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Letter From the Publisher

Posted on 24 Jul 2025

We started the year by moving tens of thousands of physical books across state lines, swam through oceans of metadata and updated our back-end systems…

Extract: Beyond Green by Lesley Head

Posted on 11 Jun 2025

Culture, society and human behaviour have forever been linked to nature. In her thought-provoking book, Lesley Head, geographer and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at…

Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard

Posted on 11 Jun 2025

How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?