The Relationship Is the Project: A Guide to Working With Communities by Jade Lillie (Editor); Kate Larsen (Editor); Cara Kirkwood (As told to); Jax Brown (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Community-engaged practice is not an art form. It’s not an add-on. It’s a way of working; a deep collaboration.The Relationship is the Project features provocations, tools and practical tips for working with communities. This includes the ethics and logistics of working on community-based projects, from ...Show more
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it ...Show more
Do Dolphins Ever Sleep? by Pierre-Yves Bely
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Why is the sea salty? How does the wind create waves? If ice is transparent, why are icebergs white? Why are cold seas green and warm seas blue? Why don't rope strands untwist? Why does a dinghy slide backwards as you try to climb out? Why do the sun and moon sometimes have halos? Why do barnacles attac ...Show more
What's Mine Is Yours Intl: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption by Rachel Botsman
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The recent changes in our economic landscape have notably exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and craigslist to emerging sectors such as peer-to-peer lending (Zopa) and car sha ...Show more
Outspoken: The Life & Work of the Man Behind Those Signs by Rod Bower
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
On 24 July 2013, Anglican priest Rod Bower put up these words on the roadside sign of his Gosford parish church. Next he posted them on Facebook, sparking a social media revolution. The post was shared thousands of times - suddenly the one-time butcher was on the public stage. Today Fr Rod has close to ...Show more
Love Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
"'The nightly routine of sirens, barrage, the probing raider, the unmistakable engine ... the bomb-bursts moving nearer and then moving away, hold one like a love-charm' "--Graham GreeneWhen the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a strange kind of battlefi ...Show more
The Eternal Frontier: an Ecological History of North America & Its Peoplles by Tim Flannery
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, and Flannery's own best-seller, The Future Eaters, this is ecological history on a monumental scale. Tim Flannery has achieved something never before attempted: a history of the formation of North America as we know it today. The Eternal Frontie ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 48: After the Future by Tim Flannery; George Brandis (Contribution by); Chris Uhlmann (Contribution by); Mark Latham (Contribution by); Judith Brett (Contribution by); Jack Waterford (Contribution by); David Marr (Contribution by); Rachel Nolan (Contribution by)
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world's riches. That means we Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes. So how are we doing?In Quarterly Essay 48 Tim Flannery says: we're often failing ...Show more
STIGMA NOTES ON MANAGEMENT NOTES ON THE MANAGEMENT OF A SPOILED IDENTITY by GOFFMAN ERVING
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic- they are all socially "abnormal", and therefore in danger of being considered less then human. Whether ordinary people react by rejection, by ove ...Show more
Money: Vintage Minis by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader o ...Show more
Trial of Strength - Adventures and Misadventures on the Wild and Remote Subantarctic Islands by Shona Riddell; Cara King (Illustrator)
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The world's subantarctic islands circle the lower part of the globe below New Zealand, Australia, Africa and South America in the 'Roaring Forties' and 'Furious Fifties' latitudes. They are filled with unique plants and wildlife, constantly buffeted by lashing rain and furious gales, and surrounded by a ...Show more