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  • Modern women on trial

    Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper

    by Lucy Bland ...
    Series series Gender in History
    Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Britain’s ‘brown babies’

    The stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War

    by Lucy Bland ...
    This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children ‘brown babies’; the British called them ‘half-castes’. Black GIs, in this segregated army, were forbidden to marry their white girl-friends. Nearly half of the children were given up to children’s homes but few ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Labour, British radicalism and the First World War

    Edited by Lucy Bland, Richard Carr ...
    This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War. There are three broad areas this work intends to make a contribution to; the first is to help us further understand the role the Labour Party played in the conflict, and its evolving attitudes towards the war; the second strand ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Biosecurity

    A Systems Perspective

    Edited by Susan M Hester, Lucie M Bland, Edith Arndt, Sana Bau, James S Camac, Evelyn Mannix, Raphael Trouve, Andrew P Robinson ...
    Series series A life skills manual
    Biosecurity: A Systems Perspective provides an overview of biosecurity as a system of related components, actors, and risks. This book—directed to the biosecurity practitioner, generalist scientist, and student—introduces overall features of the biosecurity system while walking the reader through the most up-to-date research on each step of the continuum (i.e. pre-border, border, and post-border ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Reconsidering Women's History

    Twenty years of the Women's History Network

    Edited by Lucy Bland, Katharina Rowold ...
    Deriving from the 20th Anniversary Women’s History Network Conference entitled ’20 Years of the Women’s History Network: Looking Back – Looking Forward’, this volume reflects on the state of women’s and gender history as well as showcasing the diversity of the current field. The range of contributions is broad and stimulating, covering such themes as transnational movements, gender and space, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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    The News Quiz 2014

    Series 83, 84 and 85 of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show

    by BBC Radio Comedy ...
    Narrated by Sandi Toksvig, Susan Calman, David Mitchell, Romesh Ranganathan, Jo Brand, Angela Barnes, Sarah Millican, Lucy Porter, Paul Sinha, Tom Wrigglesworth ...
    Series Audiobook 19 - The News Quiz

    Unabridged

    12 hours 3 min

    Three fantastic series of the satirical radio panel game from 2014In these 26 episodes, we turn the clock back to 2014 - the year when Scotland said 'no' to independence, Ukrainians ousted their pro-Russia president in the Maidan Revolution, and the European Space Agency's Philae probe made its historic first landing on a comet.Sandi Toksvig is in the chair for every show bar one, in which Susan ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Mastering the Universe

    A BBC Radio 4 comedy

    by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman ...
    Narrated by Dawn French, Katy Brand, Joanna Scanlan, Christopher Douglas, Lucy Montgomery, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 15 min

    The complete Series 1 and 2 of the BBC Radio comedy starring Dawn French as Professor Joy KlampSpoiling someone else's fun can be the most satisfying of all the controlling arts, and Professor Joy Klamp - the queen of migraines - has got passive aggression down to a fine art. And now, she's decided to share her knowledge with the world in this revelatory 10-part course in nonjoyment techniques. So ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Hope and Glory

    Britain 1900-2000

    by Peter Clarke ...
    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare, shaped society and explores such areas as architecture, sport and popular culture. Embracing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beyond White Guilt

    The real challenge for black-white relations in Australia

    by Sarah Maddison ...
    'This book lays out the way modern Australia can right the wrongs that have occurred in the intervening years, and decades, and centuries that have passed since that first dramatic encounter.' - From the foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG'An excellent diagnosis of Australia's mind-set.' - Jeff McMullen journalist, author, film makerDeep in our hearts, Australians know that our nation was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Feminism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Margaret Walters ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021

    From World Power to ?

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern BritainThis revised and updated fourth and final volume in the concise Brief History of Britain series begins in the specially-constructed Crystal Palace, three times the length of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD