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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 $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas L Oliver Synopsis This abridgment of Oliver's Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands is intended for college-level courses on precontact anthropology, history, economy, and politics of the Pacific, excluding Australia.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $17.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Trevor Lummis Publisher Comments Captain Wallis discovered Tahiti in 1767 when plans were being made in London to send a scientific expedition to the pacific. His reports of the island were so favourable that Tahiti soon became a favoured place for artists and scientists, as well as a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Sillitoe Publisher Comments An account of social change in Melanesia covering the colonial period and the post-colonial era.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stuart Macintyre Publisher Comments This entertaining book is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available.... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Thomas Synopsis "Thomas and Eves have addressed a topic of significant concern--the complex particularities of colonial culture and practice. "Bad Colonists" is more than a collection of annotated letters. It is a well-researched and elegantly conceived book that makes... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W P Anderson Synopsis ""The Cultivation of Whiteness" is a beautifully written, extensively researched, and conceptually robust account of what it meant to be white in Australia from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century."--Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of "The... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim F Flannery Publisher Comments The story of the founding and rise to prominence of one of the world's greatest cities -- Sydney, Australia, site of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Blending together the writings of early Australian settlers, leaders, journalists, and explorers, in The... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Robinson Synopsis A varied and vivid selection of writings from Stevenson's six years in the islands of the Pacific, enhanced by insightful commentary... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Oakman Synopsis In the early 1950s, Australia embarked on its most ambitious attempt to engage with Asia: The Colombo Plan. This book examines the public and private agendas behind Australia's foreign aid diplomacy and reveals the strategic, political and cultural aims... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Global Investment & Synopsis Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers.Updated annually... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $50.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roff Martin Smith Synopsis Illustrates the history, culture, landscapes, wildlife, and maritime of the continent of Australia.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Nile and Christian Clerk
Synopsis This guide for both intrepid and armchair travelers covers this diverse region of the Pacific and all its peoples and rich traditions.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rg Gregory Publisher Comments In Australian economic history, as in the nation's politics and culture, the Great Depression is a dominant theme. In this volume, an international group of economists and economic historians has collaborated to examine the ways in which Australia... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $15.90 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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