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A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s
A Nation in Waiting lifts the veil on Indonesia, Southeast Asia's quiet giant. Written in an engaging and easy-to-read style, it captures the fascinating debate in Indonesia today on where...
Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services
The knowledge that people in other places share the same experiences physically, emotionally, and socially is liberating and offers the opportunity to share practical information. This holds especially true for...
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis
In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental diseases. Infuriated by...
Doing Focus Groups
Focus groups are an ever popular method for collecting qualitative data in the social sciences. Doing Focus Groups provides practical advice on planning and organizing successful groups. Rose Barbour discusses...
Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth
This fascinating book takes a very different look at Australia's most popular sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman. Unlike the mostly reverent literature on 'The Don', this 2003 book explains how...
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned...
The God Desire
From the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count ' A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ' ALAIN DE BOTTON ' Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare ......
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian
'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers The Danes are the happiest people in the...
King: Story of a River: The Story of a River
All but destroyed by over 100 years of waste dumped from the Mt Lyell copper mine into it, the King River is being remediated with the hope that following the...
The Sociology of Journalism
Journalism is a privileged cultural form. It can bring down governments, influence wars, shift stock markets and destroy industries. It is the main source of our knowledge about the world...
The Writing On The Wall: China And The West In The 21St Century
China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace...
After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence
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Cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how...
One Letter Words: A Dictionary
Merriam-Webster, move over! Until now, no English dictionary ever found the fun or the fascination in revealing the meanings of letters. "One-Letter Words, A Dictionary" illuminates the more than 800...
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a
This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have...
The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq
In this seminal new work, Martin Shaw, a leading expert on the sociology of war, argues that the new Western way of war is in crisis. He charts the development...
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership
What is leadership? What are the secrets of the phenomenon by which one person can lead millions - sometimes to salvation, sometimes to destruction? Is leadership innate, or can it...
Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living
A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanity The mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated,...
Mobilities
Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies...
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World For the 21st Century
In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the...
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence? Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing... even smart...
Sociological Quest: An Introduction to the Study of Social Life
What is sociology? How do you 'do' sociology? Starting sociology can be daunting. This user-friendly introduction takes the reader on a quest towards a sociological understanding of the world we...
Where it Hurts
For over a decade, WHERE IT HURTS has provided a straightforward and accessible introduction to sociology for students of health and welfare studies. In this completely revised and expanded edition...
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, bestselling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America...
Help the Original Human Dilemma
It is the primal cry, the first word in a want ad, the last word on the toolbar of a computer screen. A song by the Beatles, a prayer to...
Politics, Order and History: Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin
This volume brings together critical review papers, many specially commissioned, on key themes and questions in the work of the political scientist, philosopher and religious thinker Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). Areas...
Evangelical Christianity in Australia
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The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown
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A cutting-edge exploration of how talent works and how it can be created and honed. 'Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually. In The Talent Code,...
Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital
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The Concise 48 Laws Of Power
The perfect gift book for the power hungry (and who doesn't want power?) at an excellent price. At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o'clock news:...
Contesting the Australian Way: States, Markets and Civil Society
Since the 1980s public policy has been perceived as being in a crisis of uncertainty. Many argue that consolidating the market imperative in both economic and social policy is the...
The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud's
The extraordinary life of a brilliant woman whose contributions to science have been lied about and misused-the Henrietta Lacks of psychoanalysis-and whose mental health struggles look different in light of...
Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and Understanding Data: United States Edition
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Anthropology and Political Economy: Theoretical and Asian Perspectives
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Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity
Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out,...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a...
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
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Measuring Progress: Is Life Getting Better, or Worse?
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Asia Pacific
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Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored
Author: Jeffrey Boakye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK. These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in...
Griffith Review 3: Webs of Power
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Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
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Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
The God Desire
Author: David Baddiel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 From the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count ' A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ' ALAIN...