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
The Secret History of Here : A Year in the Valley by Alistair Moffat
45.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden Ways. The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since pre-historic ...Show more
Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice by Jeremy Williams
22.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier of climate change and/or systemic racism. If there's one book that will help you to be an effective activist for climate justice, it's this one.' - Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, author of This is Why I Resist
Anthro-Vision - How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life by Gillian Tett
48.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A revelatory model that explains how we buy, sell, work and live. 'Fun, profound, and bursting with important insights.' Tim Harford For over a century, anthropologists have immersed themselves in unfamiliar cultures, uncovering the hidden rituals that govern how people act. Now, a new generation of a ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
37.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. MORE THAN 109 MILLION INFECTIONS MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION DEATHS HOW DID IT HAPPEN? The origins of COVID-19 are shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theori ...Show more
Wandering in Strange Lands - A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
32.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year "One of the smartest young writers of her generation."--Book Riot Now in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author, comes Morgan Jerkins' powerful story of her journey to understand her northe ...Show more
Explaining Humans by Camilla Pang
26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camil ...Show more
Everybody : A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
49.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'Simply one of our most exciting writers' Observer 'One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction' Harper's Bazaar 'Laing combines formidable intelligence with boundless curiosity and fabulous taste' James Lasdun The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant ...Show more
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
24.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbule ...Show more
Decolonizing Methodologies - Research and Indigenous Peoples 3rd Ed by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
43.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperia ...Show more
Nice Racism - How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour. Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a ...Show more
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
26.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains'A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history' Financial Times This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among ...Show more