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Book Australia  a Cultural History

Download or read book Australia a Cultural History written by John Rickard and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hedgehog and the Fox

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  • Author : Isaiah Berlin
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2013-06-02
  • ISBN : 1400846633
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book The Hedgehog and the Fox written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.

Book Online Othering

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  • Author : Karen Lumsden
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2019-04-23
  • ISBN : 3030126331
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Online Othering written by Karen Lumsden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the discrimination encountered and propagated by individuals in online environments. The editors develop the concept of 'online othering' as a tool through which to analyse and make sense of the myriad toxic and harmful behaviours which are being created through, or perpetuated via, the use of communication-technologies such as the internet, social media, and ‘the internet of things’. The book problematises the dichotomy assumed between real and virtual spaces by exploring the construction of online abuse, victims' experiences, resistance to online othering, and the policing of interpersonal cyber-crime. The relationship between various socio-political institutions and experiences of online hate speech are also explored. Online Othering explores the extent to which forms of information-technologies facilitate, exacerbate, and/or promote the enactment of traditional offline offences (such as domestic abuse and stalking). It focuses on the construction and perpetration of online abuse through examples such as the far-right, the alt-right and Men's Rights Activists. It also explores experiences of, and resistance to, online abuse via examples such as victims' experiences of revenge porn, online abuse and misogyny, transphobia, disability hate crime, and the ways in which online othering is intersectional. Finally, the collection addresses the role of the police and other agencies in terms of their interventions, and the regulation and governance of virtual space(s). Contributions to the volume come from fields including sociology; communication and media studies; psychology; criminology; political studies; information science and gender studies. Online Othering is one of the very first collections to explore a multitude of abuses and their relationship to information and communication technology.

Book The Camera and the Pencil

Download or read book The Camera and the Pencil written by Marcus Aurelius Root and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Serving in Silence

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  • Author : Noah Riseman
  • Publisher : NewSouth
  • Release : 2018-07-01
  • ISBN : 1742244149
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Serving in Silence written by Noah Riseman and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian LGBT servicemen and women

Book Vietnam  the Australian Dilemma

Download or read book Vietnam the Australian Dilemma written by Terry Burstall and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow Enemies

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  • Author : Alex Abella
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Shadow Enemies written by Alex Abella and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing account of the Nazi plot to paralyze the American war effort through terrorist actions on U.S. soil.

Book Harvest Of Fear

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  • Author : John Murphy
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-03-13
  • ISBN : 0429710763
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Harvest Of Fear written by John Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did fears of the Cold War shape Australian images of Asia? What was the nature of the Vietnamese revolution, which some 50 000 Australian troops failed to reverse in the 1960s? How did a small and marginal peace movement grow into the powerful Moratorium and did it have any impact on the course of the War? Harvest of Fear is a beautifully craf

Book Libertarian Socialism

Download or read book Libertarian Socialism written by A. Prichard and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the left is usually told as one of factionalism and division. This collection of essays casts new light to show how the boundaries between Marxism and anarchism have been more porous and fruitful than is conventionally recognised. The volume includes ground-breaking pieces on the history of socialism in the twentieth-century.

Book Digital Marae

Download or read book Digital Marae written by Rhana Devenport and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated, modestly sized casebound book is devoted to Digital Marae; a major ongoing photographic and video project by one of New Zealand's foremost artists Lisa Reihana. Edited by Govett-Brewster Director and curator Rhana Devenport, contributors are leading Maori architectural historian Deidre Brown; Melbourne-based curator and writer Victoria Lynn and cultural theorist and sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis; and Te Papa curator Megan Tamati-Quennell. Additionally, an extended interview with Reihana by Devenport reveals the complex layers of influence that inform this ambitious and significant work.

Book The Conscription Conflict and the Great War

Download or read book The Conscription Conflict and the Great War written by Robin Archer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a split in the Labor Party, and the fall of a government. The defeat of the proposals was hailed by some as a victory of democracy over militarism, mourned by others as an expression of political disloyalty or a symptom of failed self-government. But while the memory of the conscription campaigns once loomed large, it has increasingly been overshadowed by a preoccupation with the sacrifice and heroism of Australian soldiers-a preoccupation that has been reinforced during the centennial commemorations. This volume redresses the balance. Across nine chapters distinguished scholars consider the origins, unfolding, and consequences of the conscription campaigns, comparing local events with experiences in Britain, the United States, and other countries. A corrective to the 'militarisation' of Australian history, this book is also a major new exploration of a unique and defining episode in Australia's past. *** "...will prove valuable reading for anyone with a serious interest in the history of conscription." --The NYMAS Review, Autumn 2017 (Series: Australian History) [Subject: History, Australian Studies, Military History]

Book Animate Form

Download or read book Animate Form written by Greg Lynn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sochi Project

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  • Author : Rob Hornstra
  • Publisher : Aperture
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781597112444
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Sochi Project written by Rob Hornstra and published by Aperture. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the exhibitions: FoMu, Antwerp, Belgium, October 25, 2013-March 9, 2014; Winzavod, Moscow, October 18-December 22, 2013; and DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, January 16-March 30, 2014.

Book There Goes the Neighbourhood

Download or read book There Goes the Neighbourhood written by Zanny Begg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... begins with a close study of Redfern before expanding into international examples to provide a detailed exploration of how the phenomenon of gentrification is altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world." -- Back cover.

Book A Foolish Passionate Man

Download or read book A Foolish Passionate Man written by Paul Ormonde and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Into the Mainstream

Download or read book Into the Mainstream written by Tom O'Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the mighty fallen. At the end of World War II, the Communist Party was a major force in Australian working class life. Yet by the 1980s it had diminished to a demoralised rump. And today it's only a memory. Did the party deserve this fate? Its courage and hard work brought together thousands of working class fighters. It led them in important struggles. But then it inflicted on them the bitterest of disappointments.Into the Mainstream traces the party's decline from an influential movement, plagued by its bureaucratic Stalinist politics, to a shrinking organisation trying desperately to re-invent itself as a radical force, but finally drifting into the political mainstream. The story is set against such historic events as the Cold War, the Sino-Soviet split, and the social radicalisation of the late sixties. It offers lessons for revolutionary activists today

Book Vietnam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey Grey
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781863733199
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Vietnam written by Jeffrey Grey and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, covering government attitudes, the Sixties and the war, the anti-war movements, myths and memories of the war, and comparisons with American and New Zealand experiences. Includes index. The editors teach at the Australian Defence Force Academy.