
In this compelling narrative of antisemitism in German thought, Paul Rose proposes a fresh view of the topic. Beginning with an examination of the attitudes of Martin Luther, he challenges distinctions between theologically derived (medieval) and secular, "racial" (modern) antisemitism, arguing that the ...Show more
Haider, Jelinek, and the Austrian Culture Wars by Jay Julian Rosellini
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Austria, a small country that was once part of a great empire, rarely makes an appearance in the US media. In the past few decades, only Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), the former Secretary General of the UN accused of war crimes, J rg Haider (1950-2008), the populist politician associated with the rise of t ...Show more
iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming It's Hold On Us by Larry Rosen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good
iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders - such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technolog ...Show more