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By: Maggie Brady

ISBN: 9780868405353
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Gives a unique perspective on approaches to problem drinking among Aboriginal people, and the role that cultural difference has played. It finds that in the 1980s there was an innovative and lively international debate about addictions, yet these understandings and potential solutions did not find their way into Aboriginal programs.


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By: Paul Davey

ISBN: 9781742234335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: UNSW Press
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In 1987, the premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, launched an audacious bid to enter federal politics. But what really happened behind the scenes Unfolding like a political thriller, Joh for Canberra: The Inside Story reveals for the first time the details of the campaign that rocked Australian federal politics.


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By: Frances Christie

ISBN: 9780868405834
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: UNSW Press
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This book is intended as a textbook for teacher education in the primary years. Drawing on much recent research into language and literacy, especially Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, it provides basic principles for understanding the teaching of the English language.


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By: Craig Langston

ISBN: 9780868406947
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Addresses the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment. It includes the time-value of money, discounted cash-flow analysis, differential price-level movement and affordability fluctuations. Contemporary issues such as occupancy costs, sustainability implications and value adding are also addressed.


(Paperback, 6th edition)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Aimed at the lighting student and lighting designer, this explains the fundamentals of lighting, providing applicable knowledge on the subject.


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By: Colin A. Hughes

ISBN: 9780868409481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Recently introduced legislation and other proposal from government ministers threaten Australians' right to vote. Brian Costar and Colin A. Hughes argue that rather than watering down democratic rights we need to strengthen the key features of our electoral system.


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By: Kamali Kannangara

ISBN: 9780868404370
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2002
Publisher: UNSW Press
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After genetic engineering, nanotechnology may well prove to be the 21st century's great leap forward in scientific knowledge. This book explains the emergent technology and explores the possibilities for its application. Australian title.


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By: Joshua Gans

ISBN: 9781921410680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Written by a professor of economics who wonders what it would be like to apply key economic principles to raising his own three gorgeous children, this title shows that bringing together the hard questions of economics with the chaos, mess and love that children inspire is a wonderful combination.


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By: S Magarey

ISBN: 9780868407807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: UNSW Press
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This work offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, located in rich cultural, social and political context, which also presents a new view of the decades around federation.


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By: Craig Mathieson

ISBN: 9781742230177
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Playlisted takes the pulse of Australian rock 'n roll. Each chapter launches from a single significant track on an illuminating musical journey - into an underrated album or an overrated career. It's neither encyclopaedic nor heavy-handed, while mixing together rock stars and pop princesses, artists and frauds.


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By: Elaine Lindsay

ISBN: 9781742233376
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: UNSW Press
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By: Alan Trenerry

ISBN: 9780868404011
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1999
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Principles of Internal Control is a TAFE Accounting textbook that describes the objectives and practices of internal control. The text incorporates the learning outcomes and content of the TAFE National Accounting Module NAP 717: Internal Control Principles.


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By: Richard Hindmarsh

ISBN: 9780868407418
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: UNSW Press
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In 14 essays by Australian and New Zealand writers critiquing the new biology, and with a foreword by Mae-Wan Ho (the UK scientist leading a global attack on genetic engineering as 'bad science') 'Recoding Nature' challenges the assumptions of those preparing the world for a 'recoded' DNA future.


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By: Ann Curthoys

ISBN: 9780868408071
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: UNSW Press
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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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By: Peter Edwards

ISBN: 9780868405742
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: UNSW Press
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This is a book about managing risks in a project environment. It is intended to enhance readers' understanding of the nature and presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and learn from those risks.


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By: C Hamilton

ISBN: 9780868406121
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: UNSW Press
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This text provides an account of the key issues that affect climate change policy in Australia, detailing the policy failures, the murky politics, the corruption of the policy process, the influence of the fossil-fuel industries on policy makers, and the ethical issues that underpin the debate.


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By: David Murray

ISBN: 9780868404608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: UNSW Press
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This title aims to provide a balanced and practical account of a debate that is more of often than not highly polarised and emotionally charged. It should be of keen interest to anyone wanting to know more about the GM debate, including the broader environmental and ethical issues


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By: Greg Barns

ISBN: 9780868408026
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Provides an insight into the way governments sell themselves, both publicly and behind the scenes, and how their expensive propaganda effort affects the political process.


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By: Deborah Beck

ISBN: 9781742232614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: UNSW Press
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The fascinating story of how a derelict wing of Darlinghurst Gaol, home to Sydney's most notorious female criminals, became the Cell Block Theatre, the hub of Australia's avant-garde theatre, music and dance scene in the 1960s and '70s. It explores this iconic cultural site and the ground-breaking works that emerged from its rough sandstone walls.


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By: Richard Francis-Jones

ISBN: 9780868408224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: UNSW Press
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High-rise buildings dominate the skyline of modern cities around the world. But how do they affect urbanism and culture Are they necessary to cities Can they be made more formally engaging This examines the global phenomenon of the tall building.


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By: Chris Cocklin

ISBN: 9780868406312
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: UNSW Press
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By addressing themes such as social and economic change, government policy and gender relations, this volume tackles the thematic complexities of sustainability. It attempts to understand how small rural communities have survived in the past, what factors shaped them, and how these factors will impact on their future survival.


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By: Paul Ashton

ISBN: 9780868409085
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Follows the development of robust communities and captures the area's special features, such as its natural heritage. It also addresses the downside of urban development, including environmental degradation and social dislocation. It draws on an abundance of rich primary sources and contains many previously unpublished photographs.


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By: John Uhr

ISBN: 9780868406398
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Terms of Trust is the first book-length analysis of the role of ethics in Australian government. It scrutinises what actually happens in practice against the democratic theory, and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of public-sector ethics.


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By: Jenny Hocking

ISBN: 9780868407029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: UNSW Press
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The underlying concern of this book is the issue of balancing the needs for national security with individual rights and freedoms. Hocking argues that current security legislation compromises the separation of powers and individual legal and political rights.

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