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'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cry. But the salons have given me the opportunity to look back and think about my life...I don't talk to anyone about these feelings outside of the salon.' We all carry stories within us - wrenching, redemptive, extraordinary, and laced with unexpected and hard-won wisdom. These are the real-life stories that a group of women tell each other when they gather for a deep and structured conversation - once a month in a suburban living room - about the things that really matter. They discover that life can be a heartbeat away from chaos; that bad things happen to good people; that good people do outrageous things; that the desire for transformation is enduringly huma...
Who are you? What do you stand for? What is the meaning of your life? In our globalised, market-driven, click-on click-off culture we not only fail to answer these questions, we can't even focus on them for long. In MeLand, Kerry Cue shows how our mass-marketing culture spreads self-obsession and how, paradoxically, this self-obsession erodes your individuality, undermines your identity and, ultimately, diminishes your self-respect. Self-obsession disconnects you from your family, your community and, ironically, from understanding 'who you are' and 'what you stand for.' In this entertaining and insightful book, Cue employs classic marketing tools to counter the culture. From the Dumb Ass Mem...
Humorous survey of Australian family life, social customs, rites of passage, rituals and traditions. Discusses topics such as sexuality, funerals and child rearing. The author's other books include 'Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags' and 'Born to Whinge'.
A guide for professional women struggling with burnout analyzes the social and psychological factors that affect a woman's career and relationships, and offers strategies for achieving a healthy personal and professional balance.
One body, then another and another, turn up in different states each one skewered by an AK-47 with a small US flag attached to the rifle butt and the words BAN THIS WEAPON printed on the back. When young, tweeting, texting, blogging journalist Kitchi Le labels the killers the Anti-Gun Brigade (AGB), they start communicating their threats through her. But who are the victims? And why were they targeted? The National Gun and Shooters Association (NGSA) CEO, Gig DeKant goes ballistic claiming 'the depraved, godless, tree-hugging, vegetarian fringe of the loony Left don't want ordinary Americans to be armed.' When the AGB name DeKant as a target he calls on his brothers-in-arms to gun down 'thos...
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Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage...