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  • Groundhog Day

    A Mother’s Struggle to Protect her Son from Repeated Failures of a Mental Health Service

    by Lesley Brown ...
    The story of a mother’s 27-year battle to get appropriate support for her son and to protect him from negligent and at times abusive services. At a time when the UK government is updating mental health legislation, when the WHO and the UN are recommending the reduction of coercive psychopharmacological practices, and when many mental health professionals and people with lived experience are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Theaetetus

    Translated by John McDowell ...
    by Lesley Brown, Plato ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student, Theaetetus, it explores one of the key issues in philosophy: what is knowledge? Though no definite answer is reached, the discussion is penetrating and wide-ranging, covering the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South

    Theoretical and Methodological Lenses on Skills and the Informal Sector

    Edited by Lesley Powell, Adam Cooper, Trent Brown, Simon McGrath ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the Global South are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions.Underpinned by research undertaken in the Global South, this book discusses how we might better theorise, conceptualise, and critique what skills and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Nicomachean Ethics

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by David Ross ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that contribute to our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Decolonial Daughter

    Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son

    by Lesley-Ann Brown ...
    A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood, migration, and identity—and how it relates to land, imprisonment, and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples.Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago, Brown attempts to contextualize her and her son’s existence in a post-colonial and supposedly post-racial world, where the very machine of so-called ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Blackgirl on Mars

    by Lesley-Ann Brown ...
    Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown's two years' worth of travel searching for "home".As she travels across the US during the Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19 pandemic and then to Trinidad and Tobago to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Brown tells her own life-story, as well as writing about race, gender, sexuality, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Protagoras and Meno

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Adam Beresford ...
    Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of Pericles, pits a youthful Socrates against the revered sophist Protagoras, whose brilliance and humanity make him one the most interesting and likeable ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The German «Lied» after Hugo Wolf

    From Hans Pfitzner to Anton Webern

    by Lesley-Ann Brown ...
    Series Book 61 - German Life and Civilization
    Following the development of the German Lied after the nineteenth century – when it was widely known as the setting of Romantic poetry to music – this book explores the changing artistic scene in the early twentieth century, as rapid social, economic and environmental changes affected German cultural production. The Lied then faced not only a crisis of identity, but also a threat to its survival. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Everyday Girls Guide to Living in Truth, Self-Love, and Acceptance

    by Leanne MacDonald, Crystal D Life, Natalie Smith, Carolyn Hobdey, Michelina Cusano, Meg Scott, Laura Dempsey, Eliana Keen, Lesley Fraser, Hillary Sepulveda Brown, Kim Garden, Lisa King, Judy Prokopiak, Kym Laube, Mandy Monson, Renae Peterson, Tierra Womack MBA, Randi Willhite, Kathryn Van Der Steege, Iona Russell ...
    The Everyday Girls Guide to Living in Truth. Self-Love, and Acceptance is the perfect resource of understanding, compassion, and support for teen girls as they navigate this exciting and sometimes daunting chapter of their life. Including guidance and wisdom from 19 incredible teen girl mentors from around the world. This book is brought to you by She Speaks Media, a platform dedicated to creating ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Nicomachean Ethics

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by Adam Beresford ...
    One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation by Adam Beresford'Right and wrong is a human thing'What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Theaetetus

    by Plato ...
    Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely subjective, composed of the ever-changing flow of impressions we receive from the outside world? Is ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Early Socratic Dialogues

    by Emlyn-Jones Chris, Plato ...
    Translated by Trevor Saunders ...
    Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD