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Transformation of Sydney’s Industrial Historic Waterfront: The Production of Tourism for Consumption

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book examines the impacts of tourism-led transformations on the industrial historical waterfront at Darling Harbour and The Rocks in Sydney, Australia in the context of urban restructuring and deindustrialisation. The book also offers an extended reflection on the paradoxes between tourism and heritage. This discussion is not a new concept....

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Haymarket Books, 2021

In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.

Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee...

Researchers at Risk: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia (Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities. This risk may derive from working with variously marginalised individuals or groups, or from being members of such groups themselves. At other...

Lonely Planet Andalucia (Regional Guide)

Lonely Planet, 2019

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet's Andalucíais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience the Alhambra's perfect blend of architecture and nature, visit the...

Dyke Swarms of the World: A Modern Perspective (Springer Geology)

Springer, 2018

Continuing the tradition of International Dyke Conference, this book is largely based on contributions from the IDC7 but also includes some chapters by invitation. It focuses on mafic dyke swarms and related associations: e.g. links with sills, kimberlites, syenites, carbonatites, and volcanics, discussing the following themes: (i)...

Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia: Geology and Metallogeny of Pollucite Mineralisations (SpringerBriefs in World Mineral Deposits)

Springer, 2019

Lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites are important resources for rare metals. For Cs, only the LCT pegmatites with the zeolite group mineral pollucite at Bikita (Zimbabwe Craton) and Tanco (Superior Province Craton) are of commercial importance. Common characteristics of world-class LCT pegmatite deposits include their Meso- to...

Digital Humanities and New Ways of Teaching (Digital Culture and Humanities (1))

Springer, 2019

This volume includes a variety of first-hand case studies, critical analyses, action research and reflective practice in the digital humanities which ranges from digital literature, library science, online games, museum studies, information literacy to corpus linguistics in the 21st century. It informs readers of the latest...

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge Music Companions)

Routledge, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments...

Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance (Real Utopias Project)

Verso, 2019

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class

The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature chosen through...

Community Pest Management in Practice: A Narrative Approach

Springer, 2018

This book presents a collection of practitioner and community stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community issue that can spark community formation and collective action. It combines the unique first-person narratives of practitioners on the frontline of invasive species management in Australia with three case studies of...

Muslim Volunteering in the West: Between Islamic Ethos and Citizenship (New Directions in Islam)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This edited volume explores various facets of Muslims’ civic engagement in Western post-secular societies, fundamentally challenging simplistic boundaries between Islamic ethical conduct and liberal-democratic norms and practice.

Bringing together scholars from sociology, anthropology, and Islamic theology, the...

Jewels on Queen

University of New South Wales, 2015

Ancient Roman engraved rings, eye miniatures, love tokens, an Art Deco aquamarine, and diamond brooch: all of these collectibles appear in an exclusive Sydney shop in Queen Street, Woollahra. Anne Schofield, Australia’s best-known antique jewelery expert, unlocks the cabinets in her shop and reveals the favorite pieces of jewelery she has...

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