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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
28.45 AUD
29.95 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice by Sue Taffe
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Australian History Ser.
"A white hot flame indeed - here is an important contribution to our national story." --Kim Scott *** Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal ...Show more
Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical Christians In Australian History, 1914-2014 by Stuart Piggin, Robert D Linder
47.45 AUD
49.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
In this major new contribution Stuart Piggin and Robert Linder tell the story of how Australian evangelical Christians responded to the decline of the British empire and to the expanding international reach of their religious mission and beliefs, of how these Christians reacted to the challenges of secu ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
28.45 AUD
29.95 (5% off)
Category: Animals and Nature | Series: Australian Natural History Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognize that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most we ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
94.00 AUD
99.00 (5% off)
Category: Military History | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Cockatoos by Matt Cameron
28.45 AUD
29.95 (5% off)
Category: Animals and Nature | Series: Australian Natural History Series
Using illustrations, this book looks at the ecology and conservation of these birds, including their evolution, distribution, movements, feeding and reproduction. It examines the illegal trade in cockatoos, the role of aviculturists, and the attempts to ensure the recovery of many species through approp ...Show more
Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake by Joy Damousi (Editor); Judith Smart (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
One of Australias leading scholars and a highly distinguished professor of history, Marilyn Lake forged a career that spanned several decades across a number of universities. Her books have significantly advanced our understandings, not only of Australian social, cultural and political history but also ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
Gender Violence in Australia - Historical Perspectives by Alana Piper (Editor); Ana Stevenson (Editor)
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, its prevalence remains alarming. A third ...Show more
Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist by Richard Allsop
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Australian History Ser.
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country's past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian im ...Show more
Gliders of Australia: A Natural History by David Lindenmayer
9.99 AUD
39.95 (74% off)
Category: Animals & Nature SPECIALS | Series: Australian Natural History Series
The gliders, while rarely seen by most Australians, are an important group of marsupials whose long-term survival prospects are being threatened by land-clearing and the logging of old-growth forests. This work deals with all six species of Australian gliders.
Light Horse - A History of Australia's Mounted Arm by Jean Bou
62.95 AUD
72.95 (13% off)
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
The mounted soldier is one of the most evocative symbols in Australian military history. Now a celebrated part of Australia's army heritage, the role and very existence of mounted troops in modern warfare was being called into question at the time of its most crowning military moments. Light horse regim ...Show more