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  • Shattered

    The Asian American Comics Anthology

    Edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, Jerry Ma ...
    Three years after the publication of the groundbreaking Asian American comics anthology Secret Identities, the same team is back with a new volume—bigger, bolder, and more breathtaking in scope.While the first collection focused on the conventions of superhero comics, this new book expands its horizon to include edgier genres, from hard-boiled pulp to horror, adventure, fantasy, and science ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing on the Edge

    Sport, Society and Culture in Asia and Oceania

    by David Rowe, Bonnie Pang, Keith Parry ...
    Series Book 7 - Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies
    Contemporary global sport is in constant, sometimes bewildering flux. This book goes beyond orthodox globalisation theory, deploying the metaphor of ‘playing on the edge’ in analysing the dynamic process of making and remaking sport culture in Asia and Oceania. Beyond sport’s traditionally dominant centres in the West, here the edges of the sport and media fields are vividly exposed, re-positioned ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Eagle Watchers

    Observing and Conserving Raptors around the World

    Edited by Ruth Tingay, Todd Katzner ...
    Eagles have fascinated humans for millennia. For some, the glimpse of a distant eagle instantly becomes a treasured lifelong memory. Others may never encounter a wild eagle in their lifetime. This book was written by people who have dedicated years to the study of eagles, to provide an insider's view for all readers, but especially those who have never been up close and personal with these ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Values, Voice and Virtue

    The New British Politics

    by Matthew Goodwin ...
    *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Financial Times 2023 book to watch*'Forceful ... The fundamental thrust of Goodwin's argument is right ... a new centre ground of British politics is being formed - even if both parties have yet to fully comprehend it' The TimesWhat has caused the recent seismic changes in British politics, including Brexit and a series of populist revolts against the elite? ... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Australia's Welfare Wars

    The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

    by Philip Mendes ...
    In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Privileged Few

    by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton ...
    Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down the scale to the distortions in the labour market when elites use their networks to secure plum jobs, not least in new domains such ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Shrinking Nation

    How we got here and what can be done about it

    by Graeme Turner ...
    Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repeated cycles of political upheaval. The divisive and hyper-partisan version of party politics that has accompanied these events has hamstrung the nation' s capacity to respond to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old Asian, New Asian

    by K. Emma Ng ...
    Series Book 59 - BWB Texts
    A 2010 Human Rights Commission report found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand.K. Emma Ng shines light onto the persistence of anti-Asian sentiment in New Zealand. Her anecdotal account is based on her personal experience as a second-generation young Chinese-New Zealand woman. When Asian people have been living here since the gold ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Invisibility in the City

    Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

    by Deirdre Howard-Wagner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities.Seventy-five years ago, First Nations peoples began a significant post-war period of relocation to cities ... Read more

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  • Considerations for Australia’s next woman Prime Minister

    by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey ...
    This book moves the discussion forward so that Australia will have a woman Prime Minister sooner rather than later. Underlined with a reflective, interpretive and explorative stance of Julia Gillard’s Prime Ministership, it presents an analysis on issues to do with gender and leadership culminating in key considerations for the nation and for the next woman Prime Minister. “This book is a readable ... Read more

    $9.78 CAD

  • The Difference Identity Makes

    Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian cultural fields

    Edited by Lawrence Bamblett, Fred Myers, Tim Rowse ...
    Through the struggles of Indigenous Australians for recognition and self-determination it has become common sense to understand Australia as made up of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and things. But in what ways is the Indigenous on-Indigenous distinction being used and understood? In The Difference Identity Makes, thirteen Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics examine how this ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Mega-events and social change

    Spectacle, legacy and public culture

    by Maurice Roche ...
    The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new ‘second phase’ of the modernization process. ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD