Timecode of a Face by Ruth Ozeki
22.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A revelatory treatise from the Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life. What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki's mind as she challeng ...Show more
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'I have long been a fan of David Christian' - Bill Gates A user's guide to the future from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole Every second of our lives - whether we're looking both ways befor ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Campaigners, chefs and food writers rail against 'intensive farming'. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans, and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed ...Show more
Fat - A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life by Christopher E. Forth
59.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Fat. Such a little word evokes big responses. While "fat" describes the size and shape of bodies--their appearance--our negative reactions to corpulence also depend on something tangible and tactile. As this book argues, there is more to fat than meets the eye. Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Li ...Show more
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The story of our most fundamental human right - and why it is in grave danger. Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - f ...Show more
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
37.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsua ...Show more
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates
55.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Before Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics - how they start, how they spread, how they can be controlled. He warned us years ago in a now-famous TED Talk of their ...Show more
How to Build Stonehenge by Mike Pitts
45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
There is nothing like Stonehenge: the simple, graphic genius of these great, arranged blocks. The stones seem to rise from the ground in some antediluvian heave of the Earth: lintels, great horizontal slabs, roughly squared, the grey rock now covered in subtle lichen green. But who made it? When did the ...Show more
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A radical new history of a dangerous idea Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance ...Show more
Complete World of Greek Mythology by Richard Buxton
65.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: The\Complete Ser.
The most authoritative illustrated guide to the world of Greek mythology. From the first millennium BC onwards, Greek myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. Nowadays they can be found in film, television and computer games. This book combines a retelling ...Show more
The Sociology Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by Sarah Tomley,Mitchell Hobbs,Megan Todd,Marcus Weeks,DK
50.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to sociology. Part of the popular Big Ideas series, The Sociology Book introduces you to the subject that tells you all about what society is and what makes it tick. With over 80 ideas from the world's most renowned sociologists, c ...Show more
When the Dust Settles - Stories of love, loss and hope from an expert in disaster by Lucy Easthope
37.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
'An essential, uplifting read, brimming with humanity, humility and humour' PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACKLucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call.Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaste ...Show more