How To Change Everything by Naomi Klein
$21.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
The most authoritative book yet about climate change for teenagers, written by internationally bestselling expert Naomi Klein. Warming seas. Superstorms. Fires in the Amazon. The effects of climate change are all around us. Reforestation. School-strikes for climate change. Young people are saving the wo ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own ...Show more
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
$22.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Winner of the 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-fictionShortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize"I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had to report what had happened, not only for myself but to help stop anyone else having to go through what I did. I knew I could ...Show more
IGEN by Jean M. Twenge
$39.40 NZD
Category: Social commentary
As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other ...Show more
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
'A leading new voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACYA REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis book is my story about growing up in a Black girl's body. It's about surviving in a world not made for me.Austin Channing Brown's first e ...Show more
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth. In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief ...Show more
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
$26.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives "She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future."--New York Times An award-winning author and leading international economist delivers a hard-hitting and ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.'In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, ...Show more
Redemption: Reflections on Creating a Better World by Bob Marley, Cedella Marley
$37.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Filled with quotes from Bob Marley's speeches, interviews, and writings, this collection is sure to resonate with fans of his music and political activism, and a new generation at a time when we need exemplary heroes. Redemption has many meanings, but there is one definition that embodies the spiri ...Show more
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that 'time is money.' . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' EsquireWe're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that s ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny
$33.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It’s a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. It’s a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is risi ...Show more