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  • The Oracle of Love

    How to Use Ordinary Playing Cards to Answer Your Relationship Questions, PredictYour Romantic Future, and Find Your Soul Mate

    by LeeAnn Richards ...
    Lost in Love?Let an ordinary deck of playing cards uncover your romantic destiny.Regardless of whether you’re wondering about the cute divorcé in the next office, working through an issue with your longtime partner, or convinced last night’s blind date may really be the one, here is your guide to the laws of love. Using a deck of playing cards and The Oracle of Love, anyone can learn how to spread ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

    An Activity-Based Approach

    by Thomas Reynolds, Chris M. Anson, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Richard Beach ...
    Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum discussions, etc.—to engage students in understanding and creating digital texts. It therefore ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Failed Ambitions

    Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities

    by Lee-Ann Monk, David Henderson, Christine Bigby, Richard Broome, Katie Holmes ...
    The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (1887–2008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents – and it is vividly relevant to today, when the rights of people with disabilities are the subject of a royal commission.Those with an intellectual disability were historically the most vulnerable in our society and the least protected. Governments continually failed ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Sex Lives of Australians

    A History

    by Frank Bongiorno ...
    Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day.In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Spider Woman

    A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

    by Lady Hale ...
    Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story.As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country but it was an unconventional ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • A History of Australian Schooling

    by Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor ...
    At a time when schooling is more important than ever for families, and where there is great public concern about educational standards and outcomes, Craig Campbell and Helen Proctor show what is new and what is an echo of older agendas. They offer a comprehensive history of Australian schooling from colonial days to the present, highlighting the ways in which schooling has helped shape society ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • Larrikins

    A History

    by Melissa Bellanta ...
    Australia has often been said to possess a "larrikin streak," from the Stiffy and Mo cartoons and the true-blue Crocodile Hunter to the characters in the silent film The Sentimental Bloke. When it first emerged around 1870, larrikin was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage, working-class hell-raisers who populated dance halls and cheap theaters, and this account journeys through the street ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Convict Women

    by Kay Daniels ...
    Who were the female convicts? What kinds of lives did they lead in a new society half a world away from home?Convict Women looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict women's experiences in a strange and harsh country. Beginning with the story of Maria Lord - convict, pioneer family woman, successful entrepreneur and abandoned wife - the book looks at ... Read more

    $13.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarriers Story

    One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada

    by Anna Magnusson ...
    In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums. A few years later Quarrier’s Village was opened, providing a refuge for the abandoned and the orphaned in the rolling fields of Renfrewshire. Since these beginnings, Quarriers has cared for more than 40,000 children in need. It ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children's Homes

    A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young

    by Peter Higginbotham ...
    What image does the word orphanage conjure up in your mind? A sunny scene of carefree children at play in the grounds of a large ivy-clad house? Or a forbidding grey edifice whose cowering inmates were ruled over with a rod of iron by a stern, starched matron? In Children's Homes, Peter Higginbotham explores the history of the institutions in Britain that were used as a substitute for childrens ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Orphans of the Living

    by Joanna Penglase ...
    Drawing on interviews, submissions to the Senate Inquiry, and personal experience, this revealing documentation describes, for the first time, the experience of Forgotten Australians from the perspective of the survivors. In August 2004, Parliamentary senators wept as they presented the report from the Senate Inquiry into the treatment of children in care. Half a million children grew up in "care" ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Under the Influence

    A History of Alcohol in Australia

    by Prof. Ross Fitzgerald, Trevor Jordan ...
    A unique look at Australian history as seen through the perspective of the influence of alcoholIn reading UNDER tHE INFLUENCE, I have not only discovered that alcohol has been integral to major events in Australian history, I have also found - as will many other readers - that it has also been integral to major events in the history of my own family. It's intoxicating to read the story of our ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD