Anthropology, Sociology, Womens/mens Issues from

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. 267pp, index, bibliography, glossary, tables, line drawings, map. Or tan cloth in jacket. Spine faded, prev owners name on front free endpaper. The Minangkabau of Sumatra, ardent followers of Islam- a patrilineally oriented religion- are one of the few remaining matrilinear groups in the world. Examining matriliny's evolution in response to changing times, the author… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. xiv, 175pp, index, bibliography, glossary, few bw ills. Or tan cloth in jacket. Jacket faded on spine, prev owners name on front free endpaper. Examination of the Mingangkabau people of West Sumatra's indigenous epistemology.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Fallon, NV: Churchill County Museum & Nevada State Museum., 2002. xiv, 264pp, appendices, references, notes, bw ills, map. Or card covers. Near new. Describes the subsitence system, social and political organization, religion and world view, and many other aspects of the culture of the Cattail-Eater Northern Paiute people of Stillwater Marsh. Based largely on recorded conversations with Wuzzie George and… Read more about this item

Sydney: Ollif Publishing, 1983. xiv, 271pp, few bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. A little light toning to page edges. The 1939-45 story of a Special Detachment of Australian Army Nursing Sisters, fondly known as the 'Angels in Grey', and their fate in War and Captivity.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Tarka Publishing., 1990. viii, 193pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. Some toning to page edges. The part played by over 24000 women in the Australian Army during WWII.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.

Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2008. ix, 137pp, bibliography, appendices, bw & col ills. Or card covers. Near new. The story of 90 years of Saint David's Welsh Society in Brisbane. The story of Welsh immigrants is set alongside a wider migration of Celtic people in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of these migrants reamined in Australia and their descendants bear… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1978. 192pp, bibliography, bw ills, map. Or brown cloth in jacket. Book exchange stamp on front free endpaper with blacked out prices. Light edge wear to jacket. Until 1900 several thousand Banabas lived on Ocean Island in the Pacific until the world's richest phosphate deposit was discovered. Now there are just a few barren coral pinnacles.… Read more about this item

Wangaratta: Business and Professional Women's Club of Wangaratta., 1985. 140pp, index, bibliography, appendix, few bw ills. Or card covers. Small abrasion of upper right of front cover, even toning to page edges, fading to rear cover. Stories about women who were about, or connected with, Wangaratta in its earliest days.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 131pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills. or card covers. Slightest of edge wear, orev owners name on half-title papge. Written for younger readers, the book illuminates dark corners of American hisotry and traces efforts to live up to the American ideals of justice and equality. 14 case studies bring a firsthand personal account… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N Abrams, 1979. HEAVY. 526pp, index, bibliography564 ills (inc 302 col), maps, charts. Or red cloth in jacket. A little minor foxing, mothball aroma. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Collier Books, 1979. 112pp, index, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Or pictorial laminate dboards. Light sticker shadow and small abrasion to front free endpaper, otherwise excellent.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Stackpool, Walter.. Small 4to.

Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2014. 221pp, num col plates, pictorial endpapers, all edges heavily gilt. Near new. Beautifully produced book featuring iconic fashion moments with sections devoted to music, film, the Oscars, weddings and of course particular designers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2003. HEAVY. 239pp, map, bibliography, endnotes, num col ills. Or card covers with integral flaps. Very slight edge wear. Published to accompany the first major survey exhibiiton of historical and contemporary indigenous art from the three major cultural regions of Cape York- east Cape, west Cape and rainforest. Showcases over 300 art works and cultural objects..… Read more about this item

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies., 1981. viii, 112, civ pages, notes, 2 monochrome portraits, large folding facsimile document. Or green cloth with gilt vignette of aborigine holding spear to front, in original clear plastic jacket. Slight toning to page edges/margins. Slight rubbing to plastic jacket. Facsimile of the original edition of 1881. Extensive information on the customs and lives… Read more about this item

London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 1997. 184pp, index, bibliography, glossary, num bw & col ills. Oe grey cloth in jacket. Prev owners name on front free endpaper. Jacket a bit faded at spine and edges. A spiritual and symbolic bestiary including some mythological creatures. Volume in One Spirit Living Wisdom Library series.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

London: Aurum Press, 1996. VERY HEAVY. xvii, 618pp, index, bibliography, notes, num bw & col ills. Or pictorial card. Very light edge wear. , light crease to top front corner. Recreates the life and times of the tribes of the Plains- Blackfoot and Cree, Sioux and Cheyenne, Comanche and Apache-describing their lifeways and lifestyles at the height of their culture,… Read more about this item

Alice Springs: Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, 1988. VOLUME 1 ONLY (OF 2). xliv, 248pp, bibliography, tables. Or card covers. Very slight edge wear and a few tiny spots to edges. Disturbed behaviour such as aggression, alcoholism, crime and psychological problems among central Australian Aboriginal communities.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1988. 96pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, 62 bw ills, 4pp col plates. Or red cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. Concise history of gloves from 1600 to the present.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2005. 296pp, index, bibliography, ills. Or card covers. Near new. Printed in red and blue. Uncensored profiles of the women of the White House with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect and downright wacko facts.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995. 160pp, index, bibliography, 175+ bw & col ills. Or black boards in jacket. Short tear to jacket at base of spine. Witchcraft and the supernatural around the world.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.