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Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories is an important discussion of books that have shaped our understanding of contemporary Indigenous Australian literature.

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A comprehensive and critical edition of Alfred Haddons intimate and remarkably rich journals from his two expeditions to the Torres Strait in 188889 and 189899.

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In the early 1990s, the Australian band Yothu Yindi rose to national prominence with hit songs like 'Treaty' and 'DjAzAzpana' that would become part of Australia's cultural fabric.

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The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire its network of roads, trade routes, towns and forts is often conceived of as an 'edge' of both empire and civilisation but this 'borderland' is also part of a rich cultural landscape.

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Sheringtons is the history of a family over five centuries, set against contexts of place and enterprise.

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This book documents cross-cultural collaboration between manikay singers from south-east Arnhem Land and the Australian Art Orchestra. The interwoven voices of the project are explored as an example of creative intercultural collaboration and a continuation of the manikay tradition.

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This absorbing biography traces the newspaper career of Frank's father R.C. Packer from Hobart and the outback to the founding of Smith's Weekly in 1919. Overshadowed by his brilliant father, Frank was an academic failure at school and a mediocre cadet reporter. Despite his own lack of promise as a journalist, Frank came to rule the Australian media landscape with an iron fist.

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Songs from the Stations documents the vibrant ceremonial practices and musical traditions that flourished on Wave Hill Station during the first half of the 20th century, combining desert and Top End musical styles with influences from the West.

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Spinifex and Sand is Carnegie's celebrated journal of exploration following several years expeditions through the most inhospitable regions of the continent.

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This book offers an informative look into the practice of sport the nature of children's and young people's experiences and its significance for their development.

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Is Furphy's great novel first published in 1903, and signalled the end of the "colonial romance" by its realistic portrayal of Australian rural life.

(Paperback, This edition published by Sydney University Press, 2016. Prepared from the print)

The Art of Living in Australia was first published in 1893 and urged the value of Mediterranean eating and drinking habits for the Australian way of life.

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This groundbreaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets.

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Aboriginal people of NSW carved trees as a form of visual communication for thousands of years. These elaborate designs carved into the sapwood and heartwood of trees once a section of external bark was removed - were meant to last. Sadly, after European colonisation, the practice was abandoned and the original meanings lost. Facsimile edition

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Using archaeological fieldwork, detailed analysis of satellite images, and Google Earth, David Thomas reassesses the Ghrids and generates a more nuanced understanding of this early Islamic polity.

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The Enchantment of English is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities, from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century through to the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which universities proliferated and diversified.

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The Flight of Birds is a collection of fictional and ficto-critical stories, presenting encounters with a range of birds. Embedded in the fictional encounters is a philosophical and theoretical investigation into the ways humans engage with birds.