The Return of the Public - Democracy, Power, and the Case for Media Reform by Dan Hind
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Setting the People Free - The story of Democracy by John Dunn
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
This book explains how a casual practical solution to local Greek political difficulties so very long ago has come to stand virtually unchallenged as the ground for modern political authority. It shows how the idea of democracy has kept its power in a world which is utterly different from the world of c ...Show more
Gotcha - Life in a Tabloid World by Catharine Lumby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
A controversial take on the future of the media, from the author of Bad Girls.
Young People and the Future of News by Lynn Schofield Clark; Regina Marchi
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Communication, Society and Politics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Young People and the Future of News traces the practices that are evolving as young people come to see news increasingly as something shared via social networks and social media rather than produced and circulated solely by professional news organizations. The book introduces the concept of connective j ...Show more
The Theory of Social Situations - An Alternative Game-Theoretic Approach by Joseph Greenberg
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
This book, first published in 1991, offers an integrative approach to the study of formal models in the social and behavioural sciences. The theory presented here unifies both the representation of the social environment and the equilibrium concept. The theory requires that all alternatives that are ava ...Show more
Village India - Studies in the Little Community by McKim Marriott (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
Censorship Moments - Reading Texts in the History of Censorship and Freedom of Expression by Geoff Kemp (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2,500 years and has proved itself to be a recurring presence for political thought, whether as active repression, a shaping context for expression, or as itself a subject for analysis and argument. From the death of Socrates to the fatwa ...Show more
Creative Schools - Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up by Ken Robinson; Lou Aronica
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his talk, 'How Schools Kill Creativity', is the most viewed in the history of TED. In this empowering, ground breaking book, he sets out his vision for how we can transform our industrial model of education to better meet the n ...Show more
Poverty Traps by Samuel Bowles (Editor); Steven N. Durlauf (Editor); Karla Hoff (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination ...Show more
The Fate of the West - The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea by Bill Emmott
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Economist Bks. | Reading Level: very good
The West seems to be in retreat -- even from itself -- and cracks have appeared in the structures of international collaboration built after 1945. We live in a time of disintegration and rekindling of old nationalisms. Yet the end of the West has been predicted by academics, philosophers and rival stat ...Show more
A World on the Wane by Claude Levi-Strauss
$25.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good-very good
Towards a Grammar of Race In Aotearoa New Zealand by Anisha Sankar (ed.); Lana Lopesi (ed.); Arcia Tecun (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers and activists. For these authors, attempts to confront racism and racial violence often stall against a failure to see how power works through race, across our modern social worlds. ...Show more