Society
| author: Margaret Atwood | shelved under: Economic and Political Theory | | date: 2008 | publisher: Bloomsbury | | content type: book | | description: In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical, and insightful, "Payback" urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.
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| author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky | shelved under: Short stories | | date: 1961 c.1854 | publisher: New American Library | | content type: book | | description: Notes From The Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from House of the Dead.
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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: Ivan Illich | shelved under: Education/ Students/ Student Movement/ Youth | | date: 1971 | publisher: Penguin Education | | content type: book | | keywords: |
| author: Jared Diamond | shelved under: History | | date: 2005 | publisher: New York : Viking | | content type: book | | keywords: |
| author: RMIT | shelved under: Feminism/Patriarchy/Gender | | date: 1987 | publisher: RMIT | | content type: book | | description: Booklet designed as part of a set of study materials for CC008 Sex, gender and society, a subject in the context curriculum at RMIT 1987.
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| author: John Berger | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1975 | publisher: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative | | content type: book | | keywords: |
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