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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
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
Political Correctness Gone Mad? by Stephen Fry; Jordan B. Peterson; Michael Eric Dyson; Michelle Goldberg
$18.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
"Without free speech there is no true thought." Jordan Peterson Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate and the free exchange of ideas? Or is it a progressive force, eroding the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalised groups from society?
Troll Hunting: Inside the Disturbing World of Online Hate by Ginger Gorman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. A picture of Ginger heavily pregnant alongside her husband and two-and-half year old daughter appeared on a fascist website. Understandably she was terrified, but once the attack subsid ...Show more
Surveillance Valley - The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine
$36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit. Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experien ...Show more
The Revolution of Man: Rethinking What It Means to Be A Man by Phillip Barker
$32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
The performance of being a man, from the moment we open our eyes, until we gasp our last breath, is damaging us, and those around us. Phil Barker has written thousands of words about being a man in these strange and terrible times. As a journalist, he has spent years investigating the modern epidemics ...Show more
Merchants of Truth - Inside the War for Control of the News by Jill Abramson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times, is the gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world. Drawing on revelatory access, Abramson takes us behind the scenes at four media ti ...Show more
The Four Horsemen: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C Dennett & Christopher Hitchens by Daniel C. Dennett; Sam Harris; Richard Dawkins; Christopher Hitchens; Stephen Fry (Foreword by)
$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 and ...Show more
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called 'Alien' by Jeremy Smith
$37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The hacker now known as Alien entered MIT in 1998, intending to major in aerospace engineering. Almost immediately, she was recruited to join a secret student group scaling walls, breaking into buildings, pulling elaborate pranks, and exploring computer systems. Within a year, one of her hall mates was ...Show more
