John Callaghan

Mary O'Brien Callaghan

Autobiography that describes life in the U.S. during the years 1918 to 1958. O'Brien was a musically gifted Catholic and mother of 18 children.

A Memoir

Living Faith, Hope and Love

Will Stills is the most ordinary boy in the world.Trouble is, the whole world is convinced he is far from ordinary.Every January 7th, Will is forced to celebrate his birthday in the most peculiar way.But it is not his proud parents who are planning these bizarre parties!The "brains" behind the world's biggest media company, ViewYou, are pulling the strings.But what exactly are they trying to prove?What is it they want the world to see?Why are they and everyone else so obsessed with Will Stills?

January 7th: The Day Nobody Was Born

My Name Is Never Was

Steven Fielding

Steve Ludlam

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Interpreting the Labour Party consists of twelve essays on the principal thinkers and schools of thought concerned with the political and historical development of the Labour Party and Labour movement. The essays are written by contributors who have devoted many years to the study of the Labour Party, the trade union movement and the various ideologies associated with them. The book begins with an in-depth analysis of how to study the Labour Party, and goes on to examine key periods in the development of the ideologies to which the party has subscribed. Each chapter situates its subject matter in the context of a broader intellectual legacy, including the works of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Theodore Rothstein, Stuart Hall and Samuel Beer, among others.

Interpreting the Labour Party

Eleven-year-old Willow hasn't spoken a single word for almost four years.When she and her father set off in search of yet another fresh start, things quickly turn stale.The principal of her new school insists endless tests are "the only way to learn", the school's number one bully loves to make her blood boil while her only friend is a girl that nobody else will talk to.But after the principal is unexpectedly suspended, a mysterious replacement arrives to deliver an eye-popping, jaw-dropping assembly which kick starts a crazy week that just might help Willow find her voice.

The Girl with the Zipped-Up Lips

Ben Jackson

Nina Fishman

Martin McIvor

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The search for social democracy has not been an easy one over the last three decades. The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the consequent rise of neo-liberalism, confronted social democrats with difficult new circumstances: tax-resistant electorates, the globalisation of capital and Western deindustrialisation. In response, a new bout of ideological revisionism consumed social democratic parties. But did this revisionism simply amount to a neo-liberalisation of the Left or did it propose a recognisably social democratic agenda? Were these ideological adaptations the only feasible ones or were there other forms of modernisation that might have yielded greater strategic dividends for the Left? Why did some social democratic parties feel it necessary to take their revisionism much further than others? In search of social democracy brings together prominent scholars of social democracy to address these questions. Focusing on the social democratic heartland of Western Europe (although Australia and the United States also figure in the analysis), it gives the first detailed assessment of how the new social democratic revisionism has fared in government. The book begins by considering the underlying causes of the end of social democracy’s golden age and the magnitude of the challenges faced by social democratic parties after the 1970s. It then proceeds to examine detailed case studies of how particular social democratic parties responded to this changed political terrain. Finally, it contributes to a broader conversation about the future of social democracy by considering ways in which the political thought of ‘third way’ social democracy might be radicalised for the twenty-first century. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives – some are sceptical of social democracy’s prospects, others more sanguine; some supportive of the performance of social democratic parties in government, others bitingly critical. But they are united by the conviction that the themes addressed in this book are crucial to understanding the current politics of the industrialised world and, in particular, to determining the feasibility of more egalitarian and democratic social outcomes than have been possible so far in the era of neo-liberalism.

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