Teen Brain by David Gillespie
$18.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
From Australia's most trusted non-fiction researcher and author comes the book that every parent needs to read. With their labile and rapidly developing brains, adolescents are particularly susceptible to addiction, and addiction leads to anxiety and depression. What few parents will know is that wha ...Show more
Don't Eat This Book : Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
Humorously documents the author's famous experiment during which he ate all fast foods for one month to record the impact of such a diet on human health, a study after which he traveled across country into schools, hospitals, and homes to educate the American public about health issues and physical educ ...Show more
Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
Presenter and DJ Ashley Dotty Charles explores our age of outrage, and how it's debasing civil discourse.'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson We're living in a post-modern utopia of sorts, where thanks to our resolute predecessors, we've checked a bunch of items off our outrage shopping list. Slav ...Show more
In Defence of the Enlightenment by Tzvetan Todorov
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
Tzvetan Todorov argues that although our liberal democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and perverted. People living in contemporary democracies are often baffled by phenomena which resist easy judgement: globalisation and ...Show more
Five Sisters - The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
The beautiful Langhorne sisters lived at the pinnacle of society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War, Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora eventually made their way across two continents, leaving rich husbands, fame, a ...Show more
COACHING by James Flaherty
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
A coaching tool which aims to enable the reader to become a business coach who can correct and self-generate their own innovations. It addresses the question: how do I contribute to someone's competence in a respectful, dignified and effective way?
Cafe theology, Book by Michael Lloyd
$15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
If theology doesn't stretch our minds, it probably won't stretch our lives. This book presents us with a rich and human view of life and of Life-Giver. Whether we've been on the Christian journey our whole life, we're just starting out or we haven't even bought a ticket, this book is applicable to our o ...Show more
Contemporary Feminist Thought by Hester Eisenstein
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
Examines the development of feminist theory from 1970 and analyzes the writings of feminists including Kate Millett, Adrienne Rich, and Shulamith Firestone.
You Won't Die Laughing! by Patricia Cameron-Hill
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
This book contains real-life stories, original cartoons and humour that will amuse you while you learn how to manage stress. The book shows how laughter can be a short cut to renewed perspective and stress relief, Life really is more fun when you laugh.
Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing by Professor Lynne Segal (Birkbeck College, London)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
In Out of Time, leading thinker Lynne Segal examines her life and surveys the work and lives of other writers and artists to explore the pleasures and perils of growing old. Following in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir - who in her mid-fifties mourned 'never again!' and yet was energetically writing ...Show more
Woman - An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
A revised and updated anniversary edition of Natalie Angier's bestselling guide to--and celebration of--the female body National Book Award finalist A New York Times notable book "A tour de force, a wonderful, entertaining and informative book." --The New York Times Book Review Woman is a fascinati ...Show more
Them and Us: Politics, Greed and Inequality - Why We Need a Fair Society by Will Hutton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology
The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work there is no new one on offer. This book sets out to provide one, arguing that reconstru ...Show more