The Study of Living Control Systems - A Guide to Doing Research on Purpose by Richard S. Marken
$60.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
This book is a guide to doing a new kind of psychological research that focuses on the purposes rather than the causes of behavior. The research methods described here are based on a theory of behaviour called Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) that views organisms as purposeful rather than mechanical syst ...Show more
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
$32.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020! Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolit ...Show more
There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk
$33.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'In the old days, anyone wanting to understand the world read the Bible. Anyone wanting to understand the world today should read this book.' Arjan Lubach' This is even better than John le Carre, because it's true.' Matthijs van Nieuwkerk Summer 2017- computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NH ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$35.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
‘I’d wanted to remember why it was we swam in the first place – to remember the pleasure of immersing in an element other than air.’ Ingrid Horrocks had few aspirations to swimming mastery, but she had always loved being in the water. She set out on a solo swimming journey, then abandoned it for a diffe ...Show more
Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman
$39.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman, the co-author of the million-copy bestseller Nudge Cass Sunstein, and the eminent professor and writer on strategic thinking Olivier Sibony, a new book about how to make better decisions. We make thousands of decis ...Show more
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Recognize and Overcome Behaviors for a Healthier, Happier You by Jayme Albin, Eileen Bailey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Conscious Care Guides
Improve your outcomes by adjusting your thinking and changing your behavior Did you know you have the ability to change your thinking and control your actions from the inside out? Whether you suffer from an anxiety disorder or OCD, you struggle with diet or substance abuse, or you're simply unhappy wit ...Show more
The Alarmist - Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Alarmist (pre-2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic. Alarmist (post-2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere. His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it’s critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist ...Show more
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything by Mauro F. Guillén
$55.09 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A groundbreaking analysis of the fundamental demographic, economic and technological trends rapidly remaking the world - and now accelerating under the global impact of COVID-19.Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbe ...Show more
On Eating Meat: The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Truth About Production and Should We Eat It?
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
CHEMISTRY OF FRAGRANCE by Charles S. Sell (Editor)
$69.92 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Issn Ser.
Ever wondered how perfumes are developed? Or why different scents appeal to different people? The Chemistry of Fragrances 2nd Edition offers answers to these questions, providing a fascinating insight into the perfume industry, from the conception of an idea to the finished product. It discusses the tec ...Show more
Going Dark - The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Engaging and visceral ... Reads like a thriller' Financial Times 'Riveting and often deeply disturbing ... A punch to the stomach' Sunday Times 'Ebner has done some gutsy, thought-provoking research' Sunday Telegraph 'Fascinating and important' Spectator By day, Julia Ebner ...Show more
The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$26.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"New edition, fully updated and expanded In a climate when iconoclasm is the smartest intellectual stance - whether against bankers, traders, politicians, the energy industry, or journalists - one of today's most prominent rabble-rousers gives his quick-witted and snappy guide to questioning the status ...Show more