The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made ...Show more
The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
An unforgettable story of friendship and lost promise in 21st-century America Growing up gifted and working-class in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of learning as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous ...Show more
The Furies: Three Women and Their Violent Fight for Justice by Elizabeth Flock
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
A stunning narrative investigation into three real-life women who used violence to fight back against their oppressors The Furies tells the stories of three unforgettable women who chose to use lethal force to gain power, safety, and freedom when the institutions meant to protect them - government, poli ...Show more
The Handover by David Runciman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before. 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundr ...Show more
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
$50.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision co ...Show more
The Pleasures & Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
$34.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary | Reading Level: very good
"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives. Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measu ...Show more
The Shortest History of Economics by Andrew Leigh
$35.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights come from a handful of big ideas that anyone can follow.' This small book tells a big story. From ancient times to the modern world, The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transf ...Show more
What Just Happened?! Dispatches from Turbulent Times by Marina Hyde
$33.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary | Reading Level: near fine
No other writer is more suited to chronicle the absurd and chaotic times we live in. This book - based on Hyde's spectacularly funny Guardian columns - tells the story of the hellscape of the Cameron, May and Johnson eras, Trumpian wtf-ery to celebrity twattery, the Royal soap-opera and the series final ...Show more
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is heard in our society, who is not - and why?'I knew this from the beginning, when I was inside the lorry, thinking about truth. If you are a good storyteller you will be trusted, get a life, and escape from hell. But what do you need to do to ...Show more
Why Governments Get It Wrong: and how they can get it right by Dennis C. Grube
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Sometimes governments seem clueless. At other times, they are able to project a sense of calm competence. Some decisions leave people confused, whilst others make sense even to those who oppose them. Why? Why Governments Get it Wrong argues that governments are at their most effective when they get the ...Show more
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
A stunning meditation on why women are drawn to the soil. Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that. To understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibi ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$37.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight f ...Show more