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What a Day
A Mindful Moment For Bedtime
2023
EN
'This gentle, colour-swirled picture book offers a “mindful moment for bedtime”, wandering dreamily through memories of a joyful day as it encourages small listeners to relax and drift off.' – The Guardian'I am gifting it to everyone!' – 5* Reader ReviewThe day is nearly over and now it’s time to curl up and remember all of the incredible adventures of the day before we say goodnight.This is the
What a Day
A Mindful Moment For Bedtime
2024
EN
"This gentle, color-swirled picture book offers a “mindful moment for bedtime”, wandering dreamily through memories of a joyful day as it encourages small listeners to relax and drift off." – The Guardian"I am gifting it to everyone!" – 5* Reader ReviewThe day is nearly over and now it’s time to curl up and remember all of the incredible adventures of the day before we say goodnight.This is the
- Narrated by
- Emma Ballantine
Unabridged
5 min
2016
EN
The Classic fairy tale about a orphan who marries a prince.
- Narrated by
- Emma Ballantine
Unabridged
7 min
2016
EN
A wicked queen is madly jealous of Snow White because she is the fairest of them all. She plans her murder but Snow White is saved by a hunter and looked after by kindly dwarfs.
Bodies in Contact
Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
2005
EN
From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal the “body as contact zone” as a ...
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Human Rights and the Uses of History
Expanded Second Edition
2014
EN
What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporal contexts of the stories they are telling.Having staked out his owns claims abou...
Policing Sexuality
Sex, Society, and the State
2012
EN
Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual behaviour and sexual identity of its citizens, such as the influence of colonialism, class, r...
Reconciling Canada
Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress
2013
EN
Truth and reconciliation commissions and official governmental apologies continue to surface worldwide as mechanisms for coming to terms with human rights violations and social atrocities. As the first scholarly collection to explore the intersections and differences between a range of redress cases that have emerged in Canada in recent decades, Reconciling Canada provides readers with the contexts for understanding the phenomenon of reconciliation as it has played out in this mul...
2016
EN
In this book, Guillaume Faye, the firebrand of the French New Right, confronts the phenomenon of mass immigration head-on. Rather than talking about ‘immigration’, Faye insists that we must speak of a massive colonisation settlement of the West by peoples from the Global South. This, together with declining birthrates, means that Europeans will soon become a minority in Europe, and their ancient and unique heritage will disappear. He furthermore demonstrates that the Islamic world is carry...
The Family
A World History
2012
EN
People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules governing marriage in societies around the ancient world, the changing conceptions of family w...
The Just War Myth
The Moral Illusions of War
2007
EN
As the war in Iraq continues and Americans debate the consequences of the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror, and the possibility of war with North Korea and Iran, war is one of the biggest issues in public debate. Andrew Fiala in The Just War Myth challenges the apparently predominant American sentiment that war can be easily justified. Even most Democrats seem to hold that opinion, despite the horrific costs of war both on the people being attacked or caught up in the chaos and on the...











