Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living by Dimitris Xygalatas
27.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A radical anthropologist takes readers on a journey through the shadow side of human civilisation SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE From fire walking to funerals, the hidden science of the rituals that give life meaning Ritual is perhaps the oldest, and certainly the most enigmatic, th ...Show more
Co-Intelligence - Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
40.00 NZD
Category: Technology
Consumer AI arrived with a bang in November 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT. Within four months it hit one billion users, and media pundits were forecasting the end of jobs and a knowledge revolution. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT really meant - after millions of ...Show more
The Collaboration Book: 41 Ideas for Working Better Together by Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschappeler
27.99 NZD
Category: Business
The best teamwork advice brought together by the bestselling team behind The Decision Book
The Great Post Office Scandal - The Fight to Expose a Multimillion Pound IT Disaster Which Put Innocent People in Jail by Nick Wallis
49.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
The extraordinary story behind the major ITV drama seriesIn April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Subpostmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. They were just a few of the hundreds who had been prosecuted by the Post Office using IT ...Show more
Roget's International Thesaurus [8th Edition] by Barbara Ann Kipfer
49.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries & Atlases
A revised and updated 8th edition of the world's bestselling thesaurus--the only thesaurus based on Peter Roget's original reference classic of 1852--now in paperback. A classic reference book that has been used by millions all over the world, Roget's International Thesaurus® is the product of more t ...Show more
The Big Con - How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato; Rosie Collington
30.00 NZD
Category: Economics
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, ...Show more
The Coming Wave: A.I., Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
40.00 NZD
Category: Technology
Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologie ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
38.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that w ...Show more
The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking (New Edition) by Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschappeler
27.99 NZD
Category: Business
Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? How can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently?This updated edition of the international bestseller distils into a single volume the fifty best decision-making models used on MBA courses, and elsewhere, that will help ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
38.99 NZD
Category: Economics
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris Joh ...Show more