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An exploration of the psychological effects - the pleasures, benefits and disbenefits - of computer games.

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A collection of personal essays by noted women essayists and emerging women writers that explores the question of why Americans have a love/hate relationship with Hillary Clinton, tied together by analysis and commentary by the editor.

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A mothers memoir about the complicated relationship between herself and her daughtera high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities.

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What does masculinity add up to in the 21st century

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This collection contains thirteen essays by researchers studying children, adolescents, youth, and adults in a service organization family context, including the military, the State Department, international educators, and non-governmental organizations.

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Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, class, gender and legal status for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation.

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A topical textbook for students of probation studies and criminal justice which is the first to cover key areas in multi-agency work for criminal justice practice.

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Documenting socio-historical characteristics rather than providing a theological interpretation, Muslims Making Australia Home covers interrelated Islamic themes in the sociology of religion by noting how these themes reappear in cultural history.

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A history of dreaming.

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Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multi-faceted mind - and healing the many parts that make you who you are.

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In essays written with humor and wit, Kendrick reimagines what it means to be a good black womanfrom women choosing never to have children to mothers regretting their choice to have them, from being a lonely black atheist to conquering loneliness as a single woman in a foreign countryand, in the process, challenges the expectation that black women serve as noble martyrs or sacrificial lambs.

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Based on in-depth research with divorced Muslim women, community leaders and local religious authorities, this book reveals the complexities facing Muslim women in negotiating family expectations, cultural norms and traditional Islamic laws.

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Presents an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. This title also re-examines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.

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Australia has found it difficult to effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests. Informed by interviews with key decision makers, Pacific Power analyses why Australia has had difficulty exercising influence in the Pacific Islands and identifies how Australia can more effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests.

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"Police Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. The books looks at practical solutions for racist policing as well as methods to work against the promotion of white supremacy, stressing the importance of white allyship"--

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"Police Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. The books looks at practical solutions for racist policing as well as methods to work against the promotion of white supremacy, stressing the importance of white allyship"--

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The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused passions at many universities across Australia over fears for the academic enterprise and the system of free, public university education. This volume tells the story of the Dawkins reforms at Australia's oldest university, the University of Sydney.

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A path breaking study of the brain and how the invention of reading has altered man's evolution.

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A powerfully inspiring and unflinchingly honest story of how best-selling author and abuse recovery expert Beverly Engel made her way in the worldin spite of her mothers neglect and constant criticism, being sexually abused at nine, and raped at twelve.

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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Examines what drives the different regional security strategies of four middle powers in the Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia. Drawing on the extant middle power literature, the authors argue that the regional security strategies of middle powers could take two forms: functional or normative.

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The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual assault in Australias past. Yet we still have little knowledge of the policing, prosecution and punishment of sexual crimes in the past. Sex Crimes in the Fifties examines this history by investigating Australia in the 1950s.