If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without it. At first glance, human history is full of remarkable feats of intelligence, yet human exceptionalism can be a double-edged sword. With our unique cog ...Show more
Co-Intelligence - Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Consumer AI arrived with a bang in November 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT. Within four months it hit 1 billion users, and media pundits were forecasting the end of jobs and a knowledge revolution. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT really meant- after millions of yea ...Show more
The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks by Chris Stokel-Walker
$30.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Bite-Sized Chunks Ser.
The internet is everywhere. But how did it start? How has it changed? And what will it look like in the future? No development in human history has changed the world as radically, or as quickly, as the advent of the internet. There's almost no aspect of 21st-century life that it hasn't shaped or funda ...Show more
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
$38.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more
Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From the bestselling author, technology pioneer, and curator of TED Chris Anderson, an inspiring, revelatory book about the urgent and world-changing potential of one of humankind's defining but forgotten impulses- generosity. Perhaps the simplest, most powerful moral question you can ask of your life i ...Show more
The Colossal Book of Amazing Facts for Curious Minds by Chas Newkey-Burden; Ken Okona-Mensah; Nigel Henbest; Sarah Tomley; Simon Brew; Tom Parfitt; Trevor Davies
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
5,000 facts - more than any other book on the market - that will astound, amuse and fascinate you! A polish bear in World War II rose to the rank of colonel. Penguins can't taste fish. The ashes of the man who invented the pringles container are buried in one. Houseflies buzz in the key ...Show more
Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control by Ryan Holiday
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized it.To master anything, one must ...Show more
The Maths of Life and Death by Kit Yates
$27.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
*SELECTED AS ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR* "This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - IAN MCEWAN "An exciting new voice in the world of science communication" - MARCUS DU SAUTO ...Show more
Mad on Meth - How New Zealand Got Hooked on P by Benedict Collins
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The eye-opening evolution of crystal meth in New Zealand and what can be done about it Only fifty years ago in New Zealand, methamphetamine was a publicly prescribed drug used as widely as by housewives, shift workers, students, and anybody looking to party. Legal for decades, meth was about to undergo ...Show more
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (10th Anniversay Edition) by Iain McGilchrist
$35.64 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A new edition of the bestselling classic - published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversaryThis pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rationa ...Show more
The New Authoritarianism - Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts by Salvatore Babones
$23.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the UK have caused fear and panic among liberals worldwide. They argue that the populist backlash represents a dangerous new authoritarianism. But what if the really dangerous authoritarianism is in fact their own? In this provocative and highly origin ...Show more