Gender & Popular Culture by Katie Milestone; Anneke Meyer
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
The interconnections of gender and popular culture are multiple and varied, and serious scholarly work that examines gender through the lens of popular culture--and vice versa--is of central and growing significance in the academy. This is not only because battles about gender roles, rights, and ideolog ...Show more
Where Good Ideas Come From - The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? In "Where Good Ideas Come From", Steven Johnson, one of our most innovative popular thinkers, explores the secrets of inspiration. Steven Johnson has spent twenty years immersed in creative industries, was active at ...Show more
World Order - Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry Kissinger
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and state ...Show more
Black Body - Women, Colonialism and Space by Radhika Mohanram
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Australian Cultural Studies Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Explores the links between gender and sexuality, race and space in the postcolonial context.
The Traffic in Culture - Refiguring Art and Anthropology by George E. Marcus (Editor); Fred R. Myers (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
The essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and culture, casting a critical, ethnographic light on the art worlds of the contemporary West and their "traffi ...Show more
Capitalism - A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product. The rest of the population are ghosts within a system beyond their control. This includes the millions that live on less than $2 a day; or the hundreds of thousan ...Show more
What Money Can't Buy - The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to imm ...Show more
Shrinking the World - The 4,000-year Story of How Email Came to Rule Our Lives by John Freeman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
The first email was sent less than forty years ago; by 2011, there will be 3.2 billion users. The flood of messages is ceaseless. As the toll of email mounts, reducing our time for leisure and contemplation, and separating us from each other in the lonely battle with the inbox, John Freeman enters a ple ...Show more
The Wisdom of Crowds - Why the many are smarter than the few by James Surowiecki
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
In this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. Decisions taken by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren't smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of 'experts'. This seem ...Show more
Sociology - A Very Short Intro by Steve Bruce
$5.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Very Short Introductions | Reading Level: good-very good
Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, work in bureaucracies, and changes in religious and political organizations, this introduction explores the tension between the individual's role in society and society's role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology as a ...Show more
A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
$18.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
In 1703, Peter the Great founded his eponymous capital on a Baltic marsh. Modelled on Amsterdam, he believed it would usher in a modernised, Westernised future. In the nineteenth-century Age of Imperialism, the British rebuilt Bombay as a tropical London, while three Western powers made Shanghai look ju ...Show more
Adapt - Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, ...Show more