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The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds?
Drawing on ten years of immersion in the topic, Nordell digs into the cognitive science and social psychology that underpin efforts to eliminate bias, meets the people working to end...
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters
The internet is no longer new, it is part of our everyday lives, and as a commonplace, we rarely take time to contemplate what we have made together. In these...
A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion
Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation....
Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for
*A TELEGRAPH , GQ , NEW YORKER AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A Pilgrim's Progress for our time . . . A captivating narrative of discovery' Telegraph 'A book...
You Are Not Alone: The Sunday Times bestseller, from the host of
NEW STATESMAN , THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ' The friend you need when you're grieving - full of heart and hope ' PHILIPPA PERRY '...
Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky
'An exhilarating exploration of how we've been touched by the cosmos across human history' LEWIS DARTNELL 'Combines scientific expertise with vivid storytelling and a childlike wonder that shines on every...
A Women's History of the Beatles
Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ) A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer...
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor
This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's...
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up...
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
How can statistics help us understand the world? Can we come to reliable conclusions when data is imperfect? How is statistics changing in the age of data science? Statistics has...
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and...
Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist
A thrilling, cinematic saga of a Southern belle whose espionage for Abraham Lincoln and the Union helped win the Civil War. Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all....
Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the
The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and...
The Meaning Of Tango: The Story of the Argentinian Dance
From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration...
Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It
Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it often difficult for working people...
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About
Whether you want to criticise, kill, or use AI, you have to get through the hype and uncover the real story. Start with labour: in automation theory, a centaur is...
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American
A New York Times Bestseller A Cosmopolitan Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 'Compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel' The Wall Street Journal 'Riveting' Financial Times...
The Anti-Social Family
The stereotypical nuclear family is in the minority of households, yet remains a powerful ideology. This classic of socialist feminism charts how the family reinforces conditions of inequality, and asks:...
Eviction: A Social History of Rent
In 2017, Jessica Field's parents and 69 of their neighbours received warning of imminent eviction. Their corporate landlord sought to demolish their affordable private rented homes and replace them with...
A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of
Today, more than ever, people are crossing Europe in search of work. They are often protrayed as peasants, or unreliable day labour. But what does the Western world look to...
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses...
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City
Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of...
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy
Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and...
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy
Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and...
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the
The Language Game overturns established thought, showing how our language derives from the chaos of improvisation rather than from a built-in grammar or language instinct Drawing on wonderfully entertaining and...
On Our Best Behaviour: From the host of Pulling The Thread
Stop trying to be "good." Start living freely. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning, big and bold encyclopaedia of how to live' LISA TADDEO 'Astute, radical and utterly...
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot
'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW 'My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read...
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
' A fascinating book about four women - it tells us so much about their world, and about our own... What jumps off the page is the liveliness of the...
Born: The Untold History of Humanity
'Shaped by meticulous research, Inglis writes with clarity, pace and a sharp eye for surprising details.' - Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen and Uproar 'Deeply researched, smart, poignant, and witty.'...
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold
An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped...
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern
Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an...
The Great Resignation: The New Refusal of Work
Based on the experiences of workers, this book analyzes the reasons behind the unexpected growth of the 'great resignation' and demonstrates how resigning today not only prevents exploitative conditions from...
An Introduction to Social Anthropology: Sharing Our Worlds
An essential core textbook that leads the reader from Social Anthropology 's foundational approaches and theories to the fundamental areas that characterise the field today. Taking a truly global and...
Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World
#1 Bestselling author, smart thinking guru and TED podcast superstar, Adam Grant provides a guide for successful relationships in all areas of life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam...
The Collected Works Of Thomas Welsby (Two-Volume Set)
$300.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: dj repaired with tapes; binding remains tight; clean copies. Few figures capture the pioneering spirit of early Queensland quite like...
Historical Records Of Victoria: Foundation Series, 2A & 2B
$90.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark contribution to the documentary record of early colonial Australia, Historical Records of...
Princesses
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the gilded courts of Europe to the jewelled palaces of the East, Princesses presents a captivating portrait of royal women throughout...
The Passionate Epicure: La Vie Et La Passion De Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet
$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: clipped, chipped dj with some insect damage; binding remains tight; clean textFew novels have ever...
Lillee: Over And Out!
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew names in cricket history carry the thunder of Dennis Lillee's, and Lillee: Over and Out! stands as the definitive final word from one...
Economic History Of Europe
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the ancient trade routes of the Mediterranean to the industrial revolutions that reshaped the...
The Prophecies Of The Brahan Seer: Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche
$30.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Scottish folklore loom as large or as mysteriously as Coinneach Odhar — the Brahan Seer — a seventeenth-century Highland prophet...
Richard Burton: A Life
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: tidy ex-lib copy. Few careers in twentieth-century theatre and cinema burn as brightly — or as turbulently —...
Human Development And Learning
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to grow, think, and learn — and how do...
They Dreamt Of A School: A Centenary History Of Methodist Ladies' College Kew 1882-1982
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA century of dreams, discipline, and distinction unfolds in this landmark institutional history, chronicling the remarkable journey of Methodist Ladies' College in...
The Journal Of Beatrix Potter: From 1881 To 1897
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerLong before Peter Rabbit bounded into the world's imagination, Beatrix Potter was quietly recording her own world in a secret...
Records Of The Castlemaine Pioneers
$25.00 AUD
Edition: one of a thousand certified copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched goldfields of Victoria's Mount Alexander district, a generation of extraordinary men and women carved...
Child Development And Personality
$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of science and human experience stands Child Development and Personality,...
Great Short Stories Of Australia And New Zealand
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the vast red deserts of the Australian outback to the mist-shrouded fjords of New Zealand's South Island, Great Short Stories of Australia and...