Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy by Whitney Goodman
37.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology: | Reading Level: very good
Our culture is obsessed with positivity. From "good vibes only" memes, to "life is good" bumper stickers to endless advice to "look on the bright side," we're constantly told that the key to happiness is to silence negativity wherever it crops up, in ourselves and others. But if positive thinking is the ...Show more
This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan
34.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
If you feel that sense that there is something missing from your life, some gap between who you are on the inside and who you are on the outside - then this is the book for you. This is, as the title says, not actually a book about Benedict Cumberbatch. In fact, it's a book about women and what we love ...Show more
Letter To My Younger Self: The Big Issue Presents... 100 Inspiring People on the Moments That Shaped Their Lives by Jane Graham, The Big Issue
27.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
100 remarkable people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport and business write letters to their younger selves in this collection taken from The Big Issue's popular feature. ALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES OF THIS BOOK GO TO THE BIG ISSUE If you could write a letter to your younger self, what ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
75.00 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology: | Reading Level: near fine
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi ...Show more
Something Out of Place - Women and Disgust by Eimear McBride
22.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing'A fearless, interrogative work that speaks so much to structural inequality and misogyny. A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' Sinéad Gleeson Here, Eimear McBride unpic ...Show more
On Becoming a Person : A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl R. Rogers
42.00 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of "client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been ...Show more
How We Got Happy by J. Macfarlane E. Nabbs
39.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
What are the main tools young adults are using to build and maintain wellness in today's fast-paced world? How We Got Happy offers a unique insight into the lives of 20 self-aware young Kiwis who have faced depression and learned how to stay well. Each person opens up about the tools, habits, beliefs a ...Show more
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50 by Grace Bonney
79.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIESIn this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over 100 trailblazing women describe the ups, downs, and lessons learned while forging their unique paths. Collective Wisdom celebrates the stories of those ...Show more
Varieties of Melancholy by The School of Life
34.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn't depression or anger or bitterness, it's a serene, accepting, gentle, wise and kindly response to the difficulties and occasional misery of being alive. It steers an ideal mid-way course betwe ...Show more
A Queer Existence - The lives of young gay men in Aotearoa New Zealand by Mark Beehre
45.00 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology: | Reading Level: near fine
Queer Existence is a major documentary project that uses photographic portraitureand oral history to record the life experiences of a group of 27 gay men bornsince the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986. In New Zealand,discrimination in work was outlawed in 1993, same-sex relationships wer ...Show more
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
26.00 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mindDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and personal goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD- raised in a so ...Show more
The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it by Mary Ann Sieghart
38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
You probably, in the abstract, believe in equality between men and women, and accept that women are as intelligent and competent as men. But do you actually take women as seriously? Do you listen as attentively to what they say? Do you read the books they write? For a lot of us, the answers to these que ...Show more