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    Recording Kastom
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    Recording Kastom

    Recording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea through the journals of zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Haddon, who visited the islands in 1888 and 1898.Haddon's published reports of these trips were hugely...
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    Archival Returns
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    Archival Returns

    Place-based cultural knowledge of ceremonies, songs,stories, language, kinship and ecology binds Australian Indigenous societiestogether. Over the last 100 years or so, records of this knowledge in manydifferent formats audiocassettes, photographs,...
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    Crafting Country
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    Crafting Country

    Based on ten years of surveys and excavations in Nyiyaparli country in the eastern Chichester Ranges, north-west Australia, Crafting Country provides a unique synthesis of Holocene archaeology in the Pilbara region. The analysis of about 1000 sites,...
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 6
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 6

    The years 1956-72 were as eventful as any that had gone before, and Julius Stone touched on many international issues. The hydrogen bomb and the space race were popular topics. Decolonisation and independence in Asia and Africa were covered, especially...
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 5
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 5

    Queen Elizabeth's visit showed a strong remaining affection for the crown, despite the nation's shift of its power alliances to the USA. In the USA, McCarthyism crashed with the discrediting of its leading figure; in Argentina the autocratic populist...
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 4
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 4

    In the Pacific, Australia entered the multi-lateral ANZUS treaty, consolidatingthe nation's independence of Britain; Communist China pressed its claims toreplace Taiwan on the Security Council; Queen Elizabeth II began her longreign; and adventurism by...
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 3
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 3

    Originally broadcast by the ABC between 1942 and 1972 and re-discovered in 2006, these conversational opinion pieces by jurist Julius Stone take the reader back to the mid-20th century, bringing to life the people, events and the sweep of affairs during...
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    Obaysch
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    Obaysch

    Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London is the story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first 'star' animal to be exhibited in the London Zoo. In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived on English shores, allegedly the first in Europe since the...
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    Songs from the Stations
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    Songs from the Stations

    The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are perhaps best-known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by the station managers. The strike would become the first major victory of the Indigenous land rights...
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    Richard Flanagan
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    Richard Flanagan

    RichardFlanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about thelife and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading criticsfrom Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer newways of understanding...
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    Risking Together
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    Risking Together

    Australia is in the midst of a major social and economic experiment that centres on financial risks being shifted onto ordinary people. We are being asked to manage ourselves as if we are businesses, and these businesses are being squeezed tighter and...
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    Globalisation, the State and Regional Australia
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    Globalisation, the State and Regional Australia

    'If we are to understand global capital,neoliberalism and the state in meaningful ways, we must understand them as theyoperate in, and on, particular places and people.' Amanda WalshGlobalisation is an inescapable term in the21st century, but its real...
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    Between the Murray and the Sea
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    Between the Murray and the Sea

    Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal Archaeology in South-eastern Australia explores theIndigenous archaeology of Victoria, focusing on areas south and east of the Murray River.Looking at multiple sites from the region, David Frankel considers what...
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    Ambivalent Macbeth
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    Ambivalent Macbeth

    Macbeth is often read in a singular fashion: either as a cautionarymorality tale warning against ambition, or as a psychological studyof evil. In Ambivalent Macbeth, renowned Shakespeare scholar R.S.White argues that these differing readings result from...
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    Plumes from Paradise
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    Plumes from Paradise

    The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, plumes, sea slugs, shells and pearls all brought traders from distant markets. Among the most sought-after...
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    The Ebb and Flow of the Ghrid Empire
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    The Ebb and Flow of the Ghrid Empire

    The iconic minaret of Jm stands in a remote mountain valley in central Afghanistan, the finest surviving monument of the enigmatic 12th-century Ghrid dynasty. The rediscovery of the minaret half a century ago prompted renewed interest in the Ghrids, and...
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    Animal Welfare in China
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    Animal Welfare in China

    The plight of animals in China has attracted intense interest in recent times. Speculation about the origins of COVID-19 has sparked curiosity about how animals are treated, traded and consumed in China today.In Animal Welfare in China, Peter Li explores...
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    Comparative Urban Land Use Planning
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    Comparative Urban Land Use Planning

    Drawing on examples of worldwide best practice urban planning, Leslie A. Stein uses an evidence-based approach and a consideration of underlying ideologies to find the universal patterns, solutions and responses to common urban planning problems.
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    The Two Romanticisms and Other Essays
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    The Two Romanticisms and Other Essays

    The Romantic period is the most appealing but also the most confusing period of English literature for the student. Crucially, this book distinguishes between 'the Romantic' as modern critics use the term and 'the romantic' as it was used during the...
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    Colonial Australian Fiction
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    Colonial Australian Fiction

    Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of types appeared in Australian literature: the swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the "currency lass", the squatter, and more. Some had a powerful influence on the...
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    Gardens of History and Imagination
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    Gardens of History and Imagination

    Whether on the ground or in the mind gardens carry meaning. They reflect social and aesthetic values and may express hope, anticipation or grief. Throughout history they have provided a means of physical survival. In creating and maintaining gardens...
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    Christina Stead and the Matter of America
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    Christina Stead and the Matter of America

    Christina Stead set five of her novels in the United States, capturing and critiquing American life with uncanny sharpness. Yet her relationship with place and nation remains difficult to pin down: she resisted the label 'expatriate' and her books defy...
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    Animals in the Anthropocene
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    Animals in the Anthropocene

    Much of the discussion on the Anthropocene has centred upon anthropogenic global warming and climate change and the urgency of political and social responses to this problem. "Animals in the Anthropocene: critical perspectives on non-human futures" shows...
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    Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology
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    Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology

    Zooarchaeology is a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, zooarchaeologists can uncover important information on the economy, trade, industry, diet, and other fascinating facts...
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    Fighting Nature
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    Fighting Nature

    Throughout the 19th century, animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to...
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    Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories
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    Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories

    A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publication of Sally Morgan's My Place (1987), which became a bestseller. While some of the books of the first...
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 2
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 2

    Letters to Australia is a collection of Julius Stone's radio talks, originally broadcast by the ABC between 1942 and 1972. Recently discovered in the nation's archives, they take the reader back to the mid-20th century, bringing to life the...
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 1
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    Letters to Australia, Volume 1

    Letters to Australia is a collection of Julius Stone's radio talks, originally broadcast by the ABC between 1942 and 1972. Recently discovered in the nation's archives, they take the reader back to the mid-20th century, bringing to life the...
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    On Aboriginal Religion
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    On Aboriginal Religion

    Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase the 'great Australian silence', addressing the culture of denial or 'conscious forgetting' regarding the history Australia since European arrival.This reprint of On...
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    Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia
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    Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia

    Written by anthropologist Dianne Johnson, Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia has been in demand since its publication in 1998. It is a record of the stars and planets which pass across the night-time skies. This noctuary holds not only a record of what...
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    Sir Frank Packer
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    Sir Frank Packer

    This absorbing biography traces the newspaper career of Frank's father R.C. Packer from Hobart and the outback to the founding of Smith's Weekly in 1919. Overshadowed by his brilliant father, Frank was an academic failure at school and...
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    The Government and Copyright
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    The Government and Copyright

    The Government and Copyright: The Government as Proprietor, Preserver and User of Copyright Material Under the Copyright Act 1968 focuses on the interplay between law, policy and practice in copyright law by investigating the rights of the government as...
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    Ecologies of Invention
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    Ecologies of Invention

    Are artists, designers and musicians inventors?  Or does the invention originate from scientific discovery alone?Ecologies of Invention is the first collection of essays that brings together writers and scholars of international...
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    Transition to Retirement
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    Transition to Retirement

    As much as everyone groans from time to time about the humdrum and stresses of work, retirement is an unsettling prospect for most people. It's a major transition in anyone's life and change of this magnitude often arouses anxiety. This is much more so...
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    Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson
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    Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson

    John Shaw Neilson (18721942) is Australia's great lyric poet and Collected Poems (1934), dedicated to Louise Dyer, bears his imprimatur. Encouraged by his editor, Robert Croll, Neilson was totally involved in its publication and promotion, selecting the...
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    Australia and the Wider World
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    Australia and the Wider World

    The essays in Australia and the Wider World bring together a lasting contribution to the story of Australia and the history of ideas in this country.Since the 1960s Neville Meaney has been asking probing questions about social change and the rise of...
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    Biography of a Book
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    Biography of a Book

    Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a...
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    Academic Writing Is...
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    Academic Writing Is...

    Academic Writing Is ... demystifies many of the practices of academic writing for students in an Australian university. This is an indispensable guide for any students undertaking university studies in Australia who want to develop their academic writing...
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    Playing in the Bush
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    Playing in the Bush

    'The studies range from the 19th century romantic getaways of picking flowers and picnicking to 21st century extreme sports such as canyoning and abseiling. Indigenous perspectives are included ... Helpfully many of the references are to unpublished...
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    Australia and the World
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    Australia and the World

    Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application. The contributors to the...
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    The Search for Truth
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    The Search for Truth

    Universities have searched for truth over nearly a millennium. Maxwell Bennett recounts the history of this search during three of its most momentous periods in the 13th, 18th and 20th centuries, which helped fashion the idea of a university. He...
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    Earth Cries
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    Earth Cries

    Climate change is here, and how we react in the present will alter the course of the future; we can no longer deny that this is a key challenge for our times. Over the past two years, Australia has seen its worst bushfire season in recorded history,...
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    Alexander Mackie: An Academic Life
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    Alexander Mackie: An Academic Life

    From the late nineteenth century, academic disciplines emerged in universities, marking boundaries of knowledge, teaching and research. Education became a transnational academic discipline, developing across Britain, Europe and North America and...
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    The Search for Knowledge and Understanding
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    The Search for Knowledge and Understanding

    For nearly a millennium, universities have searched for knowledge, understanding and truth. Internationally renowned neuroscientist, Professor Maxwell Bennett, evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars in the University of Sydney's history and...
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    Veterinary Research at the University of Sydney
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    Veterinary Research at the University of Sydney

    At the time of European colonisation of Australia, veterinary medicine was a young profession, and there was little money or time for it. Even by 1910, when the University of Sydney enrolled its first veterinary science undergraduates, there were only...
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