Antibiotic Resistance - The end of modern medicine? (BWB Texts) 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
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.
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
Sh't Towns of New Zealand - Number Two by Rick Furphy; Geoff Rissole
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
More laid-back Kiwi humour from the team that devised the bestselling Sh*t Towns of New Zealand.
The Broken Estate - Journalism and democracy in a post-truth world (BWB Texts) by Mel Bunce
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
"It is easy to look at the extremity of `post truth' politics in the US and conclude that we must be doing something ok in New Zealand. But in many ways, the foundations of our media system are in worse shape." In the age of Trump, fake news and celebrity headlines, it is easy to despair about the futur ...Show more
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins by Edward de Bono
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.Your success in business depends on how you think. "The main difficulty of thinking is ...Show more
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
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 wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he c ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...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 movemen ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse 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
Atomic Habits by James Clear
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A revolutionary system to get 1 per cent better every day. People think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions - doing two p ...Show more
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more