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| author: Paul F. Maul, Crimethinc Workers Collective, CrimethInc. Workers' Collective, | shelved under: Anarchism | | date: 2001 | publisher: Crimethinc Workers Collective | | content type: book | | description: Here is a review from Clamor Magazine. It sums up the general idea of the book pretty well, (and we know better than to try and describe it ourselves): "Less of a novel and more of an exploded manifesto, Days of War, Nights of Love might be just what we need. It is the type of book you'd thumb through in the store and actually want to buy (or steal).
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| author: Summer Brenner | shelved under: Youth Fiction | | date: 2011 | publisher: PM Press | | content type: book | | description: In this empathetic tale of hope, understanding, and the importance of family, readers confront the difficult issue of poverty and the hardships of homelessness. Ivy, an inspiring young heroine, is a girl who finds herself living on the streets of San Francisco after she and her father, Poppy, are evicted from their artist loft. Struggling to survive, Ivy and Poppy befriend a dog who leads them to the ramshackle home of quirky siblings Eugenia and Oscar Orr, marking the start of their amazing adventures.
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| author: Nick Mamatas | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2011 | publisher: PM Press | | content type: book | | description: Love. Politics. Parasitic manipulation. Julia Hernandez list her husband, shot a real-estate developer out to gentrify Brooklyn, and then vanished without a trace. Well, perhaps one or two traces were left... With different personal consumption habits, Julia has slipped out of the world she new into the Simulacrum - a place between the cracks of our existence, from which human history is both guided and thwarted by conflict between a species of anarchist wasp and a collective of hyperintelligent spiders.
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| author: Maurice Brinton | shelved under: Political Theory | | date: 1974 | publisher: Solidarity | | content type: book | | description: This book is an attempt to analyse the carious mechanisms whereby modern society manipulates its slaves into accepting their slavery and - at least in the short term - seems to succeed. It does not deal with 'police' and 'jails' as ordinarily conceived but with those internalised patterns of repression and coercion, and with those intellectual prisons in which the 'mass individual' is today entrapped.
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| author: National Health Strategy | shelved under: Health/Medicine | | date: 1992 | publisher: National Health Strategy | | content type: book | | description: A research paper conducted by the National Health Strategy with contributors: Australian Institute of Health, Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and Community Services and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Covers the challenge of reducing health inequalities within Australia. It explores the nature and extent of these inequalities.
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| author: William Faulkner | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1964 c. 1937 | publisher: Penguin Modern Classics | | content type: book | | description: It is a story about three families of the American South, taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, with the focus of the story on the life of Thomas Sutpen.
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| author: Jo Littler | shelved under: Social Change/Activism | | date: 2009 | publisher: Maidenhead | | content type: book | | description: Ethical consumption, fair trade, consumer protests, brand backlashes, green goods, boycotts and down-shifting: these are all now familiar consumer activities - and in some cases, are almost mainstream. They are a part of the expanding field of 'radical consumption' in a world where we are encouraged to shop for change.
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| author: Gillian Armstrong | shelved under: Non-Fiction DVD | | date: 2009 | publisher: A Big Picture Company, Spirited Films, Screen Australia | | content type: dvd | | description: "Every family has it secrets"
The fifth in a documentary series about the lives, hopes and dreams of three honest, lively Adelaide girls since they were fourteen in 1976. Over more than thirty years, Kerry, Josie and Diana's struggles have captured all our hearts.
The series began with 'Smokes and lollies (1976), continued and '14's good 18's Better' (1980) and 'Bingo Bridesmaids and Braces' (1988). In 1995, 'Not Fourteen Again' focused on the then 33 year-old mothers and their teenage daughters.
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| author: E.L. Doctorow, | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1976 c.1974 | publisher: Random House Trade Paperback | | content type: book | | description: Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap-pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P.
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| author: Barry Dickins | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1984 | publisher: Pascoe Publishing | | content type: book | description: Barry Dickins, ensnared in the fifties for all time, believes in the personal fascism and beauty of all Australians, sees the tragedy in treacle, miracles in lengths of old tin. God almighty in alcohol he writes lies about truth; jokes about death too much, and is edgy, paranoid and a pretty fair kick of the footy.
The Crookes of Epping encapsulates all of Dickins' obsessions; a fair go, madness and jest of pub talk, the insolence and dignity of working class watercolourists and the belief in life after Australia.
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