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Offers an account of the many terminally ill people whom the author has assisted to end their lives. This book is a moving journey with those who came to him for help and a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. It is also a doctor's personal story about the moral dilemmas and ethical choices.

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The last two volumes in Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts cover Federation, the Boer War and World War I's Gallipoli. They finish with the story of an emerging Australian identity at the point of its greatest trial - the outbreak of World War I.

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The period from the first temporary convict camp of 1803 to the formal separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851 encompasses years of struggle and adversity. They saw the future of the territory shaped by Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators and immigrants.

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A collaborative autobiography and an oral narrative as well as a history. The subject is the experience of the Anglo-Australian Burrage family on Aboriginal reserves between 1917 and 1940.

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We've lit big fires and gentle flames over the ages to open our minds, to warn of danger, to brighten our way through the darkness and to allow us to read at night. This work is concerned with the world and the simple beauty of science. It also features cameos from Albert Einstein, Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens, and Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Engages an assortment of people in the worlds of politics, society, art, sport, music and architecture.

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From the marble trading floors of Wall Street to the dirt floor of a microfinance lender in rural Sumatra, finance touches everybody's lives. A Matter of Trust explores how the finance sector can stand as a true profession and provides a practical guide to make everyday business decisions in an ethically sound way.

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A memoir of a young man's coming of age in wartime. This work presents an account of his childhood growing up in Sydney through his years serving in the Royal Australian Navy from 1942 to 1947. It details his rise from a callow sublieutenant to a lieutenant in command of his own ship, as he patrolled the shores of Japanese-held territory.

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Comprises essays dealing with crime, law and punishment in colonial Australia. Topics include: women under the convict system in New South Wales; the paradoxical relationship between race, justice and criminal law in north Queensland; and regulation of the vagrant in late 19th-century Melbourne.

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In 1835 a renegade group of Tasmanians wishing to expand their landholdings disembarked in what was to become Melbourne. This colonising expedition was funded by a group of investors including the Jewish convict Joseph Solomon. Thus, in Melbourne, as in the settlement of the continent itself, Jews were at the foundation of colonisation.

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This is the remarkable story of two outstanding Australians whose lives were lived large, loud and often compartmentalised-- and who, ultimately, have been bound by tragedy.

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Over the past decade there have been 32 land rights cases in the Northern Territory which have been started or completed. This book charts the territories of various Aboriginal groups throughout Australia.

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The myth of Aboriginal people as simply passive welfare recipients remains dominant. This book examines Aboriginal interaction with a wide range of agencies at federal, state and local levels (giving equal emphasis to each) in order to identify the real state of affairs.

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Scottish aristocrat, rebellious youth, expert horseman, MP and poet - beneath the image of rake and hellraiser, Gordon remained a frustated conservative. A flawed hero, he was acclaimed as Australia's National Poet in 1933. Hutton examines him as a man and a poet against his culture and his times.

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Exposes the dangerous links between religion and politics, and the dogmatism of ideologies as a cause for conflict in the world.

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Adela Pankhurst, of the famous suffragette family, left England for Australia in 1914 after differences with her mother. She became involved in numerous political causes in Australia, including anti-war and anti-conscription movements, and later the right-wing Australia First movement.

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The reputations of artists are curious things, influenced by factors beyond the quality of the work. Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist's reputation after he or she dies. It highlights the sometimes heart-wrenching way emotion and duty intersect in the making of decisions by those left behind.

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Takes an in-depth look at the present situation in Afghanistan by placing it in the context of the countrys tribal culture, history, and demography. It considers its association with Pakistan, with whom it shares not only a long border, but also the Pashtuns - the largest ethnic component in its population - and the rise of extremism in many parts of the Sunni world.