SOCIETY & SOCIOLOGY from Bookhome Sydney

London: Hurst & Company, 2017. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 278 pp. David Goodhart investigates the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain, and show how a new settlement may be achieved. He investigates this as part of a new global politics, including Europe and the United States. He shows the… Read more about this item

London: Cassell Illustrated, 2005. 1st ed.. Paperback small trade (with flaps), very good condition, frontispiece, sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minor edgewear. 144 pp. In this informative book,Michael Bradley examines secretive societies, large and small, through history and across the globe. He traces the start of 21 secret societies that have shaped the history of the last 2000 years, and reveals… Read more about this item

London: Rough Guides Ltd, 2008. 2nd, revised & updated ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, front cover corner tips little creased, minimal edgewear. 468 pp. This fully revised and updated book by James McConnachie and Robin Tudge sorts the myths from the realities, the allegations from the explanations and the paranoid from the probable. This… Read more about this item

New York: Free Press, 2006. New ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), grey boards with a red cloth spine, minor edgewear jacket, texta stripe bottom edge. 187 pp. In this outspoken and controversial book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali draws on her love of reason and the Enlightenment philosophers on whose principles democracy was founded. She… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Carlton: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2008. Paperback octavo, very good condition, faint foxing edges, minor edgewear, light sticker mark front cover. 323 pp. Tony Taylor examines historical denial to find out what makes deniers tick. He delves into the pathology of deniers to prove that while each denial-provoking case may vary in character, the nature of historical denial… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Canto / Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017. 21st ptg ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, crease front cover along spine, minimal edgewear. 107 pp. The classic text by C. P. Snow about how the intellectual life of society is split between the sciences and the arts / humanities. This reissue has an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, minimal edgewear. 118 pp. This book is an annotated edition of the influential argument by F. R. Leavis about the classic text on two cultures by C. P. Snow. The editor Stefan Collini reappraises both the literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. In… Read more about this item

Nottingham: The Spokesman / Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 2015. Paperback trade, very good condition, few black & white & colour photos (some full-page), minor edgewear. 116 pp. This book is a special issue of 'The Spokesman' (no. 127), a British left-wing quarterly magazine published for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. There are 14 essays and 7 book reviews at… Read more about this item

London: Free Press, 2006. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, light toning pages, corners few pages little creased, minor edgewear, sale sticker front cover. 336 pp. Sam Harris provides an analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. The author asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can not tolerate… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2013. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, fore-edge slightly marked (printing error), minor edgewear. 391 pp. Robert Biel draws on his experiences in both international systems and low-input agriculture. He explores the interaction of social and physical systems, using the conceptual tools of thermodynamics and information. He states that the early 21st… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2017. Paperback large trade, as new condition. 261 pp. Mark Bray, an historian and former Occupy Wall Street organizer, provides a unique look inside the Antifa movement, its history and beliefs, based on interviews with anti-fascists worldwide. So long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism (antifa). Born out of resistance… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2006. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, maps, top edge little foxed, minor edgewear jacket. 220 pp. Stefan Wolff goes beyond the surface of the immediate ethnic crises to understand the nature of ethnic conflict more generally. He discusses the structural similarities and accounting… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Group, 2009. 1st ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, colour photos, tables, spine little creased (binding error), white background covers slightly marked, minor edgewear corner tips, remainder stripe. 451 pp. This book shows how the way human society lives now has created a global food crisis. Tristram Stuart combines frontline investigation with startling new data. Excellent… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), pages lightly toned, some edgewear jacket (laminate minor lifting small part bottom edge rear cover). 277 pp. Robert Peston looks at what those that have ruled us for years got so wrong, and what we as a society need to do to fix… Read more about this item

London: Allen Lane / Penguin Books, 2020. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 347 pp. David Goodhart divides human aptitudes into three: Head (cognitive), Hand (manual and craft), and Heart (caring, emotional). The author discusses the need to re-imagine the meaning of skilled work, so that people who work with their… Read more about this item

Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 2001. Paperback wide quarto, good condition, black & white photos, light foxing edges, closed tear spine, light toning pages, light creases covers (corners creased) & some pages, top corner free flyleaf creased, covers little scratched, corners creased some internal pages, non-archival tape repair fore-edge tear, some edgewear. 222 pp. This fascinating book brings New… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press (OUP), 1964. 10th printing ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, pages toned as common, minor edgewear. 130 pp. A classic text on liberalism, by the noted English philosopher and writer, originally published in 1911. A rich description and history of of this political philosophy that he actively lived throughout his life.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), cloth spine, minor foxing reverse side jacket, minor foxing endpapers, bottom corner tips few pages creased, edges minimally foxed, bottom corner front cover slightly bumped, minor edgewear. 314 pp. In this compassionate book, two of America's leading voices on affirmative action state that… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent, 1976. Paperback large trade, very good condition, inside rear cover foxed, front cover little scratched, top edge minimally foxed, minor edgewear. 173 pp. Describes the philosophy of conservatism as one of seeking order from imperfection, but with opposition to radical change. Compares the French, German and British conservative traditions, and the current crisis of ideology… Read more about this item

Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications, 1986. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, top edge lightly foxed, corner tips covers lightly creased, bottom edge lightly rubbed, inside covers lightly toned, base spine slightly bumped, minor edgewear. 336 pp. A set of training materials has been developed that can form the basis of various cross-cultural orientation programs. The materials are… Read more about this item