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the rigid gender norms of Japanese society

and tools like thread stands and temples

Examining seven of the most common and serious addictions—gambling

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The Beating Heart Rafael A. Nunez-Cedeno the rigid gender norms ofThe Beating Heart is an allusion to the continuous pulsing of feelings that lie beneath the surface reality of our lives. This collection 'slips into the lining' of various experiences from a childhood in the ancient city of Rome whose 'famous walls bulged with sanctioned corruption' to the loneliness of a London bedsit 'narrow as a capsule a chilly low cost limbo' to the lure of a Sydney bushwalk where 'mist lies over the grass the trees the