Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth--which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in ...Show more
The Dangerous Bride, the A Memoir of Love, Gods and Geography by Lee Kofman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: General Adult
What do you do when your husband claims to be madly in love with you, but doesn't desire you sexually? When your therapist is more interested in opening an online sex-toy shop with your husband than in saving your marriage? Do you try yet another counsellor, get divorced or settle for a sexless marriage ...Show more
Debt : The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to sup ...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
Origins: Early-Life Solutions to the Modern Health Crisis by Susan Prescott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
The field of epigenetics is revolutionising our understanding of how environment shapes our genes. Dr Susan Prescott, a leading childhood immunologist, shows how the application of epigenetics through Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) is changing scientific research and public health. ...Show more
Emergency - This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
$40.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
Combining wit and journalistic detail, Emergency follows Strauss' search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States, eventually obtaining a second citizenship in a small Caribbean island. Facing shady lawyers, cult leaders, crippling doubts, governmental corruption, and plane ...Show more
A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age by Matt Richtel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology's vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic "texting-while-driving" car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In this am ...Show more
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A powerful, persuasive, thought-provoking vision for how to finish the long struggle for equality between women and men, work and family When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could jugg ...Show more
Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
"This book is fearless and luminous and full of grace; it travels to the edge of death and finds life there. Its attention to the particulars of love - between the ones who will go and the ones they will leave - is something close to sublime."--Leslie Jamison, author of "The Empathy Exams"A nurse sleeps ...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