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Walking to Connect with Nature and Respond to Anthropogenic Climate Change

Margaret Somerville

The author, Margaret Somerville, collected the insights contained within the present volume over a year of walking the ridge daily, linking globally significant scientific findings on the origins and deep…

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Reading to Baby

Margaret Wild, Hannah Somerville (illus.)

From award-winners Margaret Wild and Hannah Sommerville comes a story to remind us of the wonder and magic of reading.

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Great Great Aunt Flo’s Travels

Florence Margaret Somerville Laing

From Broughty Ferry in Dundee, Scotland to Melbourne, Australia. After working as a governess in London, this adventurous woman travels to India. Full of tales from a woman who wanted…

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Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide

Margaret Somerville,Margaret Somerville,Margaret A. Somerville

Presents an argument against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide by one of the world’s leading ethicists. This work asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia, are we considering legalising it…

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The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit

Somerville, Margaret

Science and technology confront us with some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we…

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Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, Second Edition

Margaret Somerville,Margaret Somerville,Margaret A. Somerville

A reasoned, passionate, and wide-ranging enquiry into the euthanasia debate and its consequences for individuals and society.

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Do We Care?: Renewing Canada’s Commitment to Health

Margaret A. Somerville,Margaret A. Somerville

The present health care crisis threatens both the health of Canadians and the very foundation of our most valued social principles. Do We Care? examines the implications of health policy…

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The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit

Margaret Somerville,Margaret Somerville

Developing a boundary-crossing ethics by paying attention to our stories, myths, and moral intuition.

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Bird on an Ethics Wire: Battles about Values in the Culture Wars

Margaret Somerville,Margaret Somerville

An exploration of the urgent need to rebalance individuals’ unfettered freedom to choose, especially regarding birth and death.

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Riverlands of the Anthropocene: Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming

Margaret Somerville

The book addresses some of the major conceptual challenges of the Anthropocene. Drawing on stories of migration, environmental activism, and encounters with the living beings that inhabit waterways, it considers…

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Water in a Dry Land: Place-Learning Trough Art and Story

Margaret Somerville

This ethnography follows a river-road into the deeper meanings of water and water places in the Australian experience. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms…

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Water in a Dry Land: Place-Learning Trough Art and Story

Margaret Somerville

This ethnography follows a river-road into the deeper meanings of water and water places in the Australian experience. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms…

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Riverlands of the Anthropocene: Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming

Margaret Somerville

The book addresses some of the major conceptual challenges of the Anthropocene. Drawing on stories of migration, environmental activism, and encounters with the living beings that inhabit waterways, it considers…

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The Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit

Margaret Somerville,Margaret Somerville

Demonstrates that society must set ethically acceptable limits on scientific advances. This book sheds light on the ethical and legal questions that vie for our attention. It helps the readers…

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Singing the Coast

Tony Perkins,Margaret Somerville

Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is sung. These songs can be…

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Children, Place and Sustainability

Margaret Somerville,Monica Green

Through focusing on children’s sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children’s responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous…

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Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance 2e

M Somerville,K. Kumaran,Rob Anderson

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health.

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Work, Subjectivity and Learning: Understanding Learning through Working Life

This book focuses on relations among subjectivity, work and learning that represent a point of convergence for diverse disciplinary traditions and practices. They provide emerging perspectives that are elaborating the…

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Work, Subjectivity and Learning: Understanding Learning through Working Life

This book focuses on relations among subjectivity, work and learning that represent a point of convergence for diverse disciplinary traditions and practices. They provide emerging perspectives that are elaborating the…

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Body/Landscape Journal

Margaret Somerville

Somerville calls into question the premises of anthropology, cartography, history, autobiography and biography in this record of her interactions with Aboriginal women in the desert, in the mountains and at…

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