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This forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for...

How do we combat racism in a world determined to tell us it doesn't exist? To hold the line against racism, we need to know it when we see it....

' Vital and illuminating . . . Advocate is a book that is equally generous and insightful, putting much of modern British narratives into sharp perspective . . . It's...

A gem of a debut novel by award-winning playwright George Kemp, about small-town lives and the search for genuine sustenance in a fast-food world. Stuck in a regional McDonald's, as...

In 2012, Jon Ronson's online identity was stolen. Jon publicly confronted the imposters, a trio of academics who had created a Jon Ronson Twitter bot obsessed by unlikely food combinations...

This unusual, distinctive book is a glowing, theatrical blend of history, travelogue, fictional sketch, art and literary criticism, and personal essay. Angelo Ripellino goes beyond the tourist cliche of Prague...

Damien is convinced that this is the best job anywhere: beautiful skies, red earth, dramatic landings, treating families in remote communities. At a tiny, isolated hospital in central Australia, a...

For 26 years, Englebert traveled and lived with the nomads of Africa, befriending the Tuareg, Bororo, Danakil, and Turkana peoples. His photographs are stunning, and his text, recounting five separate...

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to her former high school teacher, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of 'models and bottles' to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status...

Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in...

In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World , John Judis wrote: ""Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of...

The continuing predominance of Oxford and Cambridge graduates in all walks of British life has a major impact on British society and its ability to function in an international world,...

'I truly feel this series is going to be a new big hit!' Under the stars, everything changes... For nearly ten years, Noah Carter has kept his head down on...

Definitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive, personal story....

'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying'...

Class is an emotive subject, and never more so than today. It is part of the very fabric of our contemporary society and Professor Marwick's major historical study of the...

'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...

Fatherless, friendly 31yoF looking for intrepid M50s-70s who wants to try being a father figure (not sugar daddy). Georgie Codd never had a dad. And she didn't think that would...

The book titled The Gilded Age: The Super-rich of the Edwardian Era by the author Alexis Gregory. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Do you feel as though you are constantly 'on'? Do you project as though everything is under control but on the inside you are barely keeping your head above water?...

Rural Australia meets You've Got Mail in this romantic comedy about online dating, second chances, and following your heart. Small-town sweetheart Annalisa Cappelli has returned to Wongilly to take over...

This dyed-in-the-wool country girl will do anything to protect the home she loves... A fast-paced, heartwarming rural romance from a USA Today bestselling Australian author. Entrusted with running her grandfather's...

A powerful argument for a class-based approach to college admissions that "shows where we have gone wrong so far, and how we will get to justice, equality, and even diversity...

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE HBO MINISERIES "Belkin so successfully evokes the city and its people that the reader is caught up in the battle . . . Show Me...

Circle of Hope is Pulitzer Prize-winner Eliza Griswold's soaring, searing examination of what it means for a community to love, to grow and crucially, to disagree. Named a Best Book...

Ty Seward is a sick man. Anorexic, sexually aberrant, and haunted by a ghostly apparition residing in his closet. Living in the shadow of an in-remission cancer he fully expects...

The book titled The Third Millennium: The History of the World, 2000-3000 A.D. by the author Brian Stableford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

An award-winning Oxford professor explains why the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed - and how to fix it Why do the revolving doors of power always leave...

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin,...

From the best-selling author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" comes a brilliant new book on the surprising importance of place, with advice on how to find the right...

The book titled Class Inequality and the State by the author Adam Jamrozik. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Born and raised in remote Broken Hill, Trevor Barry left school after year ten to work in the mines. Years later, a single glimpse of Saturn through a colleague's telescope...

'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...

There was so much space. These words epitomize ecologist Joe Truett's boyhood memories of the Angelina River valley in East Texas. Years and miles later, back home for the funeral...

We are now at the dawn of the urban century. What does it mean that half the earth's people now live in cities - and that two billion more will...

A homecoming will shake this small town to its very foundations. The taut new mystery from the bestselling author of The Inheritance , perfect for readers of Sally Hepworth and...

Traditional urbanization has created many environmental problems, among which urban flooding is becoming even more severe due to the dramatic increase in impervious surfaces in the form of rooftops, highways,...

Pounds and Pedigrees: The Upper Class in Victoria 1850–80 by Paul De Serville is a sweeping history of public and private life in Melbourne's establishment during the mid-to-late nineteenth century....

In this text, Dorothy Rowe demonstrates how the sexualized image of Berlin in Weimar Germany arose at the same time as radical social changes in the history and position of...

The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than...

Making Rural Australia challenges two common by contradictory views of Australian history. One is the 'fatal shore': Australia was a place of horrible destitution and those miserable beginnings set the...

This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities - Berlin. Taking as its subject the...

In this work, the author investigates what the working-class cafe reveals about the formation of urban life in 19th-century France. Cafe society was not the product of a small elite...

In the second edition of this classic book, Dyer analyses culture from royalty to serial killers, political correctnesss and films.

How much do the British really care about their stately homes? In this wide-ranging account of the changing fortunes and status of the stately homes of England over the past...

A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and a driving desire to thrive A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial...

In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after...