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Brings together forty-two selected speeches and lectures by Professor Manning Clark. They range over fifty years from ""What of Germany"", delivered in 1940, to the last, delivered in 1991 just before his death at the launch of Barry Humphries' book ""The Life and Death of Sandy Stone"" and reveal recurring themes in his thinking.

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Practical and humorous, Surviving your Split it's the sort of guidance you'd get if your best friend was a family lawyer. It's for everyone who needs help to navigate the legal minefield of divorce, and wants some tips on how to get through it with their life relatively intact-and the possibility of creating an even better, happier life at the other side.

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Australia's leading thinkers give their robust opinion on the arguments and issues that fuelled public debate in 2018. This collection of essays brings you the best of the authoritative journalism for which The Conversation is renowned. Immerse yourself in the insights of experts and navigate the key questions of our times.

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A little bit of authority goes a long way in an opinionated world. Here Australia's most erudite thinkers share expert views on the issues that shaped the nation in 2019. The Conversation Yearbook has become an annual bestselling collection that navigates fake news and shouty views and offers a fresh perspective on the fundamental issues.

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Defines the relationship between an architect of genius, William Wardell, and the first Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, James Goold, an Irishman educated in Risorgimento, Italy. Together, they actively and creatively shaped the city that became a major international metropolis.

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Golfers the world over know their game is a microcosm of life. Golf and life require patience and courage, persistence and honesty, focus and self-belief. In both, we must learn to deal with triumph and disaster. In this updated edition of The Spirit of Golf and How It Applies to Life Richard Allen adds to the hilarious and inspirational stories that are part of life on the links.

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Explores aspects of ultra-modern Australia, from tattoos, shabby chic and our obsession with personal devices, to the 'poetry' of number plates. Other critiques explore national myths and consider the recurring conflict over 'White Australia or Fair Australia'

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From the earliest known myths and legends to postmodern fictions, books are mirrors of real worlds, windows into imagined worlds and keepers of powerful ideas. Beautifully illustrated, The World of the Book is a celebration of this age-old tradition drawing upon the rare collections of the State Library of Victoria.

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Surveys nearly three millennia of literature, including novels, poems, songs, sacred texts and narrative prose, to show the extraordinary diversity of the human experience of the sea, the passions that it awakens and the hold it has on our imaginations. This work also includes quotations from the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the ""Qur'an"".

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Throughout the 1990s international higher education networks, including the International Association of Universities and the Association of Commonwealth Universities, were joined by a wave of smaller, more homogeneous groupings of universities, known as global consortia. This book evaluates these alliances.

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From stem cell technology and genetic screening to new reproductive possibilities - the unprecedented developments in science are among the most contentious issues of our times. This work includes essays which explore the ethical decisions we must make and ask the question: what must we protect about our humanity for future generations

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Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, 'For Love Alone' is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love.

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This three volume set marks the first time any Australian literary writer has had his/her correspondence published in its entirety. The letters of Henry Handel Richardson were opened in March 1996 to unrestricted access, but none of the letters may be published until this edition of the complete correspondence has been released.

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This volume covers the period leading to HHR's success with Ultima Thule in 1929. The fame that came so late is suddenly blighted in 1933 by the death of her devoted husband. As the volume closes, she is forced to leave London and embark on a new life in very different circumstances.

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Presents an anthology of modernist art, design and architecture in Australia which reveals the raw nerves that modernism exposed and highlights the role of migrants, expatriates, travel and mass reproduction in the reception of modernism in Australia. This work shows a surprising acceptance of modernism in the commercial realms.

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For 50 years, Judith and Barbara were fond friends. Their letters record a lively conversation between two equally strong women writers, who both relished the play and beauty of words and whose first and most powerful link was through poetry.

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B.A. Santamaria was a political activist and traditionalist Catholic layman, an important figure in one of the key political events in Australia history, the disastrous 1954 split in the ALP. Santamaria produced many working documents for his employees, supporters and members, published here in the public realm for the first time.

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