Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci (Contribution by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Thanks to social media, protests grow rapidly-but they often face steep hurdles when attempting to achieve lasting change. Zeynep Tufekci, a global protest observer and participant, offers essential insights into the future of governance and social change.
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
$32.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION ON BRITAIN’S RESPONSE TO THE UKRAINE CRISIS ‘Shockingly timely’ Mail on Sunday ‘A savage analysis of Britain’s soul. As essential as Orwell at his best’ Peter Pomerantsev ‘Horribly brilliant’ James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the ...Show more
The Modern Myths - Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball
$43.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as s ...Show more
Who Owns the Moon? : In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
$39.00 NZD
Category: Geography
Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Reference
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals. The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' - Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' ...Show more
Oppositions - Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths by Manil Suri
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the B ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky Edward S Herman
$36.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals ...Show more
A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World by González Macías
$50.00 NZD
Category: Lighthouses
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. Yet while that way of life fades away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we s ...Show more
Little People, Big Feelings by Gen Muir
$40.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
Parenting educator and mum-of-four Gen Muir has helped thousands of families dealing with strong emotions and challenging behaviour in young kids.<br><br>Fussy eating, bedtime battles, school refusal, public meltdowns, sibling rivalry? Gen shows you how to work with your child through these ...Show more