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 share ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'A master of persuasion.' Forbes 'This book blew my mind.' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the ...Show more
Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it by Richard V. Reeves
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects: maths, reading and science In the US, the wages of most men are lower today than they were in 1979, while women’s wages have risen across the board In the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45 Boys are f ...Show more
The China Tightrope - Navigating New Zealand's Relationship with a World Superpower by Sam Sachdeva
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
An incisive analysis of the flashpoints of the New Zealand-China relationship. As foreign affairs minister Nanaia Mahuta has cautioned, we are moving beyond a 'relationship of firsts' into new territory – and the terrain is more treacherous than ever. The China Tightrope offers unique analysis and ins ...Show more
Fear - New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists by Byron C Clark
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
This must-read new book maps New Zealand's alt-right underworld and unearths the roots of the occupation that ended in a violent protest on the grounds of Parliament. Speaking after the chaos of the protest that stopped the nation, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a press conference, 'One day, it wil ...Show more
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$33.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are inherent ...Show more
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and their Hidden Toll of Inequality by Eyal Press
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Book of the Year 'This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work' Michael J. Sandel 'A scathing and thoughtful book about labor and princi ...Show more
50 Years of Emmerdale - The Official Story of TV's Most Iconic Rural Drama by ITV Ventures Ltd; Tom Parfitt
$60.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Everything you need to know about Britain's most iconic rural drama can be found in this beautifully designed and fact-filled book. Celebrating 50 years since the show's creation, this book is packed with history, engrossing features, long lost imagery, and plenty of behind-the-scenes detail. Each char ...Show more
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal a ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World: Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (HB) by Yuval Noah Harari
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one o ...Show more
Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su; Christopher Jackson (Contribution by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Winner of the Mathematics Association of America's 2021 Euler Book Prize, this is an inclusive vision of mathematics--its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish"This is perhaps the most important mathematics book of our time. Francis Su shows mathematics is an exp ...Show more