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by Mark Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Mark Dodd arrived in Broome in 1978 as a 20-year-old looking for adventure, after working his way across northern Australia. There he fell in with the crew of the fabled DMcD, one of the last of the old wooden pearling luggers that still worked the Kimberley coast diving for pearl shell. He came aboard...
The Political Bubble
Why Australians Don't Trust Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Australians once trusted the democratic process. While we got on with our lives, we assumed our politicians had our best interests at heart.
Not anymore. That trust has collapsed.
Mark Latham joined the Labor Party in the late 1970s hoping to improve people's lives through parliamentary...
by G. Brooks, A. Aleem, M. Button
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the sporting world including football, cricket, horse racing and boxing.
Doing Business With China
Avoiding the Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
This book is about understanding the differences and risks, ownership, culture and management practices when investing, managing or working with Chinese companies. It explores the progression of overseas listing of Chinese companies and the reasons behind theattitude shifts towards overseas Chinese stocks.
by Hugh Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The eternal question 'Who am I?' must be weighed against an even deeper question: 'Who are we?' We are writing each other's stories as much as we are writing our own.
In his bestselling book, The Good Life, Hugh Mackay argued that kindness and respect for others are the hallmarks of a life...
Marketing to the 90s Generation
Global Data on Society, Consumption, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Marketing to the 90s Generation is based on original research conducted by sociologists and psychologists on generational cohorts, how they come about, what defines them and what it means to society, its institutions and companies.
Customers at Work
New Perspectives on Interactive Service Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Explores the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active contribution to virtually all aspects and stages of the production process. This volume illuminates social relations and interaction between customers and service providers as well as between the users of web-based services.
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
A Biohistory of American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.
America’s First Regional Theatre
The Cleveland Play House and Its Search for a Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.
South Africa's Renegade Reels
The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much-needed study, author Litheko Modisane delves into the public...
Stray Dog of Anime
The Films of Mamoru Oshii
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed 'stray dog'. This is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from Urusei Yatsura to Avalon .
Wittgenstein and Plato
Connections, Comparisons and Contrasts
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought.
The Theory of Descriptions
Russell and the Philosophy of Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project.
by Steven Methven
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramsey's genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the impact he had on Wittgenstein's later philosophical insights.