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$40BULLSH*T COMPARISONSBullshit Comparisons will challenge the way you think about rankings, charts and other marketing and political tools designed to create odious and dangerous comparisons.Is Boris Johnson really like Winston Churchill? Are electric cars actually greener than petrol ones? Which is the world's most succ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$40RIGHT THING, RIGHT NOWIf we do what is right, everything else will follow: happiness, success, meaning, reputation, love.This is central to Stoic wisdom. The path isn't always easy, but it is essential, and the alternative - taking the easy route - leads only to cowardice and folly.In the third book in his bestselling St...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$40LIVING ON EARTHThe eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020.Peter Godfrey-Smith, the scuba-diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$38PUNISHING PUTIN: INSIDE THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC WAR TO BRING DOWN RUSSIAUndeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale assault on Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In the hours that followed, Western leaders weaponized economic tools in a world-changing financial experiment. The goal was to sap the strength of Putin’s war machine by ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$40THE UNIVERSE EXPLAINED WITH A COOKIEDid you know that the number of atoms in a cookie is about the same number of stars in the universe?Geoff Engelstein tackles the big questions of the universe and how it works using the sweet and simple chocolate cookie as guide. By exploring what goes into the cookie—the ingredients and the steps...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$50BACK ON TRACK? THE NEW ZEALAND GENERAL ELECTION OF 2023The latest in the acclaimed series of election books from Victoria University of Wellington, Back on Track? is an engaging account of how we ended up with the government we have today.What a year! In 2023, Jacinda Ardern resigned after five years as Prime Minister, leaving Chris Hipkins in charge of...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$40CODE DEPENDENTWhat does it mean to be human in a world that is rapidly changing thanks to the development of artificial intelligence, of automated decision-making that both draws on and influences our behaviour?Through the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explore...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$40THE PRICE OF LIFE$2-3,000 to save the life of a child in Africa£15,180 to hire a hitman$368,901 to pay the average ransom demandWe say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$38THE SERVICEBERRYAs indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we va...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$30NOISE: A FLAW IN HUMAN JUDGEMENTFrom the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients – or that two judges in the same ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$29THE WOOD AGEHow did the descendants of small arboreal primates manage to stand on our own two feet, become top predators and take over the world?In The Wood Age , Roland Ennos shows that the key to humanity’s success has been our relationship with wood. He takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year journey from ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$44DIAMONDS EVERYWHEREAnswers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds.Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics – from mind-blowing numbers, astonishing sights, to strange-but-true discoveries and everything in between.Feed your cosmic curiosity with this comprehensive guide to the Universe, featur...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$38WHY DO PEOPLE QUEUE FOR BRUNCH?What's the meaning of a bee's waggle dance? Who thought budgie smugglers into being? And why is cancer so damn hard to cure?In these lively and surprising Explainers, writers from Australia's leading mastheads reveal the mysterious workings of the world, from outer space and the deep sea to our own ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$28THE AGE OF CATSWhy don’t lions meow? Why does my cat leave a dead mouse at my feet? And why is a pet ocelot a bad idea?Jonathan B. Losos unravels the secrets of the cat using all the tools of modern technology, from GPS tracking (you’ll be amazed where they roam) and genomics (what is your so-called Siamese ca...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$30THE TRIALS OF LIFEThis is the third and last of Sir David’s great natural history books based on his TV series and competes his survey of the animal world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet.In Life on Earth, Sir David showed how each group of animals evolved. In Living Planet he looked a...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$30THIS IS EUROPEIn a series of vivid, empathetic portraits of other people’s lives, journalist Ben Judah invites us to meet some of the people who call Europe their home.Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home? Who ha...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$28THE UNDERWORLDFor all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of fear and fascination, an unknowable realm that evokes a singular, compelling question: what’s down there? But now cutting-edge technologies are allowing scientists and explorers to discover this strange and exotic underworld: a place of...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$40THE SECRET LIFE OF THE UNIVERSEOver the last few decades, space exploration has revolutionised our understanding of our place in the cosmos. We now know that there are many habitable environments within our solar system. Yet a profound question remains: are we alone in the universe?Nathalie A. Cabrol, leading astrobiologist and d...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$4640 MAPS THAT WILL CHANGE HOW YOU SEE THE WORLD40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World is a collection of historic and contemporary maps and the insights they reveal about geography, geopolitics, art, history, science and society.Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront s...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0
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