At Home: A Short History of Private Life Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the r ...Show more
Aboriginal Self-Determination: The Whiteman's Dream by Gary Johns
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
"The old Law was not about human rights. It was about unconditional loyalty and obedience ⦠We still respect and honour our ancestors and want to keep our culture. But my people are confused. If they go the blackfella way they break whitefella law, if they go whitefella way they break blackfella law. ...Show more
The Lucky Culture and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class by Nick Cater
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
Countries don't get lucky; people do. The secret of Australia's good fortune is not found in its geography or history. The key to its success is the Australian character, the nation's greatest renewable resource. Liberated from the constraints of the old world, Australia's pioneers mined their reserves ...Show more
Infidelity by Hugh Mackay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Through a chance meeting at the Royal Academy, Tom Harper makes friends with Sarah Delacour. An esteemed scholar of children's rhymes, Sarah is beautiful, smart and charming. She is also the wife of a terminally ill millionaire, who keeps her close with the promise of a large inheritance. Tom falls deep ...Show more
GottlandMostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia by Mariusz Szczygiel
$54.99 AUD
Category: European
"Extraordinary, hypnotizing and disturbing tales."A cultural history of Czechoslovakia, told through the stories of artists, writers, and performers whose lives were completely and often strangely altered by the various pressures of the times.The story of Eduard Kirchberger is one of the fascinating and ...Show more
CivilityManners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy by Stephen L. Carter
$31.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
Utopia Experiment by Dylan Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
In 2007 Dr Dylan Evans, a respected behavioural psychologist, and an expert on robots and artificial intelligence, was sectioned at a hospital in Aberdeen. The following morning he sat at breakfast with six other psychiatric inmates - one of whom was heavily tattooed and sporting bleeding knuckles - mus ...Show more
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew B. Crawford
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
It's time to rethink our attitudes to work. For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology. And yet many of us are not suited to of ...Show more
Happiness Industry - How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. In the recent DSM 5, the charter of all diagnosable mental illnesses for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of ourage, a new rel ...Show more
Kin by Nick Brodie
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
When author and historian Nick Brodie traced his own family tree, he began to see the pattern of European settlement in Australia. As he learnt about the generations of his family, Nick uncovered the social and cultural contexts and historic circumstances that shaped his ancestors: the Irish, the convic ...Show more
Advanced Australia the Politics of Ageing by Mark Butler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Advanced Australia explores the politics of ageing in Australia. The addition of 25 years to average life expectancy in Australia over the past century is a monumental achievement, but many commentators are greeting the prospect of Australians living longer with horror. The ageing of Australia's baby bo ...Show more