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Tracks the profound changes that have occurred in Australia's population profile over the last 30 years and then predicts the expected population trends for the next 30.

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The complexity of the human brain explored through ten fascinating case studies. From alien hand syndrome, anorexia nervosa, frontal lobe dysfunction and phantom limb to dementia and golfer's cramp, the author provides an understanding of how each disorder has been conceptualised and treated and the challenges for neuropsychiatrist and patient.

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Brings together some of the world's leading environmental researchers in the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and humanities to bridge the disciplinary divides in understanding the environment.

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Offering an introduction to a technology that we can't do without, this is a comprehensive book on the Australian Internet.

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Sets out a program of economic and social reform for the next 50 years aimed at boosting the living standards and overall wellbeing of all Australians during a period when the nation's population will age significantly.

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Explains why so many Australians feel a greater sense of risk and suggests some positive directions in social policy designed to anticipate and help people address risk. This book does not identify 'risk' as a negative; instead it argues that converting risk into opportunity requires a co-ordinated policy response.

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Provides a clear and accessible guide to the major components of Australia's anti-terrorism laws and their effects. Shows what constitutes a crime of terrorism in Australia, and what happens when the authorities seek a control order or an order of preventative detention over an individual.

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Think coal mining, and most likely you think men. This book tells a very different story. Women have long been the backbone of the coal mining industry. As wives and mothers theyve fought battles for better working conditions; established womens auxiliaries; distributed food to strikers and their families, and stood on picket lines.

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From its early beginnings in the 1980s, the vibrant world music genre in Australia has burgeoned to become the dynamic scene it is today. World Music charts this evolution, with chapter contributions from some of Australia's most knowledgeable and respected world music journalists, broadcasters, academics and promoters.

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Consisting of a painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, and tourist maps, this book is a personal guide to the city of Adelaide through a collection of iconic objects.

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This text considers the roles played by the key political parties, lobby groups and ideologies in determining Australia's welfare- related outcomes. It looks at the influence of economic rationalism and social democracy, and the values and assumptions that underpin social welfare policies.

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Distils the principles of ethics for busy people and studetns, and shows how they can be applied without oversimplifying nor becoming overly theoretical. The book focuses on the need for a strong adherence to codes of corporate governance in a rapidly deregulating and globalising world.

Why are there no official memorials of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier war now than it was one hundred years ago This powerful book makes it clear that there can be no reconciliation without acknowledging the wars fought on our own soil.

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Intended to encourage critical, responsible and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and a social institution, this title includes chapters on human rights, liberal democracy, economic efficiency, problems of the market, and distributive justice.

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A major work in the field of environmental philoisophy that sets out to describe and explain the many strands of thought that underlie and support the environment movement. Hay's aim in writing this book has been to provide a faithful account of the main feeder streams that flow into the swift running river of Western envornmental thought.

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Based on extensive research in both Australia and England, Kate Lance has produced a fascinating portrait of Villiers and the world he inhabited. Lance depicts the legendary sailor as a man of contradictions, who lived for the sea and adventure, and who is now respected and recognised as a brilliant writer, photographer, journalist and adventurer.

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Traces the history of the Bank of New South Wales and Westpac in the second half of the twentieth century. It provides a case study for the impact of mechanisation and government regulation and deregulation on a major service industry.

On 3 January 1941 Australian soldiers led an assault against the Italian colonial fortress town of Bardia. Two days later, after 55 hours of heavy fighting, the position fell to the Australians in a resounding victory. The success at Bardia was considered to be one of the greatest military feats in Australian history.

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Becoming Art provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Focuses on the perspective of the artists and the way they engage with the world of fine art, rather than the Western perspective of taking the artworks arrival at the gallery as a starting point.

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Covers of the Canadian and American editions differ slightly.

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In Blush, Probyn argues that shame can be good for us, a powerful resource in rethinking who we are, and who we want to be. The blush is the physical manifestation of shame, and connects us with our humanity. What shames us says a great deal about our character as individuals and as a society, about our past and our desires for the future.

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Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768 Highly readable and presenting much new research, this is an important new book for Cook scholars and armchair explorers alike.