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  Green is the New Black

  James Phelps

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  James Phelps explores all the questions that we can only barely imagine the answers to about Australia’s toughest jails. This is a brutal and honest account of life inside Australia’s toughest jails, and all is not as you would expect. 
   Do women rape each other?  Do guards really trade 40-cent phone cards for sex? And do you think the most dangerous inmate in Australia is a man? 
   This is the most comprehensive ever account of women’s prison life yet. You will hear about rapists, drug dealers, fallen celebrities and Australia’s most feared prisoner: the self-mutilating murderer, Rebecca Butterfield.

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  Ten Days that Shook the World

  John Reed

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  Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia. 
   
  John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders. 
   
  Max Eastman recalls a meeting with John Reed in the middle of Sheridan Square during the period of time when Reed isolated himself writing the book: 
  "...he wrote Ten Days that Shook the World - wrote it in another ten days and ten nights or little more. He was gaunt, unshaven, greasy-skinned, a stark sleepless half-crazy look on his slightly potato-like face - had come down after a night's work for a cup of coffee. 
  'Max, don't tell anybody where I am. I'm writing the Russian revolution in a book. I've got all the placards and papers up there in a little room and a Russian dictionary, and I'm working all day and all night. I haven't shut my eyes for thirty-six hours. I'll finish the whole thing in two weeks. And I've got a name for it too - Ten Days that Shook the World. Good-by, I've got to go get some coffee. Don't for God's sake tell anybody where I am!' 
  Do you wonder I emphasize his brains? Not so many feats can be found in American literature to surpass what he did there in those two or three weeks in that little room with those piled-up papers in a half-known tongue, piled clear up to the ceiling, and a small dog-eared dictionary, and a memory, and a determination to get it right, and a gorgeous imagination to paint it when he go it. But I wanted to comment on now was the unqualified, concentrated joy in his mad eyes that morning. He was doing what he was made to do, writing a great book. And he had a name for it too - Ten Days that Shook the World!" (From Wikipedia)

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  Cults That Kill - Shocking True...

  Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar

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  A true crime author explores what happens when cults cross the line in this anthology of false prophets, true believers, and tragic consequences. 
   
  Thousands of religious, political and self-improvement cults are active around the world, and an estimated two to five million Americans have been involved in a cult at some point in their lives. While not all cults are destructive, these stories demonstrate how unwavering faith in an infallible leader can lead lay the groundwork for criminal acts a heinous as murder or mass suicide. 
   
  True crime author Joan Biddlecombe Agsar uncovers what really happened inside some of modern history’s most notorious cults, including: 
   
  • The Manson Family 
   
  Hippie devotees turn violent to manifest God’s race war 
   
  • The Peoples Temple 
   
  Hundreds of utopia seekers meet their end in the Guyanese jungle by ingesting a cyanide-laced drink 
   
  • The Vampire Clan 
   
  Teenagers consume blood and bludgeon an unsuspecting Florida couple to death 
   
  • Heaven’s Gate 
   
  Nike-adorned disciples commit suicide to transport onto a spaceship approaching 
   
  • Earth Silvia Meraz Moreno’s Santa Muerte 
   
  Cult Members collect sacrificial blood by slicing open victims’ veins while their hearts are still beating

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  Recipes from the Spanish Kitchen

  Nicholas Butcher

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  Learn to make the dishes of Spain, and get a taste of its unique culture and history.   This blend of cookbook and travelogue focuses on the traditional cooking of Spain. It starts with a journey through the country, region by region—followed by chapters on tapas, salads, soups, vegetables, eggs, rice, sauces, fish and shellfish, meat, poultry, and game, and puddings.   With vibrant flavors and uncomplicated ingredients, Spanish cuisine has its roots firmly in home cooking and has developed out of the ingenious use of local raw ingredients: olives, almonds, saffron, garlic, paprika—together with magnificent fish, shellfish, and charcuterie. The author’s enthusiasm for Spanish cooking permeates every page as he explores his favorite dishes, the culture and history behind them, and how best to recreate them. Their origins lie in the authentic cuisine of the Spanish cities, towns and countryside. From the bustling capital Madrid and Basque seaside towns to rustic Andalucia, he highlights the pillars of Spanish cooking, and the culture in which the food is grown, prepared, and eaten.

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  Essential Vonnegut Interviews

  Jr. Kurt Vonnegut, Walter Miller

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  Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to understand the writer as he was, is, and will be.

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  The Era of Faith - 632-1667CE

  Muhammed, Pope Urban II, Pico...

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  Five speeches from a millennium shaped by faith and empire. 
  632CE. In Muhammed’s farewell address, he lauds his people for their achievements and virtues, and gives them his final instructions for living within the faith. 
  In 1095, Pope Urban II’s Against The Infidels speech launches the Crusades, which lasted for another two hundred years. In it the Pope exhorts his clergy to make true the promise of Christianity and rise against their weaker natures and the enemy in the east. 
  Pico della Mirandola’s Oration On The Dignity Of Man has been described as “the manifesto of the Renaissance”, and is an introduction to his 900 Theses, which was the first printed book ever banned by the Church. Written in 1486, it weaves together philosophy and theology from across history and the world. While Christian, it is a review of the philosophies and religions of the ages. 
  The first section details man’s supremacy over all other beings but God, due to his inherent mutability. The second section dives into the value of philosophy and theology, preparing a discussion of Christian magic and mystery. The final section explores a positive conception of Christian magic, placing it in ancient traditions of magic. 
  In 1588, Elizabeth I’s speech rouses her forces against the Spanish Armada. The Armada came to conquer England and re-establish Catholicism as the state religion. The ensuing conflict is one of England’s great military victories. It includes the famous line “I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too”. 
  John Milton, Satan’s First Speech, Paradise Lost, 1667. We end the volume with a speech against faith and monarchy, which gives us the phrase “Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.” Paradise Lost explores the limits of both divinity and monarchy, and marks the end of an age where the two combined to rule the world.

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