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Against the Odds: Poverty in Addis Ababa
Klaus Serr, Associate Professor of Sociology at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, explores the conditions facing some of the world's most deprived people - the poor in Ethiopia. This book...
View from the Second Row
The most capped All Black in history speaks for the record about his storied career, spanning four World Cups, nine Super Rugby finals and 153 appearances in the black jersey....
The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide
The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book...
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
These 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late18th century and the present day. They include Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labour history and social...
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
The book titled Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by the author John D'Emilio. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
The Soul of a Woman
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The Soul of a Woman
_______________ 'An autobiographical meditation on feminism, power and womanhood ... Full of Isabel's wisdom and warm words' - Grazia 'In her small, potent polemic . . . Isabel Allende writes...
Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You
The difficulty of raising kids in America is well-known-no federally supported parental leave, a lack of mental health support, a crushing combination of workplace pressure and aspirational parental perfection, and...
Three Women: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
The Age of Algorithms
Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, society. They upset the concepts...
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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#1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal , bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the...
Interpreting Quantitative Data
How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the 'do's' and 'don'ts' of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book offers students...
Climate Change and Society
This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the...
Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South
As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy...
Darwin'S Worms
Loss is a permanent presence in all our lives. But is there too much suffering in the world - or just the right amount?Adam Phillips has been called the 'psychotherapist...
Making Sense of Nature
We listen to a cacophony of voices instructing us how to think and feel about nature, including our own bodies. The news media, wildlife documentaries, science magazines, and environmental NGOs...
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" ( Time ). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual...
The Australian Miracle: An Innovative Nation Revisited
In Australia we believe that we are clever - an innately inventive and original people. Yet in recent years an extraordinary pessimism has grown within the national psyche - that...
The Dominion of the Dead
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the...
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
The book titled The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by the author A. Alvarez. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life
The book titled Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life by the author Debbie Ford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Fractured: How We Learn to Live Together
'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.' David Lammy MP This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the...
The Hollow Heart: The True Story of How One Woman's Desire to Have a
In three attempts at in-vitro fertilisation, Martina Devlin lost nine 'maybe babies'. But she also lost her marriage and her dreams of becoming a mother. "The Hollow Heart" is the...
People Smart: Powerful Techniques for Turning Every Encounter into a
The book titled People Smart: Powerful Techniques for Turning Every Encounter into a by the author Tony Alessandra. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
* 'This refreshing, unusual book needs to exist. A culture shift which repositions a single person as someone who is relationship-free, complete, and not lacking is long overdue.' - The...
Over Work: Transforming the daily grind in the quest for a better life
'Fantastic' - Cal Newport 'A bold vision ... lights the way to fewer hours, less stress, and more meaning' - Adam Grant Workers across all demographics, industries, and socioeconomic levels...
The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World
Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world,...
A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings
Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and philosophy. Some...
Trump and Us: What He Says and Why People Listen
Why did 62 million Americans vote for Donald Trump? Trump and Us offers a fresh perspective on this question, taking seriously the depth and breadth of Trump's support. An expert...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and
Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world today. From its ancient indigenous origins to British colonisation followed by waves of European then international migration in...
What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the
A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, this "moving and deeply relatable" (Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country...
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry
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Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a...
Stepmonster: a New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act
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An honest and groundbreaking guide to understanding the complicated emotions that develop between stepmothers and children. When faced with often overwhelming challenges, what woman with stepchildren is unfamiliar with that...
The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience
The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It , Emma and Nicole explore race...
Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations
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Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers...
The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship
A father wounded in his psychological development, Linda Leonard believes, cannot often give his daughter the care and guidance she needs. Using examples from her own life and her work...
Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad
The New York Times bestselling author and human performance expert tests his knowledge and theories on his own aging body in a quest to become an expert skier at age...
Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of
During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020-2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the...
Children in Changing Families: Life After Parental Separation
At time when separation and divorce are increasingly common, this book supplies much-needed insights into why some children survive change in families better than others.
Living within Limits
We fail to mandate economic sanity, " writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology...
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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In hisNew York Times bestseller, National Magazine Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the...
Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our
Friends. Lovers. Therapists. 'Deathbots'. AI is taking on unprecedented roles for millions of us every day - but how are these new 'relationships' rewiring us? Beyond those who are using...
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty
From one of the most important contemporary thinkers we have, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as...
The Sex Myth: Why Everything We're Told is Wrong
Is there any truth to the epidemic of sex addiction? Are our children really getting sexualised younger? Are men the only ones who like porn? Brooke Magnanti looks at all...
A Beginner's Guide to the End: How to Live Life to the Full and Die a
" I wish I'd had this book when I needed it. Death and dying are not subjects that many people are comfortable talking about, but it's hugely important to be...
Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a
From Dr. Martha Stout's influential work The Sociopath Next Door , we learned how to identify a sociopath. Now she tells us what to actually do about it. While the...