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Timothy Leary is the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the 1960s counterculture, and is remembered as a pioneer of research and experimentation into psychedelic substances. Here, he offers first-hand accounts of his transformation from Bohemian professor to avatar of the New Age.

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Records the author's early years and education, his time at the front in the Second World War and his banishment to a labour camp during which period he began to formulate his theories about early human society.

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In this wry, affectionate, truculent memoir, Sarah Winterton celebrates a brace of MPs renowned for their bloody-minded independence. She goes in to bat, not just for her parents, but for an entire political class. This warts-and-all portrait of an obstreperous English couple also asks challenging political questions.

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This republished edition of Ada Cambridge's Thirty Years, first published over 100 years ago, is an incisive and moving autobiography that paints a picture of life for women in the late 1800's in Australia.

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Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in post revolutionary France, this title shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted.

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The inside story of how Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together.

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Women from diverse backgrounds and Ethnicities answer the question of what it means to be a woman in her sixties at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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A chronicle of the rewards and challenges of building a life on a farm in backwoods Maine

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This volume captures the philospher and public icon's battles with injustice, ignorance and cruelty through more than 400 letters. They express his views on a wide range of subjects and tell us much about the social and political history of the time.

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This autobiography describes one of the worst refugee tragedies of WWII. Tens of thousands of civilians perished on the dreaded Hukwang Valley trail. Colin's extraordinary journey takes him from his birth- place in Burma to Britain, and on to Bowral in NSW.

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Noongar woman, Dot Collard is as natural a storyteller as she is an international actress. In this candid memoir, she weaves together memories and stories centered around her family in Western Australia's south-west.

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This work is a collection of life experiences recounted by senior Aboriginal women from Wirrimanu, Malarn and Yaka Yaka communities of the Balgo area in the East Kimberley. It provides an insight into the lives, culture and history of the people of the desert, as seen through the eyes of the women.

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This is the autobiographical account of a Yamaji man from the Murchison River area of western Australia, one of the first generation of Aboriginal people who had access to alcohol. It is a story of hard work, addiction, recovery, relapse, and finally successful recovery. It offers an illustration of

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An extraordinary friendship formed in the most unlikely of circumstances. When James Frey first meets Leonard in the rehabilitation centre where they are both recovering drug addicts. Despite their highly unreliable track records their shared grit and humour sparks a mutual admiration which transforms into loyalty.

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Red Adair is now a multimillionaire, but he has worked his way up from a poor childhood in Houston where he spent years on the railways and on bomb-disposal before becoming an expert on oil-well firefighting. This is an account of his heroic life fighting fires all over the world.

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This sequel to "Yellow on the Broom" takes Betsy's story to the end of World War II. She was born in 1919 into a travelling family, and tells her own story, with the bitter and the sweet, the rowan and the honey.

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Makes a substantial contribution to multicultural and migrant writing. From humble, self-published memoirs by amateur chroniclers to celebrated releases by high-profile authors, this title interweaves events and attitudes, literary theory and narrative forms to address important and often moving topics such as Holocaust memory, and more.

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Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams was a member of the Stolen Generations. She was removed from her mother at birth and put into a home for white girls. As an adult she spent ten years in court suing the state government for negligence. She lost the case and two separate appeals. Several years later she was found dead, alone in her flat.

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Blind since birth, Ron regards himself as fortunate to have been born at a time when ever improving technology has enabled him to live a rich and full life, and to become a professor of law at one of Australia's most prestigious universities.

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Melanie Klein left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis. Her relationship with her own children was troubled.