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Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

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Author: T. H. MarshallBinding: SoftbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1967, Second EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsOriginally published in 1965, this classic text provides a masterly analysis of the development...
God is an Englishman: So Why is England in Such a Mess?

God is an Englishman: So Why is England in Such a Mess?

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Author: Donald HorneBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1969Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn this book, Donald Horne explores the cultural and political landscape of England during the...
Is Peace Inevitable?: Aggression, Evolution, and Human Destiny

Is Peace Inevitable?: Aggression, Evolution, and Human Destiny

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Author: Santiago GenovesBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen and Unwin, 1972, First U.K. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the interplay between human aggression and the potential for...
Iwenhe Tyerrtye: What It Means to Be an Aboriginal Person

Iwenhe Tyerrtye: What It Means to Be an Aboriginal Person

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Author: Margaret Kemarre Turner; Barry McDonald PerrurleBinding: SoftbackPublished: IAD Press, 2010Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the significance of Aboriginal identity and culture through...
Crisis Of A Kashmiri Muslim: Spiritual And Intellectual

Crisis Of A Kashmiri Muslim: Spiritual And Intellectual

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Author: Muhammad Ishaq KhanBinding: HardbackPublished: Gulshan Books, 2008, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the spiritual and intellectual challenges faced by Kashmiri Muslims, providing...
The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne

The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne

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Author: Graeme DavisonBinding: SoftbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1984, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsIn this classic work of Australian social history, Graeme Davison explores the economic, political,...
From the Prophets Deserts Come; The Struggle to Reshape Australian Political Culture

From the Prophets Deserts Come; The Struggle to Reshape Australian Political Culture

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Author: Boris FrankelBinding: SoftbackPublished: Arena Publications, 1992Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the evolution of Australian political culture and examines how various ideological movements have...
Is the World Full Yet? (SIGNED)

Is the World Full Yet? (SIGNED)

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Author: Graeme RobinBinding: HardbackPublished: Graeme Robin, 2014, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIs the World Full Yet? explores the pressing questions about overpopulation and resource management. Graeme...
Sweet & Simple Pleasures

Sweet & Simple Pleasures

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Author: Brian McKinlayBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins Dove, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAustralian Entertainment In Colonial Times.
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop

Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware (SIGNED)

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'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity

How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female (SIGNED)

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Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century?As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes by the likes of Michelangelo and Titian,...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era (SIGNED)

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'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
Shrink Your Worries: A Child's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

Shrink Your Worries: A Child's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

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A worry-busting guide to help 7+-year-olds calm anxious thoughts and fearsWorry is a part of being human, but high levels of stress and anxiety can hold your child back. Equipping...
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for

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'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The Times From the Satanic...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

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This book is the hard conversation we must have.In 2020 we have seen clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the...
Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies

Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies

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A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America, from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyondFrom the pumpkin pie gracing the Thanksgiving table to the...
Institutional Shareholders and Corporate Governance

Institutional Shareholders and Corporate Governance

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In Defense of Globalization

In Defense of Globalization

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Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

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Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents are Rarely Accidental

Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents are Rarely Accidental

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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

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So You've Been Publicly Shamed

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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Mother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction

Mother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction

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Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism

Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism

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The Sex Lives Of Australians: A History,

The Sex Lives Of Australians: A History,

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City Limits: Why Australia's cities are broken and how we can fix them

City Limits: Why Australia's cities are broken and how we can fix them

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Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

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The Making of Modern Australia

The Making of Modern Australia

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The Wailing: A National Black Oral History

The Wailing: A National Black Oral History

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Myths of the Far East

Myths of the Far East

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Fidelity's World

Fidelity's World

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Myths of North American Indians

Myths of North American Indians

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Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic

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WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild world of 1970s fashion

Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild

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Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

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'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.' Annie Lennox OBE'Smart and courageous, this book should be on everyone's must-read list.' Naomi...
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020

The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020

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Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...
The Crimean War and Irish society

The Crimean War and Irish society

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The purpose of this book is to produce what is essentially a 'home front' study of Ireland during the Crimean War, or more specifically Irish society's responses to that conflict....
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson...
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War

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Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...
Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era

Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the

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Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic...
Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

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The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations,...
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis

The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis

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A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr Conspiracy In 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed...
Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England: Achieving a Joined-up Realm

Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England: Achieving

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Focused on the period between 1500 and 1700, Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England documents the unprecedented growth that occurred in road travel by all sections of...
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

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The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in...
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation

Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation

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A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital...
The Little Book of the 1960s: Peace, Love and Revolution

The Little Book of the 1960s: Peace, Love and Revolution

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Make love, not war.At the heart of the 1960s was a desire for change, a yearning for a new way of living and a rejection of the old order. From...
No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYA "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban...
Grow Your Confidence: A Child's Guide to Finding Courage

Grow Your Confidence: A Child's Guide to Finding Courage

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A mood-boosting, confidence-building companion to help 7+-year-olds become their happiest selvesConfidence is something many people struggle with throughout their lives. Supporting children as they face this challenge can help them...