Freedom by Sebastian Junger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don't coexist easily: we value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal by Megan Davis
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Category: Sociology
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of Australia. This essential Quarterly Essay seeks to do two things: to make the strongest, clearest possible case for the Voice to Parliament and to draw out the significance and the promise of this reform - ...Show more
You’re All Talk - Why We Are What We Speak by Rob Drummond
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: near fine
Why do we have different accents and where do they come from? Why do you say tomayto and I say tomahto? And is one way of speaking better than another?In You're All Talk, linguist Rob Drummond explores the enormous diversity in how language is spoken to reveal extraordinary insights into how humans oper ...Show more
Buyology : How Everything we Believe About What we Buy is Wrong by Martin Lindstrom
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Category: Sociology
Most anti-smoking campaigns inadvertently encourage people to smoke. The scent of melons helps sell electronic products. Subliminal advertising may have been banned, but it's being used all the time. Product placement in films rarely works. Many multi-million pound advertising campaigns are a complete w ...Show more
The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle
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Category: Sociology
Imagine living for an entire year without money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that and here is his extraordinary and compelling story. How do friends and family react? What do you eat? How do you wash? Mark Boyle finds out the hard way and explores the troubling consequences of our obsession w ...Show more
The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production by Peter Marsh
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies"--the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan--are being edged out of a profitable future. But if countries that historically have been at the forefront ...Show more
The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
This is one of the key books on modern India, acclaimed as the definitive account, and now republished with a new introduction. "The Idea of India" was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book ...Show more
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport by Krien Anna
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface. By morning, the head of the sexual crimes squad confirmed to journalists that they were preparing to question two Collingwood p ...Show more
The Triple Package: What Really Determines Success by Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld
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Category: Sociology
Why do Jews win so many Nobel Prizes and Pulitzer Prizes? Why are Mormons running the business and finance sectors? Why do the children of even impoverished and poorly educated Chinese immigrants excel so remarkably at school? It may be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups starkly outperform others ...Show more
Sex Lives of Australians: A History by Frank Bongiorno
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes - here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day. In this highly readable social history, Frank Bongiorno uses vivid examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. He shows how a pre ...Show more
Peace and Security: Implications for Women by Elisabeth Porter
$39.95 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: New Approaches to Peace and Conflict
Peace and Secuirty offers both a broad overview of what is being done in conflict-affected countries to advance women's participation in peace processes, peacebuilding and decision-making. The authors examine the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on 'Women, Peace and Security' and pr ...Show more
Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, wilfully blind politicians, eager consumers, a ...Show more