Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period
ISBN: 9781137567611 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on disease, medicine, and healing in the Indian Ocean World. It is the first work on medical history in the region. Themes include medical theory, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing, diplomacy, and colonialism, public health, slavery, migrant labour, and medicine.
This interdisciplinary work presents essays on disease, medicine, and healing in the Indian Ocean World. It is the first work on medical history in th...
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501,19 zł |
I'm Not Racist But ... 40 Years of the Racial Discrimination Act
ISBN: 9781742234274 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Race continues to be a lightning rod of public debate. Australia may be relaxed and comfortable about many things, but it remains unsettled about matters of race and culture. The Racial Discrimination Act is Australia s first federal human rights legislation. A landmark law, the RDA has had a profound impact on race relations. Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the RDA, this book provides a considered, accessible reflection on Australian racism, the limits of free speech, the moral and philosophical dimensions of bigotry, and the role of the RDA in our society s response to...
Race continues to be a lightning rod of public debate. Australia may be relaxed and comfortable about many things, but it remains unsettled about matt...
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91,30 zł |
The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time: Precolonial Ethnic and Cultural Processes along the Coast between Hokkaido and the Bering Strait
ISBN: 9789004299986 / Angielski / Twarda / 12 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The focus of Richard Zgusta's The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time is the formation of indigenous and cultural groups of coastal northeast Asia, including the Ainu, the "Paleoasiatic" peoples, and the Asiatic Eskimo. Most chapters begin with a summary of each culture at the beginning of the colonial era, which is followed by an interdisciplinary reconstruction of prehistoric cultures that have direct ancestor-descendant relationships with the modern ones. An additional chapter presents a comparative discussion of the ethnographic data, including subsistence patterns, material...
The focus of Richard Zgusta's The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time is the formation of indigenous and cultural groups of coastal northeas...
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745,49 zł |
Locating Asian Australian Cultures
ISBN: 9781138980006 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,34 zł |
Damned Whores and God's Police
ISBN: 9781742234908 / Angielski / Miękka / 780 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when "Damned Whores and God s Police" was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It was in this climate that Anne Summers identified damned whores and God s police, the stereotypes that characterized all women as being either virtuous mothers whose function was to civilize society or bad girls who refused, or were unable, to conform to that norm and...
Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when "Damned Whores and God s Police" was firs...
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123,62 zł |
Koins Motel: The Last Resort
ISBN: 9780994481405 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a true story. Set in a seaside Resort Town on the Queensland Coast of Australia amid the glitz and glamour of a Millionaires playground, a tale of exploitation by the wealthy of the disenfranchised, the homeless, the pensioners and the labourers. Of drug dealers, thieves, addicts and street workers. Based on a true story. Set in a seaside Resort Town on the Queensland Coast of Australia amid the glitz and glamour of a Mi... |
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68,22 zł |
Gay Sydney: A History
ISBN: 9781742234830 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Garry Wotherspoon's "Gay Sydney: A History" is an updated version of his 1991 classic, "City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture," written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars that have now become cafes and gyms. This book also tells the story of gay Sydney across a century, looking at secret, underground gay...
Garry Wotherspoon's "Gay Sydney: A History" is an updated version of his 1991 classic, "City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture," written in t...
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91,30 zł |
Armenia, Australia & the Great War
ISBN: 9781742233994 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of the Ottoman Empire s Armenians. 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 century s most terrible human calamities."
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of...
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107,46 zł |
The Lumen Seed: Records of a Search in the Australian Desert
ISBN: 9781942084242 / Angielski / Twarda / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lumen Seed sensitively depicts a cultural dialogue taking place before a backdrop of offenses against the Australian continent, as well as a history of systematic discrimination against indigenous peoples on the part of the country's white population. The images, created by Australia-based artist Judith Crispin in close consultation with indigenous people, document an attempt by the Warlpiri group to share sacred information with white people; the poems convey the artist's interpretation of those ideas, alongside her development of personal relationships with community... The Lumen Seed sensitively depicts a cultural dialogue taking place before a backdrop of offenses against the Australian continent, as well ... |
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183,33 zł |
Te Matau a Māui: Fish-Hooks, Fishing and Fisheries in New Zealand
ISBN: 9780824866181 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prior to European arrival in New Zealand, fishing was a significant component of Maori subsistence. The abundant fish stocks provided a rich and readily available resource, with methods of procuring fish based on careful observations of generations of fishers. Supplemented by shellfish and birds, the fish stocks were sufficient to provide adequate food supplies, except when seasonal periods of adverse weather prevented harvesting. Maori fished efficiently and sustainably utilizing nets (some over a mile long), traps, pots, spears, and lures, as well as hooks made of wood, bone,... Prior to European arrival in New Zealand, fishing was a significant component of Maori subsistence. The abundant fish stocks provided a rich and re... |
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188,25 zł |
Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia: Revisiting the Empty North
ISBN: 9781349905737 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,74 zł |
Quarterly Essay 61 Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
ISBN: 9781863958110 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession. -George Megalogenis, Balancing Act In this urgent essay, George Megalogenis argues that Australia risks becoming globalisation's next and most unnecessary victim. The next shock, whenever it comes, will find us with our economic guard down, and a political system that has shredded its authority. ...Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no co... |
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86,65 zł |
Once Upon a Time in Melbourne
ISBN: 9780522869378 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once upon a time in Melbourne there was a gigolo who thought he was a vampire. He bit the tongue off a prostitute and was then murdered in broad daylight on a suburban street. His execution, top brass believed, was organised by police. The aftershocks of this killing-and the murder of a state witness and his wife inside their fortress home&mash;rocked the police force and the Parliament, vanquished one government and brought the next to its knees.
This is the story of police corruption for years swept under the carpet to avoid a Royal Commission. It is the story of a police force... Once upon a time in Melbourne there was a gigolo who thought he was a vampire. He bit the tongue off a prostitute and was then murdered in broad dayli...
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87,21 zł |
Rays of Light: Ginninderra Press - the first 20 years
ISBN: 9781760411435 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Stephen Matthews's initiative in establishing Ginninderra Press has made a significant contribution to contemporary Australian literature, providing welcome opportunities for both emerging and established writers. Matthews's dedication and passion are the lifeblood of this unique independent publishing house, which had its beginnings in a spare room of his Canberra home twenty years ago. Now firmly based in South Australia at Port Adelaide, Ginninderra Press has published hundreds of writers of both adult fiction and non-fiction. It has launched many poets in an innovative variety of... 'Stephen Matthews's initiative in establishing Ginninderra Press has made a significant contribution to contemporary Australian literature, providi... |
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The New Progressive Dilemma: Australia and Tony Blair's Legacy
ISBN: 9781349282395 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Progressive Dilemma documents the international diffusion, ideological meaning and long-term political implications of the 'ideas' that informed the late twentieth-century revolution in thinking inside the British Labour Party - a revolution that had important antecedents in Australia.
The New Progressive Dilemma documents the international diffusion, ideological meaning and long-term political implications of the 'ideas' that inform...
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John Tebbutt: Rebuilding and Strengthening the Foundations of Australian Astronomy
ISBN: 9783319445205 / Angielski / Twarda / 555 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced with a foreword by Sir Patrick Moore.
This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced wi...
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616,85 zł |
Elizabeth Durack: Art & Life - Selected Writings
ISBN: 9781925501094 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,02 zł |
Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire
ISBN: 9781350027435 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case studies drawing on a range of visual genres, from portraiture to ethnographic to scientific photographs show how photographic encounters between Aboriginals, missionaries, scientists, photographers and writers fuelled... With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across t... |
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122,77 zł |
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition (Revised)
ISBN: 9780803295919 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building in two countries with large Indigenous populations and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to...
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines th...
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150,77 zł |
Recipes From Colonial Australia: Recipes for the Modern Day Cook
ISBN: 9781542714686 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a wonderful collection of early Australian recipes. Included is a wide variety of recipes from mains through to deserts. I have included with each recipe the date in which it appeared in the newspaper of the time. This book is a wonderful look back through cooking in Australia. What ingredients were used and how. It also includes some helpful general principle cooking tips. The recipes have been rewritten as they were at the time to ensure the authenticity of the recipe. I hope you enjoy reading and using these wonderful early recipes.
This book is a wonderful collection of early Australian recipes. Included is a wide variety of recipes from mains through to deserts. I have included ...
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