Fraser: 812 books
Love Hurts
Motorways, Madness and Leeds United
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Most relationships between a fan and a favourite football team go way beyond the casual. Almost always that relationship is a torrid, steamy and passionate love affair. A love affair that rarely lives up to expectations. A love affair that seldom satisfies and, most of the time, just plain hurts.
So...
The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers
First Steps to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers is the essential guide to reducing your school's ecological footprint and creating and embedding a sustainability ethos. Whether you are a teacher eager to make your classroom a more eco-friendly environment or a head teacher who wants to set up a whole school...
Ten Decades in the Life of My Dad
And the Lessons I learned
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The 20th century heralded the greatest technological changes of any century. My Dad lived through virtually all of it - from 1898 to 1997. He served in two world wars and raised two families. Even though my Dad was a quiet man, he shared with me his stories and he shared with me his soul. His advice...
Word
Beyond Language, Beyond Image
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Words are everywhere. Ubiquitous, pervasive. Yet our relations with words are narrowly defined. How does the sound, feel, touch, taste, place, position, speed, and direction of words come to matter in their uses?
Word begins from the premise that, if we consider words only in terms of language and...
by Gurmay Effrige Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
In her book, Love Me or Leave Me, Gurmay accounts how a young girl got involved in a loveless relationship where abuse is the norm while her joy is exhausted. The author has given life to all of the characters in Love Me or Leave Me. Readers will be drawn into the storyline and they will be holding their...
by John Foster Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
THE INVADERS It was on a boat which was laden with bananas and running from Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama, to New York. The steward called me at dawn. He thought I was mad because I stood in pyjamas without apparent heed of the mirky drizzle. Beyond the sad waters there was little to see but a low-lying...
Feminism for the 99%
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Named one of Vogue’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019”
This is a manifesto for the 99 percent
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren’t they the biggest...
Commercium
Critical Theory From a Cosmopolitan Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a wealth of discussion and controversy about the idea of a ‘postnational’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ politics. But while there are many normative theories of cosmopolitanism, as well as some cosmopolitan theories of globalization, there has been little...
Global Foodscapes
Oppression and resistance in the life of food
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
What we eat – as well as how it is produced, processed, moved, sold, and used by our bodies seems to matter like never before. Global Foodscapes takes on this topicality and asks readers to think about how we are all involved in the making of an odd and, in many ways, troubling and contested food...
Urban Legends
Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people. Complex dangers and instabilities, as well as high levels of public fear...
Before They Were Belly Dancers
European Accounts of Female Entertainers in Egypt, 1760-1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as “belly dance.” Eyewitness accounts written by European travelers, the major primary...
Mightier Than a Lord
The Struggle for the Scottish Crofters' Act of 1886
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Near the end of the nineteenth century, the Gaelic-speaking crofters of the Scottish Highlands rose in revolutionary struggle against their English landlords for the right to live in security on their own ancestral clan lands.
by W. R. Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Originally published in 1971. This book looks at the French educational services. which had been being reformed over the 1960s. The dynamic for change stemmed from population pressures, higher aspirations and students’ dissatisfaction. The author shows how attempts to reform have been limited by...
by Darry Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
From a bestselling debut author, this Australian historical adventure romance is a compulsively readable story of hate, honour and an overwhelming love.
A nineteenth–century story of greed, honour and an overwhelming love
Bendigo 1890
Ard O'Rourke is Linley Seymour's perfect...