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A classic wartime trilogy originally published in the 1960s, this book is the author's account of his service on HMAS Perth, his account of life as a POW in Burma and coal mining in Nagasaki before the atom bomb freed them.

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This text looks at the ways in which Australia's indigenous peoples have been, and continue to be, represented in books for children. These varying representations have helped to colour the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions of different generations of Australians.

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Sir Redmond Barry was the pre-eminent figure in Melbourne of the middle years of last century. A Supreme Court judge for thirty years, he was the founding and sustaining force behind the University of Melbourne, the Supreme Court Library, the Public Library, the National Gallery and the Museum. This important biography is long overdue.

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Probes the concept of 1950s masculinity, asking what it meant to be an Australian man at this time, offering a compelling exploration of the Australian fifties, and challenging the common belief that the fifties were a 'dead' era for Australian filmmaking.

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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The concept of responsibility permeates social life. While it has many meanings, they often centre around questions of practical and moral accountability, culpability and liability.

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A diverse and probing enquiry which aims to consider the nature of land use, abuse and degradation.

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Expanding on the success of Badlands, Return to Badlands is a collection of the bold and the bizarre in contemporary crime from across the nation. In these pages are a criminal stew of jail-breakers, smash-and-grab merchants and cult fanatics, plus a fair dose of action, gun-play, high-speed chases, looting, shooting and romantic intrigue.

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Takes a wild trip through the new activism sweeping the world. The political march is back in a big way, as communities rally to build movements for environmental and social justice. Crossing the globe, Clare Press meets passionate change-makers who believe in the power of the positive.

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In recent years, people's experience of welfare has undergone dramatic transformation, with the responsibility for managing risk being shifted from state institutions to non-governmental agencies and individuals. In this transformation moral and ethical questions about collective responsibility for social and economic risks abound.

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In 1941, RG Menzies delivered to war-time Australia what was to be his richest, most creative speech, and one of his most influential. Taking us deep into both the man and the culture Menzie represented and well beyond the restraints of conventional biography, this work reveals the ambivalence that lay at the heart of the Australian self-image.

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A celebration of the love that developed between a dog and his human friend.

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Traces the development of the Anzac cult, as well as looking at those who rejected it. This title also examines a paradox: why, as Australia's wars recede in memory, have these memorials and what they stand for become cherished more than ever

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This work describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded Australian's enjoyment of sand and surf. The ways in which artists, writers, film-makers and the advertising industry have depicted the beach are examined for the light they throw on the beach's significance.

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B.A. Santamaria was one of the most controversial Australians of our time. An ardent anti-Communist and devout Catholic, he was polarising, fiercely intelligent and a natural leader. This is an authoritative biography from Gerard Henderson, a close colleague until a disagreement saw the two men estranged.

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Examines what drives the different regional security strategies of four middle powers in the Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia. Drawing on the extant middle power literature, the authors argue that the regional security strategies of middle powers could take two forms: functional or normative.

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Birds provide humans not only with enormous aesthetic pleasure, they also inform us of our ever-changing situation in this complex and unpredictable world. Free flying birds sample the atmosphere, the oceans, the plants, the forests and insect populations, signalling toxic and environmental dangers that threaten all vertebrate species.

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The history of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne is the history of women in the age of modern medicine. It is a story that begins in the dawn of anaesthesia, before the revolutions brought about by aspesis, antisepsis and antibiotics, concluding in our own time with AIDS and IVF. This is both a social and medical history.

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The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual assault in Australias past. Yet we still have little knowledge of the policing, prosecution and punishment of sexual crimes in the past. Sex Crimes in the Fifties examines this history by investigating Australia in the 1950s.

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A study of Australian cinema exploring the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread - the repeated image of sheep. It focuses on two key 'sheep films': ""The Squatter's Daughter"" (Hall, 1933) and ""Bitter Springs"" (Smart, 1950).