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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...

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...

Why are trans women the most targeted of LGBT people? Why are they in the crosshairs of a resurgent anti-trans politics around the world? And what is to be done...

By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience...

' An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY 'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm. Olia Hercules...

'[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book...Mount makes for a delightful guide' -- Literary Review From troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned essayist Ferdinand...

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR How did America end up trapped in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, in which millions see the government as an evil 'deep state'?...

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She learns about hunting and endurance, Inuit languages, legends and ghosts. Conjuring up Greenland's cruel, beautiful landscape, she shows that it is a land endowed with magical and mysterious properties....

The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one...

Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu . Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it mean to belong to a place — to feel its soil beneath your feet, its stories threaded through your...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Unclipped djWhat does it mean to truly know another person — and what happens in the quiet, unguarded...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition: ex-library copy showing honest wear consistent...

Edition: No. 37 of 50 Limited Numbered and Signed copies. Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: SignedFrom one of Australia's most idiosyncratic and underappreciated literary voices comes A Change for the...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: unclipped dj (9s.6d.net). Boards: square and clean; binding remains tight. 272pp. In the cramped, sun-baked slums of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingThe Slow Natives is a searing portrait of suburban Australian life, chronicling the quiet disintegration of the Leverson family —...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedFew books have shaken the Western world's understanding of China as profoundly as Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China — an...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedAt the crossroads of national identity and democratic ambition, Tom Keneally's Our Republic presents a passionate and penetrating argument for Australia's transformation...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedAgainst all odds and with an indomitable spirit, a young boy in rural Australia refuses to let polio define...

Smuggling conjures up images of romance and rebellion. Moving beyond this popular conception, Smuggling: Seven Centuries of Contraban d presents the bigger picture of this clandestine trade. It focuses on...

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the history of Ireland. Written by a team of more than 80 distinguished historians, its 1800 entries explore every aspect...

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...

'Delightful ... Venner builds an excellent narrative of a city that was thriving and bustling with life at the very point it was snuffed out.' The Times We all know...

'A powerful and timely book' PETER KENNARD 'Really good read' DERMOT O'LEARY 'Tremendous...it strikes me it fills a gap somehow' AL MURRAY 'Fantastic' DOMINIC SANDBROOK Delve into the history, politics,...

Discover the story of London from behind the scenes. Imagine sitting across from a 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth on the District Line, or being overtaken by Muhammad Ali on his morning...

'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of biology, anthropology, and evolutionary science stands Primates: Studies in Adaptation and Variability, a landmark academic anthology that brings together some...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when two of history's most brutal systems of human bondage are placed side by side under the same scholarly lens? Peter Kolchin's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most intimate firsthand accounts of a revolutionary in flight, With Trotsky in Exile: From Prinkipo to Coyoacán chronicles seven tumultuous years...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the intersection of Cold War politics and Soviet ideological history stands one of the most comprehensive documentary records ever assembled of the Communist Party of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat separates a fully realised theory of human personality from mere speculation? Salvatore R. Maddi's Personality Theories: A Comparative Analysis presents a rigorous, systematic examination of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFor anyone determined to uncover the roots of their Australian ancestry, Tracing Your Family History in Australia: A Guide to Sources is an indispensable and authoritative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn a literary landscape dominated by towering male voices, Evelyn Waugh's complex, often contradictory portrayals of women stand as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew Australian cities carry the weight of history as richly as Bathurst — the nation's oldest inland settlement — and The Story of Bathurst...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSpanning thousands of years of migration, conquest, and cultural assimilation, The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People presents a sweeping historical account of how...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does marriage truly mean — and can it survive the modern world? In The Future of Marriage, pioneering sociologist Jessie Bernard delivers a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew moments in modern history carry the seismic weight...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the ghost of feudal tradition, Heaven, Hell and Hara-Kiri: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Superstate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to occupy a place in Australian society — and who decides? Status and Prestige in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the rugged highlands of Victoria, where gold once lured thousands of hopeful prospectors into the wilderness, lies a story of ambition, community, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsWhat does it truly take to build a society worthy of its people — and what happens when we settle...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of socialist ideology and ecological thought, From Red to Green captures the intellectual evolution of one of East Germany's most provocative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of policy, practice, and pedagogy, Educational Administration in Australia and Abroad: Analyses and Challenges presents a rigorous and wide-ranging examination of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in modern history burned as brightly — and fell as catastrophically — as Leon Trotsky, the revolutionary titan whose brilliance, passion, and tragedy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of psychology, cognition, and human behaviour, the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: 1971 presents a landmark collection of scholarly papers drawn from one of...