Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
$38.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
$33.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...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
Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life by Gillian Tett
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
From the bestselling author of Fool's GoldTo understand business, you need to think like an anthropologist.Is your workplace riven by tribal conflict? Are your meetings governed by dozens of unspoken rituals? Is there something faintly religious about the way your colleagues worship the CEO?If so, then ...Show more
Awareness by Anthony De Mello; J. Francis Stroud (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
"This is your wake-up call You may not have even realized you were sleep-walking. Most of us are most of the time. Awareness is an eye-opener. It's Anthony de Mello telling you gently but firmly, 'It's time to get up now.'" --Charles Osgood of "CBS Sunday Morning" and "The Osgood File" "Awareness wi ...Show more
Being 14 by Madonna King
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
SHORTLISTED FOR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, ABIA AWARDS 2018 Is your daughter 14? Are you struggling to know what's going on inside her head? Are you worried? This is the book that can help you understand how she's feeling, what she's thinking and what you need to do to help her navigate her tricky te ...Show more
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudices That Change Our Lives by Jennifer Eberhardt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
'Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH 'Poignant... striking... important and illuminating.' NEW YORK TIMES ______________________ ...Show more
Boy Friends by Michael Pedersen
$32.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.' STEPHEN FRY'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' JACKIE KAY'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refres ...Show more
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
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
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky; Marv Waterstone
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything ...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