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Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond
Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II...
Unsolved Murders
Discover the stories behind 20 of the world's most infamous unsolved murders. MURDERS THAT DEFY DETECTION. Discover the stories behind some of the most infamous unsolved murders of the last...
Memory in Culture
This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature,...
Death: Trip of a Lifetime
An exploration of the rites, rituals and many ways that humans approach death and dying around the world. Greg Palmer tries to discover how human culture responds to the universal...
There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and
Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere...
Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say
Noted media pundit and author of Playing the FutureDouglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how...
Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life
Anne Glenconner's glittering life hasn't always been golden. As she revealed in her astonishing memoir Lady in Waiting , it has been one of stark contrasts - from growing up...
Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of
"Sociomedia" continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in "Text, Context, and HyperText" and "The Society of Text". It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
From the mystique of the glamorous Kennedys to the tumult that surrounded Bill and Hillary Clinton during the president's impeachment to the historic tenure of Barack and Michelle Obama, each...
Notes to John
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN 'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's...
Beloved Daughters: 100 Years of Papal Teaching on Women
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100 years, the popes have spoken about women on more than 40 occasions. This book is the first study, in any language, of that teaching. From speeches to encyclicals, Richard...
City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester
Confronted with a declining jobs base, deepening social problems and apparent indifference on the part of central government, many British cities made an "entrepreneurial turn" during the 1980s and 1990s....
Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction
This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the...
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Mindstorms has two central themes: that children can learn to use computers in a masterful way and that learning to use computers can change the way they learn everything else....
Artificial Life II
Artificial life is a new field of scientific inquiry that studies biology by attempting to synthesize such biological phenomena as life, evolution, and ecological dynamics within computers and other "artificial"...
We All Go into the Dark
A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
The Pagoda
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In 1977, two lesbian couples living in St. Augustine, Florida, found a row of small beach houses for sale next to a house they wanted to turn into a feminist...
Dissent: The Student Press in 1960s Australia
A passionate portrayal of Australia's social awakening - the people, the politics, and the power of the student press. A passionate portrayal of Australia's social awakening - the people, the...
The Main Event: Training for Your Life
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My purpose is to encourage and help anyone who feels stuck, who is not sure where they're going on this journey called life. For most of my 75 years, like...
The Lonely Hunter: how our search for love is broken
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A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. 'So what's...
The Lonely Hunter: how our search for love is broken
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A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. 'So what's...
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future
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A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a...
Paper Cranes: A Mother's Story of Hope, Courage and Determination
Cheryl Koenig's life changed forever the day her twelve-year-old son Jonathan was involved in a horrific car accident. Given very little chance of survival, Jonathan was in a coma for...
My Dear Emma
My Dear Emma is a reproduction of the personal diary of Robert Emeric Tyler, a leading London Architect and his nineteen-year old son Bobby, who in 1895 travelled from London...
Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture
In Rabelais's tale, the giant prince Gargantua is a vast and inescapable cluster of qualities and activities; his violence, greed and incontinence are incomparable. In the old giant's size, ubiquity,...
Introducing Levi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide
Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi- Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levis-Strauss' thought, from his...
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the...
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows how women emerged from...
Settle Down Country; Pmere Arlaltyewele
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Author: Pam Nathan And Dick Leichtleitner JapanangkaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Kibble Books, 1983Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis non-fiction work, "Settle Down Country;...
Holy Days: The World Of A Hasidic Family
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Author: Lis HarrisBinding: PaperbackPublished: Collier Books, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small cut on FEP. This non-fiction work offers an intimate...
North Adelaide: 1837 – 1901 (SIGNED)
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Author: Paula NagelBinding: PaperbackPublished: Austaprint, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Signed by author and gift inscription for previous owner, as pictured. This academic text, "North...
A Sense Of The Future
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Author: J. BronowskiBinding: PaperbackPublished: The MIT Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn this profound work of non-fiction, J. Bronowski, a renowned...
Trust The Women: Women In The Federal Parliament
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Author: Ann MillarBinding: PaperbackPublished: Department of The Senate, Canberra, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis non-fiction work, "Trust The Women: Women In...
Australian Nurses Since Nightingale 1860-1990 (SIGNED)
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Author: Elizabeth BurchillBinding: PaperbackPublished: Spectrum Melbourne, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis historical non-fiction work chronicles the significant contributions of...
Mercy Girls: The Story Of Sacred Heart College Geelong 1860-2010
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Author: Watts, John et alBinding: PaperbackPublished: Sacred Heart College Newtown, 2010Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical account chronicles the rich 150-year...
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited,
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A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take...
The Mountain of Names: History of the Human Family
International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world.
Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy
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How might we think and talk about indigenous philosophy? Why has Aboriginal knowledge not been given the status of philosophical knowledge, but treated by whites rather as culture or history?...
William Johnson's Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro
The discovery in 1938 of the diary and personal papers of William Johnson ( ca. 1809-1851), a free Negro of Natchez, Mississippi, made possible the publication of this fascinating volume....
Obliged to be Difficult: Nugget Coombs' Legacy in Indigenous Affairs
Since the 1967 constitutional referendum, Australian governments have moved towards policies of indigenous self-determination. Obliged to be Difficult presents the central issue of self-determination as seen by Dr H. C....
Spare Parts
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix,...