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Oscar and Lucinda

A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)

By: Peter Carey

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Oscar and Lucinda

A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)

By: Peter Carey

The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.

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Vintage

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0307787133

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9780307787132

Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs

Beating the Grog in Australia

By: Peter d’Abbs,Nicole Hewlett

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Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs

Beating the Grog in Australia

By: Peter d’Abbs,Nicole Hewlett

This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous populations, such as Canada, the US and New Zealand. This book contributes to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents considered by the editors to have continuing relevance to all those concerned with dealing with alcohol-related harms among Aboriginal peoples, These are contextualised in original chapters that recount key events, ideas, and programs. The book is a practical resource for all people and groups concerned with addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol-related harms, both at the community level and at the level of policy-making and administration.

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348

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

9819904013

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9789819904013

Smashed!

The Many Meanings of Intoxication and Drunkenness

By: Peter Kelly,Jenny Advocat,Lyn Harrison,Christopher Hickey

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The Many Meanings of Intoxication and Drunkenness

By: Peter Kelly,Jenny Advocat,Lyn Harrison,Christopher Hickey

Everyone knows what intoxication and drunkenness are, what they look like, how to define and measure them and what their consequences are. At least we might assume so given the ways these words are used by the media, by politicians and policy makers and by various medical, educational and legal experts in Australia and around the world. A whole variety of concerns about young people, individual and public health, road safety, sexual assault and violence are connected to these taken-for-granted understandings of intoxication and drunkenness. Drawing on an extensive review of research from bio-medicine, psychology, sociology and legal studies, and from news media reporting, the authors reveal a far more complex picture. This is a picture marked by little agreement on how to define intoxication and drunkenness, how to measure intoxication, what getting drunk means to those who drink (including young people, men and women and people from different cultural and national backgrounds), and where responsibility lies for many of the individual, social, medical and legal consequences of intoxication and drunkenness. Smashed! presents an overview of the history of these concerns and an extensive account of the many meanings of intoxication and drunkenness at the start of the 21st century. It provides a valuable resource for researchers, policy makers, the media and members of the community who are involved in these ongoing, often emotive, debates.

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252

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Monash University Publishing

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098065128X

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9780980651287

The Variety Insider

By: Variety,Peter Cowie

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The Variety Insider

By: Variety,Peter Cowie

Get the facts, stats, and news on movies, television, theater, music, and books--from the most respected magazine in the entertainment industry.

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388

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Perigee Books

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0399525246

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9780399525247

Scotland the Best!

The One True Guide

By: Peter Irvine

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Scotland the Best!

The One True Guide

By: Peter Irvine

This guide aims to help the reader experience all that is excellent in Scotland. Irvine's personal guide provides 1000s of recommendations covering a multitude of topics including the best places to stay whatever your budget, the best beaches, the best ice cream, the best hill walks, the best bakers, the best spooky places, the best seafood, the best places to take the kids, and the best ceilidhs.

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364

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Trafalgar Square Publishing

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ISBN 10

0004723996

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9780004723990

Volatile Substance Misuse

A Review of Interventions

By: Department of Health and Ageing Staff,Peter D'Abbs,Sarah MacLean

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Volatile Substance Misuse

A Review of Interventions

By: Department of Health and Ageing Staff,Peter D'Abbs,Sarah MacLean

Reviews the latest research on the effectiveness of different intervention approaches including: law enforcement, harm reduction, demand reduction and supply reduction.

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159

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1741865336

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9781741865332

Book's by Peter d Abbs

Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs

Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs

Smashed!

Smashed!

The Variety Insider

The Variety Insider

Scotland the Best!

Scotland the Best!

Volatile Substance Misuse

Volatile Substance Misuse

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