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  • Alva's Boy

    An Unsentimental Memoir

    by Alan Collins ...
    "Alan Collins' memoir successfully straddles both history and literature. It is a memoir that has wry appeal to the seasoned Jewish historical reader and the novice alike with its keen observations and its pacey narrative, detailing the life of a young Jewish boy growing up in Bondi in the 30s and 40s. Collins, who died in March 2008 aged 79, leaves a compelling story about part of Australia's ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unpacking the Death Penalty in ASEAN

    Edited by Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Mark P. Capaldi, Alan Collins ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of punishment, justice and human rights. Researched and prepared by scholars who have not only been conducting studies on the death penalty in the region but have also been advocating for legal reforms, this edited book touches upon the different justifications for the use ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield

    Edited by Zakaria Hamimi, Abdel-Rahman Fowler, Jean-Paul Liégeois, Alan Collins, Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, Mohamed Abd EI-Wahed ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This richly illustrated book reviews the geology, tectonics and mineralization of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) in 27 chapters. It starts with an examination of the ANS lithospheric scale features, explores Mesoproterozoic units and deals with the ANS oceanic stage. Arc volcanism and plutonism, post-collision basins and volcanics are discussed, as well as the younger granitoid magmatism and the ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Cities of Pleasure

    Sex and the Urban Socialscape

    Edited by Alan Collins ...
    Series series Urban Studies Monographs
    This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including:the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining patterns and appropriate regulation of commercial sex zones and markets in the urban landscapehow gay ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Civil Society and World Regions

    How Citizens Are Reshaping Regional Governance in Times of Crisis

    by Chukwudi David Anyanwu, Mercedes Botto, Alan Collins, Antonio Fiori, Andréas Godsäter, Okechukwu C. Iheduru, Sunhyuk Kim, Marco Pinfari, Andy Storey, Helen E.S. Nesadurai, Jan Aart Scholte ...
    Supranational regionalism and regional integration have for a long time been top-down processes, led by the few and imposed on the many. The role of citizens, especially those active in civil society, has been neglected by scholars, students, and commentators of regionalism. In reaction to the prevalence of these top-down models, a “new regionalism” approach has proliferated in the past few years. ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Building a People-Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way

    by Alan Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    ASEAN has declared its intention to create a security community in Southeast Asia that is people-orientated. This book evaluates ASEAN’s progress, and in doing so examines three matters of concern.The book firstly looks at the importance of constitutive norms to the workings of security communities, by identifying ASEAN’s constitutive norms and the extent to which they act as a help of hindrance ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Alvas Boy: An Unsentimental Memoir

    by Alan Collins ...
    'I weighed up these women in my life and decided that none of them would fill the role of a mother. But then, what did I know about mothers anyway? ... The short answer was nothing bugger-all.'' Sydney in 1928 and Alva, a young Jewish wife, dies in childbirth. No family member is allowed to care for the baby, so ''Alva's boy'' is sent from one children's home to another. His father weds for the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Human Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, brings the issue of human rights up to date, considering the current controversies ... Read more

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  • Social Class in the 21st Century

    by Mike Savage ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our ... Read more

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  • Geographies of Globalization

    by John Overton, Warwick Murray ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series
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  • A Simpler Time

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
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