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The Lonely Century 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
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$38.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
$28.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
For decades, feminism has argued the case for getting women into the workplace. Affirmative action, support schemes, paid maternity leave... all valuable devices, and yet still we agonize over why women aren't better represented in the boardrooms and ministries of this country. But the answer is so shri ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist (HB) by Adam Rutherford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise - and increasingly part of the public discourse on politics, migration, education, sport and intelligence. Stereotypes and myths about race are expressed not ...Show more
Channel Kindness by Lady Gaga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
$30.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in AmericaWidespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race. Still, it is ...Show more
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
$37.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
What would a fair and equal society look like? Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-Capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European cultur ...Show more
Humans by Brandon Stanton
$50.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton's Humans is a book that connects readers as global citizens at a time when erecting more borders is the order of the day. It shows us the entire world, one story at a time. After five years of travelling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the wor ...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
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.
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
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
$22.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 From the Civil War to our combustible present, accl ...Show more
