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Where's Jimmy Now?

By: Eileen Searle

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Eileen's narrative is embedded with South Australian history and heritage. Her story is also about survival, strength, and resourcefulness. She experienced isolated and primitive conditions: dust storms, droughts, bush fi res, mouse and grasshopper plagues, a shotgun accident, a staged robbery and murder attempts! Throughout her childhood Eileen's mother was frequently violent and cruel towards her. Later, as a young adult, Eileen then entered a violent marriage after being raped and becoming pregnant. Ultimately Eileen escapes from violence. She was once visited personally by Sir Thomas Playford, the then Premier of South Australia, who listened to her story, and generously responded. Then at 70, at a time when most people are living a life of retirement Eileen fi nds out that two of her girls were having fl ashbacks' to being used in a paedophile ring of their paternal grandfather. They had developed Multiple Personality Disorder when young to cope with the terror and trauma they experienced. Eileen drawing again on her resources and courage supported her daughters' in their 20 year journey of recovery.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479705667

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9781479705665

Well-being

In search of a good life?

By: Beverley Searle

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Well-being

In search of a good life?

By: Beverley Searle

We are often told that 'money can't buy happiness'. But if money is not the answer then what is? This book considers this question by examining empirical data stretching back almost 10 years. Whereas previous concerns of individual well-being have been drawn towards the negative outcomes of life experiences, this book provides a new approach by directly addressing the circumstances under which high subjective well-being is experienced, often with surprising results. Drawing on nine years of panel data, the book examines demographic, social, spatial, health, domain satisfaction and socio-economic circumstances in a rich and complex longitudinal study, providing previously unknown information on factors associated with improved and sustained high well-being. It shows that subjective assessments of our circumstances are more important to well-being than our objective conditions and suggests that high well-being may be the key to improvements in people's subjective experience of a wide range of adverse (and other) life events. It also highlights that high levels of well-being are more likely to be associated with our social relationships and health status than with income or personal status, and that affluence is no guarantee to high subjective well-being and indeed may have negative consequences. The 21st century is seeing the emergence of a positive science, with a new focus on subjective well-being. This research adds new knowledge to the issues and debates which support the move towards a better understanding of the factors that promote subjective well-being. Such findings will be important to the international academic field as well as the national political arena where improving well-being has become a part of the government's agenda.

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209

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Policy Press

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1847422810

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9781847422811

Well-being

In Search of a Good Life?

By: Searle, Beverley

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In Search of a Good Life?

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1861348878

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9781861348876

Landscapes of Accumulation

Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India

By: Llerena Guiu Searle

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Landscapes of Accumulation

Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India

By: Llerena Guiu Searle

India s cities have dramatically changed since the country s liberalization in the 1990s. Alongside open-air markets and crumbling apartment blocks, spacious air-conditioned malls now sell Louis Vuitton luggage and Swarovski crystal, new gated communities offer residents pools and indoor gyms, and towering office buildings house international firms. Landscapes of Accumulation is about this violent, sudden, and spectacular urban transformation. Anthropologist Llerena Searle gives an ethnographic account of how land is becoming an international financial resource rather than a site for agricultural or industrial production. Investors, consultants, and government officials are creating a system of clear land titles, well developed and securitized mortgage markets, and practices for financing, constructing, leasing, and maintaining buildings. But Searle shows that there is also considerable semiotic work involved. Drawing on fieldwork with investors, developers, real estate agents and others, she documents how stories about growththe growth of consumer demand, the Indian workforce, the Indian Gross Domestic Product, incomes, foreign investments, and real estate itselfbecome self-fulfilling prophecies. These imaginative statements, rather than specific state and city mandates, are shaping India s built environment, which has become increasingly difficult to navigate for all but a tiny urban elite. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the consequences of turning land into an international financial engine and, more broadly, the material ramifications of late capitalism s global reach.

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326

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University of Chicago Press

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022638506X

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9780226385068

History of the Housing Crisis

By: Rebecca Searle

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History of the Housing Crisis

By: Rebecca Searle

In History of the Housing Crisis, Rebecca Searle offers a unique insight into the long history of the housing crisis, telling three stories that are central to understanding the contemporary crisis. The first explores the growth of owner occupation and how this was fostered by generations of parliamentarians as they wrested to contain the disruptive potential of democratization. The rise and fall of council housing is traced in the second story, which documents how a rent strike organized by Glasgow women forced the introduction of rent controls and council house building. Finally, the third story details the surprising legacy of the strikes, which was the boost they gave to the housing finance industry. Searle charts how successive property booms were fueled by lenders using financial mechanisms to displace risk to extend loans to lower-earning households. Rising interest rates placed strain on overextended borrowers and as boom turned to bust, wider economic turbulence ensued. Today we sit upon the largest housing bubble yet seen. As interest rates creep up, this book offers a timely intervention on how housing policy could better house the people.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786616262

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9781786616265

Well-being

In Search of a Good Life?

By: Beverley A. Searle

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By: Beverley A. Searle

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1447304241

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Where's Jimmy Now?

Where's Jimmy Now?

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History of the Housing Crisis

History of the Housing Crisis

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