LISTING OF CURRENT TITLES BY KEYWORDS
(Prices are in Australian dollars, including GST, and exclude freight. Books sent overseas are GST free. Prices may be subject to change.)
|
|||
| ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY | |||
|
|||
 |
Altered States: Material Cultural Transformations in the Arafura Region | ||
Clayton Fredericksen &
ISBN 1 876248 55 6 PB 174pp 249x175 2000 Anthropology & Archaeology, Southeast Asia, Northern Australia |
This book explores material culture pursuing interpretations in archaeological, historical and ethnographic contexts within the Arafura region, one of the most culturally diverse regions on earth. |
$33.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Crossing Cultures: Art, Politics and Identity | ||
Sylvia Kleinert (ed)
ISBN 0-9758356-4-5 PB 152+xivpp 250x176 2006 Politics & Society; Indigenous; Anthropology; |
Covering seemingly diverse topics in Art, Society, Material Culture, Indigenous Issues and History, this volume brings together scholars who are concerned to understand and communicate the ways in which people of the Australian region represent their worlds and engage with them. |
$27.50
|
|
|
|||
 |
Darwin Archaeology: Aboriginal, Asian and European Heritage of Australia's Top End | ||
Patricia Bourke, Sally Brockwell & Clayton Fredericksen (eds)
ISBN 1 876248 98 X PB 111pp 298x210 2005 |
The first compilation of archaeological research for the Darwin region. Attention focuses on a single region from a variety of perspectives, over a time period from 4000 years ago to the Second World War. The aim is to make the results of this research accessible to the general public, as well as to archaeologists and historians. |
$34.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Democratic Governance in Timor-Leste: Reconciling the Local and the National |
||
David Mearns (ed) Steven Farram (asst. ed)
ISBN 9780980457834 PB October 2008 Politics & Society; Anthropology; Indigenous; Southeast Asia |
An important collection of articles that provide highly pertinent insights into the current dilemmas of the government and people of the new republic to Australia’s north. |
$34.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
Fishers of Garogos | ||
Hermien L Soselisa
ISBN 1 876248 84 X PB 145pp 249x175 2004 Indigenous; Anthropology; Southeast Asia; Environment & NRM |
Garogos is a small sand island barely rising above the sea off the eastern end of the large central Maluku Island of Seram. Unable to sustain agriculture, its 300-odd inhabitants are necessarily specialist fishermen. A vivid picture of the precarious existence of the islanders as they struggle to secure their livelihood in the face of economic and ecological uncertainties. |
$33.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Moving Anthropology: Critical Indigenous Studies | ||
Tess Lea, Emma Kowal & Gillian Cowlishaw (eds)
ISBN 0 975835 61 0 PB 250pp 250x176 2006 Indigenous; Anthropology; Northern Australia |
The opening years of the 21st century have seen profound shifts in Australian Indigenous affairs. The essays in this collection bring a fresh and challenging approach to the study of Australia’s relationship with Indigenous otherness. The authors examine diverse aspects of contemporary Australian race relations, from the Indigenous music industry, to Toyotas in remote communities, to the repatriation of sacred objects, to the reception of the New History in the bush. |
$34.95
|
|
|
|||
ART, MUSIC & LITERATURE |
|||
|
|||
 |
In Search of the Never-Never: Looking for Australia in Northern Territory Writing | ||
Mickey Dewar
ISBN 1 876248 06 8 PB 234pp 230x155 1997 Literature; Northern Australia |
The Northern Territory remains the region of romantic idealisation of the Australian outback tradition. In Search of the 'Never-Never' is an examination of the literary tradition which created the myth. |
$33.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Songs, Dreamings and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia | ||
Allan Marett
ISBN 0 819566 18 7 PB 320pp 255x180 2005 Music; Indigenous; Northern Australia Includes music CD. Published by Wesleyan University Press with cooperation from Charles Darwin University Press |
A mesmerizing journey into the musical world of Australia's Aboriginal people. Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of wangga, a musical and ceremonial genre of Aboriginal people of the Daly region of northern Australia. This work represents the only comprehensive documentation of a single major genre of Aboriginal music. |
$52.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
The Sound of the Sky | ||
Daena Murray
ISBN-13: 978-0-9802923-0-5; ISBN-10: 0-9802923-0-1 2006 Art; Northern Australia |
In the Northern Territory, the weight of the earth is balanced by the impact of the sky. This book presents a visual record of Euro-Australian artists’ responses to the Northern Territory: its land and people and its resonating sky. |
$75.00
|
|
|
|||
| ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | |||
|
|||
 |
The Birds of Groote Eylandt | ||
Richard Noske & Graham Brennan
ISBN 1 876248 68 8 PB 187pp 249x175 2002 Environment & NRM; Northern Australia |
A comprehensive reference describing the relative abundance, habitats and regional distribution of each of the 228 bird species that have been reported for the island over 80 years of visitation by ornithologists. |
$29.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
Broken Dreams and Broken Promise: The Cane Conspiracy |
||
Ian Mackintosh Hillock
ISBN 1 876248 48 3 PB 128pp 249x175 2000 Environment & NRM; History; Northern Australia |
This book describes the rise and fall between 1879 and 1889 of the first real trial of large-scale agricultural production in the Northern Territory. It investigates the attempt there to establish sugar plantations and tells a story of heroic yet misguided efforts. |
$33.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Enterprise in Tropical Australia | ||
George Windsor Earl, with an introduction by R H W Reece
ISBN 1 876248 79 3 PB 219pp 249x175 2002 Environment & NRM; History; Law & Business; Northern Australia |
A facsimile edition of original published in 1846 by Madden and Malcolm, London. Entrepreneurial activity in northern Australia in the early nineteenth century |
$27.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
Field Key for the Monsoon Rainforest Flora of the Darwin Region | ||
R Booth, RK Harwood, CP Mangion (eds)
ISBN 1 876248 76 9 PB 100pp 295x215 2001 Environment & NRM; Northern Australia |
An aid to identification of the native and naturalised plant species in the monsoon rainforests surrounding Darwin. It is intended for use by amateur and professional alike. We have used only vegetative characters where ever possible, but occasionally use floral and fruit characters. |
$25.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Fishers of Garogos | ||
Hermien L Soselisa
ISBN 1 876248 84 X PB 145pp 249x175 2004 Indigenous; Anthropology; Southeast Asia; Environment & NRM |
Garogos is a small sand island barely rising above the sea off the eastern end of the large central Maluku Island of Seram. Unable to sustain agriculture, its 300-odd inhabitants are necessarily specialist fishermen. A vivid picture of the precarious existence of the islanders as they struggle to secure their livelihood in the face of economic and ecological uncertainties. |
$33.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Future Options for North Australia | ||
Stephen Garnett, John Woinarski, Rolf Gerritsen & Gordon Duff
ISBN 9780980384659 PB pp Feb 2008 Environment & NRM; Northern Australia |
Anticipating the future is uniquely human. We strive constantly to anticipate trends and great events to seek opportunity and avoid disaster. So what will drive the future of tropical Australia? More information >> |
$22.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Investing in Indigenous Natural Resource Management | ||
M.K. Luckert; B.M. Campbell, J.T. Gorman and S.T. Garnett (eds)
ISBN 9780980384642 PB 118pp 250x176 Dec 2007 Indigenous; Environment & NRM; Northern Australia; Law & Business |
This book assesses the case for investing in Indigenous natural resource management (NRM) in tropical Australia. |
$22.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
Old Ways, New Ways: Wildlife Management in Northern Australia | ||
Julian Gorman, Lisa Petherham and Tom Vigilante (eds)
ISBN 0 975761 47 1 PB 156pp 290x200 2005 Environment & NRM; Northern Australia |
These papers were delivered at the 12th Annual Conference of the Australasian Wildlife Management Society in 1999. The collection of articles provides an informative and crucial insight into Australian wildlife management in northern Australia at that time. |
$18.50
|
|
|
|||
| FICTION & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | |||
|
|||
 |
Lungfish (2nd Edition) | ||
Stephen Gray
ISBN 1 876248 34 3 PB 200pp 200x149 2005 Fiction; Northern Australia |
Alex Lungwicz is a young newly-qualified Melbourne lawyer unwilling to slot into the groove. He has left Melbourne and come to Darwin on Australia's northern frontier, to work as a 'lawman in a lawless town'. Llike his half-developed namesake, the lungfish, trapped in an evolutionary glitch between water and earth, Alex feels unable to adapt to his new environment. |
$29.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
The Palm of His Hand | ||
Olive G Bonning
ISBN 1 876248 96 3 PB vi+84pp 210x150 2005 Fiction & Biography; Northern Australia |
Madeline takes up a job at the hospital on Palm Island, where the inhabitants are either Aboriginal, or of Aboriginal descent. Confronted by her deep racial prejudice, and an intense fear of Midwifery, she is in deep turmoil. Travel with Madeline while the Holy Spirit works on her heart, as the potter does clay. |
$39.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Up the Dusty Track | ||
Norman W Booth
ISBN 1 876248 73 4 PB 184pp A5 2006 reprint (2002) History; Fiction; Northern Australia |
This is an Australian war novel with a difference (WWII). There are no great fights. But there are daily battles against appalling conditions and equipment, in a race against time to carry troops and supplies to the North by the only route possible - overland, through harsh, sparsely populated territory. |
$39.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
With a Bit of Luck | ||
Dennis Puffett
ISBN 1 876248 88 2 PB 607pp 242x170 2004 Biography |
This entertaining and engaging autobiography tells how a barefoot orphan in the Cotswolds of England went on to adventures in the Battle of the Atlantic and the 'secret war' of operations before pursuing a successful career in wildlife management. Poachers, crocodiles and narrow escapes all feature in the story of Dennis Puffett's remarkable life in Britain, Australia and Papua New Guinea. |
$71.00
|
|
|
|||
| HEALTH & MEDICINE | |||
|
|||
|
Aboriginal Health: Social and Cultural Transitions | ||
Gary Robinson (ed)
ISBN 0 949070 86 6 PB 319pp 297x209 1996 Indigenous; Health & Medicine |
This timely collection of articles on Aboriginal health covers: causes of Aboriginal ill-health and mortality; social, cultural and environmental determinants of health; women's and infant health; Aboriginal participation in health care; mental health, substance abuse and health service delivery. |
$38.50
|
|
|
|||
 |
The Long Road to Territory Health: An Account of Clinical Medicine in the Northern Territory 1965-1985 |
||
David Lo
ISBN 0 9802923 1 X PB v+51pp 250x175 Feb 2007 Indigenous; Health & Medicine; Northern Australia |
Written by a long-serving Territory doctor, this book provides an intriguing insider's account of the Northern Territory's health during a time of great changes in the Territory. |
$22.00
|
|
|
|||
| HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY | |||
|
|||
SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY |
|||
|
|||
|
Broken Dreams and Broken Promise: The Cane Conspiracy |
||
Ian Mackintosh Hillock
ISBN 1 876248 48 3 PB 128pp 249x175 2000 Environment & NRM; History; Northern Australia |
This book describes the rise and fall between 1879 and 1889 of the first real trial of large-scale agricultural production in the Northern Territory. It investigates the attempt there to establish sugar plantations and tells a story of heroic yet misguided efforts. |
$33.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Charles 'Moth' Eaton: Pioneer Aviator of the Northern Territory | ||
Steven Farram
ISBN 9780980384611 PB 70pp 249x175 August 2007 Northern Australia; History & Biography |
Illustrated with many rare photographs, this book outlines the contributions made to Northern Territory aviation by one of its early prominent figures, Charles ‘Moth’ Eaton. |
$19.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
The Chinese in the Northern Territory (Third Edition) |
||
Timothy G Jones
ISBN 1 876248 01 7 PB 151pp 210x149 2005 Northern Australia; History; Politics & Society |
This book records the largely neglected part played by the Chinese in the development of the Territory. It is an attempt to set the record straight and to trace the erosion of ethnic differences, which led to the foundation of Darwin's multiracial society. More information >> |
$47.20
|
|
|
|||
 |
Dasher Wheatley and Australia in Vietnam | ||
Ian Walters
ISBN 1 876248 10 6 PB 179pp 230x150 1998 History & Biography; Southeast Asia |
This book is about an Australian soldier killed at war in Vietnam. It is about the events surrounding his dying and the subsequent award to him of Australia’s most distinguished medal for gallantry under fire, the Victoria Cross. And it is an examination, from a contemporary perspective, of the significance of those events for Australian life and Australian culture. |
Low $33.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Empty North: The Japanese Presence and Australian Reactions 1860s-1942 | ||
Pam Oliver
ISBN-13: 978-0-9802923-3-6 PB 220pp 250x175 Dec 2006 History; Northern Australia |
This volume considers the positive nature of Japanese immigration to the north of Australia alongside the fear many Australians developed of Japanese resident in White Australia after 1901. |
$54.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Enterprise in Tropical Australia | ||
George Windsor Earl, with an introduction by R H W Reece
ISBN 1 876248 79 3 PB 219pp 249x175 2002 Environment & NRM; History; Law & Business; Northern Australia |
A facsimile edition of original published in 1846 by Madden and Malcolm, London. Entrepreneurial activity in northern Australia in the early nineteenth century |
$27.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
The Evolution of Darwin 1869-1911 | ||
Kathy de la Rue ISBN 1 876248 90 4 PB 163pp 249x175 2004
History; Northern Australia |
Darwin is the only capital city situated in the Tropics. In its comparatively short history, it has been almost completely destroyed four times by Japanese bomber pilots in 1942, and by cyclones in 1897, 1937 and 1974. It has suffered many vicissitudes in social and economic spheres, and it has other unique characteristics, which make it special to all who live there. |
$38.50
|
|
|
|||
|
Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography Revised Edition |
||
David Carment, Christine Edward, Barbara James, Robyn Maynard, Alan Powell & Helen J Wilson (eds)
ISBN 9780980384697 (CD); ISBN 9780980457810 (PB) November 2008 History; Biography; Northern Australia |
This revised edition brings together the entries from the original three volumes, published in 1990, 1992 and 1996. |
CD: $29.95 PB: $125.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
A Past Displayed | ||
David Carment
ISBN 1 876248 67 X PB 133pp 249x175 2001 History; Northern Australia |
How individuals and communities in Australia's Northern Territory have thought about their histories and how these histories have been interpreted as part of wider strategies concerned with education, museums, national parks and tourism. Attitudes, memories and imagination that at the end of the twentieth century endowed the physical forms of the Territory's past with meaning. |
$45.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
The Shadow's Edge: Australia's Northern War (A revised edition) | ||
Alan Powell
ISBN-13: 978-0-9802923-7-4 PB 366pp 250*175 June 2007 History; Northern Australia |
First published in 1988, this new edition remains the only single volume to cover the entire northern war. |
$49.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Up the Dusty Track | ||
Norman W Booth
ISBN 1 876248 73 4 PB 184pp A5 2006 reprint (2002) History; Fiction; Northern Australia |
This is an Australian war novel with a difference (WWII). There are no great fights. But there are daily battles against appalling conditions and equipment, in a race against time to carry troops and supplies to the North by the only route possible - overland, through harsh, sparsely populated territory. |
$39.95
|
|
|
|||
INDIGENOUS |
|||
|
|||
|
Aboriginal Health: Social and Cultural Transitions | ||
Gary Robinson (ed)
ISBN 0 949070 86 6 PB 319pp 297x209 1996 Indigenous; Health & Medicine |
This timely collection of articles on Aboriginal health covers: causes of Aboriginal ill-health and mortality; social, cultural and environmental determinants of health; women's and infant health; Aboriginal participation in health care; mental health, substance abuse and health service delivery. |
$38.50
|
|
|
|||
 |
Accelerating the Literacy Development of Indigenous Students: The National Accelerated Literacy Program (NALP) | ||
Brian Gray
ISBN-13: 978-0-9802923-6-7 PB 63pp 297*209 June 2007 Indigenous; Teaching & Learning |
A model for teaching practice with the potential to break through the low-level teaching/low-level outcome cycle that is all too frequent in Indigenous education. |
$24.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Contexts of Child Development: Culture, Policy and Intervention |
||
Gary Robinson, Ute Eickelkamp, Jacqueline Goodnow& Ilan Katz (eds)
ISBN 9870980384680 PB Forthcoming August 2008 Indigenous; Teaching & Learning; Politics & Society |
An inspiring and thought-provoking collection that aims to deepen our understanding of child development in order to positively influence the people, policies and practices that help shape children’s lives. |
$39.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Crossing Cultures: Art, Politics and Identity | ||
Sylvia Kleinert (ed)
ISBN 0-9758356-4-5 PB 152+xivpp 250x176 2006 Politics & Society; Indigenous; Anthropology; |
Covering seemingly diverse topics in Art, Society, Material Culture, Indigenous Issues and History, this volume brings together scholars who are concerned to understand and communicate the ways in which people of the Australian region represent their worlds and engage with them. |
$27.50
|
|
|
|||
 |
Ethnicity and Cognitive Assessment | ||
Graham Davidson (ed)
ISBN 0 949070 12 2 PB 166pp 213x150 1990 Teaching & Learning; Indigenous |
This book aims to identify issues relating to the psychological and educational assessment of children from Australian Aboriginal and migrant communities, to air problems and to consider possible positive approaches to their assessment. The volume is a useful professional guide as well as a suitable text for students of psychology, education and other human services who are studying cultural difference in psychological functioning. |
$8.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Fishers of Garogos | ||
Hermien L Soselisa
ISBN 1 876248 84 X PB 145pp 249x175 2004 Indigenous; Anthropology; Southeast Asia; Environment & NRM |
Garogos is a small sand island barely rising above the sea off the eastern end of the large central Maluku Island of Seram. Unable to sustain agriculture, its 300-odd inhabitants are necessarily specialist fishermen. A vivid picture of the precarious existence of the islanders as they struggle to secure their livelihood in the face of economic and ecological uncertainties. |
$33.00
|
|
|
|||
|
Investing in Indigenous Natural Resource Management | ||
M.K. Luckert; B.M. Campbell, J.T. Gorman and S.T. Garnett (eds)
ISBN 9780980384642 PB 118pp 250x176 Dec 2007 Indigenous; Environment & NRM; Northern Australia; Law & Business |
This book assesses the case for investing in Indigenous natural resource management (NRM) in tropical Australia. |
$22.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
Living Heart | ||
Chris Howse
ISBN 9780980384604 PB 181pp August 2007 Law & Business; Indigenous; Northern Australia |
With a four wheel drive, a rented office and a complete lack of any secretarial help, he issued and brought to conclusion more than thirty pieces of litigation on behalf of the Aboriginal public. |
$51.95
|
|
|
|||
|
The Long Road to Territory Health: An Account of Clinical Medicine in the Northern Territory 1965-1985 |
||
David Lo
ISBN 0 9802923 1 X PB v+51pp 250x175 Feb 2007 Indigenous; Health & Medicine; Northern Australia |
Written by a long-serving Territory doctor, this book provides an intriguing insider's account of the Northern Territory's health during a time of great changes in the Territory. |
$22.00
|
|
|
|||
|
Moving Anthropology: Critical Indigenous Studies | ||
Tess Lea, Emma Kowal & Gillian Cowlishaw (eds)
ISBN 0 975835 61 0 PB 250pp 250x176 2006 Indigenous; Anthropology; Northern Australia |
The opening years of the 21st century have seen profound shifts in Australian Indigenous affairs. The essays in this collection bring a fresh and challenging approach to the study of Australia’s relationship with Indigenous otherness. The authors examine diverse aspects of contemporary Australian race relations, from the Indigenous music industry, to Toyotas in remote communities, to the repatriation of sacred objects, to the reception of the New History in the bush. |
$34.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Songs, Dreamings and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia | ||
Allan Marett
ISBN 0 819566 18 7 PB 320pp 255x180 2005 Music; Indigenous; Northern Australia Includes music CD. Published by Wesleyan University Press with cooperation from Charles Darwin University Press |
A mesmerizing journey into the musical world of Australia's Aboriginal people. Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of wangga, a musical and ceremonial genre of Aboriginal people of the Daly region of northern Australia. This work represents the only comprehensive documentation of a single major genre of Aboriginal music. |
$52.00
|
|
|
|||
| LAW & BUSINESS | |||
|
|||
|
Broken Dreams and Broken Promise: The Cane Conspiracy |
||
Ian Mackintosh Hillock
ISBN 1 876248 48 3 PB 128pp 249x175 2000 Environment & NRM; History; Law & Business; Northern Australia |
This book describes the rise and fall between 1879 and 1889 of the first real trial of large-scale agricultural production in the Northern Territory. It investigates the attempt there to establish sugar plantations and tells a story of heroic yet misguided efforts. |
$33.00
|
|
|
|||
|
Democratic Governance in Timor-Leste: Reconciling the Local and the National |
||
David Mearns (ed) Steven Farram (asst. ed)
ISBN 9780980457834 PB October 2008 Politics & Society; Anthropology; Indigenous; Southeast Asia |
An important collection of articles that provide highly pertinent insights into the current dilemmas of the government and people of the new republic to Australia’s north. |
$34.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Enterprise in Tropical Australia | ||
George Windsor Earl, with an introduction by R H W Reece
ISBN 1 876248 79 3 PB 219pp 249x175 2002 Environment & NRM; History; Law & Business; Northern Australia |
A facsimile edition of original published in 1846 by Madden and Malcolm, London. Entrepreneurial activity in northern Australia in the early nineteenth century |
$27.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Future Options for North Australia | ||
Stephen Garnett, John Woinarski, Rolf Gerritsen & Gordon Duff
ISBN 9780980384659 PB pp Feb 2008 Environment & NRM; Law & Business; Northern Australia |
Anticipating the future is uniquely human. We strive constantly to anticipate trends and great events to seek opportunity and avoid disaster. So what will drive the future of tropical Australia? More information >> |
$22.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
International Business Management | ||
Andre Morkel and Bet Roffey (eds)
ISBN 1 876248 62 9 PB 376pp 249x175 2001 Law & Business |
A fresh and original Australasian perspective with broad coverage of the topic. It is aimed at students in business and commerce as well as those with broad interests in international relations, political science and humanities. It is aimed at stimulating debate and inquiry; and policy makers, legislators, administrators and community leaders will also find this book useful. |
$69.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Investing in Indigenous Natural Resource Management | ||
M.K. Luckert; B.M. Campbell, J.T. Gorman and S.T. Garnett (eds)
ISBN 9780980384642 PB 118pp 250x176 Dec 2007 Indigenous; Environment & NRM; Northern Australia; Law & Business |
This book assesses the case for investing in Indigenous natural resource management (NRM) in tropical Australia. |
$22.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Living Heart | ||
Chris Howse
ISBN 9780980384604 PB 181pp August 2007 Law & Business; Indigenous; Northern Australia |
With a four wheel drive, a rented office and a complete lack of any secretarial help, he issued and brought to conclusion more than thirty pieces of litigation on behalf of the Aboriginal public. |
$51.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Lungfish (2nd Edition) | ||
Stephen Gray
ISBN 1 876248 34 3 PB 200pp 200x149 2005 Fiction; Law & Business; Northern Australia |
Alex Lungwicz is a young newly-qualified Melbourne lawyer unwilling to slot into the groove. He has left Melbourne and come to Darwin on Australia's northern frontier, to work as a 'lawman in a lawless town'. Llike his half-developed namesake, the lungfish, trapped in an evolutionary glitch between water and earth, Alex feels unable to adapt to his new environment. |
$29.00
|
|
|
|||
 |
Reconciling Customary Law and Received Law in Melanesia: The Post-Independence Experience in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu | ||
Kenneth Brown
ISBN 0 9757614 8 X PB 248pp 250x175 2005 Law & Business; Southeast Asia & Pacific |
The inter-reaction and relationship between introduced law and customary law, in the context of two neighbouring Melanesian jurisdictions, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Special reference is given to family and succession and inheritance. |
$49.00
|
|
|
|||
| POLITICS & SOCIETY | |||
|
|||
|
The Chinese in the Northern Territory (Third Edition) |
||
Timothy G Jones
ISBN 1 876248 01 7 PB 151pp 210x149 2005 Northern Australia; History; Politics & Society |
This book records the largely neglected part played by the Chinese in the development of the Territory. It is an attempt to set the record straight and to trace the erosion of ethnic differences, which led to the foundation of Darwin's multiracial society. More information >> |
$47.20
|
|
|
|||
|
Contexts of Child Development: Culture, Policy and Intervention |
||
Gary Robinson, Ute Eickelkamp, Jacqueline Goodnow& Ilan Katz (eds)
ISBN 9870980384680 PB Forthcoming August 2008 Indigenous; Teaching & Learning; Politics & Society |
An inspiring and thought-provoking collection that aims to deepen our understanding of child development in order to positively influence the people, policies and practices that help shape children’s lives. |
$39.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future | ||
Dennis Shoesmith (ed)
ISBN 9780980384628 PB xi+108pp 250x175 Nov 2007 Politics & Society; Southeast Asia |
Together, the papers in this volume address the historical, social and political causes of unrest in Timor-Leste, explaining the violence and rebellion of 2006 in a larger context. |
$29.95
|
|
|
|||
|
Crossing Cultures: Art, Politics and Identity | ||
Sylvia Kleinert (ed)
ISBN 0-9758356-4-5 PB 152+xivpp 250x176 2006 Politics & Society; Indigenous; Anthropology; |
Covering seemingly diverse topics in Art, Society, Material Culture, Indigenous Issues and History, this volume brings together scholars who are concerned to understand and communicate the ways in which people of the Australian region represent their worlds and engage with them. |
$27.50
|
|
|
|||
|
Democratic Governance in Timor-Leste: Reconciling the Local and the National |
||
David Mearns (ed) Steven Farram (asst. ed)
ISBN 9780980457834 PB October 2008 Politics & Society; Anthropology; Indigenous; Southeast Asia |
An important collection of articles that provide highly pertinent insights into the current dilemmas of the government and people of the new republic to Australia’s north. |
$34.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
A State of Emergency: Violence, Society and the State in Eastern Indonesia | ||
Sandra Pannell (ed)
ISBN 1 876248 81 5 PB 158pp 249x175 2000 Politics & Society; Southeast Asia |
This volume explores the historical, cultural and political contexts of religious and inter-ethnic violence by focusing on the recent conflict and unrest in the Moluccas and neighbouring regions. |
$50.95
|
|
|
|||
 |
The State of the North: A Selection of Papers from the 2003 Charles Darwin Symposia | ||
Tess Lea & Bill Wilson (eds)
ISBN 0 975761 46 3 PB 280pp 250x176 2005 Politics & Society; Northern Australia |
A selection of papers from the 2003 Charles Darwin Symposia examining the future of the North. Contributors include Mandawuy Yunupingu, Tim Flannery, Glenn Withers, Paul Dibb, Andrew Wilkie & Gillian Cowlishaw |
$27.50
|
|
|
|||
 |
The Tiwi: From Isolation to Cultural Change | ||
John Morris | |||
