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9780415932172
Edgework : The sociology of risk-taking
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NZ$ 100.00 each
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Author:
Stephen Lyng
Published by:
Brunner-Routledge
What do skydiving, rock climbing and downhill skiing have in common with stock-trading, vandalism, unprotected sex and sadomasochism? All are high risk pursuits. This book will introduce the reader to the world of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out boundaries between legal and criminal behavior; conscious and unconscious acts; sanity and insanity;acceptable risk and stupidity. Lyng has been writing about what he calls "edgework" for the past decade and has managed to form a profile of those who live life on the edge. Topics covered include: juvenile delinquency, rape, sadomasochism, avant-garde art, business risks and extreme sport., as well as the recent success of books that write about risk like Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm .
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9781594202308
Denialism : How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Michael Specter
Published by:
Penguin Press
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9780733623912
Manthropology : The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Peter McAllister
Published by:
Hachette Australia
Drawing from archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary psychology, the author confirms the awful truth: every man in history, back to the dawn of the species, did everything better, faster, stronger and smarter than any man today. Highlights include a biomechanical analysis proving that a Neanderthal woman would have beaten Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm-wrestle. Every modern claim to masculine fame is debunked, from terrorism (why wouldn't Osama bin Laden have made Captain in Genghis Khan's army?) to metrosexuality (why would David Beckham come last in a Fulani tribesmen's beauty pageant?). Even the modern male's bragging rights about parenting are shown up as fraud: Congo Pygmy men carry their sons and daughters for 47 per cent of their waking day, and some Pygmy dads even develop lactating breasts to nurse them. Now that's commitment...
First published 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780814409329
Generation Text : Raising well-adjusted kids in an age of instant everything
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Michael Osit
Published by:
Amacom
A teenage boy goes shopping on the Internet, sees something he likes, immediately reaches his mother via cellphone, and in a few short keystrokes, types in her credit card number and gets a shiny new iPod. Elsewhere, a conscientious eighth-grader researches her homework online, but despite her best intentions, the barrage of Instant Messages sent by her friends (from around the world) leaves her unable to finish her assignment in time...and gets her grounded for the weekend. Today's children, due to technological advances including computers, the Internet, cell phones, and satellites, are faced with a world markedly more complex - and often more distracting - than any other preceding generation.Parents who want to ensure that their children successfully develop key social skills, a healthy identity, and a strong work ethic, need to make the right choices every step of the way. In "The Access and Excess Generation", clinical ...
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9781846680281
Snoop : What your stuff says about you
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Sam Gosling
Published by:
Profile Books Ltd
Does what's in your bathroom or on your desk reveal what's on your mind? What's the best way to find out what your partner is really like? For ten years, ingenious academic Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. Full of cutting-edge research, "Snoop" will sharpen your perception of others, as well as of yourself. Amazingly, and perhaps alarmingly, Gosling proves that what we own and how we act can inadvertently reveal more about our personalities than even our most intimate conversations.
Review: "'Charming and well written... [a] readable and practical guide to understanding the people around you.' - New Scientist 'Sam Gosling is an engaging writer, a brilliant psychologist, and a charming individual, and he must never, ever be allowed inside my office!' - Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Bonk 'A must-read for anyone who wants to learn about the cutting edge of psychological research.' - ...
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9780593064559
Hella Nation
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Evan Wright
Published by:
Bantam Press
Evan Wright has always had an affinity with outsiders - the people he calls 'the lost tribes of America'. In "Hella Nation", he takes us on a deeply personal journey to meet people for whom the American dream is either just out of grasp, or something they have chosen to reject altogether. From radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of capitalism and his stark but sympathetic portraits of sex workers in Porn Valley to runaway teens earning a living as skateboard pitchmen and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan. Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, "Hella Nation" is Wright's meticulously observed account of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight amid the nation's malls and gated communities.
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9781869404451
The Warm Winds of Change : Globalisation and contemporay Samoa
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Cluny & La'avasa Macpherson
Published by:
Auckland University Press
Dop September 2009, Auckland
210mmx148mm/softcover
260pp
What leads a Samoan villager to buy a Chinese polypropylene mat rather than making a pandanus mat? When do Pacific emigrants stop sending back money to their home village? Do villagers stop giving away fish when they have a refrigerator to store it in? In their new book, Warm Winds of Change, Cluny and La'avasa Macpherson look at ordinary lives in a Pacific village in order to provide an accessible introduction to the ways in which Pacific societies are being transformed by the forces of globalisation. Global culture has had a powerful impact on the flora and fauna, the people, languages and cultures of the Pacific for many centuries. But these earlier changes were largely controlled and managed by Pacific societies as new people, ideas, and things were incorporated into traditional chiefly culture. But, the Macphersons suggest, recent changes are delivering a more profound ...
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9780141036250
Outliers : The story of success
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and, why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. Like "Blink", this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
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9780745624891
Liquid Love : On the Frailty of Human Bonds
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Author:
Zygmunt Bauman
Published by:
Polity Press
This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of our liquid modern society must tie whatever bonds they can to engage with others, using their own wits, skill and dedication. But none of these bonds are guaranteed to last. Moreover, they must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. The uncanny frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires, and the conflicting desires to tighten the bonds yet keep them loose, are the principal themes of this important new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most original and influential ...
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9780007226474
Not Dead Yet : A manifesto for old age
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Julia Neuberger
Published by:
Harper Collins
Why we need to be better at ageing...Julia Neuberger asks why we allow our older relatives to be treated so appallingly and in her 10-point manifesto demands that we change our attitudes and behaviour towards ageing. Parachuting into fields, running internet businesses, singing in rock groups at the age of 101 -- some older people have never been so active. So why are others being so badly treated? In Not Dead Yet, Julia Neuberger asks the questions our society has shied away from -- and demands answers. / Why are older people increasingly marginalised, mistreated and patronised? / Why are they allowed to die in hospital without food, water or pain relief? / Why are we so bombarded with images of the young that older people are being driven from our TV screens? / Why do the most experienced people find it so hard to get jobs? / Isn't there more to life than bingo, bowls and daytime television? In her furious 10-point manifesto for ...
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9780395755310
On Becoming a Person : A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Carl R. Rogers
Published by:
Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of "client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten. A new introduction by Peter Kramer sheds light on the significance of Dr. Rogers's work today. New discoveries in the field of psychopharmacology, especially that of the antidepressant Prozac, have spawned a quick-fix drug revolution that has obscured the psychotherapeutic relationship. As the pendulum slowly swings back toward an appreciation of the therapeutic encounter, Dr. Rogers's "client-centered therapy" becomes particularly timely and important.
First published 1961; this edition with introduction by Peter D Kramer 1995.
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9780141022093
The Craftsman
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Richard Sennett
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, instead, that there is a craftsman in every human being, which can sometimes be enormously motivating and inspiring - and can also in other circumstances make individuals obsessive and frustrated."The Craftsman" shows how history has drawn fault-lines between craftsman and artist, maker and user, technique and expression, practice and theory, and that individuals' pride in their work, as well as modern society in general, suffers from these historical divisions. But the past lives of crafts and craftsmen show us ways of working (using tools, acquiring ...
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9780745636801
Liquid Fear
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Zygmunt Bauman
Published by:
Polity Press
Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds. And yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, we live again in a time of fear. Whether its the fear of natural disasters, the fear of environmental catastrophes or the fear of indiscriminate terrorist attacks, we live today in a state of constant anxiety about the dangers that could strike unannounced and at any moment. Fear is the name we give to our uncertainty in the face of the dangers that characterize our liquid modern age, to our ignorance of what the threat is and our incapacity to determine what can and can't be done to counter it.This new book by Zygmunt Bauman one of the foremost social thinkers of our time is an inventory of liquid modern fears. It is also an attempt ...
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9780745635156
Liquid Life
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Author:
Zygmunt Bauman
Published by:
Polity Press
'Liquid life is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. The most acute and stubborn worries that haunt this liquid life are the fears of being caught napping, of failing to catch up with fast moving events, of overlooking the use by dates and being saddled with worthless possessions, of missing the moment calling for a change of tack and being left behind. Liquid life is also shot through by a contradiction: it ought to be a (possibly unending) series of new beginnings, yet precisely for that reason it is full of worries about swift and painless endings, without which new beginnings would be unthinkable. Among the arts of liquid-modern living and the skills needed to practice them, getting rid of things takes precedence over ...
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9780745624105
Liquid Modernity
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Author:
BAUMAN
Published by:
Polity Press
In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning.Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human ...
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