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How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
$15.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better. The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020. It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in someth ...Show more
Sapiens: A Graphic History - The Birth of Humankind - Volume 1 by Yuval Noah Harari; David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave
$48.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novel
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect gift for the curious beings in your life.One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
#1 New York Times Bestseller From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thou ...Show more
The Lonely Century - Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
$38.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
A radical call to arms and a bold new vision of how we must act, fast, to reconnect society at individual, government and business level, from a global economist hailed by the Observer as 'one of the world's leading thinkers'. Professor Noreena Hertz has travelled the world to explore the loneliness epi ...Show more
A Human's Guide to the Future by Jordan Nguyen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
TECHNOLOGY IS EVOLVING AT THE FASTEST RATE WE'VE EVER SEEN, BUT IT MAY BE THE SLOWEST RATE WE'LL EVER SEE AGAIN! What does this mean for the future of the human race? Do we resist these changes or embrace them?Australian biomedical engineer, inventor and visionary Dr Jordan Nguyen has lived a life of cu ...Show more
White Fragility - Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$28.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
$35.00 NZD
$50.00 (30% off)
Category: Society & Culture
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers ...Show more
Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
$35.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
The Smart Wife - Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot by Yolande Strengers; Jenny Kennedy
$55.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us ...Show more
Privacy Is Power - Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz
$37.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it. The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organi ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
$28.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
$13.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipul ...Show more