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Digital technologies - including computing and mobile technologies - are among the most widely discussed subjects of our time. Yet their effects on young people and their education, and on developments in wider society, are poorly understood. This book links together the many different conversations currently taking place.

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A book about the solar system that offers an appreciation of our place in the cosmos. From straightforward facts such as, How far away are stars and What did Galileo see through his telescope to broader questions such as, Is there an edge to the universe and How did the universe begin, it is suitable for various levels of interest.

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This book examines a diverse and eclectic array of Australian locales (including Maralinga, cubby huts, video games and art galleries), and the often deliberately erased or marginalised connections contemporary Australia has with Indigenous antiquity.

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Henry Tuhoe works for a multinational conglomerate thats begun to outsource everything it can to third world countries. His beautiful wife no longer lets him touch her, even though she demanded he get a vasectomy; and his bright new home in the leafy suburbs comes with a crippling mortgage. Life doesn't seem so sweet any more.

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Many people fear that the ivory tower is crumbling. Of urgent concern are deteriorating standards, fewer jobs, waning professional prestiage and new layers of inequity.

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Jean Beadle was the founder of Labor Women's Organisations in Fremantle and the Eastern Goldfields and as one of Western Australia's first female Justices of the Peace, a voluntary Children's Court Magistrate and a keen writer and orator, played a prominent role in State politics throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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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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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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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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Prominent women of Western Australia's Pilbara region and their stories.

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Western Australia is famous for its unique plants and animals, and many of those people who have been drawn to study them, have also been remarkable. One of the most remarkable of these people is Rica Erickson. This book gives an account of how Rica became interested in natural history, who were her guides, and how she did her research.