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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
Bunker: Building for the End of Times by Garrett, Bradley L.
$48.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rap ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk about Books - The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.
The Ten Equations That Rule the World - And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
They know something you don't know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by mathematicians and what can everyone else learn from them? Their advantage can be reduced to a small number of equations. Ten of them. And, surprisingly, it isn' ...Show more
Skin Deep - Dispelling the Science of Race by Gavin Evans
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Everything you need to know about race (but were afraid to ask). MYTH- Early Europeans were white. REALITY- The first Europeans had dark skin, black, curly hair and blue eyes. MYTH- Between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a 'cognitive revolution' led to the birth of culture in Europe. REALITY- Modern intel ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of he ...Show more
Life 3.0 - Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
$29.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In this authoritative and eye-opening book, Max Tegmark describes and illuminates the recent, path-breaking advances in Artificial Intelligence and how it is poised to overtake human intelligence. How will AI affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has ...Show more
Antibiotic Resistance (BWB Text) by Siouxsie Wiles
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: BWB Texts
In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, mic ...Show more
On Natural Selection (Popular Penguin) by Charles Darwin
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you th ...Show more
Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
$29.00 NZD
Category: History
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ...Show more
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari
$23.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this cris ...Show more
Persuasion - Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter by Lee Hartley Carter
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The secrets to persuading anyone, at work and in life, from a top communication strategist. In the post-fact, deeply divided world we live in, true persuasion is rare. Engaging with people holding differing opinions is rarer still. But for progress to take place, persuasion must happen. Whether it's con ...Show more
