Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! "Gretchen McCulloch is the internet's favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix." --Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever ...Show more
The Address Book: What Our Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Power, Race and Wealth by Deirdre Mask
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful. Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says abou ...Show more
Growing up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: Growing Up
'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of ...Show more
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern classic, The Beauty Myth. Vagina: A New Biography combi ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more
The Making of Modern Australia by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Filled with stories from regular Australians about life since World War Two and woven throughout with William's own anecdotes and observations, The Making of Modern Australia pieces together the celebrations, sorrows and spirit of the last fifty years to offer a national picture of our past and present. ...Show more
No Small Change: The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia by Frank Brennan
$32.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
In 1967, Australians voted overwhelmingly in favour of altering two aspects of the Constitution that related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Although these seemed like small amendments, they provided an impetus for real change - from terra nullius to land rights, and from assimilation t ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love by Simran Sethi
$42.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply. Food is one ...Show more
When to Rob a Bank - A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak. Renegade thinkers and bestselling sensations Levitt and Dubner have carefully curated the very best of their blogs, conversations, wisecracks and advice from the last decade to reveal the outlandish truth about everything from lying to bankrobbing, f ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
$23.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer hours, consuming more than ever before; technology erodes the work-life balance further; increasingly, people feel that only work gives existence ...Show more