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For new explorers into the creativity literature, it will provide helpful grounding in the work of a major figure in the field and foundation for new questions and directions.

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The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam and claimed that human beings are parts of a single nature, that God is identical with nature. He made this thesis the basis for a crusade. Dr Gullan-Whur's biography shows how Spinoza's beliefs developed within the context of his own life.

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Barbara's father was a sadistic man at the best of times - his idea of fun was to kill the family dog by tying it to the back of his car and driving off.

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Recounting the story of America's antebellum woman's rights movement through the efforts of Lucy Stone (1818-1893), this important account differs dramatically from those that focus almost exclusively on Susan B.

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Brings together more than 500 biographies of queens, empresses, prime ministers, presidents, regent rulers, de facto rulers, constitutional monarchs, and other women rulers since the beginning of recorded history.

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Collects biographies of outstanding Blacks from all over the world, from Marcus Garvey to Akhenaton.

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"Europe, South and Central America, the West Indies, and the United States, including Alessandro de' Medici, Alexandre Dumas, Dom Pedro II, Marcus Garvey, and many others"--Cover.

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Selections from the autobiographies of twenty-five women, including Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Steinem, Jane Addams, Margaret Bourke-White, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Margaret Mead, and Margaret Sanger.

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Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to serve a twelve-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, this previously nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika tattooed on his neck and a serious set of issues.

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A powerful memoir of a molecular biologists courageous fight against corporate retaliation after revealing dangerous biosafety failures in biotech labs.

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For Linda Burney, life began tough in the tiny NSW township of Whitton. Her birth had been a scandal and caused her to be mocked and reviled by some. From these humble beginnings in country NSW, Linda grew to become a successful teacher, then a leader in a vital community organization, and an inspiring political leader.

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An urgent and timely manifesto on how digital currencies will win the New Cold War and the struggle for geopolitical supremacy in the twenty-first century.

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Arguably Australia's most influential political journalist, Alan 'the red fox' Reid covered Australian politics from the 1930s to the 1980s. During his career he was both a chronicler of, and player in, Australian politics. A look at a Machiavellian behind-the-scenes world of recurrent plots, crises and leadership challenges.

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Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. A life of self-abuse and crime finally saw him imprisoned. But he has turned his life around, and in Back on the Block, he hopes to help other members of the Stolen Generations find a voice and their place, finally putting their pain to rest.

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Shows how Ren Descartes transformed philosophy.

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"Previously published as Je suis une bacha posh in 2013 by aEditions Michel Lafon."

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Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. In the 1950s, Jessie and her family were 'caught by the bomb': fallout from the British nuclear tests at Emu, north of Maralinga. In this book, Jessie's stories are juxtaposed with photographs and information of the times, places and people in her life.

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From a description of Sartre's hitherto unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's declining years, this intimate portrait incorporates previously untold aspects of Sartre's private, political, and literary life, in a new edition of the acclaimed biography, honoring the centennial of Sartre's birth.