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There are certain memories that will be familiar to anyone who grew up in Australia between the 1960s and the 1990s. Things like traipsing to the caravan-park toilet with a...

Chopsticks or Fork? is a collection of stories and recipes from Chinese restaurants in regional Australia, based on the six-part ABC series created by Lin Jie Kong and Jennifer Wong....

Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of...

Now available for the first time in paperback, this extraordinary book examines the 'culture of excess' in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in...

A revelatory exploration of how today's right-wing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within it After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in...

An epic history of the birth of news in Europe 'Highly ambitious and impressive ... a rich, multifaceted and thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement News moves. It is...

This is a survey of the origins, development, and distribution of the world's religions. The work is organized in three major sections, opening with an assessment of the state of...

It is great to see a book put together with stories directly from the mouths of people who have been in the industry for many years. Their stories are not...

Have you ever wondered whether the assortment of books you have at home is a 'collection'? Do you want to reorganise it? Expand it? Or repair some of your treasured...

'A good handbag makes the outfit. Only the rich can afford cheap shoes. The only thing worse than being skint is looking as if you're skint.' For centuries, an interest...

"One of the world's most formidable environmentalists" - The Guardian "A star among environmental, activist, and anti-corporate circles" - Vice Who Really Feeds the World? is a powerful manifesto and...

As the world's second most popular beverage after water, tea has fascinated, awakened, motivated, and calmed us for well over two thousand years. A History of Tea tells the compelling...

Delve into this exploration of what it means to be Korean. South Korea is now an economic and technological superpower but how, as a country, did they rebound so quickly...

A fascinating examination of contemporary Chinese culture, The Chinese Mind offers an informative, accessible look at the values, attitudes and behavior patterns of modern China-and their roots in the history...

One of the "Cultural Studies" series, this book examines the art of amateur photography as a social practice, involving a large percentage of the population. The book looks at the...

Technology has been the blessing and the bane of the 20th Century. Human life-span has nearly doubled in the West, but no century ever killed more human beings with new...

Despite our culture's proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined...

Imagining Australia: Australian History, VCE Units 3 & 4 is an exciting new text written by an expert author team to address the requirements of the new Australian History study...

Here's a first-year book that encourages critical thinking and sparks discussion. Freakonomics addresses current social questions that students will enjoy arguing about both in the classroom and over coffee in...

This latest title in the Mini Bible series celebrates the people who have left an indelible mark on the last sixty years. From popular and music culture, through movies, politics,...

Focusing on Australia's Art Deco architecture of the 1920s and 1930s, this volume provides an insight into this period in Australia's social, economic and artistic development. No architectural forms escaped...

We all know what 'the political landscape' is, and politicians and journalists never tire of referring to it. But in this ingenious and original book, Martin Warnke takes that well-worn...

Musica Practica is a historical investigation into the social practice of Western music which advances an alternative approach to that of established musicology. Citing evidence from Barthes, Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Max...

As a colour, black is a single hue. It comes in no other shades. It is pure darkness, absorber of all light. But despite its commonly accepted role as one...

Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? For future generations, it won't mean anything very obvious. They will be so immersed in...

The new edition of Ita Buttrose's autobiography, updated and expanded. Kerry Packer described her as a 'dedicated and brilliant journalist who has achieved greatness in her industry very early and...

This study is an exploration of the collective values and activities of lay society in Western Europe between the tenth century and the thirteenth. Arguing that medieval attitudes and behaviour...

A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer It's all over our televisions, newspapers and the internet. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything...

Carlos Mota is the mastermind behind the amazing photographs seen in all the top design magazines, including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Interior Design, to name a few. His gifted...

A compelling journey through the paradoxes, myths and realities of India, by 'one of the country's most perceptive writers.' (Guardian) In the 21st century every sixth human being will be...

A captivating and urgent exploration of some of the world's most endangered foods, Eating to Extinction is a thrilling journey through the history of humankind's relationship with food, which reveals...

What makes ice cubes cloudy? How do shark attacks make airplanes safer? Can a person traveling in a car at the speed of sound still hear the radio? Moreover, would...

The rules of fashion have changed. The new digital era is all about being seen, liked and inspired. So how do we define ourselves through style? And why has the...

Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. It goes on to comprehensively map a whole century of ambient music and...

This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to...

Aristotle claimed that 'all human beings want to know'. Yet we also want not to know. Centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow preposterous prophets; irrational rumours trigger fanatical...

What is it about breasts--or if, you prefer, bazoombas, melons, Dolly Partons, or breastasauri--that inspires such fascination? No one is even sure why women have breasts when not pregnant or...

'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOW 'Fascinating' GREG JENNER 'A thrilling investigation' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB 'An essential read for anyone with even a fleeting interest...

WAR PAINT is the story of two extraordinary women, Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein, and the legacy they left: a story of feminine vanity and marketing genius. Behind...

'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme . 'In a troubled world where many sneer at experts,...

Dangerous, outrageous, comic and committed, the extraordinary performers collected here have altered the history of popular entertainment in America and Europe. Some have rarely had their story told, others are...

Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading? This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining...

This book offers a broad-ranging, innovative framework for understanding the key role of the mass media in the social production of meaning. Klaus Bruhn Jensen draws on classic positions on...

The Republic of Ireland, described variously as "The Emerald Tiger", "The Celtic Tiger" and "The Tiger Economy of Europe", is apparently one of the great success stories of 20th-century Europe....