Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about t ...Show more
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as " ...Show more
Out There by Kerri Sackville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
The ultimate survival guide for dating in mid-life
The Future of Us: Demography Gets a Makeover by Liz Allen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Demography is far more important than destiny. By tracing connections between a population’s past and present, demographers can foresee its future. The true wonder of demography, though, is not its ability to predict the future but to shape it. With energy and passion, demographer Liz Allen sets out the ...Show more
The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: Dispossession in Australia
`The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism? With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-libe ...Show more
Reconnected by Andrew Leigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Friends are good for your health. The strength of your social relationships is a remarkably good predictor of how long you will live. Strong social connections also make communities more resilient, efficient and satisfying. But today Australians have fewer close friends and local connections than in the ...Show more
Broken: Children, Parents and Family Courts by Camilla Nelson, Catharine Lumby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A devastating account of how Australia's family courts fail children, families and victims of domestic abuseThe family courts intimately affect the lives of those who come before them. Judges can decide where you are allowed to live and work, which school your child can attend and whether you are even p ...Show more
Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia by Russell Marks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more ...Show more
Alchemy by Kate Forsyth
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
When a bestselling author and a much-esteemed painter meet at a party, they soon cook up the idea to collaborate and make a book about the life cycle of a woman... Two brilliant artists get together and plan a dramatic book in words and images about the twists and turns in the life cycle of a woman. Fr ...Show more
WIN, WIN - When Business Works for Women, It Works for Everyone by Joanne Lipman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Going beyond the message of Lean In and The Confidence Code, the editor in chief of the USA Today Network contends that to achieve parity in the office, women don't have to change-men do-and in this inclusive and realistic handbook, offers solutions to help professionals solve gender gap issues and achi ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$22.95 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could ...Show more
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley & David Hume
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
We have to look suicide in the face, long and hard, and see what features, what profile, what inherited character traits and wrinkles emerge.' 'This book is not a suicide note. Ten days after Edouard Leve handed in the manuscript of Suicide to his publisher in 2007, he hanged himself in his apart- ment. ...Show more