The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$38.00 NZD
Category: Environment
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
The Last Winter: A Search for Snow and the End of Winter by Porter Fox
$35.96 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
As the planet warms due to greenhouse gas emissions, winter as we know it is disappearing. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern ...Show more
Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World by Bill Carter
$26.00 NZD
Category: Finance
A sweeping account of civilization's complete dependence on copper that "is the best sort of journalism: beautifully written, rich in detail, and impossible to ignore" (Sebastian Junger). For most of recorded history, copper has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on m ...Show more
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year - An Economist Book of the Year Now With a New Afterword "A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November.... A magisterial account of the money and violence b ...Show more
Strange Antics - A History of Seduction by Clement Knox
$28.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox reassesses our idea of seduction ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$33.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
$33.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
PRAISE FOR WOLE SOYINKA- You don't see the things the same when you encounter a voice like that - Toni Morrison. He is the best there is today, a poet and a thinker, who knows both how the world works and how the world should work - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A towering figure in world literature, Wole S ...Show more
The Shadow of the Mine - Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson; Huw Beynon
$43.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
The rise and fall of Britain's most important industry No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. Coal was central to the British economy, pow ...Show more
The System - Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how everything online works and who benefits from it. Fascinating, engaging an ...Show more
First Comes Love by Tom Rasmussen
$35.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'I absolutely loved this book. A fascinating, funny and ultimately moving exploration of marriage in the 21st century, voiced flawlessly - each interjection more perfect that the last' Evie WyldIt was one thing to get married when your parents, your neighbours, your community insisted on it, when a sacr ...Show more
Subtract - The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz
$48.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Blending evidence across science and design, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers a revolution in problem-solving: proving why we overlook subtraction, and how we can access its true potential We pile on to-dos" but don't consider "stop-doings." We create incentives for good behavior, but don' ...Show more
Parenting in the Anthropocene by Emily Writes, Jessica Berenton-Shaw, Dr David Galler, Brannavan Gnanalingam et al
$30.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
Humans are changing the world in extremely complex ways, creating a new geological age called the Anthropocene. How do we – as parents, caregivers and as a society – raise our children and dependents in this new world? This book explores ways to ensure the health and wellbeing of the next generations, w ...Show more