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      • Radicalisation and Terrorism
        Education
        September 2015

        Radicalisation and Terrorism

        A Teacher's Handbook for Addressing Extremism

        by Alison Jamieson and Jane Flint

        As the increasingly frequent press stories of school children being radicalised show, teachers urgently need a resource that enables them to recognise, debate and disrupt extremist narratives within the context of the classroom. This practical handbook provides a reliable and objective resource to enable lower secondary school teachers to tackle the complex subjects of terrorism and radicalisation with confidence. It sets political violence within a broad context of perceived injustice, using familiar emotions of anger and disappointment to introduce the notion of grievance, a precursor of all forms of terrorism. The text covers issues of citizenship, human rights and respect, civil and political engagement, the nature of identity and how we identify with others. It examines different forms of violence from bullying to the most recent examples of 21st century terrorism. Historical precedent is used to illustrate a variety of contexts in which political violence has occurred, from Assassins through Suffragettes to militancy in South Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania. The handbook considers the causes and consequences of terrorism and helps teachers to explain to children what terrorists do and why they do it; how to differentiate between the reasons, goals and methods of terrorists; why the media and terrorism are inextricably linked; what makes terrorism start and, crucially, what factors bring a cycle of terrorism to an end. Pupils are invited to reflect on the destructiveness of terrorism for both victims and aggressors and, taking Northern Ireland and South Africa as examples, to consider the process of reconciliation. The handbook tackles the problem of defining “terrorism”, a term which is value-laden and subjective, and which has eluded international consensus. Pupils are encouraged to explore the reasons for this, and to debate fact and bias through an examination of the role of the media in reporting terrorism. The role of social media within the process of radicalisation is also studied. Fictional storylines and classroom activities are provided to stimulate creative thinking and interactive participation.

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      • Details Are Unprintable
        October 2020

        Details Are Unprintable

        Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Cafe Society Murder

        by Allan Levine

        The body of 22-year-old New York City socialite Patricia Burton Lonergan was found in her bedroom. Charged with her death was her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan. Details Are Unprintable is a suspenseful account that builds from the moment the body was discovered in October 1943 to Lonergan’s conviction in April 1944. The case focused on the tantalizing rumor that Lonergan, a 26-year-old cadet and playboy, was a “homosexual,” who killed his wife in a fit of rage when she removed him from her will.   Part fast-paced drama and part social history, this is a chronicle of Lonergan in denial living in an intolerant world, contrasted with the life of his entitled wife.   What truly happened on that tragic night? Should we accept Lonergan’s confession as the jury did? Or was he a victim of physical and mental abuse by the state prosecutors and the police, as he maintained for the rest of his life?

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      • The Jazz Files

        The Jazz Files

        by Fiona Veitch Smith

        The first instalment in the delectable ‘Poppy Denby Investigates’ 1920s crime series, shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.  It is 1920. Twenty-two-year-old Poppy Denby moves from Northumberland to live with her paraplegic aunt in London. Aunt Dot, a Suffragette, was injured in battles with the police in 1910.  Her contacts prove invaluable. Poppy lands a position as an editorial assistant at The Daily Globe. She has always wanted to be a journalist and laps up the atmosphere of the newsroom. Then one of the paper's hacks dies suddenly and dramatically. His story was going to be the morning lead, but he hasn't finished writing it.  Poppy finds his notes and completes the story, which is a sensation. The editor, realising her valuable Suffragette contacts, invites her to dig deeper. Poppy starts sifting through the dead man's files and unearths a major mystery which takes her to France - and into danger.

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      • Girt Nation
        November 2021

        Girt Nation

        by David Hunt

        Following on from the award-winning and bestselling volumes 1 and 2, Girt and True Girt, here comes the highly anticipated third volume in David Hunt’s beloved Australian history series, Girt Nation.   In this hilarious yet deeply researched book, David Hunt tells how Australia became a nation. This is a story of spiritualists, suffragettes and bush bards. Of costermongers, mesmerists and larrikins. Hunt weaves a narrative that is both informative and delightful, as he explores the people and forces that helped turn a federation of colonial states into a distinctive nation.

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      • WITCH
        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2019

        WITCH

        by Rebecca Tamás

        WITCH is a strange, visceral and darkly witty debut by a startling new voice in British poetry. Rebecca Tamás reckons with blood and earth, mysticism and the devil, witch trials and the suffragettes, gender and sexuality. At turns lyrical, philosophical and obscene, WITCH evokes the intimate, sensual power of nature and merges it with the revolutionary potential of women’s voices. These are poems as spells — spells against suppression, silence and obedience; hexes that cling to your body like sweat, full of a messy, violent joy, ‘a small, bright, filthy song’. Feminist, ecological and occult, WITCH grabs history and shakes it, demanding: ‘Wake me up when it really gets started’.

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      • The Shortest History of China
        May 2021

        The Shortest History of China

        by Linda Jaivin

        From kung-fu to tofu, silk to gunpowder, tea to trade routes, ancient sages to contemporary poetry, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years.   Chinese history is sprawling and gloriously messy. It is full of heroes who are also villains, prosperous ages and violent rebellions, cultural vibrancy and censorious impulses, rebels, loyalists, dissidents and wits. The story of women in China, from the earliest warriors to twentieth-century suffragettes, is rarely told. And historical spectres of corruption and disunity, which have brought down many a glorious ruling house, continue to haunt the People’s Republic of China today.   Modern China is, depending on whom you ask, an economic powerhouse, a beacon of urbanisation, a propaganda state and an aggressive geopolitical player seeking world domination. China expert Linda Jaivin distils a vast history into a short, readable account that tells you what you need to know about the Middle Kingdom, from its philosophical origins to its political system, to the COVID-19 pandemic and where China’s future is likely to take the world.

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      • The Female Body
        The Arts
        2020

        The Female Body

        by Laure Adler

        Ever since Prehistory and the Venus of Willendorf, women have been the objects of all fantasies. Goddesses or prostitutes, virgins or witches, loving mothers or sexualized daughters: their bodies, all of their body parts and their faces have been represented, staged and overexposed by a mostly male gaze. With a stunning iconography, from Botticelli to Cindy Sherman, from Picasso to Frida Kahlo and many other illustrious artists, this book is an account of the evolution of the status of women, akin to a journey through their sexual and political emancipation.

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      • The Art of Feminism
        The Arts
        April 2019

        The Art of Feminism

        Images that shaped the Fight for Equality

        by Helena Reckitt, Consultant Editor, Authors Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson, and Amy Tobin

        Curated and written by leading authorities on art and art history, The Art of Feminism is a comprehensive survey of the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, graphic design and public protest, this stunning volume showcases the vibrancy and daring of the feminist aesthetics over the last 150 years. The book has helped redefine the very canon of art history - a landmark publication. https://shop.tate.org.uk/the-art-of-feminism-images-that-shaped-the-fight-for-equality/22015.html

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      • Heroes Atlas
        Children's & YA

        Heroes Atlas

        by Miralda Colombo

        One hundred and one inspiring stories of the notable men and women who shaped the world with their ideas, their genius, their creativity or courage. From super scientists to clued-up creatives, from writers to dreamers, these profiles explore the life of each personality in detail, with gorgeous illustrations. This educational book includes worldwide famous figures, as well as lesser-known personalities, but all very inspiring for children.

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      • The New Populism
        Society & culture: general
        April 2017

        The New Populism

        Democracy Stares into the Abyss

        by Marco Revelli

        A crisp and trenchant dissection of populism today. The word “populism” has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to Trump and from Podemos to Brexit, the electoral earthquakes of recent years have often been grouped under this term. But what actually defines “populism”? Is it an ideology, a form of organisation, or a mentality? Marco Revelli seeks to answer this question by getting to grips with the historical dynamics of so-called “populist” movements. While in the early days of democracy, populism sought to represent classes and social layers that asserted their political roles for the first time, in today’s post-democratic climate, it instead expresses the grievances of those who had until recently felt that they were included. Having lost their power, the disinherited embrace not a political alternative to –isms like liberalism or socialism, but a populist mood of discontent. The new populism is the “formless form” that protest and grievance assume in the era of financialisation, in the era where the atomised masses lack voice or organisation. For Revelli, this new populism is the child of an age in which the Left has been hollowed out and lost its capacity to offer an alternative. (From the Verso Books presentation)

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      • The Miniature Library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House
        Literature & Literary Studies

        The Miniature Library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House

        by Elizabeth Clark Ashby

        Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House is one of the most beautiful and famous dolls’ houses in the world. Running the full length of its ground floor is a spellbinding library filled with 300 miniature books and dozens of original paintings. Lining the bookshelves of this miniature Edwardian library are specially produced works by some of the finest authors of the 1920s. From poetry by Thomas Hardy to stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, gardening books to atlases, miniature stamp albums to accurate train timetables, these works represent British aristocratic life and the best examples of art and literature of the time. This book presents the fascinating history of the Dolls’ House Library, including correspondence between its architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, and the authors he commissioned, a collection of selected works published for the first time since 1924 and lavish illustrations that capture the charming detail of this delightful little room.

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      • A Dream Come True
        Romance
        August 2014

        A Dream Come True

        by Barbara Cartland

        "‘How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!’ When the beautiful Lucia Mountford’s mother remarries less than a year after her father’s death on the Titanic, she is shocked when the family’s fortunes suddenly go into rapid decline and her mother becomes ill. Deeply in debt her stepfather borrows a considerable sum of money from the handsome but roguish Lord Winterton. Horrified, Lucia discovers that not only has she been pressed into working for him as his secretary to repay the debt, but that she has been promised to Lord Winterton in marriage. To add further misery to her burden, her mother’s condition worsens and her life hangs in the balance. In the meantime, Lucia is being secretly wooed by the staid but good-looking Edward de Redcliffe who is intent on making her his own. As Lucia struggles with herself over her growing attraction for her employer, events take a strange turn when the wilful and beautiful Lady Shelley sets her sights on becoming Lady Winterton. How Lucia finds true love and what happens when Lord Winterton mysteriously disappears is all told in this intriguing novel by BARBARA CARTLAND."

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