Sociology & anthropology

Complete Flags of the World (5th Edition)

By Dorling Kindersley

From Antigua to New Zealand discover the flags of the world with this complete guide published in association with the Flag Institute.

Travel to each country of the world using the small-scale map and find out about over 300 national, international, official and provincial flags from across the globe.

Each national flag is covered: detailed notes and annotations will tell you all about its history...

From Antigua to New Zealand discover the flags of the world with this complete guide published in association with the Flag Institute.

Travel to each country of the world using the small-scale map and...

Published: 27/10/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781405333023

RRP: $29.95

Culture Shock! Singapore: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

By Marion Bravo-Bhasin

CultureShock! Singapore takes you inside the tiny island nation and pulls back the veneer on a country that is both Asian and Western at the same time.

Published: 06/11/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780761456766

RRP: $26.95

Culture Shock: Singapore

By Marion Bravo-Bhasin

CultureShock! Singapore takes you inside the tiny island nation and pulls back the veneer on a country that is both Asian and Western at the same time.

Published: 01/09/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780761480631

RRP: $26.99

Culture Shock! Australia: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

By Ilsa Sharp

CultureShock! Australia is chock-full of information that will help you assimilate effortlessly into life in the land Down Under.

Published: 06/11/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780761454724

RRP: $26.95

Culture Shock! Philippines: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

By Alfredo Roces & Grace Roces

CultureShock! Philippines is a survival guide for anyone living, working or wanting to discover life in the Philippines

Published: 06/11/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780761456711

RRP: $26.95

Together

By Richard Sennett

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves. Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity, encouraging the politics of the tribe rather than of complexity...

Published: 07/03/2012

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780713998740

RRP: $45.00

Bigger or Better? Australia's Population Debate

By Ian Lowe

A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the controversial debate about Australia's population numbers.

Published: 22/02/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702239090

RRP: $34.95

Curtains: Adventures of an undertaker in training

By Tom Jokinen

If Bill Bryson were to join a funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains .

Published: 29/03/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702238512

RRP: $32.95

Down To This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big City Shanty Town

By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

'The rules I've set out for myself are simple: no money or friends, except those I might find from here on in. I'll do what the others do to get by, be whatever bum I choose: vagrant, beggar, wino, criminal, busker, con man or tramp, on any given day.'

In November 2001, 27 year old Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall packed his life in a bag – complete with tent, notebooks, pen and a broken heart –...

Published: 08/01/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702235931

RRP: $32.95

Any Guru Will Do: A Modern Man's Search For Meaning

By Phil Brown

Phil Brown's life has been one long existential crisis. His path to enlightenment has been uphill – think of climbing Everest with a colonic irrigation or two along the way. Join Phil as he searches for meaning in the most unlikely places.

Phil's journey begins inauspiciously when he is carted out of a health farm on a stretcher – good food and vigorous exercise apparently weren't a clever...

Published: 22/09/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702235429

RRP: $23.95

Bittersweet Journey

By Ruth Hegarty

Published: 27/10/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702234149

RRP: $26.95

Is That You Ruthie?

By Ruth Hegarty

Published: 27/10/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702234156

RRP: $23.95

Mama Kuma: One Woman - Two Cultures

By Deborah Carlyon

Kuma Kelage, daughter of a Chimbu chieftain, was there when the world changed. From her quiet mountain village in the New Guinea Highlands, she took change by the hand and led it.

Kuma defied tradition and married a white Australian. With her precious golden child Ba, she travelled beyond the boundaries of her home to enter a modern world.

This remarkable story of Mama Kuma is told by Ba's daughter...

Kuma Kelage, daughter of a Chimbu chieftain, was there when the world changed. From her quiet mountain village in the New Guinea Highlands, she took change by the hand and led it.

Kuma defied tradition...

Published: 01/10/2002

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702233203

RRP: $26.00

My Island Home

By John Singe

Published: 27/10/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702233050

RRP: $32.95

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Womenand Feminism

By Aileen Moreton-robinson

Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson "talks up" in this provocative interrogation of feminism in representation and practice. As a Geonpul woman and an academic, she provides a unique cultural standpoint and a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women.

Through an extensive range of articles by non-white scholars and activists, she demonstrates the...

Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson "talks up" in this provocative interrogation of feminism in representation and practice. As a Geonpul woman and an academic, she provides a unique cultural standpoint...

Published: 02/10/2000

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702231346

RRP: $22.00

Where Ya' Been, Mate?

By Herb Wharton

Unforgettable characters emerge from this vintage Herb Wharton collection which ranges from city to bush, from tall tales to amusing parables. There's Rainbow Jack the opal digger; Dr Roo, who when the dingbats are upon him boxes his own shadow; and stockmen with nicknames such as Wild Duck, Grease Paint and Diamond Jim.

Along with campfire yarns and memories drawn from childhood are stories from Herb's...

Published: 04/03/1996

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702228032

RRP: $22.95

Sister Girl: the Writings of Aboriginal Activist & Historian Jackie Hugggins

By Jackie Huggins

Published: 02/11/1998

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702228407

RRP: $24.95

Plains of Promise

By Alexis Wright

In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission.

Published: 03/04/1997

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702229176

RRP: $23.95

Palomino

By Elizabeth Jolley

Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.

Published: 01/02/1988

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702219481

RRP: $23.95

Unbranded

By Herb Wharton

From the riotous picnic races to the famous Mt Isa rodeo, from childhood in the yumba to gutsy outback pubs, Unbranded presents a strikingly original vision of Australia. With a rollicking cast of stockmen, shearers, barmaids and tourists, this novel is the story of three men. Sandy is a white man; Bindi, a Murri; Mulga is related on his mother's side to Bindi, and on his Irish father's side to Sandy...

Published: 05/10/1992

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702224447

RRP: $24.95