Diverse

Many people consider themselves to be both environmentalists and supporters of animal welfare and rights. Yet, despite the many issues which bring environmentalists and animal advocates together, for …

Over the last twelve years the world’s population has grown by one billion and has now reached seven billion people. Ona Radtke describes and analyses the causes and consequences of this unbridled gr …

This illustrated book commemorates 20 years of the Friends of Suai/Covalima, a community to community relationship. A number of similar friendship groups were created between the people of Timor-Lest …

The atonement–where God in Jesus Christ addresses sin and the whole of the human predicament–lies at the heart of the Christian faith and life. Its saving power is for all people, and yet a deep he …

How can we mend Australia’s broken mental health system? Mental illness is the great isolator – and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects eve …

What ails the NDIS? Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a transformative social change that ran into prob …

Video games are both physically and cognitively demanding—so what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem at odds, Ability Machines illuminates just how vit …

The Pathogens of Finance is an exploration of how the rising power and profits of Wall Street underpin the contemporary increases in and inadequate responses to vector-borne disease. Over the past fi …

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today’s globalized society. The human species is divided into more than five thousand …

Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins pla …