Sold (Patricia McCormick) is in the library

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Lakshmi's family is desperately poor, but village life in the mountains of Nepal has its share of pleasures. When the monsoons wreck their crops yet again, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. She arrives at Happiness House' full of hope, but soon learns the unthinkable truth - she has been sold into prostitution. This new world becomes a nightmare from which there is no escape. But, very gradually, Lakshmi makes friends with others in the house, and gathers her courage, until the day she has to face the hardest decision of all: will she risk everything to reclaim her life? Deceptively simple, eloquent, and shocking - this is a story you will never forget. A phenomenal book, a punch in the gut...It drew me in from the first page, even though I wanted to turn away...McCormick has taken a difficult, distasteful subject and written something readable and compassionate without shying away from the truths of the matter. I only wish it was a historical document, not a portrait of a world we have all helped to create.' Deborah Ellis

Good Universities Guide 2011

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Dry times

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With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story. Dry Times: Blueprint for a Red Land provides new insights into how our desert environments and institutions work - and how this affects the people living in them, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike.

Whaling (Issues in society series)

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Unregulated commercial whaling has had a major impact
on the world’s whale populations. In spite of a complete
commercial whaling ban imposed by the International
Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986, whales are still being
killed on a daily basis by traditional whaling nations such
as Japan, Norway and Iceland. And despite broad global concern for the
depleting whale populations, there is still ongoing debate among IWC
members over if and how whaling should continue. This book examines
the history of whaling and focuses on Australia’s prominent role in trying
to secure a compromise from the whaling nations, especially Japan,
with whom diplomatic relations have become strained. The book also
details Australian and international efforts to protect whales through
sanctuaries, research and legal frameworks. Aboriginal subsistence
whaling, ‘scientific’ whaling and commercial whaling ... what is entailed
in each of these practices? Is there room for political compromise, or
do these giants of the ocean need a globally binding conservation
commitment to survive in the world’s already over-fished oceans?

Overschooled but undereducated

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This book synthesizes an array of research and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence. By mis-understanding teenagers’ instinctive need to do things for themselves, society is in danger of creating a system of schooling that so goes against the natural grain of the adolescent brain that formal education ends up unintentionally trivialising the very young people it claims to be supporting. By failing to keep up with appropriate research in the biological and social sciences, current educational systems continue to treat adolescence as a problem rather than an opportunity.
This book is about the need for transformational change in education. It synthesizes an array of research from both the physical and social sciences and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence. The book was conceived through a series of international conferences, and considers the education systems in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand. Its intention is to shake education out of its two-century’s-old inertia. In the saga of the ages, if a generation fails, the fault lies squarely with the previous generation for not equipping them well enough for the changes ahead. The most immoral thing a person can ever say is: ‘This will last out my time’.

Bleed for me

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Documents that shaped Australia

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Spanning more than 400 years, from the first documented sighting of the Southern Cross in 1516 to the Rudd Government's national apology to the Stolen Generations, this anthology presents in chronological form a richly varied spectrum of 100 historical documents that, like pieces in a mosaic, contribute to a broad understanding of some of the key moments in Australia's history.
John Thompson's diverse and eclectic selection - illustrated with facsimile documents, portraits, maps and photographs of related events - draws on a range of historical texts: journal and diary entries, official commissions, charters and proclamations, speeches of various kinds, letters and cables, newspaper editorials, press announcements and despatches written by journalists, petitions, Acts of Parliament, court judgements and manifestos.