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Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all w ...Show more
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including the "Guardian" and "GQ America") are the best of his adventures. ...Show more
Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A collection of Jon's newspaper features, reworked and with new material, with a common theme: the ways in which people get themselves into wholly irrational bubbles, within which all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense. In Jon's previous two books, Them and The Men Who Stare at Goats, the nuttiness to ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
$44.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ro ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' The rise of social media has seen a great renaissance in public shaming. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doin ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 16
American military paranoia at its most extreme, insane, amusing -- and alarming Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners-of-war with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? And why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
$39.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At times incredible, at times worrying, at times hilarious, always gripping, Jon Ronson investigates American military paranoia. In the summer of 1983, Major General Albert Stubblebine III sat behind his desk in Arlington, Virginia, and prepared himself to walk into the next room. After summoning al ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all known military practice -- and indeed the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. They were the Fir ...Show more
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
$54.99 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail, and Jon is challenged to solve the mystery behind it. As he searches for the answer, Jon soon finds hi ...Show more
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. "The Psychopath Test" is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's to ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists: Picador Classic by Jon Ronson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Russell Brand What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did. What ...Show more
What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
In What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness, the second volume of Jon Ronson's collected Guardian journalism, he hilariously demonstrates how our everyday lives are determined by the craziest thoughts and obsessions; how we spend our time believing in and getting worked up by complete nonsense. ...Show more
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