Drawing on more than 100 interviews and extensive research, journalists DAVID COHEN and REBECCA KEILLOR track the rise, fall and re-emergence of former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern on to the global stage, just as the United Nations gears up to choose a new secretary-general. With the world on a powderkeg, is Ardern up to the job?In June 2025, Jacinda Ardern’s official memoir “A Different Kind of Power” was released to mixed reviews with a common theme:“...

A must-read for software developers lacking command-line skills, focusing on Linux. It provides transferable command-line proficiency for use in Mac OS, Unix, and Windows with WSLKey FeaturesA practical, no-nonsense guide specifically written for developers (not sysadmins) who need to quickly learn command-line skillsExpand your practical skills and look like a wizard on the command lineBuild practical skills to work effectively with the most c...

**‘Demonstrates how to create enduring value’ – Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock‘For leaders seeking to create outsized impact’ – Ruth Porat, President and CIO of Alphabet and GoogleExpert advice to master your potential, from the founder and CEO of Discovery and Vitality.**Adrian Gore built a company from a single, bold idea into a global financial group serving over 40 million customers across more than forty markets. He didn’t just scale...

This collection arose out of a 2019 conference to commemorate the completion of the fourteen- volume Correspondence of James K. Polk. Its scholarship—which pays tribute to the Polk Project itself, as well as to the controversial nature of the Polk legacy—will result in a significant reinterpretation of the eleventh US president.Contributors include John F. Polk, who examines the ways history has mischaracterized almost the entire Polk family tree, and Kelly Houston Jones, who inves...

In these ten offbeat stories, Christians, Jews, and skeptics stumble through spiritual detours, crises, and comic missteps.· A college student battling substance abuse finds Jesus after being swindled in a drug deal· A suburban husband and father turns his daughter’s Barbie into a Voodoo doll as he slides into evil· A trivia champion hooks up with a doomed young woman, leading to a hard collision with the things that really matterSome of these characters get...

From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet.A public memorial's name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two attention-seeking activists campaign against exclusionary policies adopted by the gift shop at a suburban shopping mall. A customer service representative becomes obsessed with a colleague who has worked from home for so long, nobody in the company ...

The Wars of the Roses saw a series of bloody battles during one of the most turbulent periods of English history. The houses of Lancaster and York fought for control of the crown, devastating the nobility and bringing an end to the illustrious Plantagenet dynasty. Starting with an overview of the politics and events that culminated in the wars, this new history focuses on the seventeen battles that took place around the country between 1455 and 1487. It considers the causes, course and res...

"I wish I had not had to write this book because then my lovely son Reuben would still be alive," says David Cohen. "He was adorable, formidably intelligent, a loving son, a loving brother. He died far too young. He had the bad luck to have two grandparents who had addictive personalities. His efforts to resist the lure of drugs failed. And so did I."The Book of My Son Reuben is a personal account of how psychologist David Cohen coped – and did not cope – with the death of his son,...

The story of Freud's involvement with cocaine and how it affected research long after he died... The book tells of a number of drug related tragedies Freud was involved in including the death of Ernest Fleischl and that of the less well known Otto Gross who was a good analyst, a cocaine addict and has advanced ideas about sex which led him to founding an orgiastic commune in Italy. Freud devotees will be unhappy with the book because it depicts their hero as all too human but it is a balan...

A self-taught son of Irish immigrants, devout Catholic, King Country farmer and farming lobbyist, Jim Bolger entered New Zealand political life in the 1970s. He was a flinty Minister of Labour under Robert Muldoon and Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997. As ambassador to Washington, he helped create warmer relations with the United States. In recent years, he has chaired boards, has been the chancellor of the University of Waikato and marked more than a half-century of marriage to Joan. Never...

Inspecting Psychology takes a sleuth’s magnifying glass to the interplay between psychology, psychiatry and detective fiction to provide a unique examination of the history of psychology. As psychology evolved over the centuries, so did crime writing. This book looks at how the psychological movements of the time influenced classic authors from Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle to Dorothy Sayers and Georges Simenon, to reveal an enduring connection between psychology and the ...

How do we get from helpless baby to knowing teenager?What impact do television, computers and iPads, the internet, video games and evolving technology have on the way children's minds develop?Is cognition a question of learning and environment or of heredity?How we learn to think, perceive, remember, talk, reason and learn is a central topic in psychology - and one that sees constant new research. In this very readable book, Davi...