Bananas - How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From their nineteenth-century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica to reaching the halls of power in Washington, D.C, from the mass-marketing of the banana as the first fast food, to fostering covert links with the CIA and involvement with a bloody coup in Guatemala, the United Fruit Company pioneere ...Show more
The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-Francois Marmion
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The Number One International bestseller'We need books like this one' - psychologist Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James and Ryan Holiday.Stupidity is all ...Show more
Accidental Gods - On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. How does a man become a God?It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found in an old magazine. It can be a means to absolute power, ...Show more
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Instant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a stellar work by Publishers Weekly From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what ...Show more
How To Do Nothing - Resisting The Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
$35.98 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
IQ EQ DQ - New Intelligence in the AI Age by Yuhyun Park
$35.00 NZD
Category: Futurism
Do you know that 60% of children around the world have experienced at least one cyber-risk such as cyber-bullying, technology addiction, misinformation, online sexual exploitation, and others? The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the digitalization of global society. Cyber-risks among children, dig ...Show more
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A deeply curious and evenhanded report on our national appetites. --The New York TimesIn the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store The miracle of the supermarket has never been more app ...Show more
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The instant Sunday Times Top Ten and New York Times bestseller 'I loved Range' - Malcolm Gladwell 'Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.' - Daniel H. Pink 'So much crucial and revelatory information about performanc ...Show more
The Devil You Know by Gwen Adshead
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From a pioneering psychiatrist and psychotherapist comes The Devil You Know, a perspective-shattering work into the minds of violent criminals which reveals profound consequences for human nature and society at large. As a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, you could say I am a student of evil. ...Show more
The Wizard and the Prophet - Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet by Charles C. Mann
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet'Does the earth's finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann's brilliant book.' Wall Street JournalIn forty years, the population of the Earth wil ...Show more
Policy Making Under Pressure: Rethinking the Policy Process in Aotearoa New Zealand: 2021 by Sonia Mazey Jeremy Richardson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Public policy-making in Aotearoa New Zealand has a patchy track record. In many policy sectors New Zealand performs no worse than other advanced democracies, and in some it is recognised as world leading. But it is clear that the system is under pressure, confronted with an endless conveyor belt of prob ...Show more
Witchcraft (A very short introduction) by Malcolm Gaskill
$24.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all, and everyone knows what a witch is - or do they? From childhood most of us develop a sense of the mysterious, malign person, usually an old woman. Historically, too, we recognize witch-hunting as a feature of pre-modern societies. But why do witches still ...Show more