Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
The world's most-followed productivity expert reveals how to achieve more by finding joy in everything you do. The secret to productivity isn't discipline. It's joy. We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there' ...Show more
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte
$27.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTHA FAST COMPANY TOP SUMMER PICK 'Completely changed my life' - Ali Abdaal, YouTuber and Entrepreneur'Reading this book feels like being let in on a secret. ... an absolute must read' - Ryder Carroll, author of The Bullet Journal ...Show more
We Will Never Forget by Gennie de Lange
$50.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
These are the observations of war, seen through the eyes of the Observer, a gentle toy, a mascot, who has accompanied determined men and women, old and young, through the bewildering, realistic experiences of war. The Observer witnesses the lives of ordinary people, their anguish, camaraderie, and hope ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
$27.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Ser.
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
Should All Drugs Be Legalized?: A primer for the 21st century by Mattha Busby
$29.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Big Idea Ser.
A timely re-examination of the pros and cons of legalizing drug use. Combining a unique visual approach with carefully constructed narrative text, this book provides a survey of the history of drug use, a review of the impact of the war on drugs, an appraisal of the effects of legal vs illegal drugs an ...Show more
Global Climate Change and Human Life by M. A. K. Khalil
$77.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In our time, the global population has become large enough to cause perceptible environmental changes all over the world. With it, a new science of global change has emerged, mostly as a practical matter to understand and manage the earth’s habitability and create a sustainable environment for some time ...Show more
Recessional - The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch by David Mamet
$57.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air." The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, who wrote the classic films The Verdict and Wag the Dog sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates. In Recessional he calls out, ...Show more
Migrations by David Olusoga
$55.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A visual exploration of the movements of peoples, cultures, and ideas that brings a human perspective to a global phenomenonDiscover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern worldThis beautifully-illustrated book details the movement of people and cultures around the world - from the early mig ...Show more
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality by Oded Galor
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A grand unifying theory of human flourishing and inequality from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkersA bold retelling of the entire human story from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkersWhat causes living standards to rise?Why are some countries so much richer than others?How might all humans thriv ...Show more
Is Masculinity Toxic?: A primer for the 21st century by Andrew Smiler
$29.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
This timely title weighsmasculinity's capacity forgood against its potentialfor destruction in thecontext of contemporarydebates on the topic. In the wake of the MeToo movement and the upsurge in both feminist and men's rights activism, traditional masculinity has become the topic of impassioned debate ...Show more
Do We Have to Work? by Matthew Taylor
$29.99 NZD
Category: Social Sciences | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
Work allows us to pay the bills. The practical and conceptual divide between work and leisure profoundly shapes our lives. Work is where many of us derive our status and our sense of purpose. Work is so much part of our lives and our culture that we have internalized beliefs about its value and have bui ...Show more
Utopia or Oblivion - The Prospects for Humanity by R. Buckminster Fuller
$75.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
A classic of utopian literature, more urgent than ever: Buckminster Fuller's provocative blueprint for the future Composed of lectures given by Buckminster Fuller throughout the world in the 1960s, Utopia or Oblivion presents the thesis that humanity, for the first time in its history, has the opportun ...Show more