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The ultimate guide to the night sky

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Being a woman on a board, running an ASX top -listed company, or running a government department remains an exception rather than the norm. Catherine Fox labels these the seven myths about women and work.

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In this fully revised fourth edition of A Charter of Rights for Australia, George Williams and Daniel Reynolds show that human rights are not adequately protected in Australia, contrary to what most people think. Using some pressing examples, they demonstrate how the rights of people at the margins of society are violated in often shocking ways.

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A perceptive, clear-eyed account of Australian universities, recounting their history from the 1850s to the present. Investigating the changing nature of higher education, this book asks whether this success is likely to continue in the 21st century, as the universitys hold over knowledge grows ever more tenuous.

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A Modern Dog's Life offers a new approach to owning and training a dog. The book explores the challenges faced by modern dogs (and their owners) while exploring what motivates dogs, how to train them effectively, and how to meet their needs for fun and exercise. It will appeal to every dog owner, vet, trainer or breeder.

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An honest and deeply personal story of how a privileged white woman deals with the realisation that the children she grew up with were part of the Stolen Generation. A Tear in the Soul is a frank, beautifully written account of Amanda Websters personal journey towards the realisation that she, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and idealised version of the past.

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Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock its politics into the fossil fuel age. This book exlores the role of the Adani Carmichael mine in the conflict over coal. We see the rise of a fossil fuel network linking mining companies, oligarchs, big banks, think tanks, the media and all sides of Australian politics.

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Arguably Australia's most influential political journalist, Alan 'the red fox' Reid covered Australian politics from the 1930s to the 1980s. During his career he was both a chronicler of, and player in, Australian politics. A look at a Machiavellian behind-the-scenes world of recurrent plots, crises and leadership challenges.

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No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which - during campaigns in Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea, and Borneo - sustained more casualties and won more medals than any other Australian division.

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A core textbook of anthopometry - human body measurement - for sports science and human movement courses, with applications in ergonomics, psychology, nutrition, physiology and other health subjects.

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In Anzacs Dirty Dozen a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and fabrications that obscure the real story. Did their military history start at Gallipoli Did they really punch above our weight in military might Are our soldiers more ethical than others in combat

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For the first time, this book tells the powerful, and until now neglected, story of how Australian humanitarians helped people they had barely heard of and never met, amid one of the twentieth centurys most terrible human calamities. With 50,000 Armenian-Australians sharing direct family links with the Genocide, this has become truly an Australian story.

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People have long told machines what to do by pushing buttons. Now, with advances in technology, machines are pushing our buttons. Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks takes us from the origins of human behaviour to the latest in artificially intelligent technologies, providing a fresh and original view of the very near future of human relationships.

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Take a wonderfully sentimental trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne as he shows us bits of Australia we'd forgotten, identities and landmarks we loved and let him remind us that some of the best things about Australia haven't changed.

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Presents the story of eight Australian fighter pilots who were engaged in the Battle of Britain, the first major battle of World War II (or any war) fought entirely in the air. Only one came home. Kristen Alexander gives a personal account of each airman, following them from childhood through to their experiences in the war, and their commemoration since.

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In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.

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Half a million Australians encountered a new world when they entered Asia and the Pacific during World War II: different peoples, cultures, languages and religions chafing under the grip of colonial rule. This book paints a picture not only of individual lives transformed, but of dramatically shifting national perceptions, as the gaze of Australia turned from Britain to Asia.

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Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm This volume offers the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their male colleagues and filed stories from the main conflict zones of the twentieth century.

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An introductory text for tertiary students studying the measurement of building works.

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In Behind Closed Doors John Warhurst, an observer of the lobbying industry for thirty years, describes its growing size and importance in Australia. He looks at the many ways in which lobbyists attempt to influence politicians and other decision makers, and assesses their positive and negative roles in the political system.