![]() Hawke: The Early Years is an intimate portrait of a man of extraordinary achievements who struggles to overcome his drinking and philandering in order to rise to the highest office in Australia. To unionists he was a giant killer to some employers, a crypto-Communist bent upon their destruction. While he was President of the Australian Labor Party he sought to heal its wounds after the sacking of the Whitlam government as the leader of Australia's unions he held back potentially violent industrial action over this most divisive issue. He agitated for social and economic reforms, becoming a folk hero and the most popular Australian of his time. ![]() ![]() As President of the ACTU from 1970 to 1980 he was a master negotiator and peacemaker in industrial life. Blanche d'Alpuget's sensitivity and psychological insight into Hawke's early years reveal how the son of devout Christian parents was reared to public duty and to the ambition of political leadership.Known throughout his life as a tireless campaigner for workers' rights and a man of wild personal habits, Hawke was a Rhodes Scholar, educated in three universities, before rejecting an academic career to commit himself to the trade union movement. ![]() Hawke remains one of the finest examples of political biography in Australian literature.Robert James Lee Hawke is one of the great men of Australian public life and his story makes compelling reading. BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY NOW BACK IN PRINTBlanche d'Alpuget's classic 1982 biography of Robert J. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They also nursed the sick and taught children. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town's water supply. ![]() They flirted with German soldiers, bribed them with wine, whiskey, and home cooking, used their Aryan looks to seduce them, and shot and killed them. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland-some still in their teens-helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters-a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now. ![]() ![]() Told with wit, eroticism and unashamed lyricism, it remains a heart-breaking love letter to New York's hedonistic past, and a testament to the brilliance of our passions as they burn brightest. It is love that Malone is longing for, and soon he will have to set himself free.įirst published in 1978, Dancer from the Dance is widely considered the greatest, most exciting novel of the post-Stonewall generation. ![]() Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies - at its centre Malone befriends the flamboyant queen, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing.īut for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days, are close to burning out. Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's 1970's gay scene. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London' Rupert Everett ![]() The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers First published in 1978, Dancer from the Dance is widely considered the greatest, most exciting novel of the post-Stonewall generation. ![]() ![]() Originated by Robert Hollander of Princeton University in 1999 and directed by him, the Princeton Dante Project ![]() Princeton Dante Project (Princeton University) It offers students and scholars of the Commedia a sophisticated tool capable of searching key words or phrases across the commentaries and in the Petrocchi edition of the poem. ![]() The original DDP opened to the public in 1988 - accessed, pre-Internet, over the Telenet commercial network - and was redesigned for the web in 2005. The DDP was developed by Professor Robert Hollander between 19 and has continued to add new commentaries. The Dartmouth Dante Project, precursor to Dante Lab, edited and digitized the entire texts of more than 75 commentaries to the Divine Comedy. Dartmouth Dante Project (DARTMOUTH COLLEGE) ![]() ![]() ![]() These books explain that differences are something to be celebrated, not feared or made fun of. ![]() To prevent kids from growing up to adopt the everyday racism, heterosexism, and ableism that is all around them, we have to educate them about a better way to see the world.īy reading these books together, you can start a conversation about the world and all the different kinds of people in it. It’s not enough to talk about this only when it makes the news, though. The importance of raising kids to be anti-racist and inclusive of all differences has only become more apparent as Black Lives Matter has become an everyday news story, and more people than ever have become aware of institutional racism and other forms of oppression. That is why we have compiled a list of 50 children’s books about diversity. This is the importance of mirrors and windows: mirrors to see ourselves reflected in the world, so we don’t feel alone, and windows to see outside of our own lives, to recognize the humanity of other people. ![]() On the other hand, some kids grow up not seeing themselves or their family represented in any of the books they read or the TV shows and movies they watch. In order to raise kids in this world, we need to teach them about people outside of their immediate family. It’s packed full of people living dramatically different lives, even within the same neighborhood or classroom. We need children’s books about diversity because the world is a diverse place. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After losing her beloved ship in an ambush that almost cost the Valkyrie and her crew their lives, Captain Gineva Starbridge is cooling her heels at headquarters, waiting for a new assignment, when the Emperor shows up, in person, looking to broker peace.įor every warrior, there is only one woman who is his true mate… They call her Valkyrie for the way she swoops into battle and usually saves the day. Tigh would never know what had driven his brother to the madness of releasing a biological weapon on the humans, but the fact that it turned on its creators and came back to the jit’suku to deal out untold death, mostly among their precious female population, would forever stain Tigh’s memories of his twin.Ī starship captain with famous ancestry and a killer reputation… He had given up his claim to the throne in favor of his beloved brother, and turned his back on worldly things. Newly crowned Emperor of all jit’suku, Tigh has come back from self-imposed exile as a warrior monk on the sacred mountain. ![]() In a universe decimated by biological warfare, can former enemies unite to create a new peace out of the ashes?Ī warrior-priest is the only one who can heal a failing empire… ![]() ![]() Remy is a fighter in the world of illegal underground boxing. The story is graphic, gritty and leaves nothing to the imagination. REVIEW: REAL is the first storyline in Katy Evans’s contemporary, new adult series that focuses on underground fighter Remington ‘Riptide’ Tate and physiotherapist Brooke Dumas. If only I knew for sure what it is that he wants from me? īut the one he’s most threatening to, now, is me. And now it’s my job to keep his body working like a perfect machine, his taut muscles primed and ready to break the bones of his next opponents. When he’s near, I need to remind myself that I am strong–but he is stronger. I forget who I am, what I want, with just one look from him. He’s the star of the dangerous underground fighting circuit, and I’m drawn to him as I’ve never been drawn to anything in my life. Remington Tate is the strongest, most confusing man I’ve ever met in my life. One night was all it took, and I forgot everything and anything except the sexy fighter in the ring who sets my mind ablaze and my body on fire with wanting… REAL (Real, Raw and Ripped #1) by Katy Evans-a reviewĪ / Amazon.ca / Amazon.uk/ Barnes and Noble / KOBO / ![]() ![]() ![]() With a check-in section at the six-month mark, as well as at year end, and encouragement from Shonda along the way, you will have ample opportunity to track how YES has transformed your daily life. Daily, you can track what you say YES to and keep notes about how that decision has made a unique impact monthly, you will find journaling prompts for reflection around that specific theme. The journal is broken out month by month, day by day, with each month highlighting a theme (“Yes to Doing,” “Yes to Help,” “Yes to Who I Am”). Now, in the perfect complement to that instant New York Times bestseller, The Year of Yes Journal allows you to chronicle your own Year of Yes. In her mega-hit book Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes transformed her life by saying one small word: YES. A beautiful, illustrated, aspirational companion journal to Shonda Rhimes’s New York Times bestselling memoir Year of Yes. ![]() ![]() ![]() New chapters explore dealing with failures, reluctant patients, how clients change therapists, and more. ![]()
![]() until the scientists make one more horrifying discovery. Despite dire warnings from the local Native American village, and the scientific concerns of Marshall and his team, the “docudrama” plows ahead. ![]() The media conglomerate sponsoring their research immediately intervenes and arranges the ultimate spectacle-the creature will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed live on television. On a routine exploration of a glacial ice cave, the group discovers an enormous ancient animal, encased in solid ice. But for paleoecologist Evan Marshall and a small group of fellow scientists, an expedition to the Zone represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the effects of global warming.Įverything about the expedition changes, however, with an astonishing find. Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska’s Federal Wildlife Zone, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth. An electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. A terrifying collision between modern science and Native American legend. A breathtaking discovery at the top of the world. ![]() |