The Bear c 1945 to c 1960 to building trust with China

to building trust with China and Australia's place in the world

The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution

unhealthily powerful motivation to engage in a particular behaviour

werewolves or mummies

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The Bear c 1945 to c 1960 to building trust with ChinaThe oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East to Celtic Britain. Historian Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by the advent of Christianity and continued to sink lower in