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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “tarryn phillips”
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  • Sugar

    An Ethnographic Novel

    by Edward Narain, Tarryn Phillips ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    In Suva, the bustling capital of Fiji, a tropical cyclone is looming. In this city of dazzling contradictions, three strangers are living worlds apart. Hannah is a young Australian expat who volunteers at a local health organization while leading a heady life of house parties and weekend getaways. Isikeli is a teenager from the informal settlement who has given up on his childhood dream of playing ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Narratives of Wellbeing

    Edited by Tarryn Phillips, Natalie Araújo, Timothy Willem Jones, John Taylor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book critically interrogates ‘wellbeing’, a concept that is exploding in popularity across the globe. The collection of essays asks not only how wellbeing can be defined and measured, but what is created and excluded in the process of striving for and articulating wellbeing. The editors propose a narrative framework as a novel and insightful lens through which to analyse wellbeing and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty

    The Contested Governance of Health

    by Tarryn Phillips ...
    Series series Social Justice
    We’ve seen it before, with asbestos-related disease, leukaemia clusters and lung cancer caused by cigarettes. There tends to be a lag between the emergence of environmental risks and chemical injuries, and their recognition and therapeutic treatment by medicine and the law. Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty examines how our society governs new health concerns as they emerge, and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Godfather of Kathmandu

    A Royal Thai Detective Novel (4)

    by John Burdett ...
    Series Book 4 - Royal Thai Detective Novels
    Sonchai Jitpleecheep—John Burdett’s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul—is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru.There are, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hospicing Modernity

    Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

    by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira ...
    A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity—for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against PurityThis book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Vulture Peak

    A Royal Thai Detective Novel (5)

    by John Burdett ...
    Series Book 5 - Royal Thai Detective Novels
    Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact—more or less—despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok. But for his newest assignment, everything he knows about his city—and himself—will be a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Restoring the Kinship Worldview

    Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth

    by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narvaez PhD ...
    **28 speeches and reflections from Indigenous leaders around the worldWisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a pathway forward toward sustainable, interconnected futures**Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present and discuss 28 powerful ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Batshit Seven

    by Sheung-King ...
    ***WINNER OF THE 2024 WRITERS' TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON FICTION PRIZE*From Governor General's Award-nominated author Sheung-King comes a novel about a millennial living through the Hong Kong protests, as he struggles to make sense of modern life and the parts of himself that just won’t gel.**Glen Wu (aka Glue) couldn’t care less about his job. He’s returned to Hong Kong, the city he grew up in, and he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Deep Adaptation

    Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos

    by Jem Bendell, Rupert Read ...
    ‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing ourselves to reducing suffering while saving more of society and the natural world. This is the first book to show how ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle

    by Prasanthi Ram ...
    Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising eleven interlinked stories, this short story cycle traces the lives of nine women from 1950 all the way to 2019, shedding light on the community and its evolution through the decades. As the stories take us from India to Singapore, Australia and even America, we follow the experiences of the women in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • It's Not Just You

    by Tori Tsui ...
    **‘The world is in desperate need of this book’ - Greta Thunberg'It's Not Just You is a galvanising breath of fresh air' - Mikaela Loach'Tori Tsui is changing the conversation around mental health and the climate crisis' - Vogue‘A must-read for anyone who would love to understand the intersections of mental health and the climate crisis’ - Vanessa Nakate------------------------It’s not just you.* ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Ageing Disgracefully

    by Colin Cotterill ...
    Ageing Disgracefully is a delightful collection of short stories that takes a humorous and life-affirming look at lives of people who, though considerably advanced in years, are still behaving very, very naughtily. With a keen eye for human foibles and a wicked sense of humor, Colin Cotterill has collected and illustrated—with words and drawings—the colorful lives of disreputable elders found ... Read more

    $4.95 USD