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Weed - A New Zealand Love Story by James Borrowdale
$35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
'I just closed my eyes and drifted away. I drifted away to the music but I don't think I'd ever experienced anything quite so soothing and magical. It was like I was in a magical space. It was beautiful.' - Jim Mahoney, reformed drug addict Pot, Mary Jane, dope, skunk, grass, hash, green, hooch, herb, g ...Show more
Fake Law: The Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
$39.99 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches e ...Show more
Stop Surviving, Start Fighting by Jazz Thornton
$38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
Jazz Thornton first attempted to take her own life at the age of 12. Multiple attempts followed and she spent time in psychiatric wards and under medical supervision as she rode the rollercoaster of depression and anxiety through her teenage years - yet the attempts continued. Find out what Jazz learned ...Show more
Notes From An Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
$32.99 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environment ...Show more
The Infinite Game: How to Live Well Together by Niki Harre
$29.99 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
n The Infinite Game, Niki Harre asks us to imagine our world anew. What if we are all part of a different type of game entirely - a game in which playing matters more than winning, a game that anyone can join at any time, a game in which rules evolve as new players turn up - an infinite game? Harre look ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginners Guide by Richard Dawkins
$24.00 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't. Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he'd felt certain they must have ...Show more
Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris
$37.99 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." -Sam Harris Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world. Harris' search for deeper underst ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$37.99 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go w ...Show more
Yes to Life Inspite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl
$30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
Extraordinary uncovered work by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man's Search For Meaning Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his life-affirming philosophy for which he would become world ...Show more
Strange Antics: a History of Seduction by Clement Knox
$39.99 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
What makes a bad choice irresistible? In brilliantly original history, Clement Knox offers new insight into the art - and history, legality, politics and literature - of seduction. If sex has generally been agreed a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff ...Show more
The Gendered Brain - The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Psychology /Social Sciences
An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the myth of the male or female brain. Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question? We live i ...Show more