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  • Abortion and Nation

    The Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Ireland

    by Lisa Smyth ...
    Abortion politics are contentious and divisive in many parts of the world, but nowhere more so than in Ireland. Abortion and Nation examines the connection between abortion politics and hegemonic struggles over national identity and the nation-state in the Irish Republic. Situating the abortion question in the global context of human rights politics, as well as international social movements, Lisa ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Social Experiences of Breastfeeding

    Building Bridges between Research, Policy and Practice

    This book brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to build bridges between the real-world and scholarship on breastfeeding.It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level, in order to help women breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer?The edited collection includes ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Red Dust in Her Veins

    Women of the Pilbara

    The twelve women interviewed in this book all share a strong attachment to the physical and spiritual beauty of the Pilbara, in the northwest of Western Australia. A common bond between the four indigenous and eight non-indigenous women whose stories we have read is not only the love of the landscape but also the various difficulties they have faced, and the opportunities they have created, in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    A Short History of Greek Philosophy (Unabridged)

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    Have you ever pondered the nature of reality, the wellspring of knowledge, or the key to a good life? These are the very questions that ignited Greek philosophy millennia ago, and their echoes resonate even today. In this captivating audiobook, "A Short History of Greek Philosophy" by John Marshall, we embark on a journey through the minds of great thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. We ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

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  • The Lady and the Peacock

    The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi

    by Peter Popham ...
    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi—known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply "The Lady"—has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at a moment when Burma, after decades of stagnation, is once again in flux.Suu Kyi's remarkable life begins with that of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mailman of the Birdsville Track

    The story of Tom Kruse

    The truly classic Australian story of Tom Kruse - legendary mailman of the Birdsville Track.For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic - but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he was the connection with the outside world for the families, station workers and others who lived along the ... Read more

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  • Australia's Great Explorers: Tales of tragedy and triumph

    by Denis Gregory ...
    The often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to, and it proved a daunting obstacle to settlement. However, a few brave and at times foolhardy men were determined to prove themselves equal to the challenge. AUSTRALIA'S GREAT EXPLORERS looks at the tragedies and triumphs of men such as Wentworth and Lawson, Hume and Hovell, Burke and ... Read more

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  • The Gates of November

    by Chaim Potok ...
    "REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston GlobeThe father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved author of the award-winning novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, unfolds the gripping true story of a father, a son, and a ... Read more

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  • Burke and Wills

    The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers

    The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller.'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Spring Fever

    The Illusion of Islamic Democracy

    The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United States is a competitor to be overcome, not the herald of a culture to be embraced.Is this self ... Read more

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  • The Naked God

    The Writer and the Communist Party

    by Howard Fast ...
    Fast's book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. The bestselling author of Spartacus and ... Read more

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