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Valmiki is a renowned doctor and loving if confused father. His youngest daughter, Viveka, lively, intelligent, is intent on escaping the gilded cage. Father and daughter conceal painful secrets about their sexual identities, and it is Viveka's struggle to discover the truth about herself that threatens to unmask her father.

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Documents the migration flow of Italian immigrants from the late 1800s to the present day.

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Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring and lyrical new works.

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What once lived in the global ocean What is living there now What will live there in the future The answers to these questions are at the heart of World Ocean Census, which also explores the great adventures experienced during the books research.

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Explores the profound impact of time and place on the lives of two women, and questions the things we value, the places we call home and the spaces between life and death.

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In the First World War, Australian reactions to death were defined by distance, a circumstance that impelled mourners towards communal responses to their loss. It drove them to create and sustain links with the graves that most knew they would never see. This book deals with this topic.

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A history of the university grounds, their design, management and landscape evolution. It is also a reminder of the very rich educational resource the grounds can offer in botany, ecology, landscape design and social history. It includes sections on areas of special interest such as the Sunken Garden, Somerville Auditorium and Japanese Garden.

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Moving between Perth, Melbourne and the English village of Granston and shifting between two generations, this title illuminates the stories of Grace and her parents Peter and Madeleine. It explores the tragic consequences when people cease communicating with each other, and the suffering imposed on children by adults crippled by grief.

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This collection of short fiction explores what lies beneath the apparently normal, even mundane, surfaces of people's lives. Desire in its many manifestations is the unifying theme of these stories. This exploration of interior lives, from the young to the old and all in between, reveals some surprising insights.

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This work details the architecture of John Cyril Hawes (1876-1956), who left behind a legacy which spans England, Western Australia, the US and the Bahamas. He had two vocations in life: as artist/architect and as a strongly religious man who showed a devotion to holy work.

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The Zuytdorp, one of the great ships of the Dutch East India Company, disappeared without a trace after leaving Cape Town in 1712, en route to Batavia (Jakarta). The ship was carrying a rich cargo including some 250,000 guilders in silver coins. The author, one of the wrecks discoverers, gives an account of an incredible true story.

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A guide to over 130 plant species, from seagrasses to the beautiful Boronia alata, from mangroves of the Abralhos Islands that grow along the Perth coastline and on the islands between Dongara and Dunsborough. It is illustrated with line drawings and watercolour paintings of these species.

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A guide to community empowerment and sustainability, which uses notable urban and rural action groups and issues as informative case studies.

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A history of the Northcliffe region of Western Australia which seeks to understand the land and the conflicting views over its use.

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In 2002, Walkley Award-winning photojournalist went to live with the Martu people - one of the last Indigenous groups in Australia's vast Western Desert to come into contact with Europeans. With photographs, this title captures the beauty, humour, sadness and friendship of a traditional Aboriginal tribe at odds with western culture.

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Long recognised for its fine old buildings, the cosmopolitan port city of Fremantle held special significance as the first landfall for early settlers to the Swan River Colony. The author takes the reader on a fascinating journey through nineteenth century Fremantle, a journey centred on the grim complex of buildings set up to house the prisoners.