The Interest - How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer.In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British col ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more
Morbid Symptoms - An Anatomy of a World in Crisis by Donald Sassoon
$43.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A health check on our corrupt and broken political system by one of our finest historians The deadly coronavirus spread across societies already riddled with political ills: rampant xenophobia and corruption, privatisation run amok, Brexiteer vainglory of 'a global Britain', a Euroland dominated by self ...Show more
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cur ...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 intellige ...Show more
Blockchain Chicken Farm - And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: FSG Originals X Logic Ser.
In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that ...Show more
Still Counting - Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-Making (BWB Texts) by Marilyn Waring
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: BWB Texts
30 years ago, Marilyn Waring's ground-breaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women's unpaid work. Counting for Nothing became a phenomenon: it was read and discussed around the world, and ev ...Show more
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearIn his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues - sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplac ...Show more
A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
$19.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, bestselling writer Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. Traveling with her newly minted Irish passport and alive to the productive ramblings of travel, Solnit describes the layers of history, pe ...Show more
Less is MoreHow Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
$0.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
______________________'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut Economics______________________The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological col ...Show more
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times).When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.We live in a world of influence operations run amok, w ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more