An excerpt from Spending Time – The Most Valuable Resource by Daniel Hamermesh. Daniel will be appearing at the UNSW Bookshop at 2pm today. Kvetch, a Yiddish word now widely used in English, means “to complain or gripe habitually.” And a favorite complaint is that someone is stressed for time. One definition of stress is […]
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By Katrina Clifford and Rob White. Learn more about the new edition of Crime, Criminality and Criminal Justice, authored by Rob White, Santina Perrone and Loene Howes. Podcasts about true crime have emerged as the new best sellers of crime media. The annual podcast survey by the ABC reveals the surge in popularity, with 44% […]
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By Jennifer Gidley ‘Today’s world is complex and unreliable. Tomorrow is expected to be more so.’ – Jennifer M. Gidley, The Future: A Very Short Introduction From the beginning of time, humanity has been driven by a paradox: fearing the unknown but with a constant curiosity to know. Over time, science and technology have developed, meaning that we are […]
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An excerpt from Australian Literature for Young People by Rosemary Ross Johnston The arts – literature in all its forms, theatre and cinema, dance, music, drawing, painting and sculpture – both sustain and create literate nations. They are not an extra-curricular frill, but an integral part of communal and personal lives; they arm for the […]
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By Jason Colby, author of Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator In late March, 150 short-finned pilot whales were stranded in Hamelin Bay on the southwestern tip of Australia. The public response was extraordinary. Within hours, more than 100 volunteers mounted a rescue mission, working tirelessly to return the […]
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