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This Chinese edition of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, edited by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and assisted by Ms Yuk Ping Chan, is published in full Chinese characters.

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Though many works on the achievements of Chinese people exist, women rarely feature. This volume contains over 300 biographies of Chinese women including foreigners with significance in China. The book features revolutionaries, activists, novelists, poets, scientists, lawyers and many other significant women of the twentieth century.

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Tracing the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and after, its publication: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils from 1896, Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of pared-back bush realism, as he struggled to forge a career writing for newspapers.

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This book tells a once secret and little known story of how the Australian government accepted the advice of a zoologist and seconded the country's leading artists and designers to deploy optical tricks and illusions to protect the nation.

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Take the passage through the cellar door, as the pages of this anthology lead you down dark steps into a room lit up with ideas, words and wonder. Skip across continents, see colour anew, dress in the costumes of loved ones or fall through the Earth into a world below...

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Tells stories about the unsafe, damp and cramped living conditions at sea endured by emigrants and sailors alike. It highlights the need to improve the desperate conditions and the need for a faster route for ships to travel. There is also a whaling story that paints a vivid picture of a whale chase in the hazardous waters south of Hobart.

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This volume focuses on mining. The goldfields stories in Household Words present a broad picture of life at the diggings. Occasionally a fabulous find (sometime spent in a week); but, more often, depictions of optimistic diggers being beaten by the hard life, hard luck or looming failure.

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This volume contains stories on the experiences of convicts. Beginning with court processes and sentencing in Britain, the stories provide an insight into the conditions of prisoners on board ships to Australia and in prisons, and the range of treatments received by convicts until their conditional or final pardon.

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Contains stories of the triumphs and failures associated with opening up new country in the Australian bush. There are descriptions of cattle drives, bullock wagons, and poignant stories of lost settlers and children so often found through the uncanny abilities of Aboriginal trackers.

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The stories in this volume examine important questions faced by prospective immigrants: how to prepare; what to take to Australia; how to recognise a suitable vessel to sail on; who and where to go for advice before embarking on this life-changing adventure.

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This is the first critical study to focus on Steads time in America and its influence on her writing.

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Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared and disappeared in Australian literature. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic circumstances of life in the colonies.

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Drawing on examples of worldwide best practice urban planning, Leslie A. Stein uses an evidence-based approach and a consideration of underlying ideologies to find the universal patterns, solutions and responses to common urban planning problems.

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Ecologies of Invention is the first collection of essays that brings together writers and scholars of international standing from the University of Sydney and beyond to examine assumptions underlying notions of inventiveness.

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