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    Praying to the God of Chance

    A renowned psychiatrist explores the world of slot machine gambling and the almost religious devotion that has turned it into a billion-dollar industry.This astonishing book reveals that there's a lot more to playing slot machines—one of America's fastest growing forms of entertainment—than good fun, deep relaxation and the dream of a multi-million-dollar jackpot. Slots tells how the machines work ... Read more

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  • And To My Nephew Albert I Leave The Island What I Won Off Fatty Hagan In A Poker Game

    by David Forrest ...
    Foul Rock is a tiny speck only seventy meters wide and one hundred and forty meters long, just off the coast of England.When he first sets foot on his inheritance, Albert quickly realises that there is absolutely nothing there, nothing except for the frequent presence of Victoria, a very attractive young girl in search of a suntan.Just as the two are getting to know each other better, a Russian ... Read more

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  • After Me, The Deluge

    by David Forrest ...
    This is the story of a young priest in the tiny French village of St. Pierre-des-Monts who receives a telephone call from God warning that he is about to destroy mankind with a second great flood.Only Father Benoir and his misfit flock will be saved, but they must hurry, said God, and build an ark like Noah's.AFTER ME, THE DELUGE is an outrageous, irreverent comedy which inspired one of Italy's ... Read more

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  • Kes

    by David Forrest ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who finds escape and meaning when he takes a fledgling kestrel from its nest.David Forrest's study of the film examines the genesis of the original novel, Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), the eventual collaboration that brought it to the screen, and ... Read more

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  • A Voice but No Power

    Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis

    by David Forrest ...
    Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recessionSince the Great Recession, even as protest and rebellion have occurred with growing frequency, many social justice organizers continue to displace as much as empower popular struggles for egalitarian and emancipatory change. In A Voice but No Power, David Forrest explains why this is the case and explores how ... Read more

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  • Barry Hines

    Kes, Threads and beyond

    Barry Hines’s novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack. But Hines published a further eight novels and nine screenplays between the 1960s and 1990s, as well as writing eleven other works which remain ... Read more

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  • Heritage as Community Research

    Legacies of Co-production

    Series series Connected Communities
    Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a new view of heritage as a process of research and involvement with the past, undertaken with or by the communities for whom it is relevant, the book uses a diverse range of case studies, with many chapters co-written between academics and community ... Read more

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  • The Undertaker's Dozen

    by David Forrest ...
    Terror can have such simple beginnings -- a child's letterto Father Christmas...a pretty girl glimpsed in a Londonstreet...a trip down the Brighton Road...a night spent in anempty mansion for a bet?And the consequences can be fearsome, as the unsleepingdead walk again, as strange emotions stir inanimate thingsto murderous life, as horrors beyond our imagining cross thethreshold into our world; can ... Read more

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  • The Great Dinosaur Robbery

    by David Forrest ...
    Five frightfully British children's nannies find themselves tasked with pulling off the most extraordinary theft of all time - they must steal the gigantic, 200-million-year-old skeleton of a brontosaurus from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.Why?Hidden somewhere in the skeleton is a microdot containing Chinese military secrets that could be vital to the survival of the British ... Read more

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  • The Son of Man in Mark’s Gospel

    Exploring its Possible Connections with the Book of Ezekiel

    Series series Australian College of Theology Monograph Series
    Many scholars disagree about what was meant by Jesus's intriguing self-designation ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (the Son of Man). This book attempts to find some clarity by working through every example of the phrase in the Gospel of Mark to determine how the phrase functions and what it means in that narrative. While every use of the phrase is self-referential and describes Jesus and his ministry, the ... Read more

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