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Embodying a chic casualness and ease that is uniquely American, the iconic Polo shirt has become a cool cultural symbol, worn by everyone from movie stars and presidents to athletes and artists.

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Raw shows the urgent need to consider condomless sex, as it is illegal for HIV-positive people in many jurisdictions.

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Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations is a personal narrative of an applied anthropologist's experience in working with indigenous peoples of Canada. Nadia Ferrara calls for all North Americans to engage in "restorying" their nation's history by acknowledging the injustices that indigenous peoples have faced and continue to face.

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Prebish offers a thoughtful look at sport as a religious experience and argues that sport has become an American religion. The second chapter examines the difficulty of defining sport, and the third probes the close relationship between sport and religion.

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This book explores the fine line between fiction and history and considers how Frances cultural production has contributed to shaping the image of the French Resistance. Though an examination of the lenses through which France has regarded its recent past, the book offers a key to understanding Frances national psyche.

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And he joins the heroes who emerged to challenge the policy, and who worked on the ground to reunite parents with children.

In this essential reckoning, Soboroff weaves together these key voices with his own experience covering this national issueat the border in Texas, California, and Arizona;

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A collection of essays that aims to give a broad view of the way humour operates in Australian culture. There are very few scholarly works that attempt to study humour that we have come to associate with being Australia. This book looks at the humourous culture that Australia does have, within the essays.

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A comprehensive examination of the pervasive and persistent social problem of sexual violence and abuse that plagues millions of women, children, and men across the globe.

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Shit London explores the world of ill-conceived community art, poorly named shops, cheeky graffiti, bad translations, comical signs and the unintentionally funny scenes that surround Londoners everyday.

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Grayling, Robert McCrum, Prue Leith, Sebastian Faulks and Ann Widdecombe, to name just a few, Simple Pleasures is perfect reading for anyone who appreciates - or aspires to - the finer, simpler things in life.

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Offers a selection of adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights.

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Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe

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With each major technological shift, the question of well-being arises with new purpose. In this book, leading scholars in the philosophy and communication disciplines bring together their knowledge and expertise in an attempt to define what well-being means in this perpetually connected environment.

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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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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.