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
Fed Up - Navigating & Redefining ... by Gemma Hartley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: near fine
No more grin and bear it: how and why we all need to reset the domestic balance. Gemma Hartley is a mother and journalist on a mission: to throw fresh light on the hidden burden of 'emotional labour' (washing, wiping, worrying, soothing, shopping, preparing, planning, cooking, caring), and find out why ...Show more
The Weather Obsession by Lawrie Zion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
We have come a long way since the days when weather information could only be found in the back pages of newspapers. The Weather Obsession takes the temperature of modern weather media and investigates how it has fuelled our fascination with all things climatic. Weather information now pervades everythi ...Show more
Inferior: - How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: good
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an ...Show more
Hand to Mouth : The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World by Linda Tirado
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She was working all hours at two jobs - as a food service worker in a chain restaurant and as a voting rights activist at a non-profit organization - to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have pro ...Show more
Peak Reinventing Middle Age by Patricia Edgar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Society is changing faster than policies and attitudes are keeping up with. People are living longer, retiring from work later, and remaining active and valuable contributors to the community well into and beyond their 50s and 60s. Peak- Reinventing Middle Age focuses on Australians in the 50-75 age bra ...Show more
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
WINNER OF THE 2015 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2015 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justic ...Show more
Still Lucky: Why you should feel optomistic about Australia and its people by Rebecca Huntley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
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The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillards own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world. Summers makes the case that Aus ...Show more
It's Not about the Burqa - Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race by Mariam Khan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the "traditional submissiveness" of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were nei ...Show more
The Good Death Through Time by Caitlin Mahar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
Can our forebears help us face complex questions of dying, now?' I have quite a bit of understanding of white man's ways, but it is difficult for me to understand this one.' ;An Australian Senate committee investigation of the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995, the first legisl ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more