Social Sciences

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew aspects of Scottish cultural identity are as visually arresting and historically layered as Highland dress, and John Telfer Dunbar's authoritative study...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom the sun-scorched plains of early colonial settlement to the blood-soaked battlefields of Gallipoli and beyond, An Eyewitness History of Australia presents...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the earliest bronze-tipped spears of ancient Mesopotamia to the laser-guided missiles of the modern age, Weapons: An...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThere is a rhythm to the countryside that most modern lives have forgotten — A Countryman's Year by Alan C. Jenkins restores it, guiding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodNestled at the crossroads of ancient trade routes in the Arabian Gulf, Bahrain harbours a surprisingly rich and varied natural world —...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its origins as a fledgling colonial institution to a titan of Australian academia, A Place of Light & Learning: The University of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedPublished to mark a defining milestone in the story of Australia's Sunshine State, Queensland: Daughter of the Sun stands...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew ancient texts have shaped human understanding of love, desire, and connection as profoundly as the Kama Sutra, and The Love...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the internet age democratised the sharing of stories, Australia's rich oral traditions — its bush yarns, larrikin legends,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the first ore-smelting fires of prehistoric man to the gleaming steel and silicon of the modern industrial age, Out of the Fiery...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFour million years of human evolution come startlingly to life in Walking With Cavemen: Eye-to-Eye With Your Ancestors, the landmark companion volume to the acclaimed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the campaign in the Soudan in 1885 to the triumph of Bradman's dazzling innings and the world rejoicing at victory in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a single idea rewires the entire human world? The Day the Universe Changed is James Burke's sweeping, intellectually audacious history of ten...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the sun-drenched shores of a newly federated nation to the tumultuous decades that shaped a modern identity, This Fabulous...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased coverA landmark reference work in the field of deaf communication, Dictionary of Australasian Signs: For Communication...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the maps that guided history's greatest explorers were themselves copies of something far older — charts...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before the age of digital entertainment, the arrival of a travelling circus was the most thrilling event a small Australian town could witness...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the pharaohs of Egypt commanded the ancient world, a powerful civilisation flourished to the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; faded coverStep back in time and witness a vanishing world captured through the unassuming lens of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the dawn of a new era, when a king reclaimed his throne and a city pulsed with reinvented energy, Restoration London transports readers into...

One of NPR's Best Books of 2017 The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popularity of Botox The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery estimates there are...

Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting this Aegean...

This social history looks at African slavery and the Atlantic slave trade which, in the space of 300 years, transported more than 11 million Africans to the Americas and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the turbulent backdrop of Australia's Federation era at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of law, anthropology, and Indigenous rights, Neither Justice Nor Reason presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of the legal frameworks governing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedLong before the modern world cast its shadow over the highlands and coastal villages of Papua New Guinea, a remarkable land of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerVictorian London springs vividly to life in Mayhew's London, a masterfully curated selection drawn from Henry Mayhew's monumental...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of the most astonishing true stories of survival and defiance ever committed to the page, Papillon chronicles the harrowing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent decades between 1850 and 1891, Melbourne transformed from a fledgling colonial outpost into one of the most prosperous and ambitious cities...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep back five thousand years into the cradle of civilization — Land of the Pharaohs by Leonard Cottrell is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched, untamed landscape of mid-nineteenth-century Australia, two voices rise from the dust to tell a story of courage,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA remarkable piece of English sporting heritage, History of Cricket in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew memoirs capture the raw beauty of displacement and reinvention quite like The Winter Sparrows: Growing Up in Scotland & Australia. Mary Rose Liverani chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBritain in the 1970s is a nation gripped by stagnation, disillusionment, and economic collapse — and Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age captures this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the most compelling evidence for UFOs lies not in the skies, but in the minds of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to stand apart from the crowd? Being Different, edited by Gary Wetherspoon, presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great fortune lies a story of audacity, obsession, and hard-won wisdom — and few stories illuminate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn into a traditional Papua New Guinean village at the dawn of the twentieth century, Alice Wedega's life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to be a writer in an age of upheaval, war, modernism, and shifting moral landscapes? The Writer in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of idealism and political machinery, The Amateur Democrat: Club Politics in Three Cities presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSome lives are not merely lived — they are survived, reconstructed, and ultimately transformed into something approaching grace....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as picturedIn the vast and sun-scorched landscape of Australia, a nation's soul is forged not in boardrooms or parliaments, but around campfires,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most remarkable voices to emerge from colonial Southeast Asia, Raden Adjeng Kartini wrote with a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Removable protective plastic coveringFrom the medieval trade routes of the Mediterranean to the thundering factories of the Industrial Revolution, Economic History of Europe presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Age tanning throughoutWhat does it mean to live and work inside the vast machinery of modern bureaucracy? The Organizational Society presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an era of increasingly interconnected global economies, Ralph C. Bryant's Money and Monetary Policy in Interdependent Nations...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to grow up American — shaped by institutions, ideals, and the quiet contradictions...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Protective covering over dust jacket (removable)For over a century, the rolling fields and ancient farmsteads of Sussex were alive with the sound of...