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As the world moves towards a planetary society, the forces of globalisation are creating greater interdependence between individuals, enterprises, communities and nations, leading to a new culture that Peter Ellyared calls 'Planetism'. The values of 'Planetism' will, he argues, shape the global market-place of the early twenty-first century.

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Examines the social and educational experiences of Arab and Muslim Australian youth against a wider political backdrop. At a time when fear and confusion permeate their experiences, Identity, Education and Belonging is an all-important study of the lives of Muslim and Arab youth in Australia.

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Australians once believed that the Aboriginals were doomed to extinction. This study explores the origins and the gradual demise of the "doomed race" theory, seeking to show that white perceptions of Australia's indigenous people were shaped by Enlightenment, Darwinian and other European concepts.

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Young people consider their future at a stage of life when the structure and relative certainty of school and further education are about to be left behind. This book provides an insight into how young people see themselves, the options they think are available to them and the strategies they use to make their imagined futures possible.

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It was Simon P. Lock's determination that put Sydney on the international fashion week circuit alongside New York, London, Milan and Paris. In the Front Row charts the rise of Australian Fashion Week from one man's ambition to make the world take note of the frocks, fashions and models from down under to the glittering international event it is today.

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By exploring Australian responses to death, this book contributes to the growing interest in what such responses reveal about our society and how we might better deal with death as a part of life. The authors - a theologian and a funeral director - look at the social history of this topic, and look squarely at the questions we persist

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This book is the culmination of a multi-year research project funded by the Australian Research Council and represents the first detailed discussion of the theory, policy and practice of employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) in Australia.

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Examines the struggle for equality of citizenship of Indian Muslims in light of the release of the Sachar Committee report of 2006, which sparked widespread awareness of socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religious minorities in India, especially Muslims. The contributors are some of the most eminent social scientists in the fields of applied economics, politics, sociology and demography.

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For two years police detective Colin McLaren disappeared off the face of the earth, eventually surfacing in Griffith as a dodgy art dealer with a pretty girlfriend, and talking his way into the Mafia. Colin eats with them and cuddles their kids, all the while climbing the N'Drangheta, finally befriending the Griffith Godfather, Antonio Romeo.

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A study of contemporary Islamic consciousness, this title provides insight into aspects of the Muslim faith, and its place in the 21st century. It examines attitudes to issues such as religious commitment; the status of women; the concept of jihad and its alleged links to terrorism; Islamic philanthropy; and, attitudes towards blasphemy.

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Celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth; ponders the quintessence of the 'Don'; dissects the Australian way of cricket across demography, politics and the politics of race; attempts to unravel the mystery that is cricket administration. This title explains the finer points of cricket technique from taking guard to the leave.

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Throughout the Cold War Paul Dibb worked with the highest levels of Australian and American intelligence, and was one of very few Australian officials to be given the top-secret security clearance for access to Pine Gap. Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors is Paul's unique insight into how Australia saw the threat from the Soviet Union during the Cold War era and beyond.

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Draws on a wide range experts including academics, former and current strategic advisers and members of government, private industry professionals and intelligence community experts, to provide a diagnostic, clear-eyed approach in explaining, accessing and exposing the central foundations and frameworks necessary for effective practice of intelligence.

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Investigating the uses of the zine form for life writing, this title examines the recurrent themes in texts circulating in Australian zine culture, including depression, consumerism, popular culture and political identity. It also examines zine culture as a unique community of life writing and reading.

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The author travels across twenty thousand kilometres of the Australia's remote outback, to its coast and its cities in search of the Australia of the stereotypes and discovers that Australia is, contrary to popular imagination, resolutely urban, with a rich multicultural population struggling to be tolerant.

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Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceed European settlement. She believed they originated in regular visits to the northern coast of Australia by Macassan fishermen from southern Sulawesi and nearby islands.

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Examines the complex debates and dilemmas facing Islam today, both internally and in its relations with Western civilisation. Rane provides a concise, comprehensive introduction to Islam and modern developments in Muslim thought, and tackles questions of Islamic law, human rights, democracy, jihad and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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Examines the growing presence of Islam and Muslims in Australia and how it is transforming, and transformed by, social, cultural and religious spaces. The book illuminates how socio-cultural, economic, and political processes maintain and manage the ways Australian Muslims build their religious lives and identities and engage in the wider world.

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The central focus of this volume is to explore and highlight the nexus between the ideology of Islam and social and cultural milieus with the aim of reconceptualising the sacred as a socially constructed reality and not a transcendental supernatural phenomenon.