Hunting Season: James Foley, the Islamic State, and the Real Story of the Kidnapping Campaign That Started a War by James Harkin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America', the clip depicted the final moments of the life of kidnapped American journalist James Foley - and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executione ...Show more
Serious Whitefella Stuff: When solutions became the problem in Indigenous affairs by Mark Moran
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
How does Indigenous policy signed off in Canberra work-or not-when implemented in remote Aboriginal communities? Mark Moran, Alyson Wright and Paul Memmott have extensive on-the-ground experience in this area of ongoing challenge. What, they ask, is the right balance between respecting local traditions ...Show more
The Sisterhood by Bobbie Houston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Second-hand, paperback in good condition, other than slight wear on cover corner. Also second copy available at $5.99. Has obvious corner crease on cover. Colour Sisterhood = a modern day movement. THE SISTERHOOD: How the Power of the Feminine Heart Can Become a Catalyst for Change and Make the World ...Show more
Aboriginal Children History and Health Beyond Social Determinants by John Boulton
$66.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote indigenous communities. Invaluably informed by Boulton's close working knowledge of Aboriginal communities, the book addresses growth falteri ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist (HB) by Adam Rutherford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise - and increasingly part of the public discourse on politics, migration, education, sport and intelligence. Stereotypes and myths about race are expressed not ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
10 years after founding the Everyday Sexism Project, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates connects the dots between the 'isolated incidents' of violence against women and the institutional and systemic misogyny that is so deeply ingrained in our society. Every three days in the UK, women are murdere ...Show more
Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land by Sandy Tolan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
Children of the Stone is the unlikely story of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a boy from a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who confronts the occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then inspires scores of others to work with him to make ...Show more
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments - short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way - and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/herself. Experiments cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language, knowledge and many more. From Zeno's paradox to Ground ...Show more
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain's most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve ...Show more
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Since 1979, China has exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of more than a billion people. At the end of the twentieth century the one-child policy lifted millions out of poverty, and now the Chinese economy is on the verge of becoming the largest in the world. But is their coloss ...Show more
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were whe ...Show more