Social Sciences

This is the story of rural Australians-their achievements, their setbacks and victories, the forces they must contend with and the rewards, so seldom material, for which they strive. It is...

As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They...

NigelBarley travels to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajanpeople, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate ancestor cults. At lasthe is following his own advice...

Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to get to know the...

In these provocative and engaging writings, Mr. Kramer explores, in effect, the intellectual history of the cold war and its divisive impact on our politics and culture. Tracing the critical...

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR 'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES 'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick...

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history. Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands...

The mental labor that keeps families afloat and why women do most of it. Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of 'models and bottles' to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status...

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business...

The great romance and fear of bloody revolution - a strange blend of idealism and terror - have been superseded by blind faith in the bloodless expansion of human rights...

A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner, carried the day. From Ned Kelly's words at his sentencing, to...

Following "Seeds of Change", with its investigation of the seminal role of plants in human social and economic history, Henry Hobhouse here focuses on the economic consequences of the exploitation...

This anthology provides an introduction to a variety of views about human nature, from various cultures over three millennia. It ranges from ancient religious texts down to contemporary theories based...

In Fantasy and Reality in History, Peter Loewenberg brings what the discipline of psychoanalysis has learned about human conduct and the irrational to bear on the analysis and writing of...

A narrative history of glass, from discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions to the present. It charts the history of the technology but also the enabling...

Feasts, banquets and grand dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious and spread joy at...

This is an introductory guide to the main theories of popular culture. It examines the main areas of contemporary popular cultural studies, such as the theories of Adorno and the...

Captain Rees Howell Gronow was a dandy, a debtor, a duelist and a raconteur who lived the high life in Regency London and Paris. He was also a talented writer...

At the end of the nineteenth century in China, amateur fossil hunters knew that a ready supply of fossils could be found in backstreet Chinese apothecaries. They were sold as...

The book titled Damn' Rebel Bitches: Women of the '45 by the author Maggie Craig. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

At the darkest moment of the year, when the nights seem endless and the days very short, comes that most joyful of festivals. Christmas is a truly magical season, bringing...

A portrait of 16th and 17th century Italian convent life, set in the vibrant culture of late Renaissance Venice. Early 16th century Venice had 50 convents and about 3000 nuns....

In the 1940s and 1950s, Australian pulp fiction jostled with magazines and comics at newsstands. Tariffs kept the local industry cheap and viable and offered Australian writers national and international...

The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer , one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese...

Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang...

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes...

A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five...

Now available in paperback, The Earth Shall Weep is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples. Combining traditional historical sources with new insights from ethnography, archaeology, Indian...

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Soviet literary scholarship, Антология Чартистской Литературы (Anthology of Chartist Literature) presents a carefully curated collection of writings drawn...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA vivid and candid work of colonial memoir, Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rigorous work of historical and political scholarship, this study examines the ideological tensions within the German Social Democratic Party...