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    The Flip Side
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    The Flip Side

    Benefiting from recently catalogued archival materials, The Flip Side: Old China Hands and the American Popular Imagination, 19351985 evaluates the influence of an ensemble of well-known Americans born and bred in China Pearl S. Buck, Henry R. Luce, Owen...
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    International Student Policy in Australia
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    International Student Policy in Australia

    Australia's higher education sector was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Student and staff numbers declined, and the government assistance afforded to other sectors was all but missing for universities. In a callous example of abandonment in an hour of...
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    Decolonising Animals
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    Decolonising Animals

    The lives of non-human animals, their ways of being and seeing, their experiences and knowledge, and their relationships with each other, continue to be ignored, discounted, written over and destroyed by anthropocentric practices and endeavours. Within...
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    Cultivating Community
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    Cultivating Community

    In the face of escalating water scarcity, effective water management has become a central concern globally. The MurrayDarling Basin, spanning over a million square kilometres across four states and one territory, is a lifeline for Australian agriculture...
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    Photogrammetry for Archaeological Objects
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    Photogrammetry for Archaeological Objects

    Photogrammetry is the process of obtaining digital three-dimensional models of objects, features, or landscapes from a series of overlapping, focused, and well-exposed two-dimensional photographs. Photogrammetry is becoming standard practice for...
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    Animal Activism On and Off Screen
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    Animal Activism On and Off Screen

    Animal Activism On and Off Screen examines the relationship between animal advocacy and the film and television industries. Leading scholars, activists, and film industry professionals critically analyse the ways in which animal activism has been...
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    Living Twice
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    Living Twice

    All lives have two things in common: they begin and they end.But within each life, there are thousands of little openings and little closings, all happening at once. The day you make the decision to move abroad; the moment a relationship comes to a...
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    Making Animals Public
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    Making Animals Public

    Natural history television on the ABC has been one of the public broadcaster's most popular formats. For many viewers, TV has been an important contact zone for engaging with animals they would never encounter in everyday life. These animals have also...
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    Time, Tide and History
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    Time, Tide and History

    Time, Tide and History: Essays on the Writing of Eleanor Dark is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark's fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark's writing...
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    Yuupurnju
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    Yuupurnju

    Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle documents a ceremonial song cycle situated within the traditional kurdiji "shield" ceremony, as sung by Warlpiri Elder Henry Cooke Anderson Jakamarra at Lajamanu, Northern Territory, in 2013.The song cycle relates to a...
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    Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs
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    Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs

    Warlpiri songs hold together the ceremonies that structure and bind social relationships, and encode detailed information about Warlpiri country, cosmology and kinship. Today, only a small group of the oldest generations has full knowledge of ceremonial...
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    The Climate Crisis and Other Animals
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    The Climate Crisis and Other Animals

    The Climate Crisis and Other Animals is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our planet and the animals who live on it. Twine examines the impact of the climate crisis on non-human animals and argues for the importance of a climate and...
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    The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle
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    The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

    This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (181368) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of...
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    Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend
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    Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend

    War is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story.In Australia, although women have written...
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    Sheringtons
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    Sheringtons

    Sheringtons is the history of a family over five centuries, set against contexts of place and enterprise. For the first three hundred years the Sherington family were yeomen farmers at Westleton on the coast of Suffolk. During the 19th century members of...
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    Carrots and Sticks
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    Carrots and Sticks

    Have you ever wondered how a sheepdog, police horse, leopard or octopus is trained? Carrots and Sticks brings behavioural science to life, explaining animal training techniques in the language of learning theory. The first sections on instinct and...
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    Made to Matter
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    Made to Matter

    This book analyses the stories of white fathers, men who were positioned as key players in the plans to assimilate Aboriginal people by 'breeding out the colour' and attempts to put textual flesh on the bodies of these white fathers, and in doing so,...
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    An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement
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    An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement

    The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between...
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    Australian Urban Land Use Planning
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    Australian Urban Land Use Planning

    Urban and regional planning is increasingly central to public policy in Australia and internationally. As cities and regions adapt to profound economic, societal and technological shifts, new urban and environmental problems are emerging from inadequate...
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    The Dendroglyphs, or 'Carved Trees' of New South Wales
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    The Dendroglyphs, or 'Carved Trees' of New South Wales

    Aboriginal people of New South Wales carved trees as a form of visual communication for thousands of years. These elaborate designs carved into the sapwood and heartwood of trees once a section of external bark was removed - were meant to last. Sadly,...
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    The Broad Arrow
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    The Broad Arrow

    Caroline Leakey, writing as Olin Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middleclass woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then...
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    Camouflage Australia
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    Camouflage Australia

    Camouflage Australia provides international context for the historical circumstances and events of the organisation of camouflage in World War II in Australia and the Pacific region. She elaborates on the parallel involvement of British and American...
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    The Enchantment of English
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    The Enchantment of English

    The Enchantment of English is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities, from its beginnings in the second half of the 19th century through to the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which universities proliferated and diversified. Written...
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    Thirty Years in the South Seas
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    Thirty Years in the South Seas

    Richard Parkinson's Thirty Years in the South Seas was first published in 1907. In this 900-page work, Parkinson drew together and expanded on the scientific and popular papers he had been publishing since 1887, creating in the process a landmark...
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    Margins
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    Margins

    She loved to rule up red margins and write in black ink on white - deciphering texts and decoding maths problems. Marginalia: writing in the margins, around the edges of pages. Students produce a lot of it. It's often critiques or interpretations of the...
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    Casino Clubs NSW
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    Casino Clubs NSW

    The New South Wales club gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar business with some of the largest registered clubs in the world operating more poker machines than many casinos but not subject to the same scrutiny. Their status as 'mutuals' allows them...
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    Patrick White Within the Western Literary Tradition
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    Patrick White Within the Western Literary Tradition

    Patrick White within the Western Literary Tradition is a collection of essays demonstrating the strong influence of European, British, and American cultures on White's work. Representing the author's interest spanning over thirty-five years, the essays...
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    Reflections and Voices
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    Reflections and Voices

    Reflections and Voices takes readers on a captivating journey with Yothu Yindu and their lead singer and songwriter, Mandawuy Yunupingu. Locating the band within a continuum of traditional practice that records the beauty of Arnhem Land as experienced by...
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    Flora of the Sydney Region
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    Flora of the Sydney Region

    The fifth edition Flora of the Sydney Region is the definitive technical guide to the identification of wild plants in one of the world's botanical heartlands. The Flora covers an area of coastal New South Wales stretching from Newcastle to Nowra and...
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    Moving in the Open Daylight
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    Moving in the Open Daylight

    The year was 1945. The place was San Francisco. The topic was the world.Ashley Hogan tells the story of a moment in human history when Australia became known for its courage and liberalism. At the conference that founded the United Nations, Australia...
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    Cellar Door
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    Cellar Door

    'Open it up, this catalogue of memory in black-and-white, where the mind may wander ...'Take the passage through the cellar door, as the pages of this anthology lead you down dark steps into a room lit up with ideas, words and wonder. Skip across...
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    An Unlikely Leader
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    An Unlikely Leader

    Despite several landmarks across the state bearing his name, John Hunter, the second governor of New South Wales, remains somewhat of an enigma. His solitary, career-driven life on land and at sea was tumultuous. As a governor, he had a tough time making...
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    The Search for Security in the Pacific 1901-1914
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    The Search for Security in the Pacific 1901-1914

    The Search for Security in the Pacific 1901-1914 is the first volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australia's relations with the world, from the founding of the Commonwealth to the Great War and its immediate aftermath. The outbreak of the...
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    Limits of Location
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    Limits of Location

    The contributors to this book reveal different approaches to creating a colony. Using the rich collections of the Mitchell Library, the authors go beyond the traditional sources of history, highlighting the personal stories revealed through family...
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    Lectures on Greek Philosophy 1928
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    Lectures on Greek Philosophy 1928

    The Lectures on Greek Philosophy of 1928 are among the earliest lectures we have of John Anderson's, delivered in the year following his arrival in Sydney in 1927. In these teachings he closely and critically followed John Burnet's classic work Early...
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  • The Moods of Ginger Mick
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    The Moods of Ginger Mick

    The Moods of Ginger Mick is a collection of poems about Ginger Mick, the larrikin hero of Gallipoli. On its release it was described by the Bulletin as'finely patriotic' and 'uniquely Australian'. It articulates the Anzac legend through the verses about...
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