The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle chara ...Show more
Adapt - Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, ...Show more
Urban Claims and the Right to the City - Grassroots Perspectives from Salvador Da Bahia and London by Julian Walker (Editor); Marcos Bau Carvalho (Editor); Ilinca Diaconescu (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how the rights of city dwellers are understood and interpreted in Brazil and the UK.
The Lexus & The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
The Democracy Sham - How Globalisation Devalues Your Vote by Bryan Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
The Democracy Sham explores how governments on both sides of the political spectrum are seriously constrained and compromised by the pressures of the global economy, and consequently, how our democratic rights are being eroded. Successive governments in New Zealand and around the world would have us bel ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship by Clementine Ford
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her ...Show more
Why Women Are Blamed for Everything - Exposing the Culture of Victim-Blaming by Jessica Taylor
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
'The kind of book that has you screaming "Yes! Yes! Yes! Now I get it!" on almost every page' Caitlin Moran'Dr Taylor sets out a compelling case . . . gives voice and agency to women who have experienced trauma and violence' Morning StarShe asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was weari ...Show more
Imprisoned in the Global Classroom by Ivan Illich; Etienne Verne
$6.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Education Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Waiting for the Weekend by Witold Rybczynski
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"We work," Aristotle wrote, "in order to have leisure." Today, this is still true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of--the freedom to do nothing--the same as the leisure we look forward to each weekend? There have always been breaks from the routine of work--taboo days, market days, public fest ...Show more
Merchants of Doubt - How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
$18.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small y ...Show more
Wikileaks - Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh; Luke Harding
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good
It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a ...Show more
Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change - Selected Essays in Psychology and Gender 1972-1993 by Shere Hite
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good-very good
For 20 years Shere Hite has been conducting ground-breaking research into the personal lives of women and men. From her conclusions she has formulated philosophical guidelines which have initiated and enlightened debates about sexuality, love, marriage, autonomy, friendships between women, male psycholo ...Show more