Okay Boomer: New Zealand in the Swinging Sixties by Ian Chapman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
OK Boomer! New Zealand in the Swinging Sixties looks at Politics, Sport, Wining & Dining, fashion, night life and everything 60s in a highly illustrated format. Based on the hugely successful Weekly News titles published by Moa back in the early 90's. This title will take us on a nostalgic trip down ...Show more
The Darker Angels of Our Nature - Refuting the Pinker Theory of History and Violence by Philip Dwyer (Editor); Mark Micale (Editor)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading ...Show more
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
$25.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
How activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity, and why this harms everybody.BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
$48.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
Do Something for Nothing - Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, Through the Simple Act of a Haircut by Joshua Coombes
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Through the simple act of a hair cut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. "Coombes is a hairdresser, and he believes that small acts of love can make a big impact." --Morgan Freeman, in The Sto ...Show more
Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World by Bill Carter
$26.00 NZD
Category: Finance
A sweeping account of civilization's complete dependence on copper that "is the best sort of journalism: beautifully written, rich in detail, and impossible to ignore" (Sebastian Junger). For most of recorded history, copper has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on m ...Show more
Wandering in Strange Lands - A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year "One of the smartest young writers of her generation."--Book Riot Now in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author, comes Morgan Jerkins' powerful story of her journey to understand her northe ...Show more
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Yuval Noah Harari
$48.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon. When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return? In Th ...Show more
Strange Antics - A History of Seduction by Clement Knox
$28.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox reassesses our idea of seduction ...Show more
Parenting in the Anthropocene by Emily Writes, Jessica Berenton-Shaw, Dr David Galler, Brannavan Gnanalingam et al
$30.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
Humans are changing the world in extremely complex ways, creating a new geological age called the Anthropocene. How do we – as parents, caregivers and as a society – raise our children and dependents in this new world? This book explores ways to ensure the health and wellbeing of the next generations, w ...Show more
The Architect and the Artists - Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble - The Collaborative Projects 1965-1979 by Bridget Hackshaw
$65.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on 12 New Zealand buildings - from churches to school halls. Drawing ...Show more
The Brumby Wars: The battle for the soul of Australia by Anthony Sharwood
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
It's not just a war over horses. It's a battle for the soul of Australia. This is a book about the intense culture war raging around Australia's wild horses, known as brumbies. It pits a vision of the legendary Man from Snowy River and the iconic ANZAC Light Horse against the spectre of ecosystems destr ...Show more