800'��1050 Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism by Steven Vanderputten
$61.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingia'a politically and culturally d ...Show more
Xenophon: Shorter Writings by Xenophon
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: Agora Editions Ser.
This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays that reveal these works to be masterful achievements by a serious thinker of the first rank who raises important moral, political, and philosophical questio ...Show more
Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students' Futures by Gerald Coles
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
All across the United States, corporations, politicians, economists, educators '�� and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump '�� cry out for new 'education for the twenty-first century economy.'? Meanwhile, millions of Americans face increasing difficulty finding well paying, secure jobs. But the current e ...Show more
Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Andrew Edwards
$56.95 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: Literary Guides for Travellers
Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the Greeks, Romans and Vandals to the Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Sicily's violently beautiful landscapes are haunted by a vibrant mix of cultures and her s ...Show more
Scotland A Literary Guide for Travellers by Garry MacKenzie
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: The\I. B. Tauris Literary Guides for Travellers Ser.
Voted a Best Travel Book of the Year by The Scotsman, 2016 With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of literature, from the religious poems carved on the rocks of its sacred monuments to the seedy ...Show more
Curriculum: Athena versus the machine by Martin Robinson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Explores the educational value of a curriculum rooted in the pursuit of wisdom, and advocates the enshrinement of such a curriculum as the central concern of an academic institution. Rather than being seen as a data-driven machine, a school should be seen as an organic entity, with the central idea bein ...Show more
Tolkien: Treasures by Catherine McIlwaine
$40.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
This beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. From J. R. R. Tolkien's childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World War to his studies at school and university, from his exquisite illustrations for The Silmarillion, The ...Show more
Home for Surrealism by Janine Mileaf, Susan F Rossen
$79.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Chicago has for decades been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this international mode of art. A Home for Surrealism focuses on a selec ...Show more
Key Topics in Social Sciences: An A-Z guide for student nurses by Mark Walsh
$36.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Key Topics in Social Sciences is a collection of short articles summarising the most important concepts in sociology and psychology that student nurses will need to understand. Each entry is intended to give a brief introduction to the topic as a prompt for writing essays and assignments. A ...Show more
Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism by Keith Mako Woodhouse
$66.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed was in a state of crisis. Question ...Show more
Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics by Etienne Balibar
$51.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The noted philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the tensions between cosmopolitanism and secularism in order to advance a truly democratic and emancipatory cosmopolitanism, which requires a secularization of secularism. Going beyond circumscribed notions of religion and the public sphere, Secularism and ...Show more
and Romance Loyalty Tale of Cho Ung: A Classic of Vengeance by Sookja Cho
$53.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The Tale of Cho Ung is one of the most widely read and beloved stories of Chos'����'?'?n Korea. The anonymously written tale recounts the adventures of protagonist Cho Ung as he fearlessly confronts and overcomes obstacles and grows into a heroic young man. As a child, Ung flees a wicked tyrant who wron ...Show more
