Just a Prostitute
Marianne Wood
A story told in the first person about the feelings and experiences of a woman unable to leave prostitution, and the people who inhabit her world in St Kilda, King's Cross,of stripping, streetwalking and brothels. This is the first book of an author who has published work in Australian anthologies and journals.
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The Structure of Literary Understanding
Stein H. Olsen
This is a paperback edition of what has become an important contribution to aesthetics and the theory of literature. The author analyses in detail how the reader responds to literature and how he begins to evaluate it. Mr Olsen characterizes literature as an institution and thus forges links with contemporary philosophy which sees all human action as ordered and defined by social institutions.
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Structuralism in Literature
Robert Scholes
A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics. "Beautifully lucid, and at the same time intelligently critical. . . .Perhaps the most valuable general work [on the subject] available." -- Times Higher Education Supplement
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At Close Quarters
Gerald Seymour
The Beqa'a valley in east Lebanon is home for many of the most revolutionary groups of the Palestinian guerrilla war against Israel, a dangerous closed valley to which unauthorised access is virtually impossible, where capture by the Syrian Army results in torture death. Holt, a diplomat, and Noah Crane, Israeli master-sniper, mentor and guide, plan to walk by night into the noose of the valley's fortifications to find one man.
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Comes the Blind Fury
John Saul
Amanda - A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came - taunting, teasing - until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea.... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends.. until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists - the hand of a blind child. She is asking for friendship... seeking revenge... whispering her name...
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Let\\\'s Hear It for Prendergast
Barry Oakley
Prendergast, a refugee from the dullness of commerce, moves in on his old and unwilling school buddy Morely, who from then on follows at a discreet distance inspecting the wreckage as Prendergast goes from one fiasco to another.
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Let\'s Hear It for Prendergast
Barry Oakley
Prendergast, a refugee from the dullness of commerce, moves in on his old and unwilling school buddy Morely, who from then on follows at a discreet distance inspecting the wreckage as Prendergast goes from one fiasco to another.
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The Spike
Damien Broderick
Human life and the human condition are changing rapidly, and are about to change even faster and more radically. Dazzling scientific breakthroughs are changing how long we live, where we live, how we dress, how we communicate, how we work and what work we do, and even how we think and imagine. Scientist Vernor Vinge proposed that humanity is approaching what he called the Singularity, what Broderick has renamed the Spike: that moment in human history when heretofore unimaginable changes -- artificial intelligence, immortality, and nanotechnology, just to name a few -- occur with such rapidity and number that the human race will be transformed -- or destroyed. This book of wonders and dangers brings together all the fascinating possibilities.
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Bob Carr
Andrew West
Bob Carr is in every respect a self-made man - 'a serious construction', as his childhood friend Michael Boggs describes him. If you think you know Bob Carr, think again.Born the son of a train driver, raised in working-class Matraville, Carr was propelled by a desire for something more in life. Through sheer effort and determination, he excelled at school and university and carved himself a key role in the Labor Party.Written by two leading journalists, this biography reveals the man beneath and beyond the public exterior. Featuring material drawn from exclusive interviews with Carr, his family, friends and colleagues (as well as his opponents), it sheds new light on Carr's rise to power. It offers a unique insight into the honing of his political skills, and the ongoing challenges from his opponents within the party. On a personal note, Bob Carr talks openly for the first time about the death of his youngest brother, Greg, from a heroin overdose.
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Pleading Guilty
Scott Turow
The star litigator from a top-notch law firm has gone missing , along with 5.6 million dollars from a class-action settlement, and "Mack" Malloy, a foul-mouthed ex-cop and partner-on-the-wane must find both. Immediately. Turow's third novel takes us back to Kindle County, where skies are generally gray and the truth is seldom simple, in an edge-of-the-chair story rife with indelible characters and riveting suspense.
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Regards to the Czar
Margaret Coombs
As 'the doctor's daughter' in a small Australian town; as a city schoolgirl accepting a lift from a stranger; as a hospital patient in Sydney and then in London; as a feminist housewife lunching with a successful 'anti-feminist' career woman - whatever she is, Helen is always doing her desperate best to please.
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The Social Life of Information
John Seely Brown
Offers an optimistic look at the future role of information technology in society, going beyond the simplicities of information and individuals. Explains how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction due to information technology in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep. Brown is chief scientist at Xerox Corporation and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Duguid is research specialist in social and cultural studies in education at the University of California-Berkeley.
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Know Your Body and Stay Healthy
Subhra Datta
Guide designed to aid the general reader understand the body and its functions, to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to take appropriate action during illness. Topics covered include nutrition, sexual relationships, first aid, the body systems and spirituality and relaxation. Includes an appendix giving details of commonly used medicines, a glossary and an index. The author is a doctor and teacher.
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You Belong to Me
Mary Higgins Clark
A killer who targets lonely women on cruise ships is at the center of Mary Higgins Clark's newest thriller You Belong to Me, a masterful combination of page-turning suspense and classic mystery.When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea that she is exposing herself -- and those closest to her -- to the very terror that she hopes to warn others against.Susan sets out to determine who is responsible for an attempt on the life of a woman who called in to the show offering information on the mysterious disappearance from a cruise ship, years before, of Regina Clausen, a wealthy investment advisor. Soon Susan finds herself in a race against time, for not only does the killer stalk these lonely women, but he seems intent on eliminating anyone who can possibly further Susan's investigation.As her search intensifies, Susan finds herself confronted with the realization that one of the men who have become important figures in her life might actually be the killer. And as she gets closer to uncovering his identity, she realizes almost too late that the hunter has become the hunted, and that she herself is marked for murder.In its review of her previous novel Pretend You Don't See Her, the Detroit News said of Mary Higgins Clark, "What's amazing...is how expertly [she] manages to keep us hooked time after time, and even better, create new plots, each as fresh as a mountain stream."You Belong to Me is Mary Higgins Clark at her thrilling best.
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The Call of the Wild and Other Stories
Jack London
Classic tales based upon the special relationships that dogs have with man. The stories contained are 'The Call of the Wild', 'Brown Wolf', and 'That Spot'.
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In over Our Heads
Robert Kegan
[This book] is intellectually exciting and far-reaching in its implications...Kegan's writing has much to offer developmental psychology, which suffers from a dearth of theoretical frameworks in the area of adult development...This book invites readers to work hard but rewards them greatly. There are foundation-shaking theoretical and research challenges here for mainstream psychology, especially behavioral and social learning approaches that focus on skill training and cumulative (quantitative) change...I thoroughly recommend this exciting book...It has the potential to transform our texts on life span development. It is a book that opens up whole new vistas for developmental researchers, as well as psychologists whose practice includes adult clients.
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The Troubled Eyes of Women and Other Stories
C. B. Christesen
This sensitive and disarmingly frank collection of stories chronicles Hans Knudsen's successes and failures with life and with women.
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