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Cartography is herein revealed to be the product of powerful social formations, informing not only where we see ourselves in the world but also how our cultural, historical and economic identities have developed over time. This is a cross-disciplinary survey of the history of cartography in Australia and Southern Africa.

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Melbourne Journal: Notebooks 1998-2003 is the third instalment in Alan Loney's notebooks, covering the period in between his previous publications (Sidetracks: Notebooks 1976-1991 and Crankhandle: Notebooks June 2010-November 2013).

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It addresses questions such as: How is emotion embodied and performed in ritual Why are the senses significant in song How do musical sentiments communicate in an interconnected world It invites readers to rethink the place of ecology in music and emotion as well as how emotions transcend cultural difference.

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Vanessa Henman, a British writer, is attending a Pan-African Writers' Conference in Uganda. She decides to pay her former cleaner, Mary Tendo, a surprise visit. A hilarious comedy of cultural errors.

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Retraces the perilous voyages of two nineteenth-century Australian whaling ships, the Lady Rowena and the Eamont, as they endured shipwreck, mutiny, massacre and imprisonment while harvesting whales off the Japanese coast. This title draws on the journal of the Lady Rowenas ship master and is supplemented by Japanese historical accounts.

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A history of Allawah Grove Settlement, Guildford, Perth which provided low budget housing for Aboriginal families. Former residents and workers reflect on their time at Allawah Grove during the 50s and 60s and the aim of this publication is to provide a balance between the sometimes unsympathic facts and memories of those who lived

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Written by three of Western Australia's most prominent orchidologists and featuring over 200 hundred full-page, colour illustrations by renowned botanical artist Pat Dundas, this long-awaited volume is the first modern text cataloguing all known species of Western Australia.

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Conductor composer Georg Tintner is best known to music lovers for his stunning interpretations of Bruckner's symphonies, recorded in the 1990s. Tanya Tintner, Georg's third wife, explores with both tenderness and a clear eye the privations that her husband, a true vessel for art, had to confront to survive in the modern world.

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When Kate, a white Australian foster mother, takes her 18-year old Torres Strait Islander foster son back to Brisbane to meet his sick birth mother, Kate's own mother has a homecoming of a very different kind planned for her daughter. Paydirt paints a portrait of contemporary Australia that is that is anything but black versus white.

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"UWA Publishing, a division of The University of Western Australia"--T.p. verso.

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Geoffrey Lehmann's distinguished career as a poet culminates in this volume of collected work from 1957-2013. Displaying the breadth and depth of his poetry, Lehmann explores human nature in settings as diverse as ancient Rome and rural New South Wales, from searing satire to the domestic life of a family.