Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs

Every woman has had to make a very personal choice about her relationship with makeup, but often the choice is not entirely hers to make. Nudson unpacks makeup's cultural impact: how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and...

"All or Nothing is the final chapter in Wolff's Fire and Fury series. With extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, it follows every turn of Donald Trump's third presidential campaign. In disgrace after the January 6 attack on the Capitol and sent into exile, Trump immediately sputters back to lif...

Did you know you actually have all twelve zodiac signs in your natal chart? Not just the signs you feel drawn to but also the ones that rub you the wrong way (we all have them). As the sun travels through each sign throughout the year, it grants us access to their energies and so to different par...

Professor Dame Sue Black discusses the subject she grapples with every day, Death, bringing her unique perspective to the multitudinous circumstances in which life is lost. From the painful grieving process after losing a loved one, to violence, murder, criminal dismemberment, missing persons, wa...

A cultural critic advocates for embracing imbalance, obsession and gluttony across all aspects of life, contending that our contemporary culture's misguided pursuit of equality in love and art, coupled with economic disparities, has left us spiritually impoverished.

All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history - a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas...

Pleasure should be a simple thing, but straight women are at the statistical bottom of the pile when it comes to finding a happy ending. There's a name for this phenomenon: it's called the pleasure gap. And when tracked against other gains in women's freedom, like pay or education, it is still al...

"A provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. Confronted by the devastating trends of the early twenty-first century - widening inequality, environmental destruction, and millions of workers stuck in precarious, soul destroyi...

Before the nineteenth century, the term normal was rarely ever associated with human behaviour. Normal was a term used in maths, for right angles. People weren't normal; triangles were. But from the 1830s, this branch of science really took off across Europe and North America, with a proliferatio...