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Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 30.00This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on recently published Collège de France lectures, it is useful to those concerned with Foucault's engagement with the 'psy-disciplines' and those interested in the practical application of Foucault's critical research methods. more...
Catching Fire
Profile 2009; US$ 20.41In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow,... more...
Settlement
Aboriginal Studies Press 2000; US$ 31.00This book encompasses the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing. more...
Last Harvest
Scribner 2007; US$ 15.00In Last Harvest , the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia.... more...
The Geography of the World Economy
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2008; US$ 54.95The Geography of the World Economy provides an in-depth introduction to the globalization of the world economy and discusses local, regional, national and global economic development over the course of history. This new edition is fully revised and in colour. more...
Industrialization and Development in the Third World
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 51.95Developing countries have undergone significant industrialization in the last three decades. Yet industrial growth reveals marked spatial inequalities in terms of both country and location. The Newly Industrialised Countries have achieved spectacular growth in sharp contrast to many other countries of the South. Industrial structure has changed, moving... more...
Population and Development
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95Population and Development addresses important issues at the heart of the problems of developing countries. How these countries address the common difficulties of population growth, including mortality and fertility decline, population redistribution including internal migration and urbanization, and also international migration, for both source... more...
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar
BRILL 2008; US$ 719.00Presents a detailed description the neo-Aramaic dialect of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar region in northern Iraq, which is now endangered. Divided in three volumes, this title contains a description of the grammar of the dialect. It includes an extensive glossary, and also features transcriptions of recorded texts. more...
Rural Revival?
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95How, if possible, do we re-populate declining rural and regional areas? This book examines this crucial and complex issue in relation to Australia, and the manner in which a particular organization, Country Week, has emerged and developed as one means of stimulating the repopulation of declining or stagnating areas. more...
Country of Exiles
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.00In Country of Exiles , William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of our national love affair with mobility. He shows us how the impulse to pull up stakes and find a new frontier has always battled with the need to put down roots, and how a new cosmopolitanism has seized our national... more...









