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Crime and Punishment
The acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece for Penguin Classics 'Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her...
And He Loved Big Brother: Man, State And Society In Question
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of political philosophy and social theory, And He Loved Big Brother: Man, State and Society in Question presents...
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins
A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte...
Brothers
$20.00 AUD
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Community And Association
$70.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the foundational texts of modern sociology, Ferdinand Tönnies' Community and Association presents a landmark distinction that would reshape how...
Orlando: Popular Penguins
Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey...
The Brothers Bent
$15.00 AUD
Author: C. H. CurreyBinding: HardbackPublished: Sydney University Press, Sydney., 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThe historical novel The Brothers Bent chronicles the...
The Brothers Karamazoff
$250.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Binding poor. Internally sound. Plates intact. Few novels in the Western canon match...
The City
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark in the history of social thought, The City stands as the foundational text of the Chicago...
Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political
Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets...
Men Of Ideas: A Sociologist's View
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean to live a life devoted entirely to the power of ideas? Lewis A. Coser's Men of...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER
Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of
Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron John a national bestseller, poet, storyteller and translator Robert...
The Community: A Comparative Perspective
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to live within...
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its...
Community Studies
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of sociology and anthropology lies...
Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks...
The Sitwells: A Family's Biography
$25.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Good, bright with no tears or chips, minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark. Binding condition: Tight and secure. A richly...
Convicts And Colonial Society 1788-1853
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew chapters in human history are as raw and formative as the story of Australia's convict era —...
The Theory Of Social Structure
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of social science and structural theory, S. F. Nadel's The Theory of Social Structure stands as one of the most rigorous...
The History Men: The Historical Profession In England Since The Renaissance
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to write history — and who were the men who shaped that very question in England? The History Men chronicles...
Brothers and Sisters
$10.00 AUD
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The New Sociology: Essays In Social Science And Social Theory In Honor Of C. Wright Mills
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of intellectual rebellion and academic rigor, The New Sociology stands as a landmark...
Industrial Sociology: The Sociology Of Work Organizations
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: tears now repaired with non-acidic tape.At the crossroads of labour, power, and human organisation, Industrial Sociology: The Sociology...
The Torrens Park Estate: A Social And Architectural History (SIGNED)
$180.00 AUD
Author: Ken Preiss And Pamela ObornBinding: HardbackPublished: Ken Preiss And Pamela Oborn., 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: No. 601 of 1000...
Lives Of The English Poets
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English...
Social Life Of Early Christians
$80.00 AUD
Author: J.G.DaviesBinding: HardbackPublished: Lutterworth Press, London , 1964Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the lives of early Christians. It provides insights into their...
The Voyce Of The World
$50.00 AUD
Author: Sir Thomas BrowneBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2007Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book contains selected writings of Sir Thomas Browne. Geoffrey Keynes edits the...
Les Bourgeois Gentilshommes: An Essay On The Definition Of Elites In Renaissance France
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rigorous work of Renaissance social history, Les Bourgeois Gentilshommes presents a compelling argument about the fluid and contested nature of...
The Diehards: Aristocratic Society And Politics In Edwardian England
$45.00 AUD
Author: Gregory D. PhillipsBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1979Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the intricate world of the British aristocracy during the Edwardian...
Our Mutual Friend
$90.00 AUD
Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2005Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn "Our Mutual Friend," Charles Dickens crafts a richly layered work of historical fiction that interrogates...
Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to live in Australia — not as myth or national sentiment, but as a measurable, dissectable social reality? Australian Society: A...
The Class Structure Of The Advanced Societies
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most ambitious and rigorous works of social theory produced in the twentieth...
The Triads: The Story of the World's Deadliest Criminal Fraternity
An investigation into the activities of the Chinese triad secret societies. With access to a former senior Hong Kong police officer and other officers serving with the Triad Society Bureau,...
The Winding Passage: Essays And Sociological Journeys 1960-1980
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. From one of the twentieth century's most penetrating social thinkers comes a...
Radical Earnestness: English Social Theory 1880-1980
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to think seriously about society — and can earnestness itself be a radical act?...
Commitment And Community: Communes And Utopias In Sociological Perspective
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 3rd printingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it take for a community to survive — and what binds human beings together...
The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
$20.00 AUD
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The Brotherhood: Inside the Secret World of the Freemasons
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Friends And Brothers: A Life Of Gerard Kennedy Tucker Founder Of The Brotherhood Of St Laurence And Community Aid Abroad
$25.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded on spine - other jacket fineThis compelling biography, Friends & Brothers: A Life Of Father...
The Pick Of Punch
$20.00 AUD
Author: Miles KingtonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1998Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a curated collection of humor and satire. It showcases a range...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR' S CHOICE 'Essential...