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Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
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....
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: The New York Times bestseller
'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: Image and Reality: In Britain, France and the USA Since 1930:
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...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'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...
Never Had a Dad: Adventures in Fatherlessness
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 Gilded Age: The Super-rich of the Edwardian Era
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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...
Breaking the Gender Code: How to Use What You Already Have to Get What
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?...
The Promise of Home
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...
The Vet's Country Holiday
One irrepressible city girl plus a by-the-numbers accountant = a tricky equation... For city vet Isabella Passmore, the opportunity to pet-sit in the country knocks at the perfect time. Bring...
The Cottage of New Beginnings: The perfect cosy and feel-good romance
***Shortlisted for the RNA Joan Hessayon Award*** One crumbling cottage. One broken heart. A chance to start over? When Annie returns to Thorndale, the village where she spent much of...
Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce
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...
Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
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: A National Book Award Finalist: "extraordinary" -
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...
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss...
Along the Path of Torment
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 Third Millennium: The History of the World, 2000-3000 A.D.
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...
Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape
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...
Language City: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
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,...
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where You Live
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...
Class Inequality and the State
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.
Outback Astronomer: The extraordinary story of how an amateur
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...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'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...
Circling Back: Chronicle of a Texas River Valley
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...
Welcome to the Urban Revolution. How Cities Are Changing the World
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...
On the Edge: The twisty new mystery for summer 2026 about long-held
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...
A Small Town Heart/Queen of the Road/Honey Hill House/Ask Me No
A collection of captivating rural stories from three bestselling Australian authors. Queen of the Road by Tricia Stringer For struggling single mum Angela Ranger, a job driving trucks in small...
Stormwater Management for Sustainable Urban Environments
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,...
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern
'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times *** Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate...
Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar
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...
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We
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
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...
Fragments of the European City
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...
The World of the Paris Cafe: Sociability among the French Working
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...
The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations
In the second edition of this classic book, Dyer analyses culture from royalty to serial killers, political correctnesss and films.
The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
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...
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living
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...
Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal
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...
Circle of Hope: A National Book Award Finalist: "extraordinary" -
A National Book Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times , The Washington Post , The New Yorker , NPR, The Minnesota Star...
By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality
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The signs of progress are everywhere-- white children want to "be like Mike, " Oprah chats with millions every day, Newt Gingrich quotes Martin Luther King. But when we look...
Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the
An investigation that shows how the most ambitious figures in the Democratic Party want to transform the rest of America into the progressive dystopia that is California. Take a close...
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen...
Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the
An investigation that shows how the most ambitious figures in the Democratic Party want to transform the rest of America into the progressive dystopia that is California. Take a close...
Cut Short: Why We're Failing Our Youth - and How to Fix It
An acclaimed author and youth worker explains the reasons behind the UK's crisis of youth violence - and how it can be solved Demetri wants to study criminology at university...
Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth, Art, Technology, and War
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The book titled Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth, Art, Technology, and War by the author Benson Bobrick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
The Human Jungle: An Intriguing Look at How We Have Adapted to Cope
A look at the hidden patterns of behaviour which underpin our daily life, based on research in environmental psychology and urban anthropology. Topics discussed are the concept of personal space...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'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...
Cities
This work is an exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to contemporary Cairo, the largest city the world has known. "Cities" explores the city's "raison d'etre",...
Circle of Hope: A National Book Award Finalist: "extraordinary" -
A National Book Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times , The Washington Post , The New Yorker , NPR, The Minnesota Star...