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  • What Is to Be Done

    political engagement and saving the planet

    by Barry Jones ...
    A follow-up to the author’s prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society.When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by Deng Xiaoping and Bill Gates; was published in China, Japan, South Korea, and Sweden; and ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • A Thinking Reed

    by Barry Jones ...
    From quiz kid to Australian Minister for Science, from frustrated school teacher to National President of the ALP, from the suburbs of Melbourne to UNESCO in Paris, Barry Jones has had a prodigious public life.Barry Jones first came to public prominence as Pick-a-Box quiz champion, and from then on he has embraced a myriad of passions and causes. A Thinking Reed spans his remarkable career, from a ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • Moscow Still Ain't The Place It Used To Be

    by Barry Jones ...
    MOSCOW 1991 to 1996. Following the collapse of Gorbachev’s Soviet Union, Norman ‘Nobby’ Jackson, Moscow-based failed business consultant and amateur Classicist turned private detective, again joins forces with his old sparring partner Colonel Lev Alexandrovitch Shcheglov, head of Moscow’s CID (see ‘Nobby’s’ previous adventures in ‘Moscow Ain’t Such A Bad Place’), to disentangle a Byzantine plot ... Read more

    $3.49 USD

  • Dwell

    Life with God for the World

    by Barry D. Jones ...
    Popular notions of Christian spirituality today tend to focus on getting us out of the world or getting the world out of us. Many are looking to spirituality as a means of disengaging from this life—to experience the transcendent or discover personal wholeness. On the other hand, much of popular Christian thought seems to be about avoiding the corruption of the world by being pious and following ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moscow Ain't Such A Bad Place

    by Barry Jones ...
    MOSCOW 1987: With Gorbachev’s Soviet Union in a state of flux and uncertainty, Londoner Norman ‘Nobby’ Robert Jackson — amateur Classicist, fluent Russian-speaker, business consultant and blackmarketeer living comfortably in Moscow with two mistresses — is approached by a fellow British businessman to locate the ‘Apsheron icon’. All is not what it seems, however. Next day ‘Nobby’ discovers the man ... Read more

    $3.69 USD

  • Childhood Disability in a Multicultural Society

    by Barry Jones ...
    People from different cultural backgrounds prefer adhering to their own religious beliefs which could restrict treatment options leading to the detriment of health, especially if it involves the health of a disabled child.This comprehensive but concise work highlights the problems faced in managing the care of disabled children from different cultural backgrounds. It examines the problems inherent ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Shock of Recognition

    The books and music that have inspired me

    by Barry Jones ...
    'How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely.'In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, to encourage the pursuit of an abundant life of reading and listening.Following the publication ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Modern History, 1640-1870

    With a New Critical Introduction

    Edited by Ye. Yurovskaya ...
    Series Book 279 - The Progress Publishers Library
    A university textbook of modern European and world history covering the two centuries the Soviet syllabus treated as the age of bourgeois revolution: from the English revolution of 1640 to the eve of the Paris Commune.Its span takes in the English civil war, the Enlightenment, the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic wars and the Restoration, industrialisation and the rise of the ... Read more

    $3.60 USD

  • The Penalty Is Death

    state power, law, and justice

    Edited by Barry Jones ...
    An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty Is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria — the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital punishment had been abolished as the penalty for murder in only 30 nations, although there was a ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Cultures of Oral Health

    Discourses, Practices and Theory

    Edited by Claire L. Jones, Barry J. Gibson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Oral health is integral to wellbeing and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading scholars to address global oral health and the multiple ways in which theory, practice and discourse have shaped it in the modern period.Structured around key themes, the book chapters draw on interdisciplinary perspectives in order to consider the role of the dental profession, the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • My Short Story Collection

    by Barry Lee Jones ...
    (Total word count–38,741) In Communicating through time, while surveying a planet for possible colonization an astronaut encounters a creature that he thinks is hostile, but can’t be sure. In Healthclub, the crew members of a spaceship relate their stories to a new crew member. In Captives of Benevolence, the crew of the EBA, Lancelot find these little creatures and study them. The creatures turn ... Read more

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  • Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State

    Edited by Jonathan Barry, Colin Jones ...
    What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe, up to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Through detailed case ... Read more

    $57.99 USD