POLITICS
michael parenti third world traveller
michaelparenti.org (cached tibet myth: friendly feudalism)
dore gold : tower of babble (how the un has fuelled global chaos)
joshua cooper ramo 'the age of the unthinkable: why the new world disorder constantly surprises us + what we can do about it'
simon carr : the dark art of politics
naomi klein : the shock doctrine (the rise of disaster capitalism)
michael c ruppert : collapse (the crisis in energy & money in a post peak oil world)
alexander king + bertrand schneider : the first global revolution (a report by the council of the 'club of rome')
edward lucas : the new cold war (how the kremlin menaces both russia + the west)
ziauddin sardar + merryl wyn davies : why people hate america
alexander cockburn + ken silverstein : washington babylon
mark prebble : with respect (institute of policy studies)
rodney hide mp : the power to destroy (ftg press)
david p ausubel : the fern + the tiki
BUSINESS
al ries : focus
bob garratt : the fish rots from the head
keith j patel : the master strategist (power, purpose + principle)
nicholas hagger : the syndicate (the story of the coming world government)
nicholas faith : safety in numbers - the mysterious world of swiss banking
r t naylor : hot money (+ the politics of debt)
howard s katz : the paper aristocracy
t r fehrenbach : the gnomes of zurich
loretta napoleoni : rogue economics
john naisbitt : mind set!
guy claxton : hare brain tortoise mind
b h liddell hart : strategy
nicholas christakis + james fowler : connected
mark buchanan : nexus (small worlds + the groundbreaking science of networks)
bill kovach + tom rosenstiel : blur (how to know what's true in the age of information overload)
sam gosling : snoop (what your stuff says about you)
rick levine, christopher locke, doc searls, david weinberger : the cluetrain manifesto
jim harper : identity crisis (how identification is overused + misunderstood)
harry s dent jr : the great depression ahead
bruce jesson : only their purpose is mad
carl w stern + george stalk jnr : perspectives on strategy (from the boston consulting group)
harro von senger : the 36 strategies for business
gary gagliardi : sun tzu's the art of war plus the art of sales
jm tisch : chocolates on the pillow aren't enough
al ries : focus
bob garratt : the fish rots from the head
keith j patel : the master strategist (power, purpose + principle)
nicholas hagger : the syndicate (the story of the coming world government)
nicholas faith : safety in numbers - the mysterious world of swiss banking
r t naylor : hot money (+ the politics of debt)
howard s katz : the paper aristocracy
t r fehrenbach : the gnomes of zurich
loretta napoleoni : rogue economics
john naisbitt : mind set!
guy claxton : hare brain tortoise mind
b h liddell hart : strategy
nicholas christakis + james fowler : connected
mark buchanan : nexus (small worlds + the groundbreaking science of networks)
bill kovach + tom rosenstiel : blur (how to know what's true in the age of information overload)
sam gosling : snoop (what your stuff says about you)
rick levine, christopher locke, doc searls, david weinberger : the cluetrain manifesto
jim harper : identity crisis (how identification is overused + misunderstood)
harry s dent jr : the great depression ahead
bruce jesson : only their purpose is mad
carl w stern + george stalk jnr : perspectives on strategy (from the boston consulting group)
harro von senger : the 36 strategies for business
gary gagliardi : sun tzu's the art of war plus the art of sales
jm tisch : chocolates on the pillow aren't enough
CRIME
misha glenny : mcmafia (crime without frontiers)
david fraser : badlands - nz: a land fit for criminals
ben c vidgen : state secrets / state secrets IIedwin black : ibm + the holocaust
robert i. friedman : red mafiya (how the russian mob has invaded america)pat booth : the mr asia file
james 'diamond jim' shepherd : mr asia - last man standing
ian wishart : an irish legacy (the real danny butler story)
catherine lamour + michel r lamberti : the second opium war
sean o'callaghan : the drug traffic
luca rastello : i am the market
ed. j w e sheptycki : issues in transnational policing
LAW-JUSTICE
peter williams qc : nemesis to prejudice (spoken essays 1996-1999)
peter williams qc : a passion for justice
peter williams qc : judicial misconduct
david hooper : official secrets (the use + abuse of the act)
michael laws : the demon profession
kevin ryan : justice - without fear or favour
christopher harder : through the looking glass
dr anna sandiford : expert witness
bethli wainwright : e-research for nz lawyers
bruce ansley : stoned on duty
miriyana alexander : presumed guilty
donald e dekieffer esq : how lawyers screw their clients
mark h mccormack : the terrible truth about lawyers
SOCIAL-CHILD PROTECTION
lynley hood : a city possessed
richard guilliatt : talk of the devil (repressed memory + the ritual abuse witch-hunt)
misha glenny : mcmafia (crime without frontiers)
david fraser : badlands - nz: a land fit for criminals
ben c vidgen : state secrets / state secrets IIedwin black : ibm + the holocaust
robert i. friedman : red mafiya (how the russian mob has invaded america)pat booth : the mr asia file
james 'diamond jim' shepherd : mr asia - last man standing
ian wishart : an irish legacy (the real danny butler story)
catherine lamour + michel r lamberti : the second opium war
sean o'callaghan : the drug traffic
luca rastello : i am the market
ed. j w e sheptycki : issues in transnational policing
LAW-JUSTICE
peter williams qc : nemesis to prejudice (spoken essays 1996-1999)
peter williams qc : a passion for justice
peter williams qc : judicial misconduct
david hooper : official secrets (the use + abuse of the act)
michael laws : the demon profession
kevin ryan : justice - without fear or favour
christopher harder : through the looking glass
dr anna sandiford : expert witness
bethli wainwright : e-research for nz lawyers
bruce ansley : stoned on duty
miriyana alexander : presumed guilty
donald e dekieffer esq : how lawyers screw their clients
mark h mccormack : the terrible truth about lawyers
SOCIAL-CHILD PROTECTION
lynley hood : a city possessed
richard guilliatt : talk of the devil (repressed memory + the ritual abuse witch-hunt)
alice millar : for your own good
joy bander : a mother's story (the civic creche child sex trial)
mary fielding + jane westaway : accusation (a wife's story)
anna c salter : treating child sex offenders + victims (a practical guide)
julie gregory : sickened (the memoir of a munchausen by proxy childhood)
louise nicholas + philip kitchen : my story
john devine : nobody heard me cry
peter haynes : is that you daddy? (a book about child abuse from a police officer's perspective)
BIO-ECO-HEALTH
dr helen caldicott : new nuclear danger
fred pearce : confessions of an eco-sinner (travels to find where my stuff comes from)
naomi klein author of 'the shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism'
fred pearce : confessions of an eco-sinner (travels to find out where stuff comes from)
marlene burger + chandre goud : secrets + lies (wouter basson + s/afica's chemical + biological warfare programme)
ken alibek + stephen handelman : biohazard
tom mangold + jeff goldberg : plague wars
robert harris + jeremy paxman : a higher form of killing
alexander kouzminov :biological espionage
deborah challinor + elizabeth lancaster : who'll stop the rain? (agent orange + the children of new zealand's vietnam veterans)
john dux + p j young : agent orange (the bitter harvest)
dr gary glum : full disclosureian wishart : air con (the seriously inconvenient truth about global warming)
ed. eveline lubbers : battling big business (countering greenwash,infiltration + other forms of corporate bullying)
richard rhodes : deadly feasts (science + the hunt for answers in the cjd crisis)
walter truett anderson : evolution ain't what it used to be
scott eastham : biotech time-bomb
e.g mcqueen + w.a temple : pesticide peril
meriel watts : the poisoning of new zealand
ed. johnathan eisen : the ge sellout
luke anderson : genetic engineering, food + our environment
dr bruce duncan : the hidden viruses within you
michel abehsera : biological transmutations
simon + jane cotter : eco kiwi
keith woodford : devil in the milk
dr paul curson : how to survive your doctor
f batmanghelidj md : water
j p trowbridge md + morton walker : the yeast syndrome
anita roddick : take it personally
gary matsumoto : vaccine-a
MILITARY
adrian levy + catherine scott-clark : deception
nick turse : the complex (how the military invades our everyday lives)
nick turse : tumblr : tomdispatch
nicky hager : other people's wars
john stockwell : in search of enemies - a cia story
anthony sampson : the arms bazaar (in the 90s - from krupp to saddam)
matthias chang : brainwashed for war - programmed to kill
jeremy scahill : blackwater (the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army)
rohan gunaratna : inside al qaeda
peter l bergen : holy war inc
jean-charles brisand + guillaume dasquie : forbidden truth
bertrand russell : war crimes in vietnam
deborah challinor : grey ghosts
christopher robbins : air america
christopher robbins : the ravens
william e burrows : by any means necessary (america's secret air war)
william blum : rogue state (3rd ed.)
john pynchon holms + tom burke : terrorism
mark thomas : as used on the famous nelson mandela
HUMANITARIAN
julian burnside : watching brief (reflections on human rights, law + justice)
heather tyler : asylum (voices behind the razor wire)
nicky hager + bob burton : secrets + lies
BIO-ECO-HEALTH
dr helen caldicott : new nuclear danger
fred pearce : confessions of an eco-sinner (travels to find where my stuff comes from)
naomi klein author of 'the shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism'
fred pearce : confessions of an eco-sinner (travels to find out where stuff comes from)
marlene burger + chandre goud : secrets + lies (wouter basson + s/afica's chemical + biological warfare programme)
ken alibek + stephen handelman : biohazard
tom mangold + jeff goldberg : plague wars
robert harris + jeremy paxman : a higher form of killing
alexander kouzminov :biological espionage
deborah challinor + elizabeth lancaster : who'll stop the rain? (agent orange + the children of new zealand's vietnam veterans)
john dux + p j young : agent orange (the bitter harvest)
dr gary glum : full disclosureian wishart : air con (the seriously inconvenient truth about global warming)
ed. eveline lubbers : battling big business (countering greenwash,infiltration + other forms of corporate bullying)
richard rhodes : deadly feasts (science + the hunt for answers in the cjd crisis)
walter truett anderson : evolution ain't what it used to be
scott eastham : biotech time-bomb
e.g mcqueen + w.a temple : pesticide peril
meriel watts : the poisoning of new zealand
ed. johnathan eisen : the ge sellout
luke anderson : genetic engineering, food + our environment
dr bruce duncan : the hidden viruses within you
michel abehsera : biological transmutations
simon + jane cotter : eco kiwi
keith woodford : devil in the milk
dr paul curson : how to survive your doctor
f batmanghelidj md : water
j p trowbridge md + morton walker : the yeast syndrome
anita roddick : take it personally
gary matsumoto : vaccine-a
MILITARY
adrian levy + catherine scott-clark : deception
nick turse : the complex (how the military invades our everyday lives)
nick turse : tumblr : tomdispatch
nicky hager : other people's wars
john stockwell : in search of enemies - a cia story
anthony sampson : the arms bazaar (in the 90s - from krupp to saddam)
matthias chang : brainwashed for war - programmed to kill
jeremy scahill : blackwater (the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army)
rohan gunaratna : inside al qaeda
peter l bergen : holy war inc
jean-charles brisand + guillaume dasquie : forbidden truth
bertrand russell : war crimes in vietnam
deborah challinor : grey ghosts
christopher robbins : air america
christopher robbins : the ravens
william e burrows : by any means necessary (america's secret air war)
william blum : rogue state (3rd ed.)
john pynchon holms + tom burke : terrorism
mark thomas : as used on the famous nelson mandela
HUMANITARIAN
julian burnside : watching brief (reflections on human rights, law + justice)
heather tyler : asylum (voices behind the razor wire)
nicky hager + bob burton : secrets + lies
aaron cohen : slavehunter
baroness caroline cox + dr john marks : this immoral trade
steve chalke + cherie blair : stop the traffik
somaly mam : the road of lost innocence
stephen barlay - sex slavery
louise brown : sex slaves
greg campbell : blood diamonds
w stanley mooneyham : sea of heartbreak
kenneth cain, heidei postlewait, andrew thomson : emergency sex
INTEL
stella rimington : open secret
james bamford : body of secrets
steve pratt : duty of care
dominic streatfeild : brainwash (the secret history of mind control)
ronald payne : private spies
brian toohey + william pinwell : oyster (the story of the australian intelligence service)
nicky hager : secret power - nz's role in the international spy network
lance collins + warren reed : plunging point (intelligence failures, cover-ups + consequences)
derrick jensen + george draffan : welcome to the machine
ira winkler : spies among us
abramn shulsky + gary j schmidt : silent warfare
peter wright : spy catcher
james m olsen : fair play
gordon thomas : gideon's spys
andrew wilkie : axis of deceit
richard deacon : a history of the chinese secret service
richard deacon : the silent war (a history of western naval intelligence)
tennent h (pete) bagley : spy wars
ASIA
sun tsu : the art of war
chin-ning chu : the asian mind game
chin-ning chu : thick face black heart
michael backman : asian eclipse (revised ed.)
michael backman : the asian insider
joe studwell : asian godfathers
lynn pan : sons of the yellow emporer
sterling seagrave : lords of the rim
michael dutton : streetlife china
paul elliott : vietnam - conflict + controversy
barry weisberg : ecocide in indochina
shelby tucker : among insurgents (walking through burma)
robert whiting : tokyo underworld
frank robertson : triangle of death
david black : triad takeover
martin booth : the dragon syndicates (the global phenomenon of the triads)
martin booth : the triads (the chinese criminal fraternity)
james dubro : dragons of crime
patrick radden keefe : the snakehead
pasuk phongpaichit + sungsidh piriyarangsan : corruption & democracy in thailand
pasuk phongpaichit + sungsidh piriyarangsan + nualnoi treerat : guns girls gambling ganga (thailand's illegal economy + public policy)
barry sandal : foreign relations
amit gilboa : off the rails in phnom penh
kiwi paramedic in bangkok, marko cunningham - sleeping with the dead
milton osborne : sihanouk
FRAUD
jeffrey robinson : the laundrymen
r t naylor : hot money (+ the politics of debt)
frank w abagnale : the art of the steal
ian wishart : daylight robbery / absolute power / the paradise conspiracy 1 + 2
charles sturt : dirty collars
ken fisher : how to smell a rat (5 signs of financial fraud)
john r talbot : the 86 biggest lies on wall street
tim phillips : knock off (the deadly trade in counterfeit goods)
patricia franklin : profits of deceit
anthony molloy qc : thirty pieces of silver
james ring adams + douglas frantz : a full service bank (how bcci stole billions around the world)
gray eatwell : you can bank on it
mark zepezauer + arthur naiman : take the rich off welfare
GOOD SCIENCE-BAD SCIENCE
stephen w hawking : a brief history of time
jack uldrich + deb newberry : the next big thing is really small (nanotechnology + the future of big business)
gary e schwartz + william l simon : the energy healing experiments
maurice cotterell : terracotta warriors
g curtis, c swisher & r. lewin : java man
anne mctaggart : the field
timothy good : beyond top secret
g f herbert smith : gemstones
TECH-ITSEC
kevin d mitnick : the art of deception
bruce schneier : secrets + lies
ed. douglas thomas + brian d loader : cybercrime
peter szor : virus research + defense
dr k : hackers handbook 3.0
laura j gurak : persuasion + privacy in cyberspace
nicholas carr : the big switch (rewiring the world from edison to google)
lucien x polastron : the great digitization (+ the quest to know everything)
nassim nicholas taleg : fooled by randomness
ALT-MEDIA
andrew fowler : the most dangerous man in the world
various (disinfo.com) : you are being lied to
robert anton wilson : everything is under control
ed. peter phillips + andrew roth : project censored
ed. peter phillips + andrew roth : censored 2008 : top 25 censored stories
humberto fontova : exposing the real che guevara (+ the useful idiots who idolize him)
jill jolliffe : balibo
EMERGENCY-TRAVEL
neil strauss : emergency
robert young pelton : the world's most dangerous places
zeek : the art of shen ku
christina macdonald : medicines of the maori
brooker, cambie + cooper : new zealand medicinal plants
c pierce salguero : a thai herbal
OTHER
robin sharma : the monk who sold his ferrari
don thompson : the $12 million stuffed shark
paul toohey : rocky goes west
steve coll : the bin ladens
rsaa (nz) : ahmed zaoui
gavin menzies : 1421 (the year china discovered the world)
lutz kleveman : the new great game (blood + oil in central asia)
melanie phillips : londonistan (how britain is creating a terror state within)
RESOURCES
dasa book cafe
hard to find bookshop
baroness caroline cox + dr john marks : this immoral trade
steve chalke + cherie blair : stop the traffik
somaly mam : the road of lost innocence
stephen barlay - sex slavery
louise brown : sex slaves
greg campbell : blood diamonds
w stanley mooneyham : sea of heartbreak
kenneth cain, heidei postlewait, andrew thomson : emergency sex
INTEL
stella rimington : open secret
james bamford : body of secrets
steve pratt : duty of care
dominic streatfeild : brainwash (the secret history of mind control)
ronald payne : private spies
brian toohey + william pinwell : oyster (the story of the australian intelligence service)
nicky hager : secret power - nz's role in the international spy network
lance collins + warren reed : plunging point (intelligence failures, cover-ups + consequences)
derrick jensen + george draffan : welcome to the machine
ira winkler : spies among us
abramn shulsky + gary j schmidt : silent warfare
peter wright : spy catcher
james m olsen : fair play
gordon thomas : gideon's spys
andrew wilkie : axis of deceit
richard deacon : a history of the chinese secret service
richard deacon : the silent war (a history of western naval intelligence)
tennent h (pete) bagley : spy wars
ASIA
sun tsu : the art of war
chin-ning chu : the asian mind game
chin-ning chu : thick face black heart
michael backman : asian eclipse (revised ed.)
michael backman : the asian insider
joe studwell : asian godfathers
lynn pan : sons of the yellow emporer
sterling seagrave : lords of the rim
michael dutton : streetlife china
paul elliott : vietnam - conflict + controversy
barry weisberg : ecocide in indochina
shelby tucker : among insurgents (walking through burma)
robert whiting : tokyo underworld
frank robertson : triangle of death
david black : triad takeover
martin booth : the dragon syndicates (the global phenomenon of the triads)
martin booth : the triads (the chinese criminal fraternity)
james dubro : dragons of crime
patrick radden keefe : the snakehead
pasuk phongpaichit + sungsidh piriyarangsan : corruption & democracy in thailand
pasuk phongpaichit + sungsidh piriyarangsan + nualnoi treerat : guns girls gambling ganga (thailand's illegal economy + public policy)
barry sandal : foreign relations
amit gilboa : off the rails in phnom penh
kiwi paramedic in bangkok, marko cunningham - sleeping with the dead
milton osborne : sihanouk
FRAUD
jeffrey robinson : the laundrymen
r t naylor : hot money (+ the politics of debt)
frank w abagnale : the art of the steal
ian wishart : daylight robbery / absolute power / the paradise conspiracy 1 + 2
charles sturt : dirty collars
ken fisher : how to smell a rat (5 signs of financial fraud)
john r talbot : the 86 biggest lies on wall street
tim phillips : knock off (the deadly trade in counterfeit goods)
patricia franklin : profits of deceit
anthony molloy qc : thirty pieces of silver
james ring adams + douglas frantz : a full service bank (how bcci stole billions around the world)
gray eatwell : you can bank on it
mark zepezauer + arthur naiman : take the rich off welfare
GOOD SCIENCE-BAD SCIENCE
stephen w hawking : a brief history of time
jack uldrich + deb newberry : the next big thing is really small (nanotechnology + the future of big business)
gary e schwartz + william l simon : the energy healing experiments
maurice cotterell : terracotta warriors
g curtis, c swisher & r. lewin : java man
anne mctaggart : the field
timothy good : beyond top secret
g f herbert smith : gemstones
TECH-ITSEC
kevin d mitnick : the art of deception
bruce schneier : secrets + lies
ed. douglas thomas + brian d loader : cybercrime
peter szor : virus research + defense
dr k : hackers handbook 3.0
laura j gurak : persuasion + privacy in cyberspace
nicholas carr : the big switch (rewiring the world from edison to google)
lucien x polastron : the great digitization (+ the quest to know everything)
nassim nicholas taleg : fooled by randomness
ALT-MEDIA
andrew fowler : the most dangerous man in the world
various (disinfo.com) : you are being lied to
robert anton wilson : everything is under control
ed. peter phillips + andrew roth : project censored
ed. peter phillips + andrew roth : censored 2008 : top 25 censored stories
humberto fontova : exposing the real che guevara (+ the useful idiots who idolize him)
jill jolliffe : balibo
EMERGENCY-TRAVEL
neil strauss : emergency
robert young pelton : the world's most dangerous places
zeek : the art of shen ku
christina macdonald : medicines of the maori
brooker, cambie + cooper : new zealand medicinal plants
c pierce salguero : a thai herbal
OTHER
robin sharma : the monk who sold his ferrari
don thompson : the $12 million stuffed shark
paul toohey : rocky goes west
steve coll : the bin ladens
rsaa (nz) : ahmed zaoui
gavin menzies : 1421 (the year china discovered the world)
lutz kleveman : the new great game (blood + oil in central asia)
melanie phillips : londonistan (how britain is creating a terror state within)
RESOURCES
dasa book cafe
hard to find bookshop
