Explores the ethical resources that might help an engagement with the predicaments of identity. This book argues that we need an account of how we define human being, & of the changing dynamic between individuality & society, through which identities are made & remade. ...

American & British troops are not going to stay in Iraq for ever. But what will happen when they start to leave? This book predicts that the Middle East will go through the biggest shake-up since the region became part of the Ottoman Empire & argues that the rest of the world should stand back & leave them to it. ...

Alex has eighteen days until he finds out if he got into Arts Law, a week in Caloundra to sleep, swim & watch the cricket, & a mother with a keen interest in his sex life. Fortuna keeps bees, has a nose- ring, & a father who likes to do pottery in the nude. When this unlikely pair meet, the results are both hilarious & heart-warming. ...

For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France & return to London. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs & addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants
- love.
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Analyzes the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. This volume shows why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, & their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. ...

With truth impossible to disentangle from invention, Tobias Hecht followed the lead of Verissimo, his would-be informant, creating characters, rendering a tale that didn't happen but that might have, probing at what it means to translate a life into words. This book is a tribute to & reinterpretation of the Latin American testimonio genre. ...

Emotional drama about a young man & his disabled sister. High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin Mc Kidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he finds out that his mother is terminally ill. In the absence of his father, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by the desire to pursue his career & the difficulties in looking after his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until gradually realising how much she means to him. ...