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The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. It provides specific, practical, instructional details for telling our own stories and gives the necessary guidelines for assisting others in telling their life stories.

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The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. It provides specific, practical, instructional details for telling our own stories and gives the necessary guidelines for assisting others in telling their life stories.

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The good, the bad, the violent, the victimised and the clinically insane: from his first teaching practice nemesis, Alan Plant, who knows his dark secret, to the pupil who believes he is a reincarnation of the poet Andrew Marvell.

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Today, Louise, the oldest daughter of Richard and Meave, continues the family tradition with fieldwork in northern Kenya.

The Leakey family's achievements have had an enormous impact on our knowledge of human origins and evolution.

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A timely and important re-evaluation of a pioneer in anthropology and Aboriginal studies: meticulously researched, beautifully written and convincingly argued.

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An extraordinary and unique memoir from an international hostage negotiator.

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For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here Giuseppe Mazzotta, one of the leading Italianists in the United States, shows how much Vico, properly read, can bring to an understanding of contemporar

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A poet, the daughter of a Chinese-American mother and a Norwegian father, chronicles her soul-searching journey throughout Asia where she meditates upon mixed race politics, identity, and interracial desire. Reprint.

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Throughout the ages philosophers have examined their own lives in an attempt both to find some meaning and to explain the roots of their philosophical perspectives. This volume is an introduction to philosophical autobiography, a rich but hitherto ignored literary genre that questions the self, its social context, and existence in general.

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No other family was as active, and successful as the Garretts. They saw how education for women was a basic need, and how suffrage would be worthwhile as a right in itself and as a route to much else. Using letters, diaries and contemporary writings, the author chronicles the struggles and the triumphs of the Garretts.

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A heartbreaking tale of childhood poverty, abuse and racism that happily becomes an inspiring story of an extraordinary woman's strength through adversity.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stanton chronicles the rise and fall of Buddy Cianci, America's most notorious mayor, in a classic story of wiseguys, feds, and politicians on a carousel of crime and redemption.

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Pearl Buck made important contributions as a humanitarian and an advocate of racial equality and women's rights. She did much to change American attitudes toward persons with mental retardation and toward mixed-race children. Until 1993, she was first American woman to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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This remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, this memoir narrates the events of her life up to her third year at Radcliffe College.

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In 1865, a butcher from Australia proclaimed himself to be the English aristocrat, Sir Roger Tichborne, thought to have died at sea many years before. He insisted on restoration of Tichborne inheritance. This book makes the case for seeing the Tichborne cause as an unlikely but vital moment in Britain's political and social development.

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Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book, One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years, Torey is reunited with Sheila, the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue.

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An anthology that breaks with tradition. Part autobiography, part anthology - this is the definitive literary work on Twins.

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Offers new clues about the mysterious boy raised in a dungeon.

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This book provides a detailed examination of the life and legal legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, including a discussion of the many legal cases in which he was involved.

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

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Christiana Morgan was an erotic muse who influenced twentieth-century psychology and inspired its male creators, including C G Jung, who saw in her the quintessential 'anima woman.' This biography explores how Morgan yearned to express her genius yet sublimated it to spark not only Jung but also her own lover Henry A Murray.

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From the author of the phenomenal Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl, comes a startling and poignant memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse and their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps to recovery, with the help of Torey Hayden, an extraordinary teacher.

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This portrait of a unique partnership is also the story of a pivotal time and place in Australian art and politics.