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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... (read more) List Price $48.75 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs (Reshaping Australian Institutions) by Tony Bennett Publisher Comments Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Australian Colors: Images of the Outback by Bill Bachman Publisher Comments For more than two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman explored the unique beauty of this mystical terrain, returning with the more than 300 dazzling, and sometimes perplexing, photographs featured in Australian Colors. The entertaining text he weaves... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Impressions of Australia (Impressions of) by Aa Publishing Publisher Comments Featuring stunning photographs and articles by local travel experts, these breath-taking volumes highlight some of the worlds most popular tourist destinations. Each guide offers insight into the landscapes, cultures, people, and architecture of the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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While in Darkness There Is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune by Louella Bryant Publisher Comments A look at the lives of five young men who, during the Vietnam era, start a commune in Australia-and a look at how young men often look to the wild to find themselves and the consequences this sometimes yields. The Rosebud Farm project was born of... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey Publisher Comments “This is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... it’s so good it takes your breath away.”—Times (UK) After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character. Seeking the help of... (read more) Your price: $1.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand by Elvin Hatch Publisher Comments Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments Here is history on an epic scale — a riveting, brilliantly written account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. Eighty years lay between the landing at Botany Nay in 1788... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road From Coorain by Jill Kathryn Conway Synopsis Jill Ker Conway grew up in New South Wales in the 1940s and '50s. This is her account of an Australian childhood in the outback, and subsequently in Sydney, encompassing family tragedy, a devastating struggle with the desert environment, and an evocation... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson From Powells.com "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us. Three billion year old fossilized organisms off the western coast; a giant lobster on the side of a highway; empty, forbidding spaces... In a... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey Publisher Comments “This is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... it’s so good it takes your breath away.”—Times (UK) After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Quest for Kaitiakitanga: The Ancient Maori Secret from New Zealand That Could Save the Earth by Richard Bangs Synopsis Kaitiakitanga, an ancient Maori concept meaning “guardianship of the land,” has undergone a revival in New Zealand and is fueling an increasingly popular eco-movement. Structured by Richard Bangs as a grand adventure, this book looks at how... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tracks 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... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Australia and the Islands of the Pacific: Myths and Wonders of the Southern Seas by Marco Moretti Synopsis The entire Oceanic region is covered in this vibrantly photographed record of the stunning landscapes and tribal customs in the South Pacific from Australia to Easter Island. Vintage maps, photos and paintings combine with modern aerial shots and... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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Sydney by Geoff Moorhouse Publisher Comments Sydney's harbor establishes it as one of the most attractive modern cities, but its beginnings suggest something different. In 1770, the British Parliament saw the area as a solution to England's overcrowded prisons. On arriving at the harbor, the first "... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.48 Used - Hardcover
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Being All Equal (Global Issues,) by Judith Kapferer Publisher Comments - Is there such a thing as an Australian national identity? Or is Australia just a melting pot of different peoples and cultures without a common culture? - What is distinctive and what is universal about everyday life in Australia? In a post-colonial... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Western Australia in the 20TH Century by Patrick Cornish Book News Annotation A collection of personal memories of people in Western Australia over the century. Some well known and others not, they share their experience of war, depression, immigration, celebrity, community, and creativity. The volume is a companion to a... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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