Towards a Grammar of Race In Aotearoa New Zealand by Anisha Sankar (ed.); Lana Lopesi (ed.); Arcia Tecun (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers and activists. For these authors, attempts to confront racism and racial violence often stall against a failure to see how power works through race, across our modern social worlds. ...Show more
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana . . . and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful ...Show more
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women's exercise culture--from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda--and how women have parlayed physical strength into other forms of power. For American women today, working out is as accepted as it is expe ...Show more
Accidental Gods - On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. How does a man become a God?It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found in an old magazine. It can be a means to absolute power, ...Show more
IQ EQ DQ - New Intelligence in the AI Age by Yuhyun Park
$35.00 NZD
Category: Futurism
Do you know that 60% of children around the world have experienced at least one cyber-risk such as cyber-bullying, technology addiction, misinformation, online sexual exploitation, and others? The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the digitalization of global society. Cyber-risks among children, dig ...Show more
Testosterone - The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Through riveting personal stories and the latest research, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven shows how testosterone drives the behaviour of the sexes apart and how understanding the science behind this hormone is empowering for all.'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and poli ...Show more
Road People of Aotearoa - House-Truck Journeys 1978-1984 by Paul Gilbert
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
A historic photo-essay by the late Paul C. Gilbert, this book chronicles the early days of the New Zealand phenomenon of DIY house trucks, which appeared on the roads around the mid-1970s as part of an alternative lifestyle movement. The house-truckers were drawn to the alternative life and music festiv ...Show more
The Handshake - A Gripping History by Ella Al-Shamahi
$23.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history. So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and ...Show more
Brilliant Maps: An Atlas for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
$33.00 NZD
Category: Reference
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas. WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM HARFORD Which nations have North Korean embassies? Which region has the highest number of death metal bands per capita? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the 'wron ...Show more
Break the Internet: In Pursuit of Influence by Olivia Yallop
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Old media is over. The internet reigns. And in today's attention economy, influencers are kings. But who are they ... and how do you become one? Break the Internet takes a deep dive into the influencer industry, tracing its evolution from blogging and legacy social media such as Tumblr to today's world ...Show more
Conquistadores: A New History by Fernando Cervantes
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends a ...Show more
Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament by Margaret Wilson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an unlikely law student in the 1960s in a class with a few other women, and an emerging socialist feminist who read radical texts and attended women’s conventio ...Show more