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Describes the intense commercial rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne over a period of some 150 years. This book focuses on the key roles played by several financial institutions - and certain key personalities - over many decades. It includes some 70 photos of the main players in this remarkable tussle for top-financial-city status.

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Long after slavery was officially abolished, the practice not only continues but thrives. This important book examines slavery in the modern world and outlines ways it can be stopped.

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This text is a comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation in Australia, the book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and examines how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition.

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From an army nurses letters home during the First World War, military families in Southeast Asia during the Cold War and recovering air force war dead to educating Papua New Guinean forces and the experiences of LGBTI soldiers, Beyond Combat is a wide-ranging examination of military operations away from the battlefield.

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Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting And who walks away with the spoils Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation's 40 million cadres - the officials employed by the Communist Party to protect its great enterprise.

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Understanding the moral responsibility of Australia's major carbon emitters is a crucial first step in determining how to fairly share the burdens of a climate transition. In Carbon Justice, philosopher Jeremy Moss sets out an ethical framework to establish the cost of the harms of these major emitters and what they should do about it.

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Covers the main areas of mathematics used in the first years of a typical engineering, science or applied mathematics degree. This is a guide to what the important skills in mathematics are: the ones that need to be remembered. It includes the useful elements of MATLAB and Maple the two common computer tools used by students at university.

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Provides identification information on 77 of the most common eucalypts species that occur in the Sydney region. This title is illustrated with each species description accompanied by a photograph of the bark, illustrations of buds and fruit, a tree structure diagram and a distribution map to assist with easy identification.

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Written by two of Australia's best-known constitutional experts, this is essential reading on how Australias Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement. Importantly, it explains how the Uluru Statement offers change that will benefit the whole nation.

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A guide dedicated to Australia's thirteen species of Megachiroptera. These 'mega' bats do not comply with standard bat stereotypes. They live in forests rather than caves, they navigate by sight rather than echolocation, and their long snouts and large ears and eyes give them a canine like look - hence the description of 'flying foxes'.

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Telling the story of Ali Mullaie, an Afghan asylum seeker, since granted refugee status in Australia, who spent three and half years detained on Nauru, this book backgrounds his profile and his fellow detainees with a discussion of the impact of the detention center and the 'Pacific Solution' on the people of Nauru and their country.

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This practical book is an indispensable guide to writing history. It advises writers on how much research is necessary, how to manage notes and files, when you should start writing, whether to use the first person, and whether to structure your work chronologically or thematically. It offers tips on how to write a compelling narrative.

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Tells the remarkable story of AIDS volunteers who engaged in a struggle for life against death. For the first time, by focusing on individual life stories, this book explores the crucial role of the men and women who volunteered at at time of disaster.

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An indispensable guide to skills of reasoning, explanation and writing. This book takes common problems in Psychology & relevant public controversies showing many arguments around the same problem. It also provides guidelines for writing good reports and essays.

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Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that they largely take for granted. But the road there wasnt easy. Making Medicare is a comprehensive account of the Australias long, tortuous and unconventional path towards universal health care as it was established, abolished and introduced again and of the reforms that brought it into being.

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Offers an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics. Chris Wallace reflects on the roles and motives of biographers and their biographies in the 20th century. The result is an intimate history of Australian national politics.

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Examines the role of history in key Indigenous rights cases which occurred during the era of the Howard government, when Indigenous rights and the place of Aboriginal people in the national story were repudiated in a variety of government laws and policies.

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In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also sensed the savagery lurking in white society. The story of behaviour, respect and manners in colonial Australia.

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A guide to freshwater aquaculture in Australia, which emphasises sustainable use of all resources: whether it be on a small scale in a backyard pond, or in commercial production on broad acres. This book includes information from design and construction of ponds to water quality, enhancing production.

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Argues that young people's creative capacities are not being properly developed and that education, particularly in Australia, demands a massive pedagogical shift. This title describes what creative capacities are, why they've become important to our work futures, and what can be done to optimise the creative capacities of young people.

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The Liberal-National Party Coalition was elected to office on 2 March 1996 and continued in power until 3 December 2007 making John Howard the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister. This book is the final in a four-volume series examining the four Howard Governments.

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Reflects on the aftermath of World War I and the commemoration of its centenary. Provocative essays from a diverse group of historians discuss the profound ways in which World War I not only affected Australias political system and informed decades of national security policy but shaped our sense of who we are, for better or worse.