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Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action: 2018 by Max Rashbrooke
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In this wide-ranging book, Max Rashbrooke goes beyond anecdote and partisanship, delving deep into the latest research about the sweeping changes made to the public services that shape our collective lives. What he unearths is startling: it challenges established thinking on the effectiveness of market- ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
$36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best-selling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl . 'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it ... This book ... is th ...Show more
Fed Up: Navigating and Redefining Emotional Labour for Good by Gemma Hartley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
No more grin and bear it: how and why we all need to reset the domestic balance. Gemma Hartley is a mother and journalist on a mission: to throw fresh light on the hidden burden of 'emotional labour' (washing, wiping, worrying, soothing, shopping, preparing, planning, cooking, caring), and find out why ...Show more
To Obama: Diary of a Nation by Jeanne Marie Laskas
$34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from constituents. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of the profound ways in which they shaped his presidency. Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters wr ...Show more
Give People Money by Annie Lowrey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it? Imagine if every month the government deposited £1000 in your bank account, with no strings attached and nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy, but Universal Basic Income (UBI) has become one of the most influential policy ideas o ...Show more
The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Harris, Dennett & Hitchens by Daniel C. Dennett; Sam Harris; Richard Dawkins; Christopher Hitchens
$27.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas an ...Show more
Read and Riot - A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadya Tolokonnikova
$34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'Stylish, striking, and elegantly packaged...as indispensible to confronting, say, your domineering mother-in-law or your local city council as it is to helping foment an ongoing and ever-escalating insurrection against, say, a sexist, racist, nepotistic power-mad oligarchy threatening to destory democr ...Show more
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age (HB) by Mary Pipher
$42.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A New York Times BestsellerThe New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitud ...Show more
Resisters by Lauren Sharkey
$19.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'We're not the future. We're doing it right now.' Young girls and women are uniting across the world to create change, have their voices heard and stand up for what they believe in. In this bold and brilliantly inspiring book, Lauren Sharkey profiles the powerful stories and achievements of 52 young c ...Show more
A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke
$40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots str ...Show more
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
$35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. We've been taught that warming would be slow-but, barring very dramatic action, each of these impacts is likely to arrive within the length of a new mortgage signed this year. What will it be like t ...Show more
The Price of Paradise by Iain Overton
$34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
We live in the age of the suicide bomber. The suicide bomb itself takes more lives than any other type of explosive weapon. Moreover, in the last 5 years more people have been killed by suicide attacks than at any other time in history. How has this descent deep into the heart of terror escalated in suc ...Show more
