When Darkness Stays: Hohepa Kereopa and a Tuhoe Oral History by Paul Moon
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
This extraordinary book – unsettling, harrowing, and ultimately redemptive – is based on the time the author spent with the Tūhoe tohunga, Hōhepa Kereopa. It plunges deep into a cultural landscape that has almost vanished, bringing to light insights that are enriching and sometimes shocking. The work ...Show more
The Next Great Migration - The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Rich with eclectic research and on-the-ground reporting, Shah's book presents us with a dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific histor ...Show more
Humans by Brandon Stanton
$49.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton's Humans is a book that connects readers as global citizens at a time when erecting more borders is the order of the day. It shows us the entire world, one story at a time. After five years of travelling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the wor ...Show more
Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community by Born This Way Foundation Reporters with Lady Gaga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Lady Gaga
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB Texts) by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
"Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy"--Back cover.
A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions by Philippa Waring
$26.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A beautifully-packaged, fun A to Z of good omens, inauspicious signs, their origins and meanings.
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people by Michael Wood
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential for reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.China is the oldest livi ...Show more
The Future of Difference - Beyond the Toxic Entanglement of Racism, Sexism and Feminism by Sabine Hark; Paula-Irene Villa; Sophie Anne Lewis (Translator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The Future of Difference examines the way contemporary regimes of power engage in the violent production of difference. In this moment, the logic of 'other and rule' thoroughly permeates the social and the political; our contemporary condition is increasingly premised on endless subtle hierarchical dist ...Show more
The Warmth of Other Suns - The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS C ...Show more
Buddhist on Death Row by David Sheff
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places. Jarvis Jay Masters's early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was filled with crack, alcohol, physical abuse, and men who paid his ...Show more
The Leaf Supply Guide to Creating Your Indoor Jungle by Lauren Camilleri, Sophia Kaplan
$60.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
This book is a luxurious guide to creating the very densest of jungles in your living room. It's time to finally turn that thumb green. With this stunningly photographed greenery guide, anyone can master the art of making your living room thrive. When done correctly, curating any decent houseplant can b ...Show more
Leaf Supply: A guide to keeping happy house plants by Lauren Camilleri, Sophia Kaplan
$60.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
A beautiful and practical book on choosing and caring for over 100 easy-to-find houseplants, as well as inspiring plant styling advice and much more.Fresh flowers are great--everyone loves receiving them. But inevitably they're already on the way out the door (and into the trash) by the time they arrive ...Show more