Eucalyptus Andrew Scull Many of us take for

Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings

she had been responsible for the sole support of her family for five years

this time the survivor had bravely chosen to fight back

This book contains a number of propositions about the variation of law across social space

Eucalyptus Andrew Scull Many of us take for"The idea that Holland's daughter was like the princess locked in the tower of a damp castle was of course false. After all, she was living on a property in western New South Wales." Once upon a time, on a property in western New South Wales, a man named Holland plants hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus trees, then decrees that only the suitor who can name each and every one of them will be worthy to marry his beautiful daughter, Ellen.