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The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway  Publisher Comments One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman. The Road From Coorain is about Everywoman, for it is about childhood loneliness, anguished parent-child relationships, dawning sensibility...
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True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by...
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Tracks (Vintage Departures)
by Robyn Davidson Publisher Comments A cult classic with an ever-growing audience, Tracks is the brilliantly written and frequently hilarious account of a young woman's odyssey through the deserts of Australia, with no one but her dog and four camels as companions. Davidson emerges as a...
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Anglo Australian Attitudes
by Michael Davie Publisher Comments One hundred years after the six Australian colonies voted to become a Federation, the country is struggling with the idea of a republic and a new Constitution and coming to terms with its tangled British legacy. Michael Davie examines this strange...
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Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands
by Douglas L Oliver Publisher Comments This abridgment of Oliver's Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands is intended for college-level courses on precontact anthropology, history, economy, and politics of the Pacific, excluding Australia....
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Modernising Australia's Drug Policy
by Alex Wodak Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99) and index....
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The Birth of Sydney
by Tim F Flannery Publisher Comments The story of the founding and rise to prominence of one of the world's greatest cities -- Sydney, Australia, site of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Blending together the writings of early Australian settlers, leaders, journalists, and explorers, in The...
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The King and People of Fiji (Pasifika Library)
by Joseph Waterhouse Synopsis Reverend Joseph Waterhouse's work offers an excellent insight into the traditional Fijian way of life....
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Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia
by Stephen J Pyne Publisher Comments Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers....
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Intimations of Infinity: The Mythopeia of the Iqwaye Counting System and Number
by Jadran Mimica Publisher Comments This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do. From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and broader interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system...
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Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal Shore
by Michael Alexander Publisher Comments A true story with more drama and excitement than fiction. In 1836, the barque Stirling Castle shipwrecked on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, leaving the crew, Captain Fraser, and his wife at the mercy of cannibalistic aborigines. The captain was soon...
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True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by...
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The Management of Labour: A History of Australian Employers (Australian Studies in Labour Relations)
by Christopher Wright Publisher Comments The Management of Labour analyzes the policies and practices of Australian employers throughout the twentieth century, emphasizing the links between enterprise-level initiatives and the broader environment of product and labour markets, government...
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Over the Top with Jim
by Hugh Lunn Publisher Comments Hugh Lunn's wonderfully warm Cold War memoir has enthralled and entertained a whole generation of readers. His uniquely typical 1950s Australian family heads a east of unforgettable characters, as they wrestle love form original sin, and embark on many...
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Australian Science in the Making: A Bicentennial History, Published in Association with the Australian Academy of Science
by R W Home Publisher Comments The Australian Academy of Science celebrates and assesses two centuries of Australian science, as a contribution to the nation's bicentenary. Authors with wide-ranging fields of interest present a group of general surveys and case studies on the...
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Australian Science in the Making: A Bicentennial History, Published in Association with the Australian Academy of Science
by R W Home Publisher Comments The Australian Academy of Science celebrates and assesses two centuries of Australian science, as a contribution to the nation's bicentenary. Authors with wide-ranging fields of interest present a group of general surveys and case studies on the...
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Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia
by William J Lines Publisher Comments Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically...
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Theories of Contemporary Culture #22: Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture
by Meaghn Morris Publisher Comments Author Meaghan Morris asks how feminist culture critics can participate in political struggles about history. Questioning both contemporary cultural theory that imagines a world "beyond" history and feminist approaches to culture that minimize questions...
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Death Struggle
by Quentin Dempster Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-364) and index....
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Australia and Asia: Cultural Transactions (Consumasian Book Series)
by Maryanne Dever Description Includes bibliographical references (214-225) and index....
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