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  • Ben Cousins

    My Life Story

    by Ben Cousins ...
    Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. He's perhaps the most gifted player of his generation - a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a premiership winner, voted the AFL's Most Valuable Player - but he's best known for what he's done off the footy field rather than on it.Ben is a self-confessed drug addict, whose drug binges ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • BRICS and MICs: Implications for Global Agrarian Transformation

    Edited by Ben Cousins, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Sérgio Sauer, Jingzhong Ye ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    The economic and political rise of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), and powerful middle-income countries (MICs) such as Argentina, Indonesia and Turkey, has far-reaching implications for global agrarian transformation. These countries are key sites of agricultural commodity production, distribution, circulation and consumption and are contributing to major ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of Policy

    Everyday Practices in South Africa's Land and Agrarian Reform

    by Paul Hebinck, Ben Cousins, Henning de Klerk, Jonathan Denison, Ntombekhaya Faku, Derick Fay, Klara Jacobson, Petunia Khutswane, Rosalie Kingwill0, Karin Kleinbooi1, Zamile Madyibi2, Francois Marais3, Modise Moseki4, Malebogo Phetlhu5, Robert Ross6, Dik Roth7, Limpho Taoana8, Harriët Tienstra9, Wim van Averbeke0, Yves van Leynseele1 ...
    Notions of land and agrarian reform are now well entrenched in post-apartheid South Africa. But what this reform actually means for everyday life is not clearly understood, nor the way it will impact on the political economy. In the Shadow of Policy explores the interface between the policy of land and agrarian reform and its implementation; and between the decisions of policy ‘experts’ and actual ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa

    Symbols or Substance?

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Ben Cousins, Jackie Dugard, Tshepo Madlingozi ...
    The embrace of socio-economic rights in South Africa has featured prominently in scholarship on constitution making, legal jurisprudence and social mobilisation. But the development has attracted critics who claim that this turn to rights has not generated social transformation in practice. This book sets out to assess one part of the puzzle and asks what has been the role and impact of socio ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe

    Edited by Lionel Cliffe, Jocelyn Alexander, Ben Cousins, Rudo Gaidzanwa ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following Independence in 1980. A dramatic further episode in this history was launched at the start of the last decade ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest

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  • My Journey

    by Jim Stynes, Warwick Green ...
    Unflinching in its honesty, My Journey is the extraordinary memoir of Jim Stynes: Irishman, footballer, Brownlow Medallist, Reach co-founder and former president of Melbourne Football Club whose very public battle with cancer touched the lives of everyone who knew him.When Jim was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 43, he was given nine months to live. The diagnosis caught him by surprise – and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Mattress Actress

    by Annika Cleeve ...
    Mattress Actress is the story of Annika Cleeve's eighteen years as a sex worker.Her troubled childhood in Queensland led to working in a brothel on the Sunshine Coast at the age of fifteen, and from there Annika worked her way up to the high-end parlours, agencies and private work in various parts of Australia and internationally.In this book Annika reveals the truth of a sex worker's life; the ... Read more

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  • The Truth Hurts

    by Wayne Carey ...
    In the world of Australian football, no-one has been more notorious than Wayne Carey. Once hailed as The King, and widely acclaimed as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Carey fell from the highest pinnacle of the game to the lowest of lows.In his extraordinary memoir, Wayne Carey goes where no Australian sportsman has gone before - telling the whole, uncensored truth about a ... Read more

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  • Snowing in Bali

    The Incredible Inside Account of Bali's Hidden Drug World

    by Kathryn Bonella ...
    FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF TRUE CRIME BESTSELLERS HOTEL KEROBOKAN AND OPERATION PLAYBOY: Kathryn Bonella.'It's snowing in Bali.' Among Bali's drug dealers, this is the secret code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires, it's time to get rich and party hard.Snowing in Bali is the true crime story of the organised drug trafficking and dealing ... Read more

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  • Twists and Turns

    by M Mitcham ...
    No one who has ever seen Matthew Mitcham perform one of his heartstopping dives or make Olympic history would ever guess the obstacles he had to overcome just to be a contender.'People kept remarking on how they were surprised that a gold medal and fame hadn't changed me. I always responded, "Why would I change? Being me is the easiest person to be." I was lying. It wasn't.' At the Beijing Olympic ... Read more

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  • Slim: An Australian Biker's Tale of Sex & Drugs, Cops & Violence

    An Australian Biker's Tale of Sex & Drugs, Cops & Violence

    by Slim Spires ...
    One man. One bike. A whole lotta trouble. MEET SLIM. He bought his first motorcycle, a Bridgestone 175 cc, at age sixteen in 1968. Since then, he's been in and out of trouble (mainly in) and experienced the thrills and perils of riding on the highway. He's been a guest inside some of Australia's toughest jails where he learned a lifetime's worth of human behaviour and handy life skills, such as ... Read more

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