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Much has been written about the White Australia Policy, but very little has been written about it from a Chinese perspective. ""Big White Lie"" shifts our understanding of the White Australia Policy - and indeed White Australia - by exploring what Chinese Australians were saying and doing at a time when they were officially excluded.""Big White Lie"" pays close attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organisations, and their business and religious lives. It shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia. The book's focus on Chinese Australians provides a refreshing new perspective on the important role the Chinese have played in Australia's past at a time when China's likely role in Australia's future is more compelling than ever.

Finding out the only child you will ever have is gifted by the gods but will curse their mother is not the news Asmund the Great wanted to hear. It wasn't going to be hard enough to raise the child of the two most stubborn Vikings in Norway now he had to raise and child of a prophecy. Things just never work out for the Eld family. They always seem to get sucked into the crazy things in life. The older they get the harder it is to protect them and when the village might just try to kill them if they knew the truth it's quite difficult to raise a child.

A Baby-boomer or a child of one would enjoy reading this book. This novel tells the story of a group of high school friends who keep in touch over a fifty-year span through a reunion of sorts. The novel is set in a little town in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. The characters gather at their hometown Pub on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. They reminisce, cajole, and brag, revealing the events taking effect in their lives. The following morning they join others of the community at Thanksgiving Breakfast party preceding the annual High School game. This fascinating novel is poignant and humorous, but it

American Politics Today helps students understand the debates and controversies that they encounter in the news by emphasizing conflict and compromise as natural parts of politics. The Essentials Edition includes all the learning tools from the full book--including highly visual "How It Works" infographics and an approach organized around Chapter Goals--in a text that is 30% shorter.

American Politics Today helps students understand the debates and controversies that they encounter in the news by emphasizing conflict and compromise as natural parts of politics. The Essentials Edition includes all the learning tools from the full book--including highly visual "How It Works" infographics and an approach organized around Chapter Goals--in a text that is 30% shorter.

American Politics Today helps students understand the debates and controversies that they encounter in the news by emphasizing conflict and compromise as natural parts of politics. The Essentials Edition includes all the learning tools from the full book--including highly visual "How It Works" infographics and an approach organized around Chapter Goals--in a text that is 30% shorter.

American Politics Today helps students understand the debates and controversies that they encounter in the news by emphasizing conflict and compromise as natural parts of politics. The Essentials Edition includes all the learning tools from the full book--including highly visual "How It Works" infographics and an approach organized around Chapter Goals--in a text that is 30% shorter.

A dark heart-stopping novel... set in a land gripped by fear, repression, and sectarian thought control There were two maps of Ireland in the mid 20th century: one showed the cities and towns... the mountains, rivers and lakes. The other map hung in the office of Reverend Brother Drack, feared administrator of Grievous Faults Industrial School. It was sprinkled with dots of different colours, each indicating a type of punishment centre: Pink for the ones where girls were detained, blue for boys, and purple for single mothers. Eleven year old Joey McLaughlin, snatched from his family in a rural town for robbing an orchard, is sent to Grievous Faults, where he dreams of escape from the horrors that threaten to engulf his existence. His friend Noreen is sent to a punishment centre for the same offence, and Tess McCarthy is banished to a Magdalene Laundry for the crime of conceiving out of wedlock. Brother Paul, a conscientious man who opposes corporal punishment, struggles to confront the living nightmare that is Grievous Faults industrial school. Meanwhile, Tess's brother Stephen is fighting with the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) in a romanticised bid to expel the British from the northern six counties of Ireland. But it gradually dawns on him that Southern Ireland is in the grip of a deeply oppressive theocracy that overshadows his naive idealism. Can Joey escape? Will he see his dear friend Noreen again? Can Stephen, on the run from two police forces, find a way to free Tess? This utterly compelling novel reveals all, with its riveting and darkly comic portrayal of 1950s Ireland. But you'll have to read right through to the end to find the answers. And you won't rest till you've read the last line on the last page. Adventure...horror...excitement...suspense. You'll be gripped from the beginning and may well be tempted to believe the monstrous Brother Drack when he warns: There can be no escape from Grievous Faults. ***

In Ireland the humble hare has been the subject of great controversy. After years of an abusive sport, which resulted in its child-like death screams being heard regularly throughout Ireland, a result was achieved. For those few dedicated people trying desperately to save the gentle creature from the horrors of the cruel sport of hare coursing, the struggle was painful and fought against great odds. Author, John Fitzgerald, writes about his experience of a campaign against this barbaric blood sport, focusing mainly on a controversial phase in the 1980s when the State deployed a police heavy gang to suppress anti-coursing activism. The author's own peaceful and non-violent action and that of, initially, a few others did arouse the public and achieve what at first appeared to be a hard-won benefit to the hare. But the hare's troubles were - and are -far from over. Though it can no longer be torn apart by greyhounds, now muzzled, it can still be mauled, injured, and tossed about like a rag doll on the coursing field. In addition to highlighting the hare's sad plight, this is also a campaigner's story. The author recounts vividly the ups and downs of his own fight against animal cruelty. He and others paid a major price for their role in the campaign. The gentle hare, apart from its use and abuse in coursing, has now become an endangered species in Ireland, and this book reinforces its right to be protected.

Time to Stop Running is a fantasy for all ages: Light battles darkness in a magical showdown. Bullies run scared...hunters become the hunted In this spine-tingling adventure, Tipsy the Hare takes on his deadliest foe. A terrifying challenge awaits him in the Land of the Humaniks. For Tipsy, a hare living on an offshore island, life is good, if not always wonderful: The winter months are tough...hares squabble among themselves as all creatures do ...over food, love, ruffled egos. And there's the falcon that hovers high above and occasionally swoops to snatch a leveret (baby hare) from the world of the living. Tipsy is no ordinary hare. From birth he has been gifted with psychic powers, including the ability to converse with other species and outrun all other hares.The seasons come and go, and the hares get on with their lives. But danger looms across the ocean, on the Big Island that is visible some days from the beach or cliff-top. From that fearful land boats arrive at dawn in the season of the fallen leaves. From the moment the Humaniks splash ashore nothing is the same again. The invaders are members of Ballycrossways Coursing Club, who aim to capture as many hares as they can for their live baiting fixture back on Broc Peninsula. The invasion leaves the island hares devastated and terrified. Their spiritual leader, the revered Golden Hare, summons Tipsy to his cave. He has a mission for him that will, if successful, deliver from persecution the hares of both his own island home and the ones who dwell on the Big Island across the sea. And Tipsy is told by the Great One that a Humanik female will assist him in his mission.A riveting page-turner, Time to Stop Running is an impassioned plea on behalf of an animal that threatens no-one and yet must bear the brunt of man's inhumanity. If Watership Down was a PR boost for rabbits, here's an equally deserved accolade to the gentle hare.This is a book of life, love, and liberation. You'll not be released from its enchanting grip until you reach The End... ***

Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation's 40 million cadres – the managers and government officials employed by the ruling Communist Party to protect its great enterprise. This group has captured the culture and wealth of China, excluding the voices of the common citizens of this powerful and diverse country.Award-winning historian John Fitzgerald focuses on the stories the Communist Party tells about itself, exploring how China works as an authoritarian state, and revealing Beijing's monumental propaganda productions as a fragile edifice built on questionable assumptions.Cadre Country is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of the Chinese Communist Party and the limits of its achievements.