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Sir James Gobbo is an exemplar of Australia's multicultural society. In these memoirs, Sir James reflects on his involvement with immigration reform and in the growth of multicultural policy. The book traces his extensive contributions to areas such as artisanship training, the Australian honours system, hospital administration and philanthropy.

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Tells the stories of unknown settlers alongside the drama of Niel Black's journal. This title includes the story of a mother of a six-week-old baby perched on a wagon in the middle of the bush journeying out to her husband's station. It includes women chased down by Black on horseback and also Aboriginal warriors who threaten from forest.

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The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. This work traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition. It places the Boyds in their historical and personal contexts, and tells the interwoven stories of their brilliant careers, and analyses the shaping influences on their lives.

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The Henty brothers were pioneer settlers from 1834 at Portland Bay. The journals tell of the lives of four young men variously engaged in farming, whaling and coastal shipping, providing a record of the introduction of well-ordered English farming methods to a new land as well as a whaling logbook.

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When Kenneth Baillieu Myer's father fell dead on the footpath in 1934, Ken's life changed in that instant. Groomed by his mother to lead the Myer empire, Ken with his brother oversaw Myer's failure as a major retailing force and sold it to Coles. This biography is about money: making it, giving it and its responsibilities.

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A memoir of the author's university years, which tells the story of share-house dramas, the entanglements and the debates which characterised her student years, and also describes the challenges of striking out alone.

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This republishes Mark Twain's Australian travel writing, in which he recounts his impressions of Sydney and his view of Australian history. Includes introduction from Don Watson.

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Sir Ernest Edward 'Weary' Dunlop was the type of rare individual who inspires others to impossible feats by example. This biography covers Weary's life from his early childhood and medical training, to his experiences as a prisoner of war on the notorious Thai-Burma railway, to his later distinguished career as a surgeon and humanitarian.

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A history of Australia that covers: discovery by European; navigators who claimed the land as their own; the First Fleet, convict settlements and the gold rushes; the birth-pangs of a federated nation, and the experiences of Australians in the world's wars; and the Australian way of life.

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The author skilfully evokes contemporary China and the Chinese; his delightful account is peppered with his encounters with the unexpected, including a TV crew, a snake and China's top rock star. He also takes us on a personal journey, revealing the growing sense of loneliness and bewilderment he experienced.

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From Beijing to Berlin, Stockholm to Sydney, this work is a journey through the centuries using maps and panoramic views. Not only tracing the architectural forms of cities from the medieval fortress and the rise of the industrial metropolis, it also charts how religion royalty art and war have helped shape our environment.

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The October 2008 issue focuses on cultures of panic, particularlyrecent examples of moral panic arising from issues of race, gender and sexuality.

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This edition brings together a diverse set of essays and new writing that identify particular national tendencies, notions of family, epistemological worries about postmodernity's represented purpose and queries about cultural studies as it is taught and as it could be understood.

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This is the most extensive and comprehensive dictionary of battles and sieges ever published in English, with more than 8500 meticulously researched entries. It offers easy-to-find A-Z entries that cover conflicts from practically every era and place of human history.

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Meet the youth of today's Middle East, cool, sexy, and devout. Faced with her own quarter-life crisis, Allegra Stratton takes herself out of her comfort zone to meet the young men and women of Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Kuwait and Damascus, where she encounters the muhajababes (and muhajaboys) a youth culture on the cusp of change.

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Explores the impact of technological change on women's work and on women's wages, and analyzes the connections between gender relations and the new technologies.

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Leads us on a chronological journey through popular music poster art - the jazz, rock and roll, pop and punk scenes in Australia. This work reproduces over five hundred posters, and tells us where poster art sits in the world of fine art. It evokes the stories of the artists, promoters and performers that surround these posters.

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Victoria was the first Australian colony to open a steam railway, in 1854. Railway history both reflected and made Victorian history as a whole, especially during the boom and bust of the 1880s and 1890s. This book tells the story of the early railways opened in the wake of the gold rush to Ballarat and Bendigo.