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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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    Beaches of the Western Australian Coast
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    Beaches of the Western Australian Coast

    Beaches of the Western Australian Coast covers the Western Australian coast between Eucla and Roebuck Bay, and includes Rottnest Island. It begins with three chapters that provide a background to the physical nature and evolution of the Western...
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    Beaches of the South Australian Coast
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    Beaches of the South Australian Coast

    Beaches of the South Australian Coast and Kangaroo Island explores the beaches on the South Australian Coast, including those on Kangaroo Island and a few of the major islands.It begins by providing a background to the physical nature and evolution of...
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    Beaches of the Queensland Coast
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    Beaches of the Queensland Coast

    Beaches of the Queensland Coast provides the first description of all Queensland's ocean beaches between Cooktown and Coolangatta, including beaches on 18 islands and in several large bays. It is based on the results of the Australian Beach Safety and...
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    Beaches of the Victorian Coast and Port Phillip Bay
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    Beaches of the Victorian Coast and Port Phillip Bay

    Beaches of the Victorian Coast and Port Phillip Bay provides the first description of all Victorian ocean and Port Phillip Bay beaches. It is based on the results of the Victorian section of the Australian Beach Safety and Management Program.This book...
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  • The Moment of the Essay
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    The Moment of the Essay

    We are living in the moment of the essay. The past two decades have witnessed an explosion in essays that interrogate personal experience; contemporary Australian writers are using their lives to think through the ways we connect, remember, and live,...
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    Creating Black Cockatoo Friendly Suburbs
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    Creating Black Cockatoo Friendly Suburbs

    Landscapes in urban areas can be designed to maximise benefits to native wildlife, biodiversity and to make a healthier environment for residents. But the number of Carnaby's cockatoos visiting urban landscapes are declining and their future is uncertain...
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    The Infant Vine
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    The Infant Vine

    Lyrical and narrative-driven, with playful and fantastical elements woven throughout, the poems in The Infant Vine reflect on how ordinary moments become charged with significance and strangeness when disaster strikes. Such moments make imaginary worlds...
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    Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming
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    Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming

    The Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming Project (LP140100393) was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project between Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC), Rio Tinto and the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management (CRAR+M) at the University...
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  • Netflicks
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    Netflicks

    The dead have risen and destroyed the world as we know it. A religious fundamentalist government has taken over America and enslaved the female populace. A woman wakes each morning and is forced to relive the same day, caught in a time loop. In a secret...
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    Kimberley monsoon rainforests
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    Kimberley monsoon rainforests

    The tropical rainforests of the Kimberley are among Australia's most biodiverse eco-systems - and, in many ways, its least understood.Kimberley rainforests are rich in species not found elsewhere in the region, have links to South-East Asia, and hold...
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    Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett
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    Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett

    Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett offers readers a stunning array of Hewett's writings on literature, theatre and politics. It is both an engaging glimpse into Australian political history and activism and an enlightening point of access to one of our...
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    The Imago
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    The Imago

    Biographer Suzanne Falkiner presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped his later years as a novelist.Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge...
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    The Paper War
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    The Paper War

    In February 1832 Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld was named as one of the 'perpetual blisters' that the London Missionary Society seemed 'destined to carry'. Threlkeld, from a British working-class family, lobbied his way to NSW to set up the Lake Macquarie...
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    Lines for Birds
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    Lines for Birds

    They follow flight paths and habitats of birds, from the Victorian Mallee to the forests of South East Asia, to Japan and the South of France. 'Sometimes,' as the painter says, 'it's almost as if I am looking at the earth with a bird's eye view- the...
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    "It's still in my heart, this is my Country"
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    "It's still in my heart, this is my Country"

    Winner of the 2010 Human Rights Award for Literature (non-fiction) and the 2010 Margaret Medcalf Award.This is a history commissioned by SWALSC to present as evidence at the Single Noongar Native Title Claim over metropolitan Perth and South-West WA. The...
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    Shaking Hands on the Fringe
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    Shaking Hands on the Fringe

    In 1826 the British set up a garrison on the edges of an Aboriginal world at King George's Sound, the site of present day Albany, Western Australia, with the aim of deterring the French from occupying the area. The British newcomers and the area's...
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    A Story to Tell
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    A Story to Tell

    In A Story to Tell, artist Laurel Nannup brings to life her childhood in a large Aboriginal family.While her stories include a time spent at the Wandering Mission, their main focus is on memories of family life: picnics, roaming through the bush, sharing...
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    Marine Plants of Australia
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    Marine Plants of Australia

    To most people, the mention of marine plants conjures up images of rotting seaweeds piled high on the beach, or slithering threateningly around bare ankles during a paddle in the shallows. Certainly, the seaweeds do not inspire the imagination or the...
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    Harsh Hakea
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    Harsh Hakea

    Harsh Hakea is John Kinsella's second volume of collected works dating from 2005 to 2014 capturing a career in media res. It includes poems from widely read volumes like Jam Tree Gully, which won the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, and...
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    Uncovering Einstein's New Universe
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    Uncovering Einstein's New Universe

    Einstein gave us a vision of a new universe in which time and space are warped and rippling in response to everything else in the universe. Vast bursts of energy in the form of ripples of pure and empty space are passing through us at light speed,...
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    Misadventures in Nature's Paradise
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    Misadventures in Nature's Paradise

    The book provides a pre-settlement historical account of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in their Indian Ocean context. The project began as a search for clues to locations of two 18th century Dutch shipwrecks, and was expanded into a...
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    No Longer A Wandering Spirit
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    No Longer A Wandering Spirit

    'Bessy Flowers is a hero of mine, and I'm very glad she's at the centre of a book that features her images and writing, along with the remarkable journey to situate her in family and Country' Kim ScottKia Kia, Noogiting Wirren, Minang...
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    Scale to Tail
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    Scale to Tail

    If you think a fish is bad eating, you might just need to cook it differently.Scale to Tail has three key aims: Diversify - broadening the range of seafood we consume in Australia Eat whole - encouraging people to stop filleting fish and throwing the...
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    Kimberley Bush Food
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    Kimberley Bush Food

    In an effort to preserve the traditional knowledge of bush food, authors Madison King and nurse educator, John Horsfall, have documented over 350 species of plants and fungi that were regularly gathered by the Indigenous peoples of the Kimberley region...
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    Kimberley Bush Medicine
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    Kimberley Bush Medicine

    Kimberley Bush Medicine is a comprehensive guide to the medicinal plants that were regularly used by the Indigenous people of the Kimberley region, providing alternative treatments and protection from common ailments. Authors Madison King and retired...
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    Four Rivers
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    Four Rivers

    The cities Perth, Australia, and Aberdeen, Scotland have received relatively little attention as specific geographical-cultural locales. Often perceived as industrial, isolated and lacking romantic association, they nevertheless have rich historical,...
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    What Lies Beneath Matters
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    What Lies Beneath Matters

    In What Lies Beneath Matters psychologist Grace da Camara and daughter general practitioner Dr Madalena Bennett offer an empowering self-help guide for parents of tweens and teens with ADHD. This neurological and behavioural disorder not only affects the...
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    The Ascension of Sheep
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    The Ascension of Sheep

    This is the first volume of a three-volume Collected Poems by John Kinsella that dates back to when he was seventeen, and moves on through forty-one-plus years of writing and memorising poetry. Collected in one place for the first time are poems that...
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    Housing Evolution
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    Housing Evolution

    The ability to flex, adapt and evolve is becoming increasingly vital to respond to the challenges our world is now facing and nowhere is this more evident than in our communities. The way our towns and homes were designed in the past is no longer...
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    Designs on Density
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    Designs on Density

    Housing in Australia is currently in a period of rapid change, even crisis, due to increasing environmental consciousness, demographic movements, affordability pressures, and new technologies in the building industry, in the workplace and in the house...
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  • Suburban Fantasy
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    Suburban Fantasy

    A startlingly frank take on modern femininity, Michele Seminara's Suburban Fantasy combines finely crafted narratives with lyrical artistry and sure-footed eloquence. This is raw, fiery, firebrand feminist writing that manages to artfully co-exist with...
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    Balgo
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    Balgo

    In the early days we did painting. Cultural way. For ourselves.Then on the mission Sister Alice was working with the young men and women, like Gracie Green and Matthew Gill. We did a lot of landscapes at the start. Then after that people did a lot of...
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    Naturalist on the Bibbulmun
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    Naturalist on the Bibbulmun

    The Bibbulman Track is a World class walking trail that runs just over 1000km through the forests and across the coastal heaths of southwestern Western Australia, from the towns of Kalamundain the North to Albany in the South. Naturalist on the Bibbulman...
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    The Alert Grey Twinkling Eyes of C. J. DeGaris
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    The Alert Grey Twinkling Eyes of C. J. DeGaris

    Entrepreneur, aviator, publisher, publicist, propagandist, playwright, songwriter, motorist, land developer, dreamer: for five brief years it seemed like there was nothing Clement John DeGaris couldn't do. He'd inveigle your life...
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  • Fishwork
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    Fishwork

    At the Bottom of It, PainCallie tries to give the fish a good death,short and sharp, severing the brain stem.Pithing like the sound a cherry makeswhen you extract the pip. Some thingsare instinct like spitting outwhat cracks, hard, against your teeth,or...
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    Good for the Soul
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    Good for the Soul

    In his first days as Prime Minister, John Curtin presented himself to the press as a self-styled intellectual who loved sport and relaxing, when he could, with a book, beach walk, game of cards or fossick in the garden. He also revealed that he enjoyed...
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  • Time alone on a quiet path
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    Time alone on a quiet path

    'This substantial collection holds the reader with its unique voice and finely crafted language. In each section, the poems build on and inform each other, while their major themes thread throughout with compassion and wry humour. Whether as flaneur or...
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    i-Tjuma
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    i-Tjuma

    Between 2012 and 2019 Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral and Jennifer Green worked together to make an enduring record of endangered verbal arts in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands communities of Western Australia. They filmed traditional Ngaanyatjarra...
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    Not Always Diplomatic
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    Not Always Diplomatic

    A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service.'An engaging account of life at the coalface by one of Australia's most active and effective diplomats and real pathfinder in leading our...
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    In the Time of Their Lives
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    In the Time of Their Lives

    'It is important for us to read our own stories and to keep the tradition of our language for our future generations.' - Dereck Harris, Chairman, Ngaanyatjarra Council'In the Time of their Lives is a wonderful book that honours the extraordinary...
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  • Anh and Lucien
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    Anh and Lucien

    'Anh and Lucien is a compelling celebration of male desire and intimacy   and also a gripping clash of cultures and ideologies. Danger and death pervade Tony Page's sensuous and sensitive evocation of a risky love affair in an alluring,...
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