Butterfly Politics - Changing the World for Women, with a New Preface by Catharine A. Mackinnon
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Under certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterfly effects," as the #MeToo movement has shown. Thirty years after Catharine A. MacKinnon won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment in law, this t ...Show more
On Indignation( On Series) by Don Watson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: On Ser.
Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos, from the Old Testament to ...Show more
On Patriotism by Paul Daley
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: On Ser.
How has militarisation come to define Australian valour? Why has commemorating the centenary of World War I dominated our sense of patriotism?On Patriotismexplores what it really means to love and serve your country. Paul Daley contemplates ways to escape the cultural binds that tie us to Anzac, British ...Show more
The Four Loves - C. S. Lewis Signature Classic by C S Lewis
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
C.S. Lewis's famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine in its source and expression, and without the sweetening grace of ...Show more
Developing Positive Classroom Environments by Saggers Beth
69.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The middle years of learning are increasingly recognised as one of the most challenging yet opportune periods for growth and development. Based on the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework, this book will equip educators with the appropriate knowledge, skills and strategies to support learners in m ...Show more
We Are Feminist - An Infographic History of the Women's Rights Movement by Helen Pankhurst (Foreword by)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Celebrate the achievements of women and their fight for equality with this inspirational and insightful infographic history of the global women's rights movement, from the mid-nineteenth century to present day. Sometimes we need a joyful, visual timeline to reflect on just how far the women's movement ...Show more
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A penetrating account of the momentous consequences of a reckless young company with the power to change the world' Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts How much power and influence does Facebook have over our lives? How has it changed how we interact with one another? And what i ...Show more
The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why it Matters by Jeffrey J. Kripal
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Why do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness? Are there limits to the scientific method? Why do we assume that only science, mathematics and technology reveal truth? The Flip shows us what happens when we realise that consciousness is fundamental to the cosmos and not some ran ...Show more
Genesis: On the Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation and division of labour' Nature Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, ce ...Show more
50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World by JONES, DAN
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World is a tribute to the hugely influential pioneers who have shaped the fantastic world of drag, as well as the queens of today that we all know and love. Learn about the wild and brilliant lives of Mama Ru and the best-loved Drag Race superstars, including Alaska, Bia ...Show more
The New Parisienne - The Women and Ideas Shaping Paris and Beyond by Lindsey Tramuta; Joann Pai (By (photographer))
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman--white, ...Show more
The Metamorphoses of Kinship by Maurice Godelier; Nora Scott (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise and the demise of the nuclear family, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux. In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualises these developments, surveying the a ...Show more