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Power and the Palace: The explosive and revelatory new royal book that
'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems'...
Bonded by Evolution: What We've Got Wrong About Love and Connection
A ground-breaking look at the science of love and connection - and an urgent corrective to some of our most fundamental assumptions about attraction A ground-breaking look at the science...
How To Raise an Antiracist
From the author of the bestselling international phenomenon How To Be an Antiracist, a ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future How...
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *Now with a fun pub quiz* 'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The...
Our Voices From The Heart: The authorised story of the community
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before...
Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook: All the Best (and Most
The ultimate book for the sandwich connoisseur (or even the sandwich curious): nearly 100 recipes spanning the centuries, from the most well-known to obscure but delicious sandwiches. Ah, sandwiches. They're...
Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying
$12.00 AUD
The "art of dying" and the posthumous journey of the soul have been the subject of extensive literature and visualization in many cultures. "Dying before dying", or practice in dying,...
Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History
A revelatory history traversing the ancient roots of Islam in Europe This revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean. Our odyssey begins...
Mexico: A History
This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution It begins in 1511 with the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucatan. Only ten...
Capitalism: A Global History
A brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years A Financial Times Book of the Year No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively...
Gunantuna: Aspects of the Person, the Self and the Individual among
The book titled Gunantuna: Aspects of the Person, the Self and the Individual among by the author A.L. Epstein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Hyde Park Gate News: The Stephen Family Newspaper
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...
Not a Hazardous Sport: Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia
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...
The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of
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...
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both...
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime
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...
Sex Collectors
$20.00 AUD
Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforum or stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world...
What's on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life
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...
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
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...
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
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...
Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years
$20.00 AUD
The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
$60.00 AUD
Among the least-chronicled aspects of post - World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Young Soviet veterans had returned from...
From the Jaws of Defeat: Amazing Comebacks and Inspiring Capitulations
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...
Seeds of Wealth
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...
The Black Death
The book titled The Black Death by the author Robert Steven Gottfried. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Study of Human Nature: A Reader
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...
Fantasy and Reality in History
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...
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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The book titled Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by the author Katie Hickman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: A Mayan Shaman's Journey to the Heart
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Twenty-five years ago, a young musician and painter named Martmn Prechtel wandered through the brilliant landscapes of Mexico and Guatemala. Little did he know he was traveling toward a destiny...
Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting
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...
Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture
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...
The Story of Peking Man
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...
Damn' Rebel Bitches: Women of the '45
$30.00 AUD
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.
A Victorian Christmas
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...
Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance
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....
Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers
$80.00 AUD
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 City in Slang
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...
The Spirit of Prague
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...
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five
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...
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America
$20.00 AUD
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...
The Commonwealth Public Service
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Poor Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageUnknown
Primitive Art
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Poor , ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA foundational work in the field of art history and anthropology,...
Origins Of The Sexual Impulse
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA bold work of philosophical and psychological inquiry, Origins of the Sexual Impulse argues...
The Holy Barbarians
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of cultural journalism and social criticism, The Holy Barbarians chronicles the Beat Generation subculture of Venice West, California, presenting...
Slipstream
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping work of Australian literary fiction, Slipstream chronicles the life of a man shaped by the vast, unforgiving landscapes...
The Home Of Mankind: The Story Of The World We Live In
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA sweeping work of popular geography and natural history, The Home of Mankind: The Story of the World We Live In presents...
Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later, Both By The Original Discoverer Of The Country And By His Son
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA satirical Victorian novel, Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later, Both By The Original Discoverer Of The Country And By His...
An Anthology Of Chartist Literature
$25.00 AUD
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...