Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution by Rainn Wilson
50.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Comedic actor and performer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of the media company SoulPancake, explores the benefits spirituality gives us in creating solutions for an increasingly challenging world. The trauma that our world experienced in recent years–as result of both the pandemic and societal tensions that t ...Show more
The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
An unforgettable story of friendship and lost promise in 21st-century America Growing up gifted and working-class in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of learning as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous ...Show more
The Truth About Lies by Aja Raden
36.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A hugely entertaining compendium of lying combined with the latest psychological research and studies. Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie you ...Show more
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] by Lynne Olson
45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
The fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time- fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to sa ...Show more
Saving Time - Discovering A Life Beyond The Clock by Jenny Odell
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
We are living on the wrong clock, and it is destroying us. The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing offers us different ways to experience time in this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book. In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconn ...Show more
Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood by Sasha Kutabah Sarago
38.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'You're too pretty to be Aboriginal' is a shocking statement Sasha Kutabah Sarago experienced at a young age. In her 2020 TEDx talk, 'The (de)colonising of beauty', Sasha shares how she reclaimed her femininity by redefining beauty. In challenging our modern-day concepts of beauty from a First Nations w ...Show more
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy that Reshaped the World by Will Sommer
36.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
On the 6th of January, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol. Their banners read, Trust the Plan, a reference to an alarming conspiracy theory that had gained unstoppable momentum over the last four years: these were followers of QAnon. Decoding online clues from a myste ...Show more
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
50.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live. We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for t ...Show more
The Life Fantastic: Myth, History, Pop and Folklore in the Making of Western Culture by Noa Menhaim
50.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Explore the sprawling network of culture to discover the incredible ways in which ideas connect to shape the world we see today.These mind-blowing essays dig down to the roots of stories, myths and literary genres, travelling from art to politics to history to folklore, and from high to popular culture ...Show more
Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future by Philip Lymbery
32.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Powerful, purposeful and persuasive ... This book is transformative. We must read, mark and learn, fast' Michael Morpurgo'A call to action - to change our world from the ground up. A vitally necessary book' Isabella Tree'Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the calamitous mistakes we've made ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
This book is the story of the cell - past, present and future. Since the discovery of the cell in the 1660s and the discovery in the 1850s that most diseases can be traced back to our cells, human beings have been understood as an ecosystem of units that produce exponentially complex structures and effe ...Show more
Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it by Richard Reeves
45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Of Boys and Men is a groundbreaking analysis of how the social and economic world of men has been turned upside down, leaving them adrift and underpowered.