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Bluff Rock ebook
by Katrina Schlunke
“The past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our longing for certainty cannot be satisfied … we tell stories about where we come from and who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically …
This is an original and courageous book. Schlunke, who grew up in the New England…Read more » -
Babes in the Bush
by Kim Torney
A powerful exploration of the making of a uniquely Australian image — the evocative and enduring image of the child lost in the Bush. Along with drought, fire and flood, the stories of children lost in the bush became central to the Australian colonial experience (even though there were any number of more likely, and more gruesome ways a child could…Read more »
Price $35.00
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Babes in the Bush ebook
by Kim Torney
A powerful exploration of the making of a uniquely Australian image — the evocative and enduring image of the child lost in the Bush. Along with drought, fire and flood, the stories of children lost in the bush became central to the Australian colonial experience (even though there were any number of more likely, and more gruesome ways a child could…Read more »
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Black Glass
by Kate Auty
Between 1936 and 1954 the Western Australian government operated Courts of Native Affairs that heard murder and manslaughter cases where defendant and victim were Aboriginal. These cases, which for evey other citizen had the status of Supreme Court trials, were reduced to summary hearings conducted largely by amateurs. Black Glass explores these little-known…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Feasts and Friends
by Lorraine McGinniss
Each week a group of women from all over the world gather around a kitchen stove to share cooking experiences and the stories of their homelands. The stove is a common ground for recently arrived immigrant and refugee women. It is a place and time they can just ‘be’, along with a band of local women ready to help them sort out the many problems involved…Read more »
Price $35.00
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From under a leaky roof: Afghan refugees in Australia
by Phil Sparrow
Afghan Refugees. Asylum Seekers. Detainees. Who are the men and women, the mothers, fathers and children, behind the news headlines and the politics, where are they from, and what really happens to them here in Australia? Philip Sparrow, an experienced UN aid worker, has talked with the people themselves, and tells their stories, of life in Afghanistan…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Keeping the Wanjinas Fresh
by Valda Blundell & Donny Woolagoodja
This is the story of the people of the Wanjinas and their unbroken living cosmology of Lalai, the Dreaming. It is also the story of Sam Woolagoodja, who was responsible for repainting the sacred Wanjinas in many of the rock shelters that dot the Kimberley landscape, and was among the first to paint the sacred stories on bark and board for Worrorra children…Read more »
Price $35.00
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Ways of Seeing China
by Timothy Kendall
Drawing upon novels, comic strips, ASIO dossiers, government documents, public polls, travelogues and politicians’ pronouncements, Ways of Seeing China seeks to understand why Australia’s China has developed from the epitome of all things hateful, barbaric and undemocratic into something captivating, admirable, irresistible, even if still undemocratic…Read more »
Price $24.95
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What, No Baby?
by Leslie Cannold
‘What, a book about fertility that doesn’t blame women? In an otherwise barren national debate, Cannold offers fertility crisis management par excellence’ — Susan Maushart, columnist and author.
What, no baby? takes us into the lives contemporary women who plan to have it all yet have ended up childless due to reluctant men, demanding jobs and…Read more »
Price $26.95
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All The Troubles
by Simon Adams
Simon Adams takes us behind 9/11 and other complicated and contentious world events and, in twenty-six concise essays, eloquently sets out the essential history that makes sense of these recent war zones. Violence — be it war or terror — is neither random nor the result of ‘tribal lunacy’, nor is it best explained in terms of ‘good versus evil’: it…Read more »
Price $24.95
From the Catalogue
Ten Tiny Things on Wilderness Society shortlist
Ten Tiny Things author Meg McKinlay was pleasantly surprised to be shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, just one day after winning a Crystal Kite award.
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