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  • Reason, Truth and Self Reason, Truth and Self
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    Reason, Truth and Self

    Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,t ruth and self; this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case...
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  • Greek Painted Pottery Greek Painted Pottery
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    Greek Painted Pottery

    Greek Painted Pottery has been used by classics and classical archaeology students for some thirty years. It thoroughly examines all painted pottery styles from the Protogeometric to the Hellenistic period from all areas of Greece and from the colonies...
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  • The Fascist Experience in Italy The Fascist Experience in Italy
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    The Fascist Experience in Italy

    This source book examines the development of Italian Fascism, and surveys the themes and issues of the movement. It spans from the emergence of the united Italian state in the nineteenth century, to the post-war aftermath of fascism. It provides:*...
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  • Tropical Environments Tropical Environments
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    Tropical Environments

    Tropical Environments presents a comprehensive introduction to the complex systems of the tropics. Covering a broad, cross-regional range of humid through to semi-arid tropical climate zones, the book features a wealth of case studies drawn from...
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  • Drama 7-11 Drama 7-11
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    Drama 7-11

    This book is a practical guide to teaching drama and provides a clear and coherent framework together with a theoretical underpinning which will allow teachers to create their own drama lessons from an informed standpoint and maximize the learning...
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  • Undressing Cinema Undressing Cinema
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    Undressing Cinema

    From Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, to sharp-suited gangsters in Tarantino movies, clothing is central to film. In Undressing Cinema, Stella Bruzzi explores how far from being mere accessories, clothes are key elements in the construction of cinematic...
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  • Prosthetic Culture Prosthetic Culture
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    Prosthetic Culture

    In a fascinating account of how technology is altering our consciousness, Celia Lury shows how the manipulation of photographic images and ways of seeing can so redefine the relation between consciousness, the body and memory as to create a 'prosthetic...
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  • Place/Culture/Representation Place/Culture/Representation
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    Place/Culture/Representation

    Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors...
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  • Dance History Dance History
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    Dance History

    Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance...
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  • The Radical in Performance The Radical in Performance
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    The Radical in Performance

    The Radical in Performance investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a western theatre which, says Kershaw, is largely outdated and the...
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  • Cross-Cultural Consumption Cross-Cultural Consumption
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    Cross-Cultural Consumption

    Goods are imbued with meanings and uses by their producers. When they are exported, they can act as a means of communication or domination. However, there is no guarantee that the intentions of the producer will be recognized, much less respected, by...
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  • Native American Art in the Twentieth Century Native American Art in the Twentieth Century
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    Native American Art in the Twentieth Century

    This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to...
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  • The Grotowski Sourcebook The Grotowski Sourcebook
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    The Grotowski Sourcebook

    This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work.Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the...
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  • Research as Social Change Research as Social Change
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    Research as Social Change

    Have you ever thought research is boring? "Research" writes Umberto Eco "should be fun". It seems unlikely that Umberto Eco has read many of the standard social science or education research texts. But social research does offer the possibility of...
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  • Touring Cultures Touring Cultures
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    Touring Cultures

    It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration. This collection brings together some of the most influential writers in the field to examine the complex connections...
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  • An Intimate Distance An Intimate Distance
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    An Intimate Distance

    An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food,...
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  • From Petipa to Balanchine From Petipa to Balanchine
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    From Petipa to Balanchine

    In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century. In the light of a thoughtful re-appraisal of dance classicism he locates...
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  • Collaborative Theatre Collaborative Theatre
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    Collaborative Theatre

    Over the past thirty years Ariane Mnouchkine's 'Théâtre du Soleil' has become one of the most celebrated companies in Europe, and Mnouchkine one of its best-known directors. Collaborative Theatre is the first in-depth sourcebook in English on 'Théâtre du...
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  • Uses of Television Uses of Television
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    Uses of Television

    How does television function within society? Why have both its programmes and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggarts classic study The Uses of Literacy, John Hartleys new book is a lucid defence of the place of...
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  • Channels of Discourse, Reassembled Channels of Discourse, Reassembled
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    Channels of Discourse, Reassembled

    Channels of Discourse fills a significant gap in the critical literature on television. The eight distinguished scholars whose essays make up the collection consider commercial televisionin relation to the major strands of contemporary literary, cultural...
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  • Epicurean Tradition Epicurean Tradition
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    Epicurean Tradition

    First published in 1992. Epicureanism has had a long and complex history. This book is the first to chronicle this history, from its beginnings in Greece in the fourth century BC to its role in the development of philosophy and science in the sixteenth...
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  • Discover Your Subpersonalities Discover Your Subpersonalities
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    Discover Your Subpersonalities

    Have you ever felt there is more than one you? That sometimes you are one type of person, sometimes another? Do you ever find yourself saying `yes' when you meant to say `no'? Or deciding to do one thing, then actually doing another?Most of us have had...
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  • Quantum Implications Quantum Implications
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    Quantum Implications

    David Bohm is one of the foremost scientific thinkers of today and one of the most distinguished scientists of his generation. His challenge to the conventional understanding of quantum theory has led scientists to reexamine what it is they are going and...
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  • Gendered Anthropology Gendered Anthropology
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    Gendered Anthropology

    In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity,...
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  • The Self and Its Brain The Self and Its Brain
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    The Self and Its Brain

    The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical...
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  • The Face of Fashion The Face of Fashion
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    The Face of Fashion

    First Published in 2004. "The Face of Fashion" is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennifer Craik questions the trickle-down theory that fashion...
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  • Risk-Takers Risk-Takers
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    Risk-Takers

    Risk-Takers gives a comprehensive view of youthful involvement with drinking, smoking, drug use and sex. It provides a challenging assessment of health education for young people showing that, despite the threat of AIDS and HIV infection, risk-taking...
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  • Indians of Arizona Indians of Arizona
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    Indians of Arizona

    There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...
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  • Michigan Encyclopedia (Volume 2) Michigan Encyclopedia (Volume 2)
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    Michigan Encyclopedia (Volume 2)

    MICHIGAN ENCYCLOPEDIA is the definitive reference work on Michigan. The noted Michigan historian Dr. Matthew Lawrence Daly, Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University, has authored articles on Introduction to Michigan History, Early...
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  • Women & Film Women & Film
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    Women & Film

    "Written with unequivocal enthusiasm for film, feminism and theory, "Women and Film" is a welcome and useful guide to a complex area."--"The Arts"
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  • Soldier Heroes Soldier Heroes
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    Soldier Heroes

    Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in...
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  • Memorial Candles Memorial Candles
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    Memorial Candles

    As the children of the Holocaust reach adulthood, they often need professional help in establishing a new identity and self-esteem. During their childhood their parents have unconsciously transmitted to them much of their own trauma, investing them with...
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  • Statistical Evidence Statistical Evidence
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    Statistical Evidence

    Interpreting statistical data as evidence, Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm focuses on the law of likelihood, fundamental to solving many of the problems associated with interpreting data in this way. Statistics has long neglected this...
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  • Step-by-Step Spanish Step-by-Step Spanish
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    Step-by-Step Spanish

    ���� Unlock the Beauty of Spanish with Ease! ����Discover the joy of learning Spanish with "Step-by-Step Spanish: From Alphabet to Conversation." This comprehensive guide is your perfect companion on the journey to mastering Spanish, starting...
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  • Step-by-Step German Step-by-Step German
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    Step-by-Step German

    ���� Unlock the Beauty of German with Ease! ����Discover the joy of learning German with "Step-by-Step German: From Alphabet to Conversation." This comprehensive guide is your perfect companion on the journey to mastering German, starting from...
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  • Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen [Large Print 16pt] Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen [Large Print 16pt]
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    Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen [Large Print 16pt]

    Eleanor of Aquitaine is intelligent and beautiful, her immense wealth desired by kings. Her father's dying wish places the young heiress under the guardianship of King Louis VI of France, who marries her to his monkish son. The pious French Court...
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  • Time Flies [Large Print 16pt] Time Flies [Large Print 16pt]
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    Time Flies [Large Print 16pt]

    Time Flies is an idiosyncratic memoir with a distinctive voice and a sense of the absurd: a wistful, reflective, sometimes comic view of a childhood in a remote mining village in Southern Spain, the dislocating shock of a Scottish boarding school...
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  • What Is Love? [Large Print 16pt] What Is Love? [Large Print 16pt]
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    What Is Love? [Large Print 16pt]

    This woman is on a journey. She's looking for love. What she expects is happiness, kisses, a feeling of enjoyment and deep affection. What she doesn't count on is frustration, tears and the unexpected. The question is will this deep emotional...
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  • Unseen [Large Print 16pt] Unseen [Large Print 16pt]
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    Unseen [Large Print 16pt]

    Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell - the kind of unwell that didn't go away. Doctors couldn't explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. But she could barely function, was frequently unable to eat...
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  • Mutiny On The Western Front [Large Print 16pt] Mutiny On The Western Front [Large Print 16pt]
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    Mutiny On The Western Front [Large Print 16pt]

    On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF was ordered to return to the front just as they were being relieved and preparing for a well-earnt rest. It wasn't just the Germans who were on their...
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  • The Korean Kid The Korean Kid
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    The Korean Kid

    The Korean Kid is the story of Jim Kichenside and the Australian pilots who took to the skies in the ‘forgotten war' on the Korean peninsula. Within a week of the North Korean invasion of the South on June 25, 1950, No.77 Fighter Squadron RAAF were in...
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  • Whatever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head [Large Print 16pt] Whatever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head [Large Print 16pt]
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    Whatever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head [Large Print 16pt]

    Who stole the priceless Picasso from the NGV? Was Errol Flynn a Nazi spy? Did an Australian kill the infamous Red Baron? If you think Australia's history is straightforward, you're dead wrong. This is a land of the strange, the spooky and the unexplained...
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  • Hell and High Water [Large Print 16pt] Hell and High Water [Large Print 16pt]
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    Hell and High Water [Large Print 16pt]

    The golden boy of Australian swimming and captain of the lifeguards on Manly Beach, Cecil Healy was the poster-boy for all that was decent in Australia before World War I. Powerful, bronzed and daring, his fearlessness made him a leader in the embryonic...
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  • Shadows on the Track Shadows on the Track
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    Shadows on the Track

    At Templeton's Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: ‘One wonders why all this strife should be … these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers'. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th...
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  • Pretty Girls [Large Print 16pt] Pretty Girls [Large Print 16pt]
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    Pretty Girls [Large Print 16pt]

    Pretty Girls is a visceral narrative of violence, personal tragedy and female resilience set against the backdrop of one of Australia's most politically charged communities, Redfern, where sinister racial tensions underpin everything. Evie is a woman in...
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  • The Hell Pit of Sendryu The Hell Pit of Sendryu
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    The Hell Pit of Sendryu

    Jim Bodero spent much of World War Two in several versions of hell. Taken prisoner when Singapore fell into Japanese hands early in 1942, he â€" along with thousands of fellow POWs â€" was conscripted as a slave labourer. He was deep underground, in a...
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  • Shattering Your Strongholds (16pt Large Print Edition) Shattering Your Strongholds (16pt Large Print Edition)
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    Shattering Your Strongholds (16pt Large Print Edition)

    Here is a refreshing look at a truth that may be just what you need to walk in the freedom that Christ has destined for His own. This is a practical book born out of experience and shared with warmth and clarity - Iverna Tompkins internationally - known...
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  • The Greatest Power in the World (16pt Large Print Edition) The Greatest Power in the World (16pt Large Print Edition)
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    The Greatest Power in the World (16pt Large Print Edition)

    This the first book ever written from the teachings of Kathryn Kuhlman on the power of the Holy Spirit as she spoke from a pulpit and on radio. You've been impressed by what she achieved, now learn how to receive The Greatest Power in the World.No woman...
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