How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason by Joanna Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Wokeness has conquered our institutions. The worlds of politics, academia and even corporate capitalism now bend the knee to the new orthodoxies around gender, racism and identity. How Woke Won explores the intellectual roots of wokeness and how this movement, which poses as radical and left-wing, came ...Show more
Hooked - How We Became Addicted to Processed Food by Michael Moss
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a "gripping" (The Wall Street Journal) exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over pu ...Show more
China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . . . Combined with this linguistic skill, Dikutter has a writer's gift' EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake ...Show more
Blue Blood - The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis by Andrea Vance
$38.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Beginning with the shock resignation of John Key, Blue Blood reveals the reasons behind one of the most dramatic falls in popularity in New Zealand's political history and tells the full story of how the National Party went to war with itself. Informed by campaign emails and internal party communication ...Show more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Imagine a world where… Your phone is too big for your hand Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplac ...Show more
The Way We Eat Now - How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World by Bee Wilson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
We never snacked like this and we never binged like this. We never had so many superfoods, or so many chips. We were never quite so confused about food, and what it actually is. This is a book about the good, the terrible and the avocado toast. A riveting exploration of the hidden forces behind what we ...Show more
Astral Projection for Beginners by Edain McCoy
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Visit a realm in which time and space have no meaning--the astral realm. Written for beginners, this friendly guide presents step-by-step instructions for six easy and effective astral projection techniques. Travel to different times and eras, visit with departed loved ones, and explore different astra ...Show more
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality by Oded Galor
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A grand unifying theory of human flourishing and inequality from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkersA bold retelling of the entire human story from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkersWhat causes living standards to rise?Why are some countries so much richer than others?How might all humans thriv ...Show more
Beyond These Shores - Aotearoa and the World (BWB Texts) by Nina Hall
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: BWB Texts
In recent years, more people are calling for an independent, values-based foreign policy and parties of all political stripes are looking for new ideas to achieve that. This book brings together a diverse group of New Zealanders to outline their visions for New Zealands role in the world. It sparks a co ...Show more
Field Work - What Land Does to People and What People Do to Land by Bella Bathurst
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?
Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze by Barbara Glowczewski
$83.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. She shows that the ways Aboriginal people actualise virtualities of their Dreaming space-time into collective networks of ritualised pla ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
$27.00 NZD
Category: Geography
Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has.In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a ...Show more