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Archaeological Investigations in the Yap Islands, Micronesia: First Millenium B.C. to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780860543534 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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332,49 zł |
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A Forester's Log: The Story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest 1882-1897
ISBN: 9780522848397 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint - the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generations of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest in the late-19th century. It provides an insight into a bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s.
A forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint - the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generations of foresters in Victoria, who managed the ...
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103,68 zł |
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Parliament in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780522851861 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first half of the twentieth century the power of parliaments around the world declined. More recently a revival has occurred, and parliaments have responded to the challenge with new institutions that strengthen their powers.
Parliament in the Twenty-first Century is an authoritative account of the development of the parliamentary committee system in Australia from 1970 to 2006. Drawing on detailed analysis of hundreds of committee reports, and interviews with members of parliament, the authors explore the implications the system has for both governance and careers of... In the first half of the twentieth century the power of parliaments around the world declined. More recently a revival has occurred, and parliaments h...
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227,72 zł |
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Australia's Own Cold War
ISBN: 9780522853858 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the national maritime strike of 1890 to the violent dockside clashes of 1998, the waterfront has loomed large as a key battle site in Australian industrial relations. After Robert Menzies was swept to power on a wave of anti-communist sentiment in 1949, it emerged as the nation's own Cold War frontline.
By 1950, Australia's wharves were plagued by problems, including inefficient management, backward methods and archaic equipment. As on-going hostility between waterside workers and employers erupted in conflicts over pay and conditions, the government did not hesitate to play on public... From the national maritime strike of 1890 to the violent dockside clashes of 1998, the waterfront has loomed large as a key battle site in Australian ...
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227,72 zł |
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Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation: Migration Laws in Canada and Australia
ISBN: 9780774811125 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Refugees are on the move around the globe. Prosperous nations are rapidly adjusting their laws to crack down on the so-called ?undeserving.? Australia and Canada have each sought international reputations as humanitarian do-gooders, especially in the area of refugee admissions. Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation traces the connections between the nation-building tradition of immigration and the challenge of admitting people who do not reflect the national interest of the twenty-first century. Catherine Dauvergne argues that in the absence of the justice standard for... Refugees are on the move around the globe. Prosperous nations are rapidly adjusting their laws to crack down on the so-called ?undeserving.? Austra... |
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154,67 zł |
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Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities
ISBN: 9780774816212 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The lives of Indigenous peoples in these urbanizing frontiers have been overshadowed by triumphant narratives of European progress. Urbanizing Frontiers explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and newcomers in two Pacific Rim cities -- Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia. Built on Indigenous lands and overtaken by gold rushes, these cities emerged between 1835 and 1871 in significantly... Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to th... |
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154,67 zł |
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The Dead Do Not Die: "Exterminate All the Brutes" and Terra Nullius
ISBN: 9781595589897 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approachuniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavationrenders his books devastating and unforgettable.
Now, for the first time, Lindqvist s most beloved works are available in one beautiful and affordable volume with a new introduction by Adam Hochschild. The Dead Do Not Die includes the full unabridged text of "Exterminate All the Brutes," called "a book of stunning range and near genius" by David Levering Lewis. In this work, Lindqvist uses Joseph... Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approachuniting travelogues with powerful act...
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105,80 zł |
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The Atlantic World in the Antipodes: Effects and Transformations Since the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781443837446 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays stems from a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. Held over two years, the seminar investigated the effects and transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The papers presented in this volume distil some of the key themes to emerge from discussion, each demonstrating the complexity with which discourses and practices operated in the Indo-Pacific oceanic region. Some had unexpected effects, others underwent profound transformation. Always they were changed by the ideas, peoples,...
This collection of essays stems from a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. Held over two years, the seminar investigated the ...
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232,02 zł |
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Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils
ISBN: 9780271061979 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the newspapers. Lawson's famous collection came out at a decisive moment for the development of a fully professional Australian literary publishing industry, then in its infancy in Sydney. The... Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial... |
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222,09 zł |
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Australian Heroines of World War One
ISBN: 9780980621655 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This outstanding book tells the stories of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, photos, paintings and specially drawn maps. These women had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renown and the compassion and tenderness that only a woman can bring. Sister Hilda Samsing from Melbourne became a whistleblower when nursing aboard the hospital ship Gascon, outraged by the bungled evacuation of wounded Anzacs. She defied censorship and kept a very frank diary, reproduced here for the first time. In 1914, Louise Creed, a Sydney journalist, was caught in the besieged city of...
This outstanding book tells the stories of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, photos, paintings and specially drawn maps. These women ha...
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123,43 zł |
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A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay: With an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, Etc.
ISBN: 9781108061681 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 1787, eleven ships left England with more than seven hundred convicts on board, along with orders to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay, New South Wales. Watkin Tench (c.1758 1833) was a crew member on one of the ships of this First Fleet, the Charlotte, and he recalls the voyage and early days of the settlement in this vivid and engaging account, first published in 1789. The first half of the work retraces the route of the six-month journey, which took the fleet to Brazil and the Cape of Good Hope. The later chapters recount the landing at Botany Bay in January 1788, the...
In May 1787, eleven ships left England with more than seven hundred convicts on board, along with orders to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay, Ne...
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211,09 zł |
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Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World
ISBN: 9781877551352 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In small-town, suburban New Zealand, with its seemingly average people, can be found many stories of lives, loves, aspirations, and, sporadically, a dark secret or two. As reported by a much-followed columnist and awarded journalist, these rich, fascinating, and occasionally disturbing stories of settlements follow people living throughout New Zealand, from Kawakawa in the north to Mosgiel in the south, and Samoa and Antarctica overseas. Funny, moving, and at times terrifying, this book provides a platform from which New Zealand reveals itself and proves that rarely are people and places as...
In small-town, suburban New Zealand, with its seemingly average people, can be found many stories of lives, loves, aspirations, and, sporadically, a d...
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115,72 zł |
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Patient Safety First: Responsive regulation in health care
ISBN: 9781742370583 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each year more people die in health care accidents than in road accidents. Increasingly complex medical treatments and overstretched health systems create more opportunities for things to go wrong, and they do. This title presents a systematic analysis of the issues, challenges, and outcomes surrounding patient safety in health care.
Each year more people die in health care accidents than in road accidents. Increasingly complex medical treatments and overstretched health systems cr...
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226,86 zł |
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The Pencil Case
ISBN: 9780980571417 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hit on the head with a pencil case began Paul Wilson's lifelong battle against the system and the pencil-pushers who tormented him... but nothing could break his indomitable spirit. Paul was a fifth generation, native-born white Australian, and a stolen child. Bureaucrats stole him twice. So-called 'women of God' and a misguided carer stole his identity, his heritage and his self-respect. Journey into the home and lives of a battling Aussie bush family and weep over cruel injustice that breaks a mother's heart and kills a father's soul. Witness child abuse and deprivation in an almost...
A hit on the head with a pencil case began Paul Wilson's lifelong battle against the system and the pencil-pushers who tormented him... but nothing co...
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55,13 zł |
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Wreck of the Neva: The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard
ISBN: 9781856359818 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The women whose stories are told here vanished from Irish and Australian history almost two centuries ago. This book reclaims their long-forgotten history.
The women whose stories are told here vanished from Irish and Australian history almost two centuries ago. This book reclaims their long-forgotten his...
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114,05 zł |
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Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature
ISBN: 9780199301560 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British colonies and mutual entanglements continue today, when contemporary cultures of globalization have brought them more closely into juxtaposition. Taking this transpacific kinship as his focus, Paul Giles presents a sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history to consider the impact of Australia and New Zealand on the formation of U.S. literature. Early American...
Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United State...
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406,93 zł |
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The Archaeology of Market Capitalism: A Western Australian Perspective
ISBN: 9781461428619 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This multidisciplinary analysis uses historical records, town layout and architecture, landscape analysis, excavation data, and material culture analysis to provide a nuanced understanding of societal development during one of Australia's most dynamic eras.
This multidisciplinary analysis uses historical records, town layout and architecture, landscape analysis, excavation data, and material culture analy...
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385,52 zł |
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Pacific Worlds
ISBN: 9780521715669 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.
Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.
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145,49 zł |
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'Ten Pound Poms': A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia
ISBN: 9780719071331 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of their experience and fills a gaping hole in the literature of emigration. The authors, both leading figures in the fields of oral history and migration studies, draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and hundreds of oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and...
More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illumin...
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86,80 zł |
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White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
ISBN: 9780803235168 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations' larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands.
White Mother to a Dark Race takes the... In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the ha...
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165,03 zł |
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