Himalaya - A Human History HB by Ed Douglas
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains. Spanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya is a soaring account of resilience and conquest, discovery ...Show more
The Spirit Level - Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do ...Show more
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
$20.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
"Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."--Lydia Davis In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals A ...Show more
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Penguin Classics
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and ...Show more
The Unsettling of Europe by Peter Gatrell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize 2020 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most challenging issues in modern Europe deserves to be widely read.' - Ian Kershaw Migrants have stood at the he ...Show more
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril.Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking i ...Show more
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Arena Books
The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushin ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$28.00 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
Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
$33.00 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
Calling Bullshit - The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T Bergstrom; Jevin D West
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act. Based on their popular, eponymous, course at the University of Washington, ...Show more
This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation. "In a racist society ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more