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Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
$29.00 NZD
Category: History
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ...Show more
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari
$23.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this cris ...Show more
People of New Zealand by Sam Moore
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Who are the People of New Zealand in the 21st Century? This diverse bunch of characters is easily recognisable and hilariously familiar.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' o Jordan B. Peterson '(Murray's) latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' o Richar ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of he ...Show more
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
$22.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers.We need a new movement. ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
Still Counting: Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-making (BWB Texts) by Marilyn Waring
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
30 years ago, Marilyn Waring's ground-breaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women's unpaid work. Counting for Nothing became a phenomenon: it was read and discussed around the world, and ev ...Show more
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go w ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones 'Thought-provoking and funny' The Times Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows ...Show more
Antibiotic Resistance (BWB Text) by Siouxsie Wiles
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: BWB Texts
In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, mic ...Show more
