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Turner's is a well-summarized, well-written introduction to the tradition of so-called critical cultural studies. This can draw a lot of attention from undergrads to phd-to-bes, from all across the social science and hmanities fields--such as mass media, communication, literature, aesthetics, philosophy, criticism, popular culture. If you believe that there's something missing in the US mainstream social science and humanities, this is the book you must start with.

I mark this book as a required text to my students in my Cultural Studies Course.

Despite, or rather because of it's professed limitation to British Cultural Studies, Turner demonstrates a lot of sensitivity to what is and what is not British Cultural Studies, making any reader immediately aware of how other Cultural Studies traditions may differ. His extremely cogent and clear account takes the reader easily into the heart of Cultural Studies- what quarrels does British Cultural Studies have with other disciplines and what is so unique about its orientation as a discipline?

This book contains a wealth of information about the business life of these great industrialists like JRD Tata, Walchand Hirachand, G D Birla & Kasturbhai Lalbhai. While there are a lot of information available about G D Birla & JRD Tata, this book contains little known facts about the life of Walchand Hirachand & Kasturbhai Lalbhai which make for a very interesting reading of the business life in India in the earlier part of the 20th Century.

A most interesting read, shows the business acumen of the old times, a large part of it is still valid in this day and age. Most interesting part was how the Birla's managed their conglomerate, how they became a conglomerate - the concept of the "Partha". The lessons from these great men are most inspiring. This could be a text book for a Business school. Show the west - How the east does business and are successful at it. Good work Gita Piramal. - Cheers, Sarab Sokhey

This is a great book, for surfers and non-surfers alike. An exciting and humorous, and at times sad, book to read. Rabbit's life is a series of twists and turns and very human mistakes. I especially liked the stories of his first trip to the Hawaiian Islands, North Shore. I was laughing a lot and couldn't put the book down. A good chronicle of the "Aussie Invasion" of the mid-1970's, and all of the crazy stuff that happened during that time.Pro Surfing nowadays seems very tame in comparison. And to think, Rabbit Bartholomew is now the President of the ASP!

If you've ever gone out at 5 in the morning to catch a wave before school. Or gone out during lunch break even if it's flat. You'll love this book. Nuff said.

100 female convicts were sent from England to Sydney on the Princess Royal. Babette Smith has traced the fates of all of them, so far as possible. For a few, she has fascinating detail. Susannah Watson, a forebear of the author's, regarded transportation as the "best thing befell me, except for you children."
Scholarly but full of lively detail and action, this is a remarkable work

This is a splendid history of the women who, in the 1830s, were convicted of various petty (and some not so petty) offenses and shipped off to the convict colonies of early Australia. Many American booksellers still stock "The Fatal Shore," but in many ways this is a more compelling story, not just because of its observations on early Victorian morality but also because of the fascinating, if tragic, story of its central character, Susannah Watson. Great adventure, great history.

An absolute god send. I have been in the hospitlaity industry for 25 years and never have I seen a book geared especially to the large scale market. It has given me so many ideas. Where is volume 2 and 3 and 4.

This book has proved to be useful on a daily basis. It deals with large numbers as the title suggests and the recipes are given for 25, 50, 100 which I have found, working in a boarding school, to be a great resource. Most of the recipes are basic but are easily modified.

this was a required text in a college political science class. the book gave concise examples of concepts and read easily. plus, dr. hertzke was one of the book's editors.

I give this book more exactly 4,5 stars. I am glad I acquired the book and included it in my personal library of political science. The authors build on a solid framework of different church-state regimes. They analyse neither too many nor two few countries. However, extension by others to cover more countries would be welcome. One can also ask if a similar approach could not be used for studying relations of the state to other organisations than churches. In all cases, the hypothesis is that explicit separation of the state from certain values leads to implicit support to those who are the strongest in pushing the values of their own.

What I love about this book is its simplicity. I keep it in my waiting room for patients to read. Each chapter is a habit to change all on its own and can make a difference to how you feel.

What Cyndi does not expect you to do is change your eating habits overnight. In each chapter Cyndi gives you a reason to change a particular habit e.g. drinking water or eating chocolate (yes, eating chocolate). Each habit in and of itself is easy to incorporate into a busy lifestyle and once it has become a habit, well, then you don't have to think about it and you can move onto the next habit to change.

This is a lifestyle book and I have enough patients that have been grateful for the change that I can't help but recommend the book. Increased energy and vitality is more than enough reason to read this book and start making some changes.

Wow! What an awesome book!
Cyndi O'Meara and 'Changing Habits Changing Lives'has indeed been the saviour I was looking for.
Cyndi's simple yet so effective ideas of how to change one bad habit at a time is very powerful. I love the idea that this is not a diet book, but rather a book that explains the basic understanding of food, it's origins and how getting back to basics with food is a healthier alternative to all the so called diet products on the market.
Cyndi's explanations just make so much sense and are so simple that it makes you wonder why food became so complex in the first place!

Ever wondered why we should seek out organically produced foods? This book gives you the answer.

I was very impressed with Eves Story as in some ways its parrallels some experiences of my own.

The book read like an adventure novel ( or Eve Hillary might say "misadventure"novel It is hard to put down as you really want to know what happens next.Other readers have made the same comment to me.

After having the book sent from the USA I was amazed to find that Eves experiences took place in Sydney NSW Australia and in Rural NSW Australia. However this could happen to anyone anyhere.

I now discover that Eve is living about an hours drive from me! Eve if you read this please contact me as I feel your book is worthy of review in a Health Newsletter distributed Australia wide. Personally I think everyone should read it as we get too complacent about the chemicals on our plates!

This book was very thought provoking and makes one wonder about the overuse of chemicals around us, although most of us don't find ourselves in the authors position of being exposed to massive chemical and pesticide use, whether it be in farming or other industry. I now find myself looking around the house and questioning whether I need that bottle of bleach, disinfectant etc. Good on Eve for having the strength to fight on even though conventional medicine didn't have any answers for her or her son - it was sad it took 10 years for her to get any answers. In the past I have found myself dismissing environmental illness somewhat, but after reading this book I realise the dramatic effect it has on some people and I can't help but sympathise and admire them. The ultimate question is, how are our own lives being effected?

I discovered this book whilst randomly scanning the internet on Caldwell. It is a must read. It includes all the combat details that he was involved in, it details the priciples of shadow shooting that he developed and his emergence from the loner to a leader. Great read.

Wow! The first book I've read that gives more than a passing glance to Australia's top-scoring (28 victories) ace of World War 2. I had searched for many years for a book dealing with Australia's use of Spitfires in the Second World War, and more significantly a book on Caldwell. Most of these books were either ridiculously over-priced imports or re-hashed works with pictures that had been previously published over-and-over in other publications. This is the first (and to my knowledge ONLY) book on Caldwell and the Spitfire pilots of Number 1 Wing, RAAF in Darwin during WW2. The book encompasses Caldwell's entire life, not just his time in Spits. From the day he was born, thru his time as a semi-pro athlete, to his enlistment in the RAAF and also encompassing his time with 112 Squadron in the African Desert during 1941 and 1942, where he scored 20 of his victories over the Germans and Italians. It also pays a full chapter-and-a-half to the unfortunate court martial he went thru at the end of the war (from which he emerged vindicated, if not cleared, but guilty of minor insubordinations) before closing with a chapter on his final years. Highly recommended!

This was a really great book and I thought that it was another fantastic story by the really talented author Elyne Mitchell.
Elyne Mitchell has a great talent for describing the settings in her books, it's like from her words you can paint a picture of it in your mind.
I think that Elyne Mitchell is one of Australia's best authors.

This book had a really good storyline;the descriptions were brilliant (like all of EM's books) and the characters were very believable. If you like horses read this book! Time the publishers started to reprint Elyne Mitchell books!!!!!