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  • Privacy Techtonics

    Feminist Geopolitics of Privacy, WhatsApp and Democracy in India

    by Philippa Williams, Lipika Kamra ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Today, privacy is more than a personal choice—it’s a terrain shaped by power, politics and everyday life.This book shifts the lens from established western narratives to India, WhatsApp’s largest market, exploring how digital privacy is lived, built, and regulated on the world’s digital peripheries. Drawing on rich field-based research, it ... Read more

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  • Everyday Peace?

    Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India

    by Philippa Williams ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAGProviding important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community.Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Time Bomb

    Work, Rest and Play in Australia Today

    by Barbara Pocock, Natalie Skinner, Philippa Williams ...
    Time poverty is a conundrum for many Australian households and workers. Australians start work young, and we are working more, and longer into old age. And while maximising our productivity and enhancing our professional skills, we must raise our children well, care for our aged, be involved in our community and shrink our carbon footprint – a footprint shaped by the patterns and habits of our ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader

    by David Ashton, Jamie Ripman, Philippa Williams ...
    Series series How To
    How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader is an indispensable guide for all nurses and midwives who wish to develop and improve their practice as leaders. Written in collaboration with the NHS Leadership Academy, this practical book draws on the real experience of over 10,000 nurses and midwives to bring leadership dilemmas to life in specific situations.Key learning features include:How to develop your ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Geographies of Peace

    New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

    Edited by Nick Megoran, Fiona McConnell, Philippa Williams ...
    From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso's iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise. Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden concept, it is also abstract, ambiguous and seemingly inextricably tied to its antithesis: war. ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Beyond the Wage

    Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies

    by Mara Nogueira, Mechthild Von Vacano, Annemiek Prins, Laurie Parsons, Katherine Brickell, Nithya Natarajan, Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar, Hannah Dawson, Asiya Islam, Claudia Strauss, Sam Strong, Tatiana Thieme ...
    Recent developments in the organization of work and production have facilitated the decline of wage employment in many regions of the world. However, the idea of the wage continues to dominate the political imaginations of governments, researchers and activists, based on the historical experiences of industrial workers in the global North.This edited collection revitalises debates on the future of ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Pincher Martin

    Introduced by Marlon James

    by William Golding, Philippa Gregory ...
    Experience a shipwrecked sailor's psychic disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.An hour on this rock is a lifetime.Glistening limpets. The claws of a lobster. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there is sea. Only this jagged peak interrupts the vast expanse of the Atlantic: a tooth in a gaping jaw. But ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • The Scorpion God

    With an introduction by Craig Raine

    by William Golding ...
    Lose yourself in ancient civilizations in these three historical novellas by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.Even when he leapt from the parapet he talked.Ancient Egypt. The Prince is set to marry Pretty Flower, his sister, in the Great House's incestuous society. But the Liar speaks a truth that transforms everything .A primiti... ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Spire

    by William Golding, Rachel Greenwald Smith ...
    **There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in.A Penguin Classic**Set in medieval England, The Spire tells the story of one man’s vision—the construction of an enormous spire onto a cathedral without foundations. Believing himself to be chosen by God, Jocelin, dean of the cathedral, insists that the spire must rise higher and higher. Told with an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Inheritors. Illustrated

    by William Golding ...
    In The Inheritors, William Golding masterfully reimagines the prehistoric world, crafting a deeply moving narrative about the fragile balance between innocence and ambition, survival and destruction. The story unfolds through the perspective of a small Neanderthal tribe, portrayed as gentle, empathetic beings who live in harmony with their environment. Their simple lives are upended with the ... Read more

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  • The Double Tongue

    With an introduction by Meg Rosoff

    by William Golding ...
    With an introduction by Meg RosoffWilliam Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Rites of Passage

    With an introduction by Annie Proulx

    by William Golding ...
    Introduced by Annie Proulx, l ose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon . . .Edmund Talbot is sailing t... ... Read more

    $10.59 USD