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
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 her ...Show more
The New New Zealand: Facing Demographic Disruption by Paul Spoonley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A BOLD NEW BOOK ON POPULATION TRENDS AND THE NEED TO CONFRONT THEM. In 2030 there may be six million of us. One and a half million of us will live overseas. We will be clustered in Auckland, dependent on migration, and worried about a shortage of workers. We havent planned for this. We need to. This ma ...Show more
Winners Take All - The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a 'win-win' logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten their p ...Show more
Doing our Bit (BWB Texts) by Murdoch Stephens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In 2013, Murdoch Stephens began a campaign to double New Zealands refugee quota. Inspired by his time living in Aleppo, Syria, over the next five years he built the campaign into a mainstream national movement - one that contributed to the first growth in New Zealands refugee quota for thirty years.Doin ...Show more
Lost Connections 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
At Home - A Short History of Private Life Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the r ...Show more
How to Have Feminist Sex - A Fairly Graphic Guide by Flo Perry
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Funny, kind, generous and smart - I could have done with the wisdom of Flo Perry far sooner' Dolly AldertonWe talk about feminism in the workplace and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but women's own patriarchal conditioning can be the hardest enemy to defeat. When it comes to our sex lives, few of u ...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
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. hat joy reveals an ...Show more
Licence to Be Bad - How Economics Corrupted Us by Jonathan Aldred
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'It is going to change the way in which we understand many modern debates about economics, politics, and society' Ha Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Over the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to ou ...Show more
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
$24.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Pelican Bks.
Often associated with chaos or disorder, anarchy defies definition and routinely gets a bad press. And yet from Occupy to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosophical and political movement is as relevant as ever. Contrary to popular perception, different strands of anarchism--from indi ...Show more