Against the Gods - The remarkable story of risk by Peter L. Bernstein
$20.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable ...an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times "An extraordinarily entert ...Show more
The Prerogative of the Harlot - Press Barons and Power by Hugh Cudlipp
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Routes - Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford
$20.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn't stand still, that reveals itself ...Show more
On Liberty by Shami Chakrabarti
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
On Liberty is the story of today's threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights, from Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the advocacy group Liberty On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of except ...Show more
Demonic Males by Richard Wrangham
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good
The findings are based on 30 years of field research on the behaviour and ecology of chimpanzees and other mammals in Africa.
Tainted Greatness - Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes by Nancy Harrowitz
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Themes in the History of Philo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In recent years, a number of intellectual figures behave been exposed as either proponents of or otherwise tainted by an association with antisemitism. Nancy Harrowitz has assembled a collection of powerful essays that examine the concept of "taintedness" from the perspective of a wide range of discipli ...Show more
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
$18.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the ra ...Show more
Bernard Shaw & Karl Marx - A Symposium 1884-1889 by R W Ellis (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
A Wikipedia Reader by Geert Lovink (ed.); Nathaniel Tkacz (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Media | Series: Critical Point of View | Reading Level: very good
Society of the Query Reader - Reflections on Web Search by Miriam Rasch; Rene Kanig
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
The Way of the (Modern) World or Why It's Tempting to Live As If God Doesn't Exist by Craig M. Gay
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good-very good