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Re-Reading the Canon
Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir
by Margaret A. Simons
340 Pages, Published 2010 by Penn State Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-04175-9, ISBN: 0-271-04175-7






Beauvoir and The Second Sex
Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism
by Margaret A. Simons
288 Pages, Published 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-7127-3, ISBN: 0-7425-7127-0

"I would like to thank Helene Vivienne Wenzel for the boost she gave to Beauvoir scholarship as editor of the Beauvoir issue of ... For the arduous task of transcribing and translating the interviews with Beauvoir, I would like to thank Jane Marie ... Joyce Aschenbrenner, Sundiata Cha-Jua, Shirley Port~ wood, Chuck Corr, Cathy Surack, Torn Paxson, Carol Keene, Bob ... Rhoda Kotzin, Sheila Bruening, Azizah al—Hibri, Ann Ferguson, Mar ..."






Six Square Metres
reflections from a small garden
by Margaret Simons
128 Pages, Published 2015 by Scribe Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-925307-10-8, ISBN: 1-925307-10-7

"In this thoughtful and beautifully observed book, journalist and gardening enthusiast Margaret Simons takes readers on a journey through the seasons, through her life, and through the tiny patch of inner-urban earth that is home to her ..."






Penny Wong
Passion and Principle
by Margaret Simons
368 Pages, Published 2019 by Black Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-74382-114-5, ISBN: 1-74382-114-X

"more grand buildings and classrooms, and finally the Adelaide Hills. ... The deputy principal at that time was Diana Hill, later president of UNICEF Australia and the wife of Robert Hill, who rose to be the minister for the environment and the ..."






Malcolm Fraser
The Political Memoirs
by Malcolm Fraser, Margaret Simons
834 Pages, Published 2015 by Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-522-86888-3, ISBN: 0-522-86888-6

"I think that in the last few years you have paid a very high price for what was not such a very large matter. I wish that I had found some way of redressing the balance. I regret very much that I did not. Withers wrote back that it was all in the past. 'I have always tried to live for today and tomorrow.'13 Another temporary loss was the resignation of National Party colleague and Minister for Primary Industry Ian Sinclair, followi ..."






Kerry Stokes
Self-Made Man
by Margaret Simons
408 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin Group Australia
ISBN-13: 978-1-74253-783-2, ISBN: 1-74253-783-9

"Unlike his rival magnates, he built his empire from nothing. Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man is the real, fascinating story behind the rabbits-to-riches ascendancy of one of Australia's most powerful men."






The Content Makers
Understanding the media in Australia
by Margaret Simons
528 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Group Australia
ISBN-13: 978-1-74228-182-7, ISBN: 1-74228-182-6

"Those who curse the media emperors tend to neglect the things they have done for us. ... If we ask what the media moguls do for us, the answer would be: information, education, entertainment, the animation of democracy, the presentation of a ..."






Philosophical Writings
by Simone De Beauvoir, Margaret Simons
368 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-09716-4, ISBN: 0-252-09716-5

"Debra. Bergoffen. In The Prime of Life, Simone de Beauvoir identifies 1943 as the beginning of what she calls the moral period of her literary career.1 This is the year Jean Grenier asked her to contribute something to an anthology he was editing. Understanding that he was interested in essays that reflected contemporary ideological trends and that he identified her as having something to contribute as an existentialist, Beauvoir w ..."






The Ruthless Garden
by Margaret Simons
Published 1993 by Bookworld
ISBN-13: 978-1-875628-06-3, ISBN: 1-875628-06-1






Walkey Longreads 2015
by Patrick Carlyon, Trent Dalton, Kate Legge, David Kilcullen, Margaret Simons, Dave Tacon, Paul Toohey
Published 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-942189-70-1, ISBN: 1-942189-70-2






Kerry Stokes
Self-Made Man
by Margaret Simons
352 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin Uk
ISBN-13: 978-0-85797-239-2, ISBN: 0-85797-239-1

"Understandably, the sacked directors were suspicious that the split between Stokes and Bendat was not complete, and that Stokes' sale of shares to Bendat was a sham, a ploy designed to get around the law. In late 1980 the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal travelled to Bunbury to hold a public inquiry into the affair. The tribunal had received fiftytwo submissions opposing the Bendat takeover, including from six of the sixtyone local ..."






What's Next in Journalism?
new-media entrepreneurs tell their stories
by Margaret Simons
144 Pages, Published 2013 by Scribe Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-922072-73-3, ISBN: 1-922072-73-7

"This book takes the temperature of this emerging sector of news media, with a collection of contributions by new-media entrepreneurs from a variety of backgrounds — journalism, IT innovation, social activism, and community work."






Journalism at the Crossroads
Crisis and Opportunity for the Press
by Margaret Simons
96 Pages, Published 2011 by Scribe Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-921942-17-4, ISBN: 1-921942-17-7

"In Journalism at the Crossroads, journalist and media commentator Dr Margaret Simons explores the challenges and opportunities facing journalists as they confront the digital revolution and grapple with the changing role of journalism."






Malcolm Fraser
The Political Memoirs
by Margaret Simons, Malcolm Fraser, Simons And Fraser
864 Pages, Published 2010 by The Miegunyah Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-522-86703-9, ISBN: 0-522-86703-0

"Fraser travelled to a dilapidated shanty town to visit Aidit in his home; the two men got on, and Fraser came away thinking ... As matters are going, we may be the last country to be able to put the Western point of view in a manner that will not be ... US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later reflected that these developments in Indonesia should have caused the ... Yet the archives show that, even at this early stage, he did ..."






The Content Makers
by Margaret Simons
528 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Uk
ISBN-13: 978-0-85796-744-2, ISBN: 0-85796-744-4

"There is even a name in the advertising and publicrelations industry for the creation of bogus community groups: they call it 'astroturfing'. The talk of the advertising ... Even Fairfax, once a premier guardian of the 'church and state' division between advertising and editorial, is compromised in the new media world. Fairfax hosts a blog called the ... Part of its strength was that it revealed as much about Marx and his ethical c ..."






Quarterly Essay 15 Latham's World
The New Politics of the Outsiders
by Margaret Simons
144 Pages, Published 2004 by Black Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-921825-14-9, ISBN: 1-921825-14-6

"In the third Quarterly Essay of 2004, Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at Mark Latham, the self-proclaimed "club buster" and the man who would be prime minister. Few doubt Latham's intelligence and ambition, but what will this amount to in government? Simons argues that if Labor is elected, it will not be "business as usual". Rather we can expect a reformist government in the spirit - if not the letter - of Latham's political ..."






Penny Wong - Passion and Principle
by Margaret Simons
Published 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-76064-085-9, ISBN: 1-76064-085-9






Feminist Writings
by Simone De Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann
256 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-09717-1, ISBN: 0-252-09717-3

"Margaret. A. Simons. How many surprises could there be in a volume of feminist writings by Simone de Beauvoir, one of the best-known feminists of the twentieth century? The answer is, surprisingly many, from recently discovered feminist texts from the era of The Second Sex (1949) and a new translation of a famous interview announcing Beauvoir's 1972 “conversion to feminism” to texts pointing to Beauvoir's historic role linking the ..."

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