Under the Skin: racism, inequality, and the health of a nation by Linda Villarosa
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
From an award-winning writer at The New York Times Magazine comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll that racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation.In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and ...Show more
Fear - New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists by Byron C Clark
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary | Reading Level: very good
This must-read new book maps New Zealand's alt-right underworld and unearths the roots of the occupation that ended in a violent protest on the grounds of Parliament. Speaking after the chaos of the protest that stopped the nation, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a press conference, 'One day, it wil ...Show more
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A sweeping, genre-bending "masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity - from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé . ONE OF THE TEN B ...Show more
Citizens - Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us by Jon Alexander; Ariane Conrad (As told to); Brian Eno (Foreword by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' - Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' - Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democra ...Show more
Happiest Toddler on the Block by Harvey Karp
$32.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Perfect for expecting parents who want to prepare themselves for the challenging toddler years (which starts around eight months of age), this essential guide, a national bestseller by respected pediatrician and child development expert Dr. Harvey Karp, not only helps reduce tantrums but makes happy kid ...Show more
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
A mind-expanding exploration size, the measure of all things, from the New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth. Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil bust ...Show more
Control : The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
$29.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for mol ...Show more
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
'A leading new voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACYA REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis book is my story about growing up in a Black girl's body. It's about surviving in a world not made for me.Austin Channing Brown's first e ...Show more
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
This modern classic invites the reader to discover a unique tradition that has come to symbolize the wisdom, beauty, and the elegant simplicity of Asian culture. The author celebrates the Way of Tea from its ancient origins in Chinese Taoism to its culmination in the Zen discipline known as the Japanese ...Show more
The Doctor and the SaintThe Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate : Caste, Race and Annihilation of Caste by Arundhati Roy
$55.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Power. Privilege. Parties. It’s a very small world at the top. ‘Brilliant … traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s’ James O'Brien ‘Incisive, insightful and timely’ Richard Beard, New Statesman ‘Fascinating … impossible to disagree with’ H ...Show more
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth. In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief ...Show more