Once and Future Feminist by Merve Emre
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Boston Review / Forum Ser.
Feminist writers and scholars consider whether technology has made good on its promise to liberate women--sexually, biologically, economically, and politically. In Once and Future Feminist, editor and lead essayist Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both past and pres ...Show more
Sham : How The Gurus Of The Self-Help Movement Make Us Helpless (revised edition 2006) by Steve Salerno
23.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Sham = Self-Help and Actualization Movement - To many it's a godsend, to others a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it's neither - and in fact it's much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the 'Self-Help and Actualization Movement' (fittingly, the wo ...Show more
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. ...Show more
Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From the bestselling author, technology pioneer, and curator of TED Chris Anderson, an inspiring, revelatory book about the urgent and world-changing potential of one of humankind's defining but forgotten impulses- generosity. Perhaps the simplest, most powerful moral question you can ask of your life i ...Show more
Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging by Kate Evans
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit, Feijoa is a sweeping, global tale about the dance between people and plants - how we need each other, how we change each other, and the surprising ways certain species make their way into our imaginations, our stomachs, and our hearts. ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
42.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
38.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a ...Show more
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber
27.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
This is not a book of facts; it's a book of 'facts'. Should you finish it believing we became the planet's dominant species because predators found us too smelly to eat; or that the living bloodline of Christ is a family of Japanese garlic farmers - well, that's on you. Why are we here? Do ghosts exist ...Show more
The Cop Who Fell to Earth by Craig Semple
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
This raw and true account of the life of a tough cop has all the twists and turns and drama of a rattlingly good thriller. When a young eighteen-year-old Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1988, he generally preferred to steer clear of trouble rather than turn and face it. But like ...Show more
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir of the genre of Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division and many more great bands that offered a place of refuge for the misfits of the 80s and ever since. Written by Lol Tol ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism / A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller / Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation "George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today." --Greta Thunberg For the first time in millen ...Show more