The Farmer's Wife by Helen Rebanks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Beautiful.' Daily Mail'True, unflinching, powerful, lyrical' Kate Mosse'Wonderful, inviting, wholesome.' Observer'Beautiful and very honest.' CAITLIN MORAN'It's quite an achievement to shine a light of truth on the often idealised, always understated, role of the farmer's wife.' RAYNOR WINNThis honest ...Show more
Life Lessons from Literature by Joseph Piercy
$28.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
‘I read a book one day and my whole life was changed’ ... So confesses the narrator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel The New Life. But what can we learn from reading books? Life Lessons from Literature poses this broad question by examining the works of some of the greatest writers in history. In it, we can draw ...Show more
Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
$32.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Presenter and DJ Ashley Dotty Charles explores our age of outrage, and how it's debasing civil discourse.'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson We're living in a post-modern utopia of sorts, where thanks to our resolute predecessors, we've checked a bunch of items off our outrage shopping list. Slav ...Show more
The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds? by Jessica Nordell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Unintentional bias is one of the great social problems of our time; its effects are corrosive, even lethal. But it can be overcome. Here's how. Drawing on ten years of immersion in the topic, Nordell digs into the cognitive science and social psychology that underpin efforts to eliminate bias, meets the ...Show more
World Explained in 264 Infographics by JAN SCHWOCHOW
$150.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Take a deep dive into history, economics, art and culture through fascinating and stunning visuals. We live in a hyper-connected world and are bombarded with news and other information, via our phones, computers, TVs, and radios. People don't have the time or energy to sift through all the data. That's ...Show more
Is Technology Making Us Sick? by Ian Douglas; Matthew Taylor
$29.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
Modern technology has undoubtedly enhanced our lives in numerous, powerful ways--we can now communicate in real time with friends and colleagues around the world, and do mundane tasks such as shopping or banking at a touch. But has there been a detrimental effect on our health and happiness? Is Technolo ...Show more
Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine by Ed Smith
$37.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a book about leadership, judgement and decision-making - rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead the UK cricket team to international success. In spring 2018, England cricket had a performance problem. The Test team hadn't won a Test match overseas for nearly tw ...Show more
Untethered - Living the Digital Nomad Life in an Uncertain World by Nathan James Thomas
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
Digital nomads work online from anywhere in the world. If you've ever wanted to live like this, but don't know where to start, Untethered is for you. Let a veteran digital nomad take you by the hand and lead you through this new territory. Learn exactly what it takes to engineer a digital nomad lifestyl ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing?In Rationality, Pin ...Show more
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers ‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’ In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind ...Show more
Numbers Don't Lie - 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
$27.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' - Bill GatesIs flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? A ...Show more