The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Tom Nichols
31.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
21.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
When We Become Strangers: How Loneliness Leaks into Our Lives, and What We Can Do about It by Maggie Hamilton
36.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
We're more connected, yet lonelier than ever - practical ways to combat the alarming rise of loneliness by bestselling author and social researcher, Maggie Hamilton. Practical solutions to combat social isolation in our families and communities.
Conspiracy Theories: A Compendium of History's Greatest Mysteries and More Recent Cover-Ups by Jamie King
24.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Where did the Coronavirus outbreak originate and was the pandemic predicted? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us? Is the food in ...Show more
Bunker: Building for the End of Times by Garrett, Bradley L.
48.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rap ...Show more
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
70.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Coren Apicella, Washington Post Do you identify yourself by your profession, rather than your family? Do you consider yourself unique? Do you have personal goals? If so, perhaps y ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop. This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls, m ...Show more
Mediocre - The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
37.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Post ...Show more
Transcendence - How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth 'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers Humans are a planet-altering ...Show more
Brutal Truths Surviving in a World of Lies, Taboos and Bullsh#t by Simon Hammond
34.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
After three internationally acclaimed books, Simon unleashes the 'Brutal Truths' about the way society has changed globally.Beyond COVID-19, society is facing a much bigger threat in 2021, accentuated by the pandemic, but evolving through 20 years of 'borrowed beliefs';We are a civilisation in decay thr ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more