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  • Fault Lines

    Australia's Unequal Past

    Edición de Christina Twomey, Seumas Spark ...
    A timely essay collection on injustice in Australia Australians love to talk about a 'fair go'. Yet inequality has been part of this sunburnt country since colonisation. From Australia's treatment of its First Nations peoples to its refugees, from the prejudice suffered by the LGBTIQA+ community to the lack of support for returned soldiers, our country has not always treated its citizens with ... Leer más

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  • Shadowline

    The Dunera Diaries of Uwe Radok

    Edición de Jacquie Houlden, Seumas Spark ...
    In September 1939 Britain declared war on Germany, and the life of Uwe Radok, a young German-born engineer working in Scotland, changed forever. Classified as an 'enemy alien', Uwe was deported to Canada on the Arandora Star. When the ship was torpedoed, drowning more than 800, Uwe and his brothers survived – only to be marched onto the infamous Dunera, bound for Australia.From 1940 to 1943 Uwe ... Leer más

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  • Voices of the Dunera

    Ernst Kitzinger, Exile and Essays on Internment

    Ernst Kitzinger was one of the great art historians of the twentieth century, and a refugee incarcerated in Hay, New South Wales during WWII. As a German Jew he had sought refuge in Britain in 1935, but in 1940 was one of 2,500 men arrested as ‘enemy aliens’ and deported to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera. Kitzinger rallied his fellow internees to communicate their peculiar circumstances. In ... Leer más

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  • Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    A Brief Introduction

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    The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek’s 1944 warning against the dangers of government control, continues to influence politics more than seventy years after it was turned down by three American publishers and finally published by the University of Chicago Press. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, the definitive edition of The Road to Serfdom ... Leer más

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  • Dear Me

    de Peter Ustinov ...
    Sir Peter Ustinov's beautifully crafted autobiography is told with exquisite wit and insight. From his birth in April 1921, it spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'. Ustinov's renowned gift for mimicry is exploited to the full in Dear Me. Eccentric relatives, school masters, sergeant ... Leer más

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  • Anarchy in Action

    de Colin Ward ...
    The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as ... Leer más

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  • Orwell's Ghosts

    Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century

    de Laura Beers ...
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyWinner of the Goldsmith Book PrizeA New Yorker Best Book of the YearFor the 75th anniversary of 1984, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today.**George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society ... Leer más

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  • Embracing the Ordinary

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  • Imperial nostalgia

    How the British conquered themselves

    A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths ... Leer más

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  • The Last Days of Roger Federer

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  • Shrinking Violets

    The Secret Life of Shyness

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    The author of Armchair Nation and On Roads examines shyness in a"sparkling cultural history rang[ing]from Jane Austen to Silicon Valley" ( The Guardian).Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment at being the unwelcome center of attention. And yet the cultural history of shyness ... Leer más

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