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Our Tribal Future: How to channel our human instinct into a force for
An astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism - and how we can learn to harness this powerful instinct to improve the world around us What do you...
Ladyboys: The Secret World of Thailand's Third Gender
$12.00 AUD
This extraordinary book offers intimate details of the lives that they've never publicly revealed. They talk about the choices they've made, their relationships, families, frustrations and hopes. The stories include...
The Mummy, The
The Mummy follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age to the present day, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture, films and literature,...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
$20.00 AUD
This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
$25.00 AUD
The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained...
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020
**Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year 'An entertaining, thorough and informative canter through the characters...
The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays
This work offers a look at the history of Georgia through over 100 primary documents. ""The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays"" offers teachers of...
Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences
`It is a very impressive book. Its coverage of contemporary discourses of fatherhood is comprehensive. The theoretical stance is one that allows for complexity and fluidity. The authors write well,...
One of the Crowd: A Personal View of Newspapers
In One of the Crowd, Martin Flanagan gathers some of his best early journalism into a sharp, funny and observant portrait of Australia as seen from inside the newspaper world....
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged
The Sunday Times bestsellerTHE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age by...
Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960
This book is the first comprehensive history of Australian education systems, programs and policies of the period since 1960. The narrative of changes in schooling, training and university life is...
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and...
An Introduction to Social Anthropology: Other People's Worlds
'Brilliant! This is just the book I have been looking for...good format and layout, and is reasonably priced.' - Dr D. Burnett, All Nationas Christian College 'Brilliant examples. I've already...
Motherhood: There's Only One Thing Worse Than Having Children...Not
The book titled Motherhood: There's Only One Thing Worse Than Having Children...Not by the author Trish Sheppard. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge
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What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning , Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
Domino Effect
Shows how Domino's Pizza has achieved success through its innovative delivery system and the personnel policies that support it.
United States Coastguard in World War II
Originally published in 1957, this intimate view of the Coast Guard's dramatic World War II record has long been considered a classic. Out of print for years, it is once...
Past and Present: The Construction of Aboriginality
$40.00 AUD
This book examines Aboriginal identity in various forums: in discourse, education, juvenile institutions, geographic locations, myths, and land-rights actions.
Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration Between India and
Descendants of indentured labourers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad's population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian,...
CULTURE HEALTH & ILLNESS 3RD ED
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Building on the success of the first two editions, the author has undertaken a complete revision of the book whilst retaining its readable style, and has also taken the opportunity...
The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London
Were things really better in the good old days? The nineteenth century was a time when there were not only massive gulfs being created between the upper, middling and working...
Never Had it So Good 1956-63: A History of Britain from Suez to the
In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD...
Counter Revolution: Tesco Story
Founded by Jack Cohen 70 years ago, Tesco has developed from street market to corner, shop, self-sevice to supermarket and Green Shield stamps, superstore to hypermarket. Superficially a story of...
Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan
-- Paul Farmer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
The Concept of Race in South Asia
$120.00 AUD
South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation. Nor, recently, have...
Pathways: Approaches to the Study of Society in India
$15.00 AUD
Intellectual traditions grow through a process of critical assessment, and Pathways: Approaches to the Study of Society in India is an important contribution in this area. The autobiographical element makes...
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and
Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on...
Magic, Science, and Health : The Aims and Achievements of Medical
Students will not need prior courses in medical anthropology to use this introductory book. Not only is it soundly based in the history of anthropological theory and method in general,...
The Lonely Hunter: how our search for love is broken
A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. "So what's...
When Our Children Come out: How to Support Gay Lesbian Bisexual and
How do we support our young people as they struggle with issues around the sexuality? For many of them, the process of 'coming out' to their families, schools and communities...
Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches
'Owen and Roger's understanding of the various forms of evaluation is as insightful as it is useful. Program Evaluation is an engaging read; an evaluator's delight. I couldn't it put...
The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There
A journey across Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, revealing key moments throughout our history Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales....
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our
How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it and make smarter decisions. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases...
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...
The Hong Kong Diaries
The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD, IN EUROPE, ASIA AND AUSTRALIA. In A Series of Letters from Java, Singapore, China, Bengal, Egypt, The Holy Land, The Crimea and Its Battle-Grounds, England, Melbourne, Sydney, etc., etc.
$150.00 AUD
Author: George Francis TrainBinding: HardbackPublished: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1857Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Damaged green...
Psychology And Community Change: Challenges Of The Future
$60.00 AUD
Author: Kenneth Heller, Richard H. Price, Shulamit Reinharz, Stephanie Riger, Abraham WandersmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Wadsworth Publishing, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic work,...
Store: A Memoir Of America's Great Department Stores
$60.00 AUD
Author: Nan Tillson BirminghamBinding: HardbackPublished: G. P. Putnam's Sons., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor foxing to page edges, slight...
Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs The World
$25.00 AUD
Author: Avi JorischBinding: HardbackPublished: Gefen Publishing House, 2018Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction work, Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs The World, chronicles the remarkable spirit...
Guerrilla
$40.00 AUD
Author: Charles W ThayerBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, London , 1964Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerGuerrilla by Charles W Thayer presents...
The Luck Of The Draw: A Centenary Of Tattersall's Sweeps 1881-1981
$15.00 AUD
Author: Trevor WilsonBinding: HardbackPublished: T Wilson Publishing Company, South Yara, VIC, 1980Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slightly yellow book block. Fading of cloth board. Firm spine....
Old Goriot
$25.00 AUD
Author: BalzacBinding: HardbackPublished: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanning and foxing on top of book block.A poignant work of 19th-century French realism,...
The Horse Of Pride: Life In A Breton Village
$30.00 AUD
Author: Pierre-Jakez HéliasBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cover has some light general wear and sticker remnants on back, previous owner name...
Sex And The Young
$20.00 AUD
Author: Marie StopesBinding: HardbackPublished: G P Putnam's Sons, 1929Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards with minor...
Olympic Odyssey: The Olympic Story As Told By The Stars Themselves From 1896 To 1956
$20.00 AUD
Author: Stan TomlinBinding: HardbackPublished: Messrs. Bovril Limited, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has general wear and tear and foxing, pages have foxingOlympic...