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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Lajjagauri and Anandanayaki Lajjagauri is perhaps one of India's oldest goddesses with images of her in South Asia dating back to the Indus Civilisation c. 3,000 to 1,500 BC. Her devotees can be traced back even earlier to the Ukraine c. 10,000 BCE. In India, new finds continue to... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Rethinking Development and Politics Professor Lord Meghnad Desai is a world-renowned commentator on globalisation and de-globalisation. He is currently Chair of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) Advisory Board, which facilitates discussion between key... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Tragedy and Triumph In this collection Freda Hodge retrieves early voices of Holocaust survivors. Men, women and children relate experiences of deportation and ghettoisation, forced labour camps and death camps, death marches and liberation. Such eye-witness accounts... RRP: $34.95 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added From Roadside to Recovery In 1969 car crashes killed over 1000 Victorians, making Victoria's roads some of the world's most deadly.By 2016, the fatality rate had been cut by 85% and Victorians are now taking seriously the goal of eliminating death on the roads altogether.This... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Antipodean Perspective BernardSmith (19162011) was unquestionably one of Australia's greatest humanistscholars and its finest art historian. His EuropeanVision and the South Pacific, 17681850 (1960) was a foundationaltext of post-colonialism, and in AustralianPainting (1962)... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Climate Clangers The impacts of climate change keep getting worse, but the typical framing of the problem and the solutions so far being pursued are seriously insufficient. As a result, the steps we're taking to build a clean energy economy and move beyond fossil fuels... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Towards Reproductive Justice In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned Roe v Wade, declaring that the American Constitution did not protect the right to abortion. Several US states immediately banned abortion, while others were quick to... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Post-Pandemic Child In March 2020, schools and childcare centres across Australia were forced to close to control the spread of the recently arrived novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Families and carers suddenly had to adjust to long periods of home-schooling, disparities in... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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