Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studi...
Described as a ‘master plant’ by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of ev...
The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa. Case studies from anthropologists in the fiel...
Andrew Rule has compiled compelling stories of ordinary people touched by extraordinary events - war, depression and tragedy. We also experience workaday remini...
Further reminiscences from the Overnighters, this is a companion book to "Thanks for the memories". Stories with both tragedy and humour are told, with honesty ...
Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of Australia’s wealthiest and most powerful people, but because of what he overcame to get ther...
The third Overnighters book, consisting of reminiscences from listeners of Melbourne's radio station 3AW. This one is stories of mothers from all walks of life....
Andrew Rule, her owners, her breeder, her trainer and her rider tell the real story behind the story of the world's greatest racehorse. 'She just exploded,' Bow...
This revised, expanded collection of true crime by Australia's foremost crime writers digs beneath the polite exterior of modern Australian life to expose its c...
Bandali Debs was a floor tiler who became a cop killer. He didn't have much in common with the bored housewife who poisoned her husband, the international hitma...
They can be trapped, poisoned, shot or hunted with dogs... but some always get away. These are the vermin that commit robbery, extortion, abduction, rape and m...
byAndrew Russell,Elisa Sabo,Mary Thompson
Contraception is an issue of considerable concern to a great many heterosexually active people. Yet the impact of contraceptive technologies in the world today,...
byGary Jacobson,Anthony Heath,Ron Johnston,Charles Pattie,Danny Dorling,Iain MacAllister,Helena Tunstall,David Rossiter,Stephen Fisher,Andrew Russell,Ed Fieldhouse,Philip Cowley,Darren Darcy,Colin Mellors,Jon Neal,Mark Stuart,Jocelyn Evans,Jonathan Tonge,Gerard Murray,Justin Fisher,Jonathan Bradbury,James Mitchell,Lynn Bennie,David Denver,Rachel Gibson,Stephen Ward,John Curtice,Michael Steed,Colin Rallings,Michael Thrasher,Christine Gunter
Volume 10 contains articles covering party membership, voting behaviour and elections, parliamentary voting, candidate selection, and campaigning on the interne...
byAndrew Cumming,Gordon Russell
Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively ...
byRussell Harmon,Andrew Parker
This book is a contribution to the International Year of Planet Earth arising from the 33rd International Geological Congress, held in Oslo, Norway during Augus...