Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund
$28.00 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff | Reading Level: very good
'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' BARACK OBAMA 'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' BILL GATES 'Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent mirac ...Show more
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
$24.99 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff
A bestselling author tries to rehabilitate a much-maligned field.
A Letter to Layla - Travels to Our Deep Past and near Future by Ramona Koval
$40.00 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff
How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves? Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an emin ...Show more
A Place for Everything - The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
$25.00 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff
A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet cha ...Show more
Kochland by Christopher Leonard
$39.99 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff
The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Google, Goldman Sachs and Kraft Foods combined. But very few people have ever heard of Koch Industries because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way. Now, in Kochland, Christopher Leonard has managed what no other journalist has done ...Show more
Humankind - A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff | Reading Level: near fine
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford'Made me see h ...Show more
Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack by Richard Ovenden
$38.00 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff | Reading Level: near fine
Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of the ...Show more
A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts) by Jess Berentson-Shaw
$14.99 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
We may be in the golden age of information, with access to more facts than ever before. Yet in the time of fake news and post-truth politics, it seems that conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are even harder to debunk. Battling over facts can be exhausting and polarising. For those committ ...Show more
STET! Dreyer's English: A Game for Language Lovers, Grammar Geeks, and Bibliophiles by Dreyer Benjamin
$37.00 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff
Whats' wrong with this sentence? If that misplaced apostrophe flew right up your nose, this is the game for you. Based on the New York Times bestseller by Random House's copy chief Benjamin Dreyer, STET! will help you sharpen those language skills or give you a reason to show them off (you know who you ...Show more
Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity by Timothy Snyder
$24.00 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff
A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think abou ...Show more
Wordy - Sounding off on high art, low appetite and the power of memory by Simon Schama
$39.99 NZD
Category: Brainy Stuff | Reading Level: very good
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall fo ...Show more