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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...
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...
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,...
Pounds and Pedigrees
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....
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...
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...
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...
Underclass: A Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Dr Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and where substance abuse was a day-to-day occurrence. Now one of...
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...
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...
The City of Stardust
A #1 International Bestseller - An Amazon Best Book of February 2024 - An IndieNext Pick "A dark dream of a novel...that feels both timeless and original. Enjoy--and also beware....
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted
'Divide is well written and thought-provoking' - Sunday Telegraph 'A lively guide through the thorny challenges of rural life in an urban world. Essential reading for both incomer and local....
Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism
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...
Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future
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Within the past decade, Beijing has debuted as the defining city of the now and foreseeable future, and China as the ascendant global power. Beijing is the ultimate representation of...
The Right Place
Can the past show you the way home? With her dreams of dominating Melbourne's fashion scene in tatters, Nella Martini has returned to the last place she wants to be...
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than...
Organizations In Society
This book brings together recent theories and research in the study of organizations to provide a new perspective on the central role of organizations in modern societies. Particular attention is...
Encyclopedia of the City
The "Encyclopedia of the City" complements Routledge's strong list of readers and textbooks in urban studies and the city. Focusing on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in...
The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune
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In the 1290s a new guild-based Florentine government placed a group of noble families under severe legal restraints, on the grounds that they were both the most powerful and the...
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Tells the story of urban life through people's bodily experience; how women and men moved, what they saw and heard, how they dressed, when they bathed and how they made...
Hidden Injuries of Class
The book titled Hidden Injuries of Class by the author Richard Sennett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Gentry: Stories of the English
Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write - the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and,...
A Litter of Bones
A missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock. Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed 'Mister Whisper,' earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and...
Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad
Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling...
Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity
An ambitious and engagingly history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth...
Buildings and Power: Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern
Buildings and Power shifts the focus of architectural debate from the dominant themes of art and technology to an analysis of meaning in terms of social relations. Buildings are primarily...
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace
In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the American Marines, and he sought...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's...
Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto
After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and...
Pete and Alice in Maine
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"Gripping."--Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls " Shetterly's debut achieves a subtle grace, a quality of light and shadow worthy of a Bergman film. "-- Allegra Goodman, New York Times...
The History Of Prahran
In this book, the residents of Prahran, past and present, tell something of their own stories. These are as diverse as Prahran itself. There are tales of wine and roses...
Cat Lady
[A WOMAN ALWAYS LANDS ON HER FEET] THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Get ready for CAT LADY, the brilliantly bold and joyful new novel from Dawn O'Porter 'Even speaking...