Australia & New Zealand

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783080588Author Jason D. EnsorFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

If you center a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view while glimpses of continents encroach on the fringes, but this is a view dominated by water. The immense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241453077Author Frederick William PennefatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

'A very readable history of an important group of Australian pioneers' - Graham Seal, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories For the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded cities and tiny villages, it must have been extraordinarily...

It has been ten years since the 1999 Republican referendum failed. Whilst it was ultimately unsuccessful, it has engaged people in a debate that has spanned decades. Australians seem to want a republic, but there is uncertainty about what kind of...

The Aboriginal Australians first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago. Indigenous Australians occupied and adapted to a range of environmental conditions from tropical estuarine habitats, densely forested regions, open plains and arid...

Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia analyzes how notions of property ownership were instrumental in maintaining family stability and continuity in rural Australia, outlining how inheritance and divorce laws functioned to...

This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania's past and present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity. On the one hand, proponents of modernisation have sought to close the past off from the present,...

This lavish book explores the story behind the promotion of New Zealand's mountains - through posters, advertisements, hand-coloured photos and more. It explains how the country built its reputation as an alpine playground and, alongside, how mountains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506285Author Bradford HaamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855757038Author Joanne WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 456g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855756772Author Bill SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 348g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855755461Author Roslyn KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 430g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855754570Author Sue DavenportFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams)...

Strong, Beautiful and Modern will appeal to students andscholars of physical education, sports history, and Commonwealthhistory in the interwar period.Book InformationISBN 9780774825290Author Charlotte MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint...

Strong, Beautiful and Modern will appeal to students andscholars of physical education, sports history, and Commonwealthhistory in the interwar period.Book InformationISBN 9780774825283Author Charlotte MacDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780732611965Author Pamela M. OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Monash Asia Institute Press (MAI Press)Publisher Monash University...

A former Parisian courtesan, bare-back-rider and polka dancer, Celeste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne when she arrived in 1854 as the Frenc Consul's wife. Her vivid first-hand memories of years spent in the diplomatic and government house circles...

The story of white Australians born in this land before 1850; most were the children of convicts, had no access to land and no education, and the free settlers generally treated them as second-rate.The native-born . . . have walked constantly with me,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143573951Author Sean DorneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 124g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772888187Author Henk DriessenFormat HardbackPage Count 265Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925612424Author Owen MaceFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 785g

In the place names of a country large parts of its history are embalmed ... The names persist longer than the beings who gave them." -J.C. AndersenPlace names have great linguistic and cultural significance, vivifying the landscape and giving it deeper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742169835Author David HornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947522421Author Susannah GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1024g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855753160Author Craig CormickFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855757793Author Russell McGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833090294Author John BirklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 481g

The Australian Aborigines first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago. They almost certainly landed on the northwest coast by sea from the nearby islands of the Indonesian archipelago. That first arrival may have been replicated many times...

To the Islands offers a unique perspective on the evolution of economic, social and political interconnections between Australia and its island region spanning two centuries, from the early years of British colonization to the present day. The book...

The reconstruction of higher education in Australia through the creation of the Unified National System of Higher Education at the end of the 1980s by John Dawkins is commonly seen as a watershed. It brought new ways of funding, directing and organising...

Stan Watson never claimed to be the last man to leave Anzac Cove. On 20 December 1977, sixty-two years to the day since he last stepped from the Gallipoli shore, Watson takes a slow train to visit his family for Christmas and fragments of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531601Author Elspeth SandysFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322369Author Andre BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 736g

Born in England c1820, Englishman Charles Heaphy - the first 'New Zealander' to win the Victoria Cross, the first European to explore the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island and the most distinguished 19th-century landscape painter in that country...

This book is an important study of the growth of the New Right in New Zealand in the years 1984 to 1999. Its value arises from the way it focuses on the global context of the economic and moral programmes for change in the 1980s and 1990s, aiming to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877514517Author Krzysztof PfeifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877372452Author Atholl AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1278g

Antipodean Riffs is a collection of essays on Australian jazz and jazz in Australia. Chronologically they range from what could be called the 'prehistory' of the music - the tradition of US-sourced African-American music that predated the arrival of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925309652Author Kerrie DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 739g