Alumni Services

February 2017

A true crime case study, a workbook for women in small businesses and a study on violence from a comic book perspective make up this month's alumni-penned picks.

1.

Author

Kim Chamberlain (with Iona Elwood-Smith)

Degree Linguistics
Book

Your Business Journey

The Your Business Journey workbook guides women in small businesses through a 12-month business development programme where you can map your pathway to business and personal growth. ThThe Your Business Journey workbook guides women in small businesses through a 12-month business development programme where they can map their pathway to business and personal growth.

A practical journal that provides inspiration as well as information, along with spaces to record, evaluate, analyse and plan. Goal setting and accountability play a large part in helping keep people on track during the process, and those purchasing the workbook ae eligible to join the ‘Your Business Journey’ Facebook group for support. This journey isn’t solely about getting more business and making more money; it’s also about making sure you create a fulfilling, holistic life at the same time, to ‘satisfy your soul’ while developing a successful business.e 156-page workbook is a practical journal that provides inspiration as well as information, along with spaces for you to record, evaluate, analyse and plan.

Your Business Journey

2.

Author Andrew J. Hale-Byrne
Degree Politics and Modern History
Book

Grenville

Andrew Hale-Byrne tells the bizarre story of how an elitist cult on Cape Cod, founded by two self-proclaimed holy women, managed to infiltrate and take over a preppy Anglican boarding school in Ontario, Canada with an international student body. This happened with patronage from the highest levels in Canada's government, political class, and business community, and in some cases included their active participation in covering up abuse. What followed were many years of institutional abuse -- psychological, physical and sexual -- of the children under the protective camouflage of Anglicanism. Andrew tells the history of the abuse victims and how he exposed the school, the cult and the Ontario establishment.

Grenville

3.

Author

Sean Michael Wilson (et al)

Degree Psychology
Book

Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Critique

Bringing together established academics and award-winning comic book writers and illustrators, Portraits of Violence illustrates the most compelling ideas and episodes in the critique of violence. Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Paolo Freire, Michel Foucault, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, and Giorgio Agamben each have ten pages to tell their story in this innovative graphic title.

Sean Michael Wilson is a comic book writer from Scotland, who now lives in Japan. He has had more than a dozen books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers.

Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Critique

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