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This book is an outcome of the conference on "The Organization and
Retrieval of Economic Knowledge" held in Kiel, West Germany. It
focuses on the technology of the library industry and its uses for
economic research and the economics of the economics library
industry and its implication.
This book is an outcome of the conference on "The Organization and
Retrieval of Economic Knowledge" held in Kiel, West Germany. It
focuses on the technology of the library industry and its uses for
economic research and the economics of the economics library
industry and its implication.
On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories
than there are people passing each other every day... only some of
these stories survive to become history. Lamont Williams, recently
released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up
an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust
survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past.
Meanwhile Adam Zignelik, the son of a prominent Jewish civil rights
lawyer, is facing a personal crisis: almost 40-years-old, his
long-term relationship is faltering and his academic career has
stalled. It's only when one of his late father's closest friends,
the civil rights activist William McCray, suggests a promising
research topic that the possibility of some kind of redemption
arises. Dealing with memory, racism and the human capacity for
guilt, resilience, heroism, and unexpected kindness, The Street
Sweeper spans over fifty years, and ranges from New York to
Melbourne, Chicago, Warsaw and Auschwitz, as these two very
different paths - Adam's and Lamont's - lead to one greater story.
Eddie is an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age
of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. How did
he get that way? He is a university graduate. He married an
attractive intelligent woman, his lover from university days. He is
a good husband, father and son. At any other time the world would
smile on him. But this is the nineties, and the world values other
things. Angry, yet full of unexpected humour, Three Dollars
chronicles a modern breach in the social contract, and the legacy
of Thatcherism and Reaganomics and its effect on people and
relationships. It is about a man's attempt to retain his humanity,
his family and his sense of humour in grim and pitiless times;
about what happens to people in our brave new world of downsizing,
outsourcing and privatising.
At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, Seven Types
of Ambiguity is a novel of obsessive love in an age of obsessive
materialism. Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work
schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands,
triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated. This is
a story of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a
small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their
parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law.
Published to huge acclaim in the author's native Australia, Seven
Types of Ambiguity was hailed as 'a tour de force' (The Age) and
described as 'Perlman's achingly humane, richly layered and
seamlessly constructed masterpiece' (Canberra Times).
The nine smart, thoughtful stories in this collection explore the
complex worlds of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students, and
murderers. They tell of corporate betrayals and lost opportunities,
and the hopes, fears, and vagaries of desire.
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