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On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
$6.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Series: On ... Series | Reading Level: near fine
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar ...Show more
A Short History of Australia by Manning Clark
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
in this lively, very readable book, the eminent and controversial historian Manning Clark portrays the evolution of Australia with remarkable breadth of vision. He begins with the Aborigines and the coming of white men, then traces the progress of the First Fleet to Botany Bay, the unfurling of the Brit ...Show more
Disreputable Profession - Journalism and Journalists in the 19th Century Australia by Denis Cryle (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good
East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination by Paul Millar
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
At a time when China is being seen as the next superpower, both sweatshop and powerhouse for the global economy, political courtship on the part of interested governments is accompanied by grassroots hostility. Such ambivalence is not new. These essays ÃÂÃÂ discuss ways in which people of Chinese d ...Show more
Indigenous Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria by Judith Ryan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
This publication acknowledges the power and primacy of the indigenous art and culture. It follows five published catalogues on aspects of the collection and aims to extend the repertoire of published images in the public domain.
Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape by Alan Mayne
$12.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
A Secret Country by John Pilger
$12.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
"EXPATRIATE JOURNALIST and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A SECRET COUNTRY, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama."
Mariners Are Warned! - John Lort Stokes and H. M. S. Beagle in Australia, 1837-1843 by Marsden Hordern
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office in 1837 to survey and chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline. He was the last Royal Navy surveyor to hold such a roving commission-as had Matthew Flinders and Phillip Parker King before him. The voyage lasted six years and his ...Show more
Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That is, Was and Will be by Diane Bell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
This study examines the culture, politics and history of the Ngarrindjeri people and the burning issue of the women''s business in the Hindmarsh Island bridge case.'
Federation Square by Andrew Brown-May and Norman Day
$18.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: good-very good
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands since the First World War by William S. Livingston; William Roger Louis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land, 1780-1841 by Dan Sprod
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Includes the full text of Jorgenson's hitherto unpublished account of the 'revolution' in Iceland in 1809, in which he was briefly installed as 'Protector' - and which was the source of the name by which he is known to Tasmania history - the 'Convict King'. Jorgenson's adventurous life - and his often u ...Show more