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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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    The Shore Whalers of Western Australia
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    The Shore Whalers of Western Australia

    Every winter between 1836 to 1879 small wooden boats left the bays of southwest Western Australia to hunt for migrating Humpback and Right whales. In the early years of European settlement these small shore whaling parties and the whale oil they produced...
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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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    Impact of the Modern
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    Impact of the Modern

    Australian and international modernity from the late 19th to the mid-20th century inspires research in many fields of cultural endeavour: architecture, fine arts, design, cinema, theatre, and music; in urban studies, literary history and Aboriginal...
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    Lectures on Political Theory 1941-45
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    Lectures on Political Theory 1941-45

    Delivered during the years of heightened national security of World War II these lectures present Anderson's views on the major questions in political theory in relation to the major influences upon his own early education: modern Idealism and Marxism.In...
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    Archibald Liversidge
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    Archibald Liversidge

    When Archibald Liversidge first arrived at Sydney University in 1872 as reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory he had about ten students and two rooms in the main building. In 1874 he became professor of geology and mineralogy and by 1879 he...
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    Kids Count
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    Kids Count

    Demand for childcare has soared over the past decade as Australian families seek to reconcile work and care responsibilities. But the cost of care keeps rising, waiting lists in many metropolitan centres are long, and high quality services are not always...
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    Lectures on Metaphysics 1949-50
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    Lectures on Metaphysics 1949-50

    Space, Time and the Categories presents a unique record of personal influence and inspiration over three generations of philosophers in Australia, England and Scotland. This work is a vitally important text in the history of the development of realist...
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    The Art of Living in Australia
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    The Art of Living in Australia

    Unique historical importance and modern appealSo far this year, the Mediterranean diet has been touted as able to lower your cholesterol, reduce pain, increase your lifespan, ease depression and 'cure' ADHD. Whatever the real story might be, it's clear...
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    Invasion to Embassy
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    Invasion to Embassy

    Invasion to Embassy challenges the conventional view of Aboriginal politics to present a bold new account of Aboriginal responses to invasion and dispossession in New South Wales. At the core of these responses has been land: as a concrete goal, but also...
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    The True History of Copyright
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    The True History of Copyright

    How did copyright laws come into being? Were they designed to encourage production and dissemination? Are current policy assumptions justified? Critics claim that laws facilitate predatory pricing and distribution controls, denying millions access to...
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    Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced
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    Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced

    Lucy Osburn (1836-1891) was the founder of modern nursing in Australia who also pioneered the employment of high status professional women in public institutions. Osburn learned her vocation at Florence Nightingale's school of nursing in London, but her...
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    The Valuation of Mining Assets
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    The Valuation of Mining Assets

    The valuation of mining assets is timely given the recent upsurge in commodity prices and the spate of takeovers in the mining industry.The book is written with the benefit of Wayne Lonergan's extensive practical experience and appreciation of problems...
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    Behind the Screens
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    Behind the Screens

    Behind the Screens sheds light on the fundamental aspects of basic nursing that have previously been hidden, or taken for granted. The essence of these practices has not been regarded as formal knowledge, partly because there has been no formal language...
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    Beaches of the Northern Australian Coast
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    Beaches of the Northern Australian Coast

    Beaches of the Northern Australian Coast covers beaches between Broome and Cooktown, and includes all beaches in the Kimberley region, the Northern Territory and Cape York in all, 3,489 beaches spread along 11,869 km of tropical coast.This book has two...
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    Beaches of the New South Wales Coast
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    Beaches of the New South Wales Coast

    The second edition of Beaches of the New South Wales Coast has been rewritten and expanded. It covers all of the state's 757 open coast beaches, as well as 120 beaches in five large bays, including Sydney Harbour, and the 15 beaches on Lord Howe Island...
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    Beaches of the Tasmanian Coast and Islands
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    Beaches of the Tasmanian Coast and Islands

    Beaches of the Tasmanian Coast and Islands covers the beaches of the Tasmanian coast, together with those on Maria, Bruny, King, Robbins, Walker and Flinders islands in all, 1,617 beaches spread along 3,030 km of coast.This book has two aims. First, to...
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  • Doreen
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    Doreen

    Doreen, the third C.J. Dennis publication using his "Sentimental Bloke" characters, was first published by in October 1917 by Angus and Robertson.The four tales in verse in Doreen describe the married life of "the Bloke", dramatising...
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