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The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania
ISBN: 9780824832971 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oceania is characterized by thousands of islands and archipelagoes amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific. Although it is one of the few truly oceanic habitats occupied permanently by humankind, surprisingly little research has been done on the maritime dimension of Pacific history. The People of the Sea attempts to fill this gap by combining neglected historical and scientific material to provide the first synthetic study of ocean-people interaction in the region from 1770 to 1870. It emphasizes Pacific Islanders' varied and evolving relationships with the sea during a crucial... Oceania is characterized by thousands of islands and archipelagoes amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific. Although it is one of the few truly ocea... |
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97,30 |
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Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi: A Remarkable Life
ISBN: 9781869693176 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the biography of Ngoingoi Pewhairangi, a loved and respected Maori leader who was born on the cusp of te ao kohatu (the old Maori world) and the beginning of some significant changes in contemporary Maori society and who utilized knowledge from both worlds throughout her entire life. Includes a CD of music composed by Ngoi.
This is the biography of Ngoingoi Pewhairangi, a loved and respected Maori leader who was born on the cusp of te ao kohatu (the old Maori world) and t...
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184,98 |
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The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia
ISBN: 9780853037941 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays considers the development of Holocaust memory in Australia since 1945. Bringing together the work of younger and more established scholars, the volume examines Holocaust memory in a variety of local and national contexts from both inside and outside of Australia's Jewish communities. The articles presented here emanate from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, from history through literary, cultural and museum studies. This collection considers both the general development of Holocaust memory, engaging historically with particular moments when the Shoah...
This collection of essays considers the development of Holocaust memory in Australia since 1945. Bringing together the work of younger and more establ...
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267,73 |
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Inside Kevin 07: The People. the Plan. the Prize.
ISBN: 9780522855722 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This insightful record takes readers into the campaign war room and shows how Kevin Rudd and a rookie team won an election from one of the most successful and experienced political leaders in Australian history. The dedicated band of political and creative strategists who engineered the Labor Party's reversal of fortune are introduced, including Rudd and the Party's National Secretary Tim Gartrell, who cooperated with the writing of this book. An insider's perspective examines the development of a modern political party machine and the path towards its success.
This insightful record takes readers into the campaign war room and shows how Kevin Rudd and a rookie team won an election from one of the most succes...
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121,64 |
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The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia
ISBN: 9780522855784 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force.
Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of ...
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121,64 |
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The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
ISBN: 9780774814911 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. Exploring themes of legal translation, local understandings, judicial biography, and "law at the boundaries," they examine the legal cultures of dominions in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to provide a contextual and comparative account of the "incomplete...
The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The ...
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423,50 |
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Put the Billy on
ISBN: 9781921479083 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-fiction Award. A nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s, mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence. Historical events, such as the lead up to World War II, are artfully compared to the tensions in the speaker's own family life. Jones invites us to reflect on how far we've come, and the precious things that may have been lost on the way.
Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-fiction Award. A nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s, mixed w...
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75,83 |
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Shattered Anzacs: Living With the Scars of War
ISBN: 9781921410550 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting the untold story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed back disabled soldiers after World War I, this poignant account reveals the true impact of physical injury and shell shock on these men and their families well into the 1930s. Drawing the reader into the emotional interior of family life, the discussion brings to light the daily struggles of Australia's 90,000 "changed men" and reveals the significant burdens carried by their family members.
Presenting the untold story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed back disabled soldiers after World War I, this poignant account reveals t...
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92,44 |
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The History Wars
ISBN: 9780522851281 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reissue of a highly controversial book examines how a nation's history is always open to interpretation and chronicles various battling viewpoints observed in infamy by many Australians. A detailed summary of the relationships between historians, cultural critics, and major social figures, this work records fascinating stories such as historian Manning Clark's public exposure as a Soviet agent, the ferocious parliamentary debate on immigration sparked by historian Geoffrey Blainey, and the story of editor Robert Manne's defense of indigenous Australians. This new edition includes a new...
This reissue of a highly controversial book examines how a nation's history is always open to interpretation and chronicles various battling viewpoint...
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121,64 |
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1 Way 2 C the World: Writings 1984-2006
ISBN: 9780802093752 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist thinker, environmentalist, social justice activist, and for her early political career after election to New Zealand's parliament at age twenty-three. Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist thinker, environmentalist, social justi... |
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145,98 |
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Korean Methodist Church in Australia and New Zealand: History and Character
ISBN: 9781596890817 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book contains eight articles by clergy and scholars who have experienced the vibrancy of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand.
This important book contains eight articles by clergy and scholars who have experienced the vibrancy of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zeala...
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151,66 |
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Evolution in the Antipodes: Charles Darwin and Australia
ISBN: 9781921410765 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Darwin liked and loathed Australia. The father of evolution paid the continent a flying visit during in 1836, and was glad to put the place behind him. Yet Australia's astonishing wildlife influenced him deeply, and his revolutionary theories still resonate profoundly in Australian society. Two hundred years after Darwin's birth, at a time when evolutionary theory is facing challenges from those who believe in intelligent design, award-winning writer and Anglican bishop Tom Frame explores Darwin's life and times, and asks whether it is possible for us to believe in God and Darwin at...
Charles Darwin liked and loathed Australia. The father of evolution paid the continent a flying visit during in 1836, and was glad to put the place be...
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92,44 |
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Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937
ISBN: 9780803224872 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking Assimilation to Heart examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937. In these settler societies, white women were expected to reproduce white children to keep the white race "pure"--hence special anxieties were associated with their sexuality, and marriages with indigenous men were rare events. As such, these interracial marriages illuminate the complicated social, racial, and national contexts in which they occurred. This study of the ideological and political context of marriages between white women and indigenous...
Taking Assimilation to Heart examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937. In th...
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Korean Methodist Church in Australia and New Zealand: History and Character (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781596890695 / Angielski / Mikrofilm / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. is an important book for the study of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand. This important book contains 8 articles by Korean Christian clergy and scholars who have experienced the vibrancy of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand. Many of these scholars have been participants in the history-making process. This book, therefore, is an indispensable resource for scholars, pastors, lay people, and interested public who want to understand the experience of Korean Christians better. The editor, Yong-Sun Yang, is Professor of Systematic Theology at Wesley Institute in...
is an important book for the study of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand. This important book contains 8 articles by Korean Christian cl...
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303,32 |
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Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia
ISBN: 9780521109840 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australia has always imported overseas technology, largely out of necessity, but has this been exploitative, fostering a relationship of dependence, or used to Australia's advantage? Jan Todd explores this question in the context of nineteenth-century science. In her important study, Todd argues that the technology transfer was far more complex than has been widely acknowledged. She shows that technology systems reflect national characteristics, institutions and priorities, drawing general conclusions about Australian science and technology in an imperial context. Much of the book is devoted...
Australia has always imported overseas technology, largely out of necessity, but has this been exploitative, fostering a relationship of dependence, o...
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203,50 |
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On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime: 1939-1945
ISBN: 9780522856835 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What really happened on the Australian home front during the Second World War? For the people of Melbourne these were years of social dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of daily life. This book presents the story of their work, leisure and relationships.
What really happened on the Australian home front during the Second World War? For the people of Melbourne these were years of social dislocation and ...
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121,64 |
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Best Aust Political Writing 2009
ISBN: 9780522856323 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together the most incisive and entertaining analysis of the past year in Australian national politics, this remarkable record dissects the names, events, and ideas that shaped 2008. This collection includes razor-sharp commentary on the Australian Labor Party's first year in power, the rise of opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull, and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Australia's indigenous peoples. Australia's leading commentators also weigh in on the controversy over the Bill Henson case, climate change, and the economic crisis. Contributors include Raimond Gaita, Shaun...
Bringing together the most incisive and entertaining analysis of the past year in Australian national politics, this remarkable record dissects the na...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity
ISBN: 9781741149289 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following a decade of major social and cultural change in Australia, this study looks at what exactlyit means to be Australian and examines how different conceptssuch as egalitarianism and sporting prowesshave been used to create a national identity. Serving as a broad introduction to Australian history and social science, it explores the origins and effects of the national character, including the dominant ideas of class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in modern society."
Following a decade of major social and cultural change in Australia, this study looks at what exactlyit means to be Australian and examines how differ...
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155,73 |
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Fantastic Dreaming: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
ISBN: 9780759111042 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the archaeological investigation of a Moravian mission in southeastern Australia, the traditional country of the Wergaia-language speakers, Fantastic Dreaming examines how spatial organization, the consumption of Western goods, and the practices required by domesticity were used to transform Aboriginal people
Focusing on the archaeological investigation of a Moravian mission in southeastern Australia, the traditional country of the Wergaia-language speakers...
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545,19 |
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A Companion to Japanese History
ISBN: 9781405193399 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history.
A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history.
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