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Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe

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Making extensive and imaginative use of oral sources and official documents, 'Sort of a Place Like Home' creates a vivid and intimate picture of the life experience of Moore River inmates, whilst documenting the appalling bureaucratic incompetence, official indifference and brutality that made Moore River notorious.

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Reprising the success of 'Spliffs' and 'Spliffs 2', this book offers yet more information and entertainment for the 'budding' cannabis enthusiast.

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Discover how the designers of womens sporting attire navigated the worlds of fashion, function, and propriety, from the beginning of the 19th century to 1960.

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The tenets of the Jedi Code (peace, knowledge, serenity and harmony) are applicable not just in the STAR WARS Galaxy, but also in our own. Here is an accessible, illustrated collection of quoted wisdom illuminated to shine light on readers own lives, including elements of practice for taking the lessons to heart.

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Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the topic of "taste" with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number of fields from fashion to food. This is a new edition of his classic book, brought into the new millennium by Bayley's critique of modern design.

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Until the 1960s, scarcity and the struggle to clothe, feed and employ the nation drove most of US political life. From slavery to the New Deal, political parties organized around economic interests and the often fervent debate over the best allocation of political and economic rewards. This book interprets the latter half of the 20th Century.

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Situates the Arab Revolutions within their broader contextual backgrounds - showing that a unique set of historical events, as well as local, regional and global dynamics, has converged to provide the catalyst that triggered the revolts - and also within a new conceptual framework.

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The 80's represented cars that were flash, angular and mean. The petrol-heads of the time lusted after Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari 308; salivated over the Ferrari Daytona and Testarossa from Miami Vice, and watched ''Back to the Future'' in cinemas across the country, mesmerised at the sight of the Doc's De Lorean.

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"My Guy" is one of the foundation stones of today's massive pop culture magazine genre. It defined what it meant to be young in the 1980s and was a template for the hugely successful gossip mags like "Heat", "Closer" and "OK!" that fly off the shelves every week.

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Now more than ever we need leaders who can be strong yet humble, bold and assertive when it counts but have the capacity to listen and learn, who can motivate and influence, and who can get the best out of those around them. Twenty-five outstanding Australian leaders from diverse worlds share their insights on the essence of inspiring leadership.

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Covering topics ranging from the importance of Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, to the influence of foreign fast food and video games, this book provides a wide-ranging glimpse into the Chinese mind. It offers a look at the values, attitudes, and behavior patterns of modern China - and their roots in the history of this ancient nation.

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Gtz also explores briefly some psychological mechanisms operative in the formation of womb envy, and he examines schooling as one institution that has perpetuated the womb envy that is so much a part of sexism.

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The third edition of this textbook includes new chapters on the economics of the environment, transport and social care, as well as updated treatments of education, health care, housing and the distribution of income and wealth.

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In The Fight to Save the Town, Michelle Wilde Anderson excavates the erosion of municipal infrastructure in four disparate placesStockton, California; Josephine County, Oregon; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Detroit, Michiganto chronicle the human wounds left by decades of deep cuts to local government, and argue for reform and reinvestment in vital local institutions.

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This landmark book describes the course of religious thinking within Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, to 950.

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A colorful and in-depth cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardomThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Airin the vein of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest Regards.

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A series of reflections on gender in the light of the Trinity, beginning with a consideration of key scriptural passages, and extending to careful analysis or such notions as "maleness", "femaleness" and the use of language itself.

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Following in the curmudgeonly footsteps of One Grump or Two, The Grumpy Drivers Handbook is a celebration of all that is miserable and tedious on the road.

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A study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries. This collection of 24 essays covers the key achievements of the Muslim intellectual and cultural tradition in history, mysticism, philosophy and poetry.