Anthropology and Sociology
The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds.
Dorfman, Ariel.
When I was at Uni - one of the standout texts was 'How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Id...
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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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Ash, Russell.
Some were fearless cavaliers - carefree, chivalrous, romantic knights in three-cornered ha...
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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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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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Cameron, Deborah.
Do men and women really speak different languages? This humorous and scholarly study aims ...
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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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Legal Highs: Inside Secrets of the World's Newest and Deadliest Drugs.
Clarkson, Wensley.
Takes you on a dark journey into the heart of the lethal new trade in 'Legal Highs', those...
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Middle Age: A Natural History.
Bainbridge, David.
Middle Age is often thought of as a dull, transitional stage of life. This sheds a rather ...
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Harding, Nick.
Harding outlines the best-known secret societies, many of which thrive today. He analyses ...
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The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures.
Pile, Stephen.
He presents a triumphant celebration of epic incompetence, wonderful true stories of disas...
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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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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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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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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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Forty, Jo.
Cannabis or 'weed' is the fourth most widely used drug in the world after coffee, alcohol ...
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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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Immortality: The Quest To Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation.
Cave, Stephen.
The path towards immortality has obsessed civilisations. From preserving the body, freezin...
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Working with Vulnerable Families: A Partnership Approach.
Arney, Fiona and Scott, Dorothy.
Aimed at students and practitioners in child and family services, child and community heal...
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Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece.
Davies, Siriol and Davis, Jack L. (eds.).
A fine collection of scholarly research papers with wide-ranging focus and perspective fro...
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How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks.
Dunbar, Robin.
The author argues that we are the product of our evolutionary history and this history col...