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Marcel Weyland's translation of poetry and prose by Polish Jewish poet Wadysaw Szlengel is a landmark in Australian publishing. It is essential in bringing to Australian readers a remarkable voice not only of witness, but also of passionate and committed cultural and spiritual resistance.

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This book is an effort to create a better understanding and improve our education about Islam. It answers 101 commonly asked questions and gives clear and concise information about the faith and practices of Islam. "This should be compulsory reading for anyone who feels they have a right to talk about Islam." (Bruce Elder, SMH, Spectrum)

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Exploring the profound impact of science and technology on the world, the author takes us on a journey into our relationship with the machine and its repercussions on contemporary spiritual life. It analyses the role of technicity and the threat it poses to the continued existence of the soul in people.

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The story of the influences - human, political and artistic, which shaped the life of Harry Seidler, disciple of Bauhaus architecture. Spans seccessionist Vienna and the years of Anschluss to Sydney in the 1990s, his introduction to architecture as a schoolboy in England internment in Canada and as a student of Gropius and Marcel Breuer.

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The author is the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia. This anthology, collected over 30 years, reflects Charkianakis' experience of Australia and his research into the historic memory and natural landscape of the country.

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A poetry collection capturing moods and moments common to us all, and attempts to reveal the inexhaustible depth of our everyday lives.

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A coming of age account of Tom Krupa's childhood in the 1950s as American film stars and rock'n'roll begin to influence Australian culture. A story of a sensitive child's awakening to cruel realities when he loses friends in different accidents and day-to-day life as lived in an outer western suburb with his Polish migrant parents.

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Radical changes swept through the Catholic Church in the 1960s, but the hopes and promises of the time fell away in the years that followed. The story of a Sydney priest-academic engaged in a balancing act over the years of change.

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Set in a Black Sea resort in Georgia in the dying days of the Soviet Empire, this is the story of Bronsky, a medical researcher haunted by the fate of his father who spent years in a labour camp under Stalin over a chance remark. The author, Igor Gelbak, was born in Samarkand, but now lives in Melbourne.

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In the late 1960s, new theatre companies who had a passion for Australianess, were created in opposition to stuffy, mostly imported theatre of no relevance to themselves. This work gives insights on how the new drama explored Australian themes and issues, in a theatre where the playwright had pride of place.

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Tells a story of Castlecrag, the creator of Walter Burley Griffin, architect/landscape architect of Canberra fame, and his architect wife Marion Mahony Griffin. It gives an overall picture of his life in Castlecrag during the first two formative decades.

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A verse novel from the poet Geoff Page which covers the trials and tribulations of a 1930s all-girl swing band playing on the Sydney ferries.

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Set in Brisbane during the stultifying 1950s, this account of the betrayal of love throws us into the disordered world of Sookie, a young artist. As she transits warily to the London of the 'swinging' 70s, she comes up against those who would try to steal her very identity. Intelligent, mordantly funny, it is dark comedy with edges.

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Caught between the worlds of Canada and Australia, this novel is both a mystery story and an archaeology of memory, mediated by the young narrator trying to piece together fragments of an atypical family.

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Whitby Downs, a famous cattle station on the Clarence River, has been in the Whitby hands since the 1840s but now they are selling up. Or are they Freehold, Geoff Page's third verse novel, from its opening section, a parallel exchange of 19th century letters, takes a profound look at what land can come to mean to its owners over time.

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Explores legal, ethical, political, and philosophical implications of genocide in case studies on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Gacaca, the Khymer Rouge and others.

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Inhabited by modern myths and creatures, this volume marks a new direction in Kelen's poetic journey - a return to his home in the Austraian suburbs and a return to the more tightly rhythmed lyric forms of his earlier work.

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Grass Notes is a highly crafted poetry collection. Subtle, rich and diverse in subject matter, Sarah Day's poems are linked by cadence and musicality. Time and transience form the sub-stratum of much of the book: the past from the perspective of the present, the present from the perspective of the past (View from a Roman Litter).