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  • Finding Menzies
    Damien Freeman
    Foreword Tony AbbottSir Robert Menzies is the behemoth of Australian political history, but does his legacy have any enduring relevance for the challenges that lie ahead? Finding Menzies exemplifies the wealth of resources that contemporary scholars can mine in the archives of the Menzies era in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of contemporary political chall...
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    24,46 €

  • The End of Settlement
    Damien Freeman
    Has Australia reached the end of settlement?Reflecting on his pivotal role in the development of a proposal to recognise Australia’s Indigenous peoples in the Constitution, Damien Freeman explains how something that started off as an exercise in settlement politics ended in a failed referendum.From Alfred Deakin’s development of the Australian Settlement to Bob Hawke and Paul K...
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  • Killer Kramer, Dame Leonie
    Damien Freeman
    This is the first biography of Dame Leonie Kramer, who held the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney from 1968 to 1989 and was dubbed ’Killer Kramer’ by Nobel laureate and nemesis, Patrick White.Dame Leonie was the first woman to be a professor at Sydney University and the first to serve as its chancellor and as the ABC’s chairman.She exerted a formidable ...
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    18,10 €

  • FAITH’S PLACE
    Bryan S Turner / DAMIEN T FREEMAN
    A Kapunda Press Title.'this important book examines the implications of significant societal changes for the vitality of civil society'PETER KURTIWhat is the future of democracy in a religious world? Over the next fifty years, Australia is predicted to become a less religious country, while the world at large will become more religious. This raises questions about what kind of ...
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    35,80 €

  • NONSENSE ON STILTS
    Catherine Renshaw / Damien Freeman
    The end of human rights?In the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham famously described natural rights as nothing more than nonsense on stilts. Almost two centuries later, Bentham’s natural rights provided the foundation for human rights. Today, it is less common for human rights to be based on natural rights, but the concern that human rights is at risk of becoming nothing more t...
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    27,22 €

  • TODAY'S TYRANTS
    Damien Freeman
     “Even those who are not members of religious institutions and have no particular sympathy for them ought to fear the current war on religious faith” – Dyson Heydon In this volume, eleven essayists including Paul Kelly, Anne Henderson and Frank Brennan respond to Dyson Heydon’s inaugural PM Glynn Lecture on Religion, Law and Public Life, Religious ‘toleration’ in modern Austral...
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    41,51 €

  • Art’s Emotions
    Damien Freeman
    Despite the very obvious differences between looking at Manet’s Woman with a Parrot and listening to Elgar’s Cello Concerto, both experiences provoke similar questions in the thoughtful aesthete: why does the painting seem to express reverie and the music, nostalgia? How do we experience the reverie and nostalgia in such works of art? Why do we find these experiences rewarding ...
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    77,43 €