Anthropology and Sociology
Ash, Russell.
Some were fearless cavaliers - carefree, chivalrous, romantic knights in three-cornered ha...
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A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change, and the Fate of the Irish Pub.
Barich, Bill.
When he moved to Dublin he searched for the archetypal traditional pub (eg. like the one i...
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Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them.
Anderegg, David.
Being called a 'nerd' may not sound so bad. But his research shows that this stereotype is...
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Insatiable: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream.
Fagone, Jason.
He spent a year interviewing and observing the stars of this fast growing American sport -...
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No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes Parents.
Alstott, Anne L.
She outlines two proposals intended to improve parents' economic options while examining c...
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The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters.
Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim.
Originally written over 60 years ago it 'is both a brilliant artifact of its era and a wor...
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Where the Wild Things are Now: Domestication Reconsidered.
Cassidy, Rebecca and Mullin, Molly (eds.).
From the pet food industry and its critics to salmon farming in Tasmania, the protection o...
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Cameron, Deborah.
Do men and women really speak different languages? This humorous and scholarly study aims ...
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Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives.
Elliott, Anthony.
The demand for cosmetic surgery is soaring. Why is it so? Elliott draws on research in Eur...
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Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (With the Help of 50,000 Strangers).
Jones, Daniel.
At the New York Times, Jones edits a personal-essay column called Modern Love, in which st...
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Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body.
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh.
The author attempts to make amends for missing an education in human biology by searching ...
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Cutler, Tom.
Don’t be shy! Leave your inhibitions on the bedside table and jump right in with this hist...
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Food for the Flames: Idols and Missionaries in Central Polynesia.
King, David Shaw and Attenborough, Sir David.
The London Missionary Society’s aim was to eradicate paganism and idolatry and bring the h...
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Harding, Nick.
Harding outlines the best-known secret societies, many of which thrive today. He analyses ...
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Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them.
Prioleau, Betsy.
A gossipy examination and fresh take on the question of what women want and what makes a l...
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Performing Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research.
Liamputtong, Pranee.
This text provides an in-depth discussion on how to perform qualitative research in cross-...
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The Missing Ink: How Handwriting Makes Us Who We Are.
Hensher, Philip.
He laments the decline of handwriting, and provides a fitting tribute to a dying art. We l...
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Found In Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World.
Kelly, Nataly and Zetzsche, Jost.
A treasure trove of interesting and entertaining stories which show how translation and in...
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The Season: A Summer Whirl Through the English Social Season.
Campbell, Sophie.
Travel journalist Sophie Campbell takes us on a hectic and hilarious journey…as exotic as ...
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Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City.
Garrett, Bradley L.
The author is, among other things, an Urban Explorer, photographing off-limits urban space...
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Families Behind Bars: Stories of Injustice, Endurance and Hope.
Danes, Kay.
Some people in this book are high-profile, such as David Hicks and Schapelle Corby, but ot...
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Robinson, Doug.
The story of what happens behind the walls of a maximum security prison told by the author...
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Aldrich, Ann.
Written in the 1950s this was a pioneering portrait of lesbian life. It gave hope to lesbi...
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Fishman, Ted C.
It's about everyone - including you and me. Do you obsess about looking younger? Do you kn...