How to Sleep by Rafael Pelayo
$50.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
"Easy to read and comprehensive. This book offers real practical guidance." --Matthew Walker, PhD, bestselling author of Why We Sleep Anyone having trouble sleeping has heard all the old "sleep hygiene" rules: Don't drink caffeine after 2:00 p.m., use the bedroom only for sleeping, put down your scr ...Show more
Property - The Myth That Built the World by Rowan Moore
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of ...Show more
The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
$65.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A new way of thinking about cancel culture and the much-needed antidote for our dangerous and divisive times Cancel culture isn't just a moral panic- it erodes our ability to argue productively, listen generously and to be civil when we disagree. Whether on university campuses, in the workplace or on s ...Show more
Pan: The Great God's Modern Return by Paul Robichaud
$34.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of the mischievous--and culturally immortal--god Pan, now in paperback. Pan--he of the cloven hoof and lustful grin, beckoning through the trees. From classical myth to modern literature, film, and music, th ...Show more
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci (Contribution by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Thanks to social media, protests grow rapidly-but they often face steep hurdles when attempting to achieve lasting change. Zeynep Tufekci, a global protest observer and participant, offers essential insights into the future of governance and social change.
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION ON BRITAIN’S RESPONSE TO THE UKRAINE CRISIS ‘Shockingly timely’ Mail on Sunday ‘A savage analysis of Britain’s soul. As essential as Orwell at his best’ Peter Pomerantsev ‘Horribly brilliant’ James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the ...Show more
The Modern Myths - Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball
$43.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as s ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky Edward S Herman
$36.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals ...Show more
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy. It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be nice, but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy cul ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinge ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$42.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared ...Show more