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On Eating Meat - The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter To My Children by Patrick Hutchinson
$23.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and future generations.' On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was photographed carrying a white injured man to safety during a ...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 Angel ...Show more
The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Picador Books
Tom Wolfe introduces a wide range of journalistic reportage by writers including Truman Capote, Terry Southern, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson.
Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.” Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildl ...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
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The New York Times bestseller Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year 'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial Times Have good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence ...Show more
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
$23.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Lionel Shriver: "We praise too many writers for being “brave,” but with The Strange 'Death of Europe' Douglas Murray put himself in such potentially physical peril that he keeps his itineraries and address under wraps. Compellingly readable and lucidly argued, this is a thoughtful, meticulously resear ...Show more
Together - Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection by Vivek H. Murthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Essential reading' (Atul Gawande) from Obama's Surgeon General on the global loneliness epidemic - and how we can overcome it.
Gender: a Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Introducing...
Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History('Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender' VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity 'toxic'? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for w ...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
Blockchain Chicken Farm - And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: FSG Originals X Logic Ser.
In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that ...Show more
