Spoon-Fed: Why almost everything we've been told about food is wrong by Tim Spector
24.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Everything we've been told about our diets is wrong Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?Is there any point in counting calories? Is there any evidence that coffee is bad for you? Through his pioneering scientific research, Tim Spector busts these myths ...Show more
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
An illuminating book on loss by the bestselling author of QUIET Loss and impermanence are inescapable, part of the warp and weft of our lives. They are essential to love, to growth, and to art. And yet, too often, we do not acknowledge loss, let alone honour the experience of it. Illuminating, thoughtf ...Show more
Personal Effects - What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me about Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen
39.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead. You have seen Robert A. Jensen--you just never knew it. As the owner of the world's largest disaster managemen ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
36.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more
You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women by Kaz Cooke
40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A fresh, funny and furious look at the terrible advice women have been told for centuries. Stroll with bestselling author Kaz Cooke through instructions on how to day-drink, wear a dress made of arsenic, pretend you're an idiot, have sex with a billionaire biker, curtsey, get properly harassed at work, ...Show more
The New Heretics - Understanding the Conspiracy Theories Polarizing the World by Andy Thomas
38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Through their part in some huge controversies, conspiracy theorists are being branded the Number One Enemies of our times - the new heretics. They are seen to threaten the very fabric of modern society, spreading doubts and fears that result in Washington Capitol invasions, transmission mast burnings or ...Show more
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul
50.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The acclaimed editor ofThe New York Times Book Reviewtakes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost.Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences fr ...Show more
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
24.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
______________________________ A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history. Twenty years ago, reporting for a routine magazine p ...Show more
Christians - The Urgent Case for Jesus in Our World by Greg Sheridan
36.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Passionate and compelling, Greg Sheridan, bestselling author of God is Good For You, examines the role of Christianity in our modern world. From the historical Jesus and his disciples through to the present day, Greg Sheridan has written an impassioned, informed and utterly compelling case for the trut ...Show more
Journey to Prison: Who Goes and Why? by Celia Lashlie
24.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Celia Lashlie's Journey to Prison was a huge success in 2002. In it, she told the story of the media furore that erupted when she made her now-famous statement: 'There is a blond, angelic-faced five-year-old sitting in a classroom in New Zealand and he is coming to prison ...On his way, he will probably ...Show more
Dawn of the New Everything - Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
28.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Jaron Lanier, 'the father of Virtual Reality ... a high-tech genius' (Sunday Times), tells the extraordinary story of how in just over three decades Virtual Reality went from being a dream to a reality - and how its power to turn dreams into realities will transform us and our world. Virtual Reality has ...Show more
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America [TV-Tie-In] by Beth Macy
25.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Soon to be a major TV series on Disney+ 'A shocking investigation ... Dopesick is essential' The Times 'Unfolds with all the pace of a thriller' Observer 'A deep - and deeply needed - look into the troubled soul of America' Tom Hanks 'Essential reading' New York Times Beth Macy reveals the disturbing tr ...Show more