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Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Bunker: Building for the End of Times by Garrett, Bradley L.
$48.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rap ...Show more
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
The Ten Equations That Rule the World - And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
They know something you don't know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by mathematicians and what can everyone else learn from them? Their advantage can be reduced to a small number of equations. Ten of them. And, surprisingly, it isn' ...Show more
The Human Swarm - How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall by Mark W. Moffett
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los An ...Show more
Skin Deep - Dispelling the Science of Race by Gavin Evans
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Everything you need to know about race (but were afraid to ask). MYTH- Early Europeans were white. REALITY- The first Europeans had dark skin, black, curly hair and blue eyes. MYTH- Between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a 'cognitive revolution' led to the birth of culture in Europe. REALITY- Modern intel ...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.
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
All of This Is for You by Ruby Jones
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In this new book, celebrated artist Ruby Jones shares dozens of luminous, heartfelt, hand-lettered artworks and messages. Life can be a bit overwhelming sometimes, but Ruby's witty, compassionate, beautifully observed drawings never fail to bring a smile of recognition, while her practical words of advi ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk about Books - The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.
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
