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  • Alva's Boy

    An Unsentimental Memoir

    by Alan Collins ...
    "Alan Collins' memoir successfully straddles both history and literature. It is a memoir that has wry appeal to the seasoned Jewish historical reader and the novice alike with its keen observations and its pacey narrative, detailing the life of a young Jewish boy growing up in Bondi in the 30s and 40s. Collins, who died in March 2008 aged 79, leaves a compelling story about part of Australia's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alvas Boy: An Unsentimental Memoir

    by Alan Collins ...
    'I weighed up these women in my life and decided that none of them would fill the role of a mother. But then, what did I know about mothers anyway? ... The short answer was nothing bugger-all.'' Sydney in 1928 and Alva, a young Jewish wife, dies in childbirth. No family member is allowed to care for the baby, so ''Alva's boy'' is sent from one children's home to another. His father weds for the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Building a People-Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way

    by Alan Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    ASEAN has declared its intention to create a security community in Southeast Asia that is people-orientated. This book evaluates ASEAN’s progress, and in doing so examines three matters of concern.The book firstly looks at the importance of constitutive norms to the workings of security communities, by identifying ASEAN’s constitutive norms and the extent to which they act as a help of hindrance ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Cognition In Action

    by Alan F. Collins, Philip Levy, Peter E. Morris, Mary M. Smyth ...
    This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.; Each chapter of the book starts with an example and then uses this to introduce some aspect of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Unpacking the Death Penalty in ASEAN

    Edited by Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Mark P. Capaldi, Alan Collins ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of punishment, justice and human rights. Researched and prepared by scholars who have not only been conducting studies on the death penalty in the region but have also been advocating for legal reforms, this edited book touches upon the different justifications for the use ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Theories Of Memory

    Edited by Alan F. Collins, Martin A. Conway, Peter E. Morris ...
    This is a collection of chapters by some of the most influential memory researchers. Chapters focus on a wide range of key areas of research. The main emphasis throughout the book is on theoretical issues and how they relate to existing empirical work. The contributions reveal that memory continues to be an important research area and they provide a state-of- the-art perspective on this central ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Criminality at Work

    Edited by Alan Bogg, Jennifer Collins, Mark Freedland, Jonathan Herring ...
    From the Master and Servant legislation to the Factories Acts of the 19th century, the criminal law has always had a vital yet normatively complex role in the regulation of work relations. Even in its earliest forms, it operated both as a tool to repress collective organizations and enforce labour discipline, while policing the worst excesses of industrial capitalism. Recently, governments have ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • The Contract of Employment

    Edited by Mark Freedland, Alan Bogg, David Cabrelli, Hugh Collins, Nicola Countouris, A.C.L. Davies, Simon Deakin, Jeremias Prassl ...
    The contract of employment is the central legal institution of modern English employment law. It provides the foundation upon which most statutory employment rights are constructed; it provides a conduit for the implementation of norms negotiated in collective bargaining; and it continues to provide a contractual structure for the terms and conditions of employment for a significant proportion of ... Read more

    $237.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    From a Low and Quiet Sea

    by Donal Ryan ...
    Narrated by Alana Kerr Collins, Gerard Doyle, Alan Smyth, Vikas Adam, Tim Gerard Reynolds, various narrators ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    A new moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost.For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield

    Edited by Zakaria Hamimi, Abdel-Rahman Fowler, Jean-Paul Liégeois, Alan Collins, Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, Mohamed Abd EI-Wahed ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This richly illustrated book reviews the geology, tectonics and mineralization of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) in 27 chapters. It starts with an examination of the ANS lithospheric scale features, explores Mesoproterozoic units and deals with the ANS oceanic stage. Arc volcanism and plutonism, post-collision basins and volcanics are discussed, as well as the younger granitoid magmatism and the ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • The Nexus among Place, Conflict and Communication in a Globalising World

    Edited by Pauline Collins, Victor Igreja, Patrick Alan Danaher ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place. All conflicts are crucially connected with place, and all conflicts are communicated in multiple ways. This book explores the complex nexus among place, conflict and communication and brings together 11 investigations around the interplay of place ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Cities of Pleasure

    Sex and the Urban Socialscape

    Edited by Alan Collins ...
    Series series Urban Studies Monographs
    This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including:the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining patterns and appropriate regulation of commercial sex zones and markets in the urban landscapehow gay ... Read more

    $66.99 USD