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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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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.

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A book which raises all those tricky questions that children ask their teachers and parents, such as 'what is infinity' 'what is democracy' or even 'can I own a gun'

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A riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come.

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Wales is a land with a vast wealth of ghost stories, including fantastical animals, flickering death omens and unseen things that go bump in the night. Whether these tales are based on true events, or are the creations of active imaginations, is known only to those who have experienced them but what is certain is that their power to delight and scare us remains undimmed to this day.

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A celebratory exploration of what our morbid tendencies can teach us about humanity, society and spirituality from the 'Sinister Minister'.

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A new sort of book about ageing: one that teaches us not how to avoid it, but how to enjoy it, grow with it, and thrive.

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This book traces the office from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding a legacy of invention and ingenuity - the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, email, the copier, the cubicle, the personal computer, the personal digital assistant.

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Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth, so when journalist Helen Russell finds herself spending a year in rural Jutland, she decides she'll do all she can to uncover the secrets of the Danes' happiness. But will the long, dark winters and pickled herring take their toll

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Marina DelVecchios biological mother was a prostitute who taught her to fear sex. Her adoptive mother was a virgin who taught her that sex was shameful and dirty. Stuck between these two polarizing mothers and their dysfunctions, Marina struggles to find not only her own sexual power but also her own voice.

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Jackie has known tumultuous times: she escaped war-torn China as a toddler with her medicalmissionary parents, grew up with emotional abuse,and came of age in the 1960s. But after returning to China at thirty-eight with her aging parents and being stunned by a revelation about their past, she begins an unexpected questfor forgiveness, self-fulfillment, and the authentic life she craves.

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This important book provides the first substantial analysis of white working class perspectives on multiculturalism and change in the UK, improving our understanding of this under-researched group and suggesting a new and progressive agenda for white working class communities.

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'Highly persuasive ... a well-organised and solid dossier that alerts us to legalised chemical trickery.' - The Spectator
'A bombshell book' - Daily Mail
'Eye-opening and important . . . a book full of righteous anger' - Bee Wilson

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A powerful exploration of the use of carcinogenic nitro-additives in the meat millions of people eat every week.

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Author and thought leader Ruby Warrington poses the question, "What if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy" In doing so, she unites the unsung sisterhood of non-mothers as a vital part of our evolution and collective healing as women, as humans, and as a global family.

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Written for every woman who doesnt like to talk about her financeswhether she has been taught that to do so is rude or because she feels bad about her money life You Are Worthy is a one-stop guide to transforming your relationship to money, uncovering your hidden strengths, and building knowledge and skills to achieve true financial well-being and live life on your terms.

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Former NFL quarterback McPherson examines the roots of masculinity gone awry and how it promotes violence against women.

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Former NFL quarterback McPherson examines the roots of masculinity gone awry and how it promotes violence against women.

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Comprehensive discussion of where AI will be in 40 years and the questions we all need to be asking now to shape the future.