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This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland. It analyzes…

From the winner of the SMH/Age Best Young Novelist of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year. Growing up can feel like a death…

What better way to spend a sunny day than a visit to Grandpa's chickens-and a peek at some baby chicks just as they hatch?

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After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extraordinary reckoning with how she…

" I paint the movement. Then it's dance! Dance is dynamic!" said Franz Grabmayr (1927- 2015) in the 1980s about his " dance paintings" . The post-abstract Viennese painter started…