The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds? by Jessica Nordell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Unintentional bias is one of the great social problems of our time; its effects are corrosive, even lethal. But it can be overcome. Here's how. Drawing on ten years of immersion in the topic, Nordell digs into the cognitive science and social psychology that underpin efforts to eliminate bias, meets the ...Show more
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan (editors)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modern ...Show more
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021. Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers a guide to what everybody is talking about today' Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA ...Show more
He Reo Tuku Iho - Tangata Whenua and Te Reo Maori by Awanui Te Huia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Reclaiming a language is a slow-burning process, both deeply personal and intricately connected to the socio-economic, historical and political conditions in which we live. In He Reo Tuku Iho: Tangata Whenua and Te Reo Māori, Awanui Te Huia focuses on the lived experiences of tangata whenua and explores ...Show more
Blue Blood - The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis by Andrea Vance
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Beginning with the shock resignation of John Key, Blue Blood reveals the reasons behind one of the most dramatic falls in popularity in New Zealand's political history and tells the full story of how the National Party went to war with itself. Informed by campaign emails and internal party communication ...Show more
Pike River: The Crime and Cover Up
$25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
On November 19, 2010, an explosion rocked the underground Pike River mine in New Zealand. After a second explosion five days later, the 29 workers underground were declared dead. This was not a random accident: it was a crime caused by capitalism. Despite overwhelming evidence that Pike River Coal’s man ...Show more
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How ending consumerism gives us a better life and a greener world by J. B. MacKinnon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. This ground-breaking work of reporting and thought-experiment explores what would happen if we did.We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives ...Show more
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Now in paperback, an enduring work of criticism from one of the most important writers of our time. So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to autonomy, j ...Show more
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Elite by Douglas Rushkoff
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse- they want to leave us all behind.Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event- the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these m ...Show more
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry and politics. Instead, genocide, slavery and colonialism are the key foundation stones upon which the West was built, and we are still living under this system today: ...Show more
Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture by Mark Bergen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The story of YouTube, the global phenomenon which single-handedly upended traditional media and transformed Google into one of the world's most profitable companiesSince 2005, YouTube has exploded, giving a platform to unique and valuable voices, but also to propaganda, misinformation and illicit videos ...Show more
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
$27.00 NZD
Category: Politics
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder’s Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st cen ...Show more