Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka by Dick Scott
$45.00 NZD
Category: Te ao Māori
Second hand. Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a stru ...Show more
Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins by Karl Marx
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Sentinels of the Sea : A Miscellany of Lighthouses Past by R. G. Grant
$45.00 NZD
Category: Lighthouses
Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity's battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves, Sentinels of the Sea describes the engineering genius that allowed their construction on even the smal ...Show more
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more