Graeme: 474 books
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THE ROSIE EFFECT
Language: Chinese
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by Graeme Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This dynamic collection of poetry is the inaugural winner of the David Uniapon Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers. Graeme Dixon's ballards speak out on comtemporary and controversial issues, from Black deaths in custody to the struggles of single mothers. Contrasted with these...
The Strongest Men on Earth
When the Muscle Men Ruled Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
They claimed to be the mightiest men in the world. For twenty-five years, before the outbreak of the First World War, professional strongmen were the pop idols of their day. Performing apparently incredible feats of strength, they strutted across stages and topped the bills everywhere, earning thousands...
Ordinary People and the Media
The Demotic Turn
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The 'demotic turn' is a term coined by Graeme Turner to describe the increasing visibility of the 'ordinary person' in the media today.
In this dynamic and insightful book he explores the 'whys' and 'hows' of the 'everyday' individual's willingness to turn themselves into media content through:
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by Graeme Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.
While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute...
Beyond Calvin
The Intellectual, Political and Cultural World of Europe's Reformed Churches, c. 1540-1620
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
An international community of Reformed churches emerged during the sixteenth century. Although attempts were made by Calvinists to reach agreement over key beliefs, and to establish uniformity in patterns of worship and church government, there were continuing divisions over some ideas and differences...
Putin v. the People
The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin’s grip on power is more fragile then we think
What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences...
Brand New Church
The Church and the postmodern condition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Brand New Church? aims to make sense of what 'postmodern' actually looks and feels like in real life, and to ask what this means for the church. Over the past few years, Graeme Fancourt has travelled around the UK and USA consulting with a wide range of church leaders, including Sue Wallace, who founded...
The Terror
The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
For the audience that made a major bestseller of Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution comes this exhaustively researched, character-driven chronicle of revolutionary terror, its victims, and the young men---energetic, idealistic, and sincere---who turned the French Republic...
5k and 10k
From Start to Finish
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Everyone knows someone who has recently taken part in a 5k or 10k charity run, and jogging and running are as popular as ever. This accessible book is designed for those novice runners who plan to take part in a 5k or 10k race - whether running, jogging or even walking the course. In aid of Cancer...
The Firm Divided
Manager-Shareholder Conflict and the Fight for Control of the Modern Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
A battle is being fought within corporations. Shareholders want managers to make their shares as valuable as possible, managers want shareholders to leave them alone, and the board of directors is caught in the middle. The Firm Divided shows how strong boards persuade managers to do what's best for...
Privatization
An International Review Of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Contracting out public sector services and divesting public enterprises are reforms that have enjoyed widespread global popularity in recent years. Better services, lower prices and greater accountability are the promises made by politicians, senior executives, and investment companies when functions...
by Graeme S. Cumming
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Spatial Resilience is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the influence of spatial variation – including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal – on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and self-organization...
Critical Technology
A Social Theory of Personal Computing
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Have we resigned ourselves to a cyber-future that has been decided behind our backs? Why is technology - and our understanding of it - central to the concerns of critical social theory? In developing the PC technologists have borrowed ideas from the human sciences about what people are like, about...