Law: The Way of the Ancestors (First Knowledges) by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature. Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has ...Show more
God is Good for You: A defence of Christianity in troubled times by Greg Sheridan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
The Judeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western civilisation for more than 2000 years, yet now we've reached a point in both Australia and many parts of the West where Christianity has become a minority faith rather than the mainstream belief. It's a situa ...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
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
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
Beyond Belief by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
What do people actually mean when they say 'God'?Around two-thirds of us say we believe in God or some 'higher power', but fewer than one in ten Australians attend church weekly. In Beyond Belief, Hugh Mackay presents this discrepancy as one of the great unexamined topics of our time. He argues that whi ...Show more
The Motherhood by Jamila Rizvi
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
'Welcome to The Motherhood, my dear.'After her son was born, Jamila Rizvi felt isolated, exhausted and confused. While desperately in love with her new baby, the world she'd known had disappeared overnight and so had her sense of self.Jamila's salvation came in the form of a letter. A dear friend, Clare ...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
Aboriginal Self-Determination: The Whiteman's Dream by Gary Johns
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
"The old Law was not about human rights. It was about unconditional loyalty and obedience ⦠We still respect and honour our ancestors and want to keep our culture. But my people are confused. If they go the blackfella way they break whitefella law, if they go whitefella way they break blackfella law. ...Show more
Kin by Nick Brodie
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
When author and historian Nick Brodie traced his own family tree, he began to see the pattern of European settlement in Australia. As he learnt about the generations of his family, Nick uncovered the social and cultural contexts and historic circumstances that shaped his ancestors: the Irish, the convic ...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
The Intelligence Trap: Why smart people do stupid things and how to make wiser decisions by David Robson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
'As a rule, I have found that the greater brain a man has, and the better he is educated, the easier it has been to mystify him,' Houdini to Arthur Conan Doyle Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else-they may be even more susceptible to them. This is the "intelligenc ...Show more