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  • Land Abandoned to the Sea

    The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas

    by Dr Stuart Oliver ...
    Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes.With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Meritocracy

    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

    by James Bloodworth ...
    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly locked out of the top professions by those from affluent backgrounds.Hitherto, Labour and ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Australia For Dummies

    by Larissa Behrendt ...
    A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and cultureWhat is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous peoples today? Indigenous Australia For Dummies, 2nd Edition answers these questions and countless ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development

    Fostering Cultural Security

    by Dawn Bessarab, Juli Coffin, Michael Wright ...
    Until recently, Aboriginal people have been subjected to mainly top-down development, which has proven damaging to communities. Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development offers an alternative to such approaches, promoting cultural security in order to empower Aboriginal people to strengthen their own communities. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach to the topics of Aboriginal community ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Boyer Lectures 2012: The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom

    by Marcia Langton ...
    Professor Marcia Langton's 2012 Boyer Lectures discuss the dependency of Aboriginal businesses and not-for-profit corporations on the resources industry and their resultant vulnerability to economic downturns.'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has been to inject new ideas and new ways of thinking about the status of Indigenous people in Australia and about the impact of the mining boom in the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Trapped in the Gap

    Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

    by Emma Kowal ...
    In Australia, a ‘tribe’ of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. ‘White anti-racists’ find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901

    by Tim Rowse ...
    As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature Unbound

    Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

    by Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, Jim Igoe ...
    This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose.The book explores key debates on devolution, participation and democracy; the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Observing the Outports

    Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980

    by Jeff Webb ...
    The years after Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John’s, a new generation of faculty saw the province’s transformation as a critical moment. Some hoped to solve the challenges of modernization ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Murray River Country

    An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners

    by Jessica K Weir ...
    Murray River Country discusses the water crisis from a unique perspective - the intimate stories of love and loss from the perspectives of Aboriginal people who know the inland rivers as their traditional country. These experiences bring a fresh narrative to contemporary water debates about living in the Murray-Darling Basin, where water is increasingly scarce, increasingly degraded, and of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The right to protect sites

    Indigenous heritage management in the era of native title

    by Pamela F McGrath ...
    A large and profitable Indigenous heritage management industry has emerged in the wake of the resources boom of recent decades, with thousands of Indigenous heritage impact assessments conducted every year. Yet few governments have successfully reformed heritage laws to accommodate native title rights, and conflict over site destruction is regularly front page news.The right to protect sites ... Read more

    $1.00 USD