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  • How to Dress for Old Age

    by David Carlin, Peta Murray ...
    When adult children take up the labour of care for absent fathers and stoic mothers, when contemplating their own futures, things can get complicated.Room 306. Level Three. In inner city Melbourne, David Carlin's mother, Joan, is settling in. Five doors away, on the same floor of the same institution, Peta Murray's father, Frank, is halfway through the statistically ordained 18 months he is likely ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Languages of Water

    by Eugen Bacon, Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin, Dominique Hecq, Quyen Nguyen-Hoang, Erin Latimer, Andrew Chin, Oz Hardwick, Aldegunda Matoyo, Clara Chow, Tamantha Smith, Clare Rhoden, Cheng Tim Tim, Stephen Embelton, Nicki Bacon, Seb Doubinski, Pandora, E. Don Harpe, Ramya Jirashinghe, Kyongmi Park, Zephyr Li, Nuzo Onoh, Andrew Hook, Sudeep Chatterjee ...
    Languages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes' le plaisir du ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The After-Normal

    Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet

    by David Carlin, Nicole Walker ...
    “A” is for Australia and “A” is for Arizona, over 9,000 miles apart but sharing the same Earth. In this eccentric, intimate compendium of short environmental and personal essays, David Carlin (in Melbourne) and Nicole Walker (in Flagstaff) engage in a long-distance dialogue between two writers, creating an improvisational subversion of the encyclopedia, a witty-yet-serious send-up of the concept ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • American Catholics and Civic Engagement

    A Distinctive Voice

    by Kirk Adams, William Bole, David Carlin, David Gonzalez, Michael Lacey, Paul Moses, Kate O'Beirne, Don Wycliff, Jane Mansbridge, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, W Shepherdson Abell, Mary Jo Bane, Edward E. Dolejsi, Thomas J. Donnelly, David C. Leege, Paul D. Mueller, Monsignor Philip J. Murnion, William M. Shea, John J. Sweeney, Dotty Lynch, Clarke E. Cochran, John A. Coleman, E.J. Dionne, William A. Galston, Stephen J. Pope ...
    Series series American Catholics in the Public Square
    Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S. civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical Protestant, ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Near and the Far

    new stories from the Asia-Pacific region

    Edited by David Carlin, Francesca Rendle-Short ...
    From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.It’s a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. It’s post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. It’s contemporary Bangkok, and a writer’s encounter ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • A to Z of Creative Writing Methods

    Edited by Dr Deborah Wardle, Julienne van Loon, Dr Stayci Taylor, Dr Francesca Rendle-Short, Dr Peta Murray, Professor David Carlin ...
    Series series Research in Creative Writing
    The A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice.Almost sixty contributors from a range of writing traditions and across multiple forms and genre are represented in this volume: from poets, essayists, novelists and performance writers, to graphic novelists, illustrators, and those engaged ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Our Father Who Wasn't There

    by David Carlin ...
    Can a memoir begin without memories? Can a father be invented? When David Carlin was only six months old, his father, Brian, died. It was the 1960s in isolated Western Australia, a place in which emotions were discreetly veiled, women did not attend funerals — and suicide was a sin. Brian became a mysteriously absent figure in David’s family story, hardly spoken of again.As an adult, David yearns ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Performing Digital

    Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive

    Edited by David Carlin, Laurene Vaughan ...
    Series series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
    Digital technologies have transformed archives in every area of their form and function, and as technologies mature so does their capacity to change our understanding and experience of material and performative cultural production. There has been an exponential explosion in the production and consumption of video online and yet there is a scarcity of knowledge and cases about video and the digital ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    by O-O Happiness ...
    Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. Why not try our system. Learn to communicate quickly and easily in another language. ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Asian in Australia

    Edited by Alice Pung ...
    Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner-table chatter and you ... Read more

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  • Stylish Academic Writing

    by Helen Sword ...
    Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Teaching Graphic Design

    Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

    by Steven Heller ...
    This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country’s leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, bricks and mortar” approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD