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  • The Long Walk Home

    An Escape in Wartime Italy

    de Peter Medd, Frank Simms, Andrew Adams, Marcus Binney ...
    On September 13th 1943, two young British officers seized the chance to escape their PoW convoy after the capitulation of Italy. This catapulted them onto a two-month, seven-hundred-mile journey through enemy territory down the spine of Italy, helped by many brave local families. This new edition of The Long Walk Home sets the record of this extraordinary adventure straight. It gives Frank Simms ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    de Professor Ian Convery, Catherine Roberts, Chia-Li Chen, Claire Twigger-Ross, Diana Walters, Ellie Land, Esther Edwards, Gerard Corsane, Gordon Walker0, Graeme Were1, Hugh Deeming2, Isabelle Lackman3, James Gardner4, Jo Besley5, John Welshman6, Jonathan Skinner7, Josephine Baxter8, Maggie Mort9, Marc Ancrenaz0, Marion Walker1, Professor Peter Davis3, Mark Wilson4, Özgün Emre Can5, Pat Caplan6, Peter Lurz7, Phil O'Keefe8, Philip R Stone9, Rebecca Whittle0, Richard Johnson1, Rob Morley2, Andy Law3, Rupert Ashmore4, Sarah Elliot5, Shalini Sharma6, Stephen Miles7, Susannah Eckersley8, Takashi Harada9, Tim Padley0, William Medd1, Aron Mazel2, Athur McIvor3, Billy Sinclair4, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir5, Bryony Onciul6 ...
    The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Luigi's Freedom Ride

    de Alan Murray ...
    A wholly charming, sweetly funny story of one young good-hearted Italian man. It's about life, bicycles, the joy of the journey and the simple beauty of a life well-lived.'Witty, moving and profound, this is the most enjoyable story I have read this year; a book to be treasured.' toowoomba ChronicleLuigi's Freedom Ride is a charming treat of a novel - as sunny, light and enjoyable as a strawberry ... Leer más

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  • First Knowledges Design

    Building on Country

    de Alison Page, Paul Memmott ...
    Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Riders on the Storm

    The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being

    de Alastair McIntosh ...
    A journey into science and spirituality to help us reconnect with soil, soul, and society from "one of the world's leading environmental campaigners" (BBC TV).Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability of our interconnected world, the effects of global warming will be permanent, indeed catastrophic, without a massive shift ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Accidental Agent

    Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance

    de John Goldsmith ...
    A covert agent's memoir of three perilous missions in Nazi-occupied Paris, told with "unconditional honesty" ( Kirkus Reviews).At first, John Goldsmith's services were consistently refused. But in 1942, he was recruited into Buckmasters F Section of the Special Operations Executive—and his wartime exploits would be remarkable.His faultless French and upbringing in Paris were to prove invaluable. ... Leer más

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  • Happy Odyssey

    de Adrian Carton de Wiart ...
    The legendary British Army officer recounts his experiences in the Boer War and both World Wars in this memoir with a foreword by Winston Churchill.Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart had one of the most extraordinary military careers in the history of the British Army. His gallantry in combat won him a Victoria Cross and a Distinguished Service Order, as well as an eyepatch and an empty ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Landscapes

    Ways of Imagining the World

    de Hilary P.M. Winchester ...
    Series series Insights Into Human Geography
    Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power. Landscapes is a powerful and vivid application of the new cultural geography to case studies not previously visited within cultural geography texts. ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Mud, Blood and Bullets

    Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Western Front

    de Edward Rowbotham ...
    It is 1915 and the Great War has been raging for a year, when Edward Rowbotham, a coal miner from the Midlands, volunteers for Kitchener's Army. Drafted into the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps, he is sent to fight in places whose names will forever be associated with mud and blood and sacrifice: Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele. He is one of the 'lucky' ones, winning the Military Medal for ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture

    de Paul Oliver ...
    The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe. Some previously unpublished papers, as ... Leer más

    $224.99 USD