Why First-borns Rule the World and Later-borns Want to Change It: Revised and updated by Michael Grose
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
There are many factors affecting a child's personality and the adult they become, but the least understood is birth order. Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different perso ...Show more
A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever by Cal Newport
$37.00 NZD
Category: Business
Constant communication has become part of the way we work as we check our emails every 5.4 minutes. But at what expense?Bestselling author Cal Newport argues that this steady flow of distractions disrupts us from achieving any meaningful work, causes us undue stress and is costing businesses millions in ...Show more
Change by Damon Centola
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
This is a book about how change happens - how ideas spread successfully, and why sometimes they fail. We are living in a world of strong opinions that feels more divided every day. Why is that? Much of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling books like Blink and Nudge who paint a com ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
10 Rules for Talking - An Expert's Guide to Mastering Difficult Conversations by Tim Harkness
$24.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A top psychologist's guide to resolving conflict at work, at home and in the public sphere.
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
$33.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
The Trick - Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can't by William Leith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Some people can make money. Other people can't. It's a thought that makes William Leith wake up in a cold sweat. He doesn't know why it makes him feel anxious. After all, money isn't real. We created it. Humans did. It's our masterpiece. But the desire for it is killing us. It is this dilemma that sets ...Show more
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology by Frances Larson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The extraordinary true story of five women who met in Oxford at the dawn of the 20th century, and set out to explore the furthest reaches of the known world In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma in Anthropology. Though their cir ...Show more
An Economic History of the English Garden by FLOUD RODERICK
$30.00 NZD
Category: Home and Garden
At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop making, improving and dreaming of gardens. Yet in all the thousands of books about them, this is the first to address seriously the question of how much gardens and gardening have cost, and to work out the pl ...Show more
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter To My Children by Patrick Hutchinson
$23.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and future generations.' On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was photographed carrying a white injured man to safety during a ...Show more
Living While Black: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma by Guilaine Kinouani
$32.75 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Over the past 15 years, anti-racist psychologist Guilaine Kinouani has contributed writing and run workshops on how racism affects both physical and mental health. Based on her findings, she has devised tried and tested psychological strategies. Her mission is to help thousands to find peace with this b ...Show more
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