A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a timely and illuminating history of personal transportation, and how it has transformed the world we live in.Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the car a ...Show more
Remember - The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
$38.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice. Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of t ...Show more
The Alarmist - Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Alarmist (pre-2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic. Alarmist (post-2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere. His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it’s critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist ...Show more
Good To Great by Jim Collins
$60.00 NZD
Category: Business
"Built to Last was a phenomenal success- 'It is a fair assumption that as the seminal importance of this audiobook begins to permeate the upper echelons of business and business schools...Collins and Porras will emerge as the gurus to watch over the next decade.' The Director.Good to Great explores a wh ...Show more
She Is Not Your Rehab: One Man's Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired by Matt Brown
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Cycles repeat until one person has the courage to say, 'This stops with me.' At My Fathers Barbers, Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers men a haircut with a difference - a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. From his barbershop chair, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Ze ...Show more
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
$37.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he ...Show more
The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$26.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"New edition, fully updated and expanded In a climate when iconoclasm is the smartest intellectual stance - whether against bankers, traders, politicians, the energy industry, or journalists - one of today's most prominent rabble-rousers gives his quick-witted and snappy guide to questioning the status ...Show more
Why First-borns Rule the World and Later-borns Want to Change It: Revised and updated by Michael Grose
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
There are many factors affecting a child's personality and the adult they become, but the least understood is birth order. Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different perso ...Show more
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men - A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then ther ...Show more
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone's James Af ...Show more
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter To My Children by Patrick Hutchinson
$23.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and future generations.' On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was photographed carrying a white injured man to safety during a ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more