Talinga was Margaret Sinclair's home away from home for nearly five decades - a place of solace, connection and inspiration.Built by her parents, Beryl and Charlie Sinclair, on the pristine shores of K'gari (Fraser Island), Talinga became more than a family retreat; it became the heart of a movement to preserve one of Australia's most treasured landscapes.In this deeply personal memoir, Margaret reflects on a life of adventure, resilience and groundbreaking achievements.

One of the most influential works in political philosophy, The Politics by Aristotle explores the nature of government, justice, and the ideal state. In this timeless classic, Aristotle examines different political systems, the role of citizenship, and the balance between power and virtue in governance. His insights continue to shape modern political thought, making this an essential listen for anyone interested in philosophy, politics, or history.Presented in a compelling...

This volume provides an overview of the themes and challenges in curriculum thinking and practice that currently engage policymakers and practitioners across the East Asian and Southeast Asian region. It addresses issues of policy development and implementation, and considers the notion of transversal in a broader sense, including whether the implementation of non-academic concepts can indeed traverse disciplinary, cultural and contextual boundaries.Consisting mainly of contribution...

This book deals with the life history and writings of three great female authors: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, who all died relatively young.These three daughters of a poor country clergyman, published, at the beginning, their poems and novels under male pseudonyms, like many contemporary female writers; before to become famous all over the world.“It is impossible to write of the three Brontës and forget the place they lived in, the black-grey, naked village, bristling...

In Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research, six educational researchers explore together the potentialities of transdisciplinary research that de-centres human behaviour and gives materiality its due in the making of educational worlds. The book presents accounts of what happens when researchers think and act with new materiality and post-human theories to disrupt boundaries such as self and other, human and non-human, representation and objectivity. Each of the core chapters works...

The horror of the male experience during World War One was well documented in poetry, memoir, and fiction throughout the 20th century. Women's voices of despair, endurance and anger, however, have often been forgotten. These poems of political fury, widowed brides, industry undertaken, and sons and friends loved and lost, give a heartbreaking insight into the experience of women throughout World War One.The full list of poems included in this collection are:Joining th...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth.'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these fo...

Brought to you by Penguin.'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fund...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding's first full-length novel, depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill, a much-put-upon foundling girl, and Parson Adams, a man often duped and humiliated, but still a model of Christian charity. In the boisterous short tale Shamela, a b...

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Rory Alexander.René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes m...

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon’s portrait is the only one other than Plato’s to survive, and while it offers a very personal interpretation of Socratic thought, it also reveals much about the man and his philosophical views.In ‘Socrates’ Defence’ Xenophon defends his mentor against charges of arrogance made at h...