The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy by VON HIPPEL, WILLIAM
$44.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
In the compelling popular science tradition of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel, a groundbreaking and eye-opening exploration that applies evolutionary science to provide a new perspective on human psychology, revealing how major challenges from our past have shaped some of the most fundamental aspect ...Show more
Public Sociology: An Introduction to Australian Society by John Germov
$69.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
How can developing a sociological gaze help us understand the way we live? Public Sociology shows that our lives are not solely determined by personal choices, demonstrating how a sociological gaze allows us to see the way our private troubles are connected to public issues. It highlights the utility an ...Show more
More Decent Obsessions by Bernard Salt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
There's matters of fairness, of manners, of pleasures, of observation. Based on his weekly columns for The Australian that have been published for more than a decade they are stories powerfully told. His writing style is light, loose, crisp and fun and at times he can be glitteringly clever. He plays wi ...Show more
The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat by Louise Gray
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Celebrity chefs, from Jamie Oliver to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, all dictate we should know exactly where our meat comes from. So what if you took this modern day maxim to its logical conclusion? What if you only ate animals you killed yourself? Fed up of friends claiming to care about the provenance ...Show more
Why Warriors Lie Down and Die: Djambatj Mala by Richard Trudgen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
"Many books have been written about the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, Australia. This one is very different. It speaks about the real situation that we face every day, a reality that is hard for people of another culture to imagine." - Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra OAM, Yolngu Clan Elder Why Warriors Lie ...Show more
The Selfish Capitalist : Origins of Affluenza by Oliver James
$34.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
In the bestselling Affluenza, world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping through the English-speaking world. He met those suffering from it and demonstrated how their obsessive, envious tendencies made them twice as prone to depression, anxiety and addictions t ...Show more
The End: The Human Experience Of Death by Bianca Nogrady
$34.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
A fascinating exploration of the universal human experience of death. We sat around and on the bed, laughing and joking as if this was a typical family gathering. The shrunken form of our dying grandmother lay on the bed, breathing fast and shallow, her once-bright eyes half closed and sunken in their s ...Show more
The A to Z of Modern Manners: A Guide to Behaving Well by David Meagher
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Some clear guidelines to navigate a rapidly changing world. Change is now constant. The world is faster than ever before. The way we live and interact with one another has changed significantly. Social media is all-pervasive. Everyone from the author's 85 year-old mother to his 13 year-old niece is usin ...Show more
Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys Across Iran by Cyrus Massoudi
$31.96 AUD
Category: Sociology
For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown to him. Wanting to make sense of his roots and piece together the divided, divisive and deeply contradictory puzzle that is contemporary Iran, he embarked on a series ...Show more
Sociology: A Global Introduction by John J. Macionis
$129.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication help ...Show more
The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia by Ian Lowe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
"Can we reinvent The Lucky Country? In 1964, Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck' in his iconic book.a Now, more than five decades later, internationally respected scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe shows that little has changed a ...Show more