Joe Bennett

Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years. How- And can it go on- Has it sold itself to the co...

W hen Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of 'Made in China' underpants in his local New Zealand hypermarket for $8.59, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how are the pants made? And who decides...

You know all those Joe Bennett newspaper columns you loved this year and wish you'd kept? The ones that made you laugh out loud over your breakfast? The ones in which he said just what you'd been thinking - only so much better? The ones that inveighed against jet-skis, praised coffee, took a swipe a...

When Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of 'Made in China' underpants in his local New Zealand hypermarket for $8.59, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how are the pants made? And who decides ...

Meet the Birds of Prey: Oracle, a computer genius; Black Canary, armed with a voice that can shatter stone; and Huntress, a formidable vigilante with something to prove. The new Secret Society of Super-Villains has its own tactical genius, the Calculator - and he's obsessed with discovering Oracle's...

Checkmate are a group of government operatives, superheroes and spies, dedicated to keeping the world safe - even if they operate in darkness! The Outsiders are a team of superheroes operating above the law, bringing justice at any price!When the Outsiders inadvertently caused a nuclear explosion, t...

Twice voted columnist of the year, the "Southland Times" called him a "national treasure". Joe Bennett's sixth collection of columns is written in language so sharp you could stick pigs with it. If you don't like laughing, thinking or seeing the world afresh, don't buy it.

This volume offers a complete and fully illustrated guide to playing guitar. If you have ever been left feeling dazed and confused by the sheer volume and variety of guitar methods to choose from, or simply put off by the amount of text to wade through before you even start playing, then this book o...

Joe Bennett's columns have been published to the highest acclaim throughout the world. This, his eighth collection from Hazard Press, once agin gives the over 10,000 New Zealanders who collect his columns each year the chance to add another volume to the bookcase at home.

Bullshit has always been with us but as a result of the proliferation of media in the last century we are now awash with it, drowning in it. It has become so accepted a part of the human landscape that bullshitters can not only make a living from bullshit and achieve power, prestige and wealth -- th...

When Joe Bennett bought a six-pack of underwear in his local supermarket for $5.60, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how is the underwear made? And who decides on the absorbent qualities ...