Helen Herbert: 4 books

.A Year of Change begins in a hillside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand and tells the story of some of the residents over the period of one year. As with any group of people they have their similarities and their differences. Eleanor Chandler, in her eighties, is pompous and a snob. She looks down...

'There and Beyond' begins in 1956 when five young woman, unknown to each other when the story begins, share a cabin on a ship bound for New Zealand. Felicity is a radiographer from the ‘upper class’, Isobel is a schoolteacher, Caroline is a clerk, and Chrissie and Janet are both from less privileged...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...

Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: “A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse.” —Booklist A co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century...