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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
by Doris Pilkington  Publisher Comments The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by...
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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...
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True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by...
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Fear and Politics
by Carmen Lawrence Publisher Comments Arguing that fear has been a crucial factor in shaping Australian public policy, this study charts its consequences on the Australian community. Examining the effects of being constantly warned about the risk of terrorism, this account...
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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...
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Gangland Australia
by James Morton Publisher Comments A comprehensive investigation of organized crime in Australia, this study discusses the entire history of crime on the continent-- from the forgeries and robberies of early convicts to the recent gangland slayings in Melbourne. Famous faces of Australian...
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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...
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Salinity Crisis Landscapes Communities &
by Quentin Beresford Book News Annotation Co-authored by specialists in public policy, environmental geography, Australian politics, and anthropology, the volume examines how Australia's salinity crisis developed through years of massive land- clearing programs and denial of the problem by...
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Leaving Paradise: My Expat Adventures and Other Stories
by Sonia Harford Publisher Comments This entertaining and thoughtful personal investigation examines the boom in Australian expatriatism--the ideals, reality, and dislocation of being an Australian living abroad--and the often heart-wrenching decision to return home. Exploring the glamour...
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Goodbye Bussamarai
by Patrick Collins Publisher Comments Bussamarai was a powerful resistance leader whose influence spread across five Aboriginal nations. Like the legendary Pemulwuy, Yagan or Jandamara, he fought for the survival of his people, the Mandandanji of southern Queensland. Their homeland bordered...
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Divided Nation: Indigenous Australians in Australian Political Culture
by Tim Rowse Publisher Comments This in-depth study examines changes and continuities in Australian public opinion about the Aborigines and their struggle for recognition and social justice. Looking at four key episodes in recent political history--the 1967 referendum, the Hawke...
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The Paradox of Anti-Semitism
by Dan Cohn-sherbok Publisher Comments This book takes the controversial stance that although anti-semitism is an evil, it has paradoxically kept Judaism alive and helped its culture flourish, and has thus been a positive force in Jewish life. Paradoxically, it is anti-semitism which has...
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Australia Flying High (Flying High)
by Klaus D. Francke Publisher Comments Australia is the world's smallest continent but the world's largest island, unsurpassed in its diversity of cultures and natural wonders. Aerial photographer Klaus D. Francke invites readers to explore this vast and beautiful land through this superb...
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Terra Nullius (07 Edition)
by Lindqvist Publisher Comments "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races."—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man "Terra nullius"—no man's...
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Anglo Australian Attitudes
by Michael Davie Publisher Comments One hundred years after the six Australian colonies voted to become a Federation, the country is struggling with the idea of a republic and a new Constitution and coming to terms with its tangled British legacy. Michael Davie examines this strange...
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Multiethnic Australia: Its History and Future
by Celeste Lip Macleod Publisher Comments After once trying to keep its population white and predominantly British, Australia reversed course. Since 1947 it has absorbed five million immigrants from some 240 countries and places around the globe, with increasing numbers from Asian nations. In...
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John Wren: A Life Reconsidered
by James Griffin Publisher Comments This revisionist biography of Australian entrepreneur John Wren, who was made infamous by Frank Hardy's influential novel "Power Without Glory", reexamines the historical evidence that wrongly vilified John Wren and made him the scapegoat of Australia's...
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe,...
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Shakedown: Australia's Grab for Timor Oil
by Paul Cleary Publisher Comments A real-life David and Goliath story, this book details what happened behind the scenes in 2004 as the small nation of East Timor began negotiations with Australia over rights to one of the richest oil deposits in the world. Because of the author's own...
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Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians (Objects/Histories)
by Jane Lydon Publisher Comments An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its...
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