The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery by Sarah Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
An inspiring book about what it means to be human as we struggle for mastery in our various spheres.
Peace-making and the Imagination: Papua New Guinea Perspectives by Andrew Strathern
$39.95 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: New Approaches to Peace and Conflict
In many societies, particularly in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, peace and violence are linked intrinsically because peace-making follows on the principle of compensation for killings, as a means of averting acts of revenge. After many years researching and writing about problems of violence and so ...Show more
What's Mine is Yours by Rachel Botsman; Roo Rogers; Gillian Blake
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
The recent changes in our economic landscape have only exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist to emerging sectors such as peer-to-peer lending (Zopa), "swap trading ...Show more
The Eighties: The Decade that Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, the advent of AIDS, a harsh recession and t ...Show more
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & Kenneth Neil Cukier
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this ideology is fading. In the age of big data, we can crunch an incomprehensible amount of information, providing us with invaluable insights about the what rather than the why. We're just starting to reap the benefits: tr ...Show more
Snowing in Bali by Kathryn Bonella
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
It's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's drug dealers it's the code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires, it's time to get rich and party hard. Snowing in Bali is the story of the drug trafficking and dealing scene that's made Bali one of the world's m ...Show more
India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation by Oliver Balch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software and service companies abound. Millionaire entrepreneurs are springing up at every turn. Bollywood ...Show more
Equal Power: A handbook for men and women by Jo Swinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Why is gender inequality so stubbornly persistent? Power. Even today, power remains concentrated in the hands of men right across the business, political and cultural worlds. Decisions taken by those with power tend to perpetuate gender inequality rather than accelerate solutions. And those who see the ...Show more
Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong .. by Bobby Duffy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: Why We'Re Wrong about Nearly Everything
Do you eat too much sugar? Is violence in the world increasing or decreasing? What proportion of your country are Muslim? What does it cost to raise a child? How much do we need to save for retirement? How much tax do the rich pay? When we estimate the answers to these fundamental questions that directl ...Show more
Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
"Fast-paced and punchy ...accomplished". (Independent). With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at t ...Show more
Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (International Edition 2009) by Richard H. THALER and Cass R. SUNSTEIN
$26.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children's health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad ...Show more
The Devil's Garden: The Claremont Serial Killings by Debi Marshall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
"In the mid-1990s, three girls went missing within a short space of time after visiting nightclubs in Claremont WA.The State of Western Australia was in shock. Claremont is a salubrious suburb of Perth. Three lovely young women disappearing from relatively safe streets without a trace was very disturbin ...Show more