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'Nickled and Dimed for the Amazon age,' (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor

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This almanac for the heart is dealing candidly with everything from Brazilian waxes to secret underwear, from coping with broken hearts to what makes a perfect partner (a checklist to cut out and keep) from advice on the friends who flatter you (frenemies) to the importance of empathy. Australian author.

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Volume 2 of this classic two-part work by a distinguished anthropologist focuses on animism - the belief that everything possesses a soul - to trace the development of mind and culture.

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This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of mainstream criminology, including both liberal criminology and administrative criminology. It sets a new agenda for theoretical and practical engagement, and for creating a more effective and just criminal justice system.

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From the sports documentarian and executive producer of The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about how sports provide meaning and purpose in peoples lives all over the world.

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Bernard Salt tackles countless social and demographic questions currently facing Australia. He monitors and interprets those factors that have a bearing on where we live, when we marry and how we work. This is a book that looks at both the minutiae and the motivational forces, the shape the Australian community.

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Provides advice and tips on how to navigate one's way out of the relationship wreckage, deal with confusing emotions and regain inner glow.

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How Marx and Spinoza can explain our perverse attachment to the indignities of work

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Widely acknowledged as one of the definitive texts on art theory, The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society, reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology.

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Nile (Australian studies, Curtin U. of Technology, Australia) offers a narrative history of the Australian novel. He argues that the novel's development in the Australian context was closely related to a nation-building project that portrayed the writer as public intellectual. However, in the 1970s,

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A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance - and future - of anthropology museums, from a global expert

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Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed the way we think, and helped us change the world.

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Part of the popular Big Ideas series, this book introduces you to the subject that tells you all about what society is and what makes it tick. It includes over 80 ideas from the world's renowned sociologists, covering topics as diverse as issues of equality, diversity, identity and human rights; the effects of globalization; and more.

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A collection of 12 inspirational, provocative and insightful essays by prominent Australians on a wide range of topics including an Australian republic, the refugee issue, higher education reform, environmental sustainability and an Australian bill of rights.

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This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a 'masterpiece'.

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What is 'the trick of standing upright here' in Aotearoa New Zealand What sort of rope can modern New Zealanders weave to haul themselves to their feet This book identifies the Treaty, the words and the stories upon which New Zealanders - both Maori and non-Maori - can stand and flourish.

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Richard and Linda Eyre examine the connections between the world's mounting social problems and the breakdown of families and look deeply at the root causes of family disintegration.

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Taking an unbiased view of the myth and mystery surrounding the origins of the yuletide season, this title introduces facts about the holiday season and shatters the myths surrounding some of Christmas' most treasured and well-known facets: When exactly was Jesus born Why is Santa's outfit red and white And more.

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A Couples Guide to Happy Retirement and Aging is the most comprehensive book devoted entirely to relationship issues in retirement. Not a treatise on money management, this is a much-needed guide to the psychological aspects of retirement and how to make