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On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least...

Sociology on the Menu is an accessible introduction to the sociology of food. Highlighting the social and cultural dimensions of the human food system, from production to consumption, it encourages...

Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...

In winter 2006, under the stewardship of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from the IUAV University in Venice fanned out to subject their city to a forensic structural...

Just as you were getting comfortable with a digital world, here comes the material revolution, a transformation in the production and distribution of, well, everything. 3D printing has broken out...

Intractable social problems persist despite legal sanctions and economic incentives. It is time to try a new approach. The answer may lay in culture - using creativity, story telling and...

Among the issues posed for feminism by the politics of difference are ones of voice and representation; who is authorized to speak for whom? Increasingly, Western feminism is being challenged...

National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture, viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture -...

This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China...

Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was 'Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization.' Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of...

The grand tour, the journey made by noblemen and gentlemen of many nations to Italy in search of antique and modern culture, reached its apogee in the 18th century and...

When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will transform your conversations forever As a society, we've forgotten how to...

'A vital book. New Power can light a flame bright enough to outshine the glinting fangs and tiki torches' - Russell Brand For most of human history the rules of...

How does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form? What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family...

Have you heard that one-third of today's Australian kids are classified as obese? Did you know that the real figure is 6% nationally? If you think that popular culture is...

Over 180 stunning photographs and accompanying stories that capture rural Australia's idiosyncracies in a highly memorable and strikingly realistic way.

Over 1,240 beautiful museum quality hats reveal the milliner's ingenuity from the 1790s to the 1970s. Among the styles displayed are ascots, bourrelets, bigonnets, chapeaux rouges, nurses' hats, Pamelas, pillboxes,...

500 million years of animal life in 100 objects. Life on earth has existed for 500 million years. In that time, the evolution and natural selection of species has formed...

Mullets, quiffs, bouffes and flicks are just some of the follicle atrocities to have emerged from barbers' shops over the last 30 years; indeed, today they are often still proudly...

Why artificial sunshine? Today we can light our homes at the flick of a switch, turning night into day. Only when things go wrong, like a power cut, can we...

The author, Bob Phillips, commencedhis career in showbiz as a carnival hand, worked as a spool boy and projectionist for Hoyts and then moved to television to become Graham Kennedy's...

The Middle Ages represented a flowering of spirituality and culture which, in Europe, has not been equalled since. This book examines some of the great writers and thinkers of the...

Toys from teddy bears to Barbie dolls to train sets define our image of childhood innocence. But the truth is that toys represent a $21 billion a year industry, and...

One of the most distinctive features of Chinese culture is the great variety of unique festivals that has evolved over the course of China's long history. Chinese festivals are deeply...

Commonly known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" or "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognised panel painting of the...

Named A Best Book of 2011 by the New York Times , Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and Entertainment Weekly A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high...

From Bjoern Again to the Illegal Eagles, from Black Stabbath to the Essex Pistols and the Bootleg Beatles, tribute bands comprise a significant sector of many national music scenes. Access...

Our investments are devastated, obesity is epidemic, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the...

In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text --an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter,...

Architecturally, Romania was long regarded as one of the most interesting and beautiful countries In Europe. This book documents the systematic destruction of that heritage by the Ceausescu regime, a...

This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism...

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Friends, published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the show's premiere. Howyoudoin'? In September 1994, six friends sat down in their favorite coffee shop and began...

This long awaited revision of what now has become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology....

The book titled The Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact in America by the author Crossen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside World by the author Bob Connolly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth....

This book serves as a general text. It attempts to forge links between medical sociology and mainstream sociology and to stimulate other social scientists to venture into this underdeveloped area.

Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how anthropologists have tried to define...

A collection of interviews with the great gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of...

The ultimate visual guide to the events that shaped the world Discover history's significant events since 3000 BCE through a detailed and dynamic, book-long, timeline! Perfect for history buffs and...

Now reissued in an expanded edition, this unique book offers the first full-length treatment of women's initiation rites in five cultures. Asserting the critical importance of such rites in a...

Instagram is more popular than ever before. Over 80 million new photos are posted daily on this social networking site. How to pick the very best of them? We have...

The book titled Expatriate Paris by the author Arlen J. Hansen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A "sharp and entertaining" ( The Wall Street Journal ) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. Dress codes are...

In April 2013 a global breaking-news story surfaced on social media and in the world press, and rapidly gathered momentum. A South African man had fallen overboard in the night...

Prove you are the most cultured person in the room with 500 true trivia facts about pop culture. These facts are so absurd some might even say that they sound...

Costume authority Frances Kennett explains how and why certain garments came into being, the construction of the garments, and provides information on the wide variety of materials used in their...