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Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Caste: The Lies That Divide us by Isabel Wilkerson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hid ...Show more
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick
$28.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Whom to marry, and when will it happen--these two questions define every woman's existence." So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journal ...Show more
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
$38.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a ...Show more
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work by Tiffany Jewell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation. "In a racist society ...Show more
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funn ...Show more
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours - late ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
$28.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
Towards a Warmer World : What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand's Future (BWB Texts) by Veronika Meduna
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: BWB Texts
2014 was the hottest year since record keeping began back in 1880. July 2015 was recently confirmed as the globe's hottest month ever recorded, both on land and in the oceans. This December a major international meeting, to be held in Paris, seeks a new agreement to address climate change. Against th ...Show more
Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy"--Back cover.
Channel Kindness - Stories of Kindness and Community by Lady Gaga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
