Puff Piece by John Safran
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death. The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world ...Show more
The Coffin Confessor by William Edgar
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the man in the coffin had a few things to say.'Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest ...Show more
The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (4th edition) by Robert Graves (ed Grevel Lindop)
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic ...Show more
How We Became Human by Tim Dean
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more
Face: One Square Foot of Skin by Justine Bateman
34.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women’s faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be 'fixed.'Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bat ...Show more
The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism by Hugh Mackay
36.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Generous, erudite, optimistic and candid...Hugh Mackay encourages us to find the best in ourselves and in our society in both good and troubled times. Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country - kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more i ...Show more
This Is the Fire - What I Say to My Friends about Racism by Don Lemon
49.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In this 'vital book for these times' (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only B ...Show more
Family Papers - A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
37.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Named one of the best books of 2019 by The Economist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist.A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and people. --The New York Times Book Review An award-winning historian shares t ...Show more
Facebook - The Inside Story by Steven Levy
26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
One of the Best Technology Books of 2020--Financial Times "Levy's all-access Facebook reflects the reputational swan dive of its subject. . . . The result is evenhanded and devastating."--San Francisco Chronicle " Levy's] evenhanded conclusions are still damning."--Reason " He] doesn't shy from aski ...Show more
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
24.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
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