The Human Swarm - How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall by Mark W. Moffett
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angel ...Show more
The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Picador Books
Tom Wolfe introduces a wide range of journalistic reportage by writers including Truman Capote, Terry Southern, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson.
Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.” Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly i ...Show more
x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
What if we could do the impossible and remove gender from the equation? From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to rev ...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
The Coddling of the American Mind - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The New York Times bestseller Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of mo ...Show more
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
$23.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Lionel Shriver: "We praise too many writers for being “brave,” but with The Strange 'Death of Europe' Douglas Murray put himself in such potentially physical peril that he keeps his itineraries and address under wraps. Compellingly readable and lucidly argued, this is a thoughtful, meticulously resear ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection by Vivek H. Murthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Essential reading' (Atul Gawande) from Obama's Surgeon General on the global loneliness epidemic - and how we can overcome it.
Britain Alone - The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit.'Admirably lucid and measured, as well as studded with sharp pen portraits of the key players, Britain Alone gives us the fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain' ...Show more
Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Introducing...
Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History ('Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender' VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity 'toxic'? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for whom? ...Show more
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by Peter Senge
$31.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
"Presence" is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change--h ...Show more