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by P Anna Johnson  Synopsis A young couple decides to migrate from Boston to Australia in order to escape imminent nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. After only a few short weeks in Sydney, it comes as a surprise when they meet others who have also recently... (read more)  List Price $16.94 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Tobias Schneebaum Publisher Comments <div>Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of his four years among the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people rumored to have killed Michael Rockefeller. Instead of ferocious cannibals, Schneebaum found a regal, gentle... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Keneally Publisher Comments It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid and turbulent prisons of London were overflowing, and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvie Poirier Publisher Comments A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Phillip Knightley Publisher Comments A history of the last century of Australia's years of nationhood. "A grand encapsulation of all Australia... sharp, racy and irreverant" "The Independent".... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Reg Morrison Publisher Comments A companion to the large-screen film of the same name, "Australia: Land Beyond Time" explores the continent's antiquity with more than 300 stunning color photos of its breathtaking land forms, plants, and animals. 20 maps.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $4.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Grady Publisher Comments Provides a brief outline of Sydney, its geographical position and its history.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas L Oliver Publisher Comments 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 Julia Blackburn 
Publisher Comments In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A. Dirk (edt) Moses Publisher Comments , . . often new, probing and rich examinations of the takeover of a continent by white Anglos and the long-term impact . . . the book is replete with detailed and meticulously sourced information on the scope, scale and persistence of the cruelty and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest Hunter Publisher Comments An analysis of how the effects of social disruption and cultural dislocation suffered by Aboriginal people have manifested themselves in certain behavioural patterns.... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price $16.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Norman Publisher Comments A biography of the person seen by many as the honest face of Australian politics, this intimate exploration of Bob Brown's world details his difficult adolescence, shy struggles with sexuality, search for intimacy, and conversion from conservative... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sean Condon Publisher Comments Sean Condon is young, urban and a connoisseur of hair wax. He can't drive, and he doesn't really travel well. So when Sean and his friend David set out to explore Australia in a duck-egg blue 1966 Ford Falcon, the result is a decidedly offbeat look at... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony J Brown Publisher Comments Explores the rival voyages of naval captains Nicolas Baudin of France and Matthew Flinders of Britain, both of whom set out to map Australia and "advance the limits of science."... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dennis Glover Publisher Comments A discussion of George Orwell's relevance to contemporary Australian life and political debate is introduced in this text on modern-day Australian politics. Arguing that in an era of global war and national insecurity the Australian center-left must once... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Abdullah Saeed Publisher Comments In this clear and accessible introduction to the world of Islam, the history, beliefs, practices, and laws of this ancient religion are introduced. With a special focus on Muslims in Australia, the book addresses such issues as the identities of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $7.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Nicole Publisher Comments The Word, The Pen, and the Pistol explores the relationships between history, power, knowledge, and certain cultural productions such as literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Borrowing from the theoretical works of Michel Foucault and Edward... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Waterhouse Synopsis Reverend Joseph Waterhouse's work offers an excellent insight into the traditional Fijian way of life.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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