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A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
A reflection on the author's parents, one a British scientist and the other the anthropologist Margaret Mead....
Profiles of five women that aim “to shed light on personal and career obstacles women face in achieving success” by a cultural anthropologist (Pub...
" . . . You are going to be pleasant and helpful, Bee, and not chase Jazzi away. I like Jazzi. I want her to be a permanent fixture in our lives and I...
The Age of Active Wisdom
From the author of Composing a Life (first published in 1991 and still in print), an inspiring exploration of a new stage of the life cycle, “Adulth...
Culture and Generation in Transition
From the author of the bestselling "Composing a Life" comes a revolutionary vision of how longer life spans and changing lifestyles are reshaping conc...
Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few suprises in store - like discove...
And bigger than all of that, I knew that sometimes you had to do the impossible like eat oysters or go shopping even when you could hardly breathe bec...
Based on a conference held at Burg Wartenstein, Austria in 1968, organized by anthropologist Gregory Bateson and observed and interpreted by Mary Cath...
Essays on Gregory Bateson
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Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred
This book contains Gregory Bateson's final sustained thinking in collaboration with his anthroplogist daughter Mary Catherine Bateson. The work sets o...
Documents the effects of the lethal virus on the human immune system, its influence upon modern civilization, and the opportunity afforded by this tra...
Learning Along the Way
Encourages new habits of learning by discovering pattern in the unfamiliar, treating it as a resource rather than a threat....
Anyone can be in that place and turn their back on it. You have to be prepared to act. Lulianne is an Airdancer of the cirque d'Espoir. With her pink ...
Passages of Personal Discovery
WRITER AND EDUCATOR Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creatio...
Following on from The Wish Pony, Catherine Bateson's new novel returns to the world of magic realism to chart the stormy waters of a child's grief. Wh...
Ruby's mum is having a baby, but why does she need one of those when she's already got a Ruby? To make matters worse, her best friend Sarah has just f...
The demand for information on learning Arabic has grown spectacularly as English-speaking people have come to realize how much there is yet to know ab...
His Name in Fire is told from three points of view Molly a circus worker employed to engage bored and disaffected local youth - to put on a circus per...
The daughter of an artist and a scientist, and your own interesting self, Millie. What more could you need? But Millie isn't sure that Tom, her mum's ...
Artwork by Daan Van Golden....
An Investigation Into the Nature and Meaning of the Sacred
Recordados por Mary Catherine Bateson
Margaret Mead y Gregory Bateson fueron leyendas en vida. Muchos autores escribieron sobre estos célebres antropólogos cuya influencia aún se percib...
Social Myths and Biological Realities
Thinking Race clarifies the relationship between biology and race, showing how racism can result from a misguided blending of biology with social cons...
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Star lives with her mum and her mum's old university friend, Charlie, who has broken up with his wife. Star doesn't always like Charlieshe certainly d...
Following her parents separation, 12-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country. There she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door, an...
A warm and funny tale of romance and missteps as Lisette finds her feet in Paris, the city of love....
When cousin Weston comes to stay, Ben is worried. He's told a lot of big fat lies about his life in Melbourne, and Weston is about to find him out....