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Based on archival research and interviews spanning two centuries and three continents

in their homes and their workshops

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Examining seven of the most common and serious addictions—gambling

The Beating Heart Rafael A. Nunez-Cedeno leading to a series 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