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  • Treading Lightlyby Karl-Erik Sveiby; Tex Skuthorpe

    Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 31.81

    Australian Aboriginals taught themselves thousands of years ago how to build a sustainable society in our fragile landscape. In a unique collaboration, a Swedish knowledge management professor finds out from an Aboriginal cultural custodian how they did it, and what we can learn from them. more...

  • Scars in the Landscapeby Ian Clark

    Aboriginal Studies Press 1995; US$ 20.00

    Scars in the Landscape is a register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people during 1803?1859. Deliberately challenging the ideology that the colonisation of Western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveal that violence was widespread. Through searching contemporary archival material, utilising Aboriginal oral history and local histories, and by studying place names in the region, Ian Clark presents a detailed, meticulously research study of massacres on one Australian region. more...

  • Ochre and Rustby Philip Jones

    Wakefield Press 2010; US$ 24.95

    Ochre and Rust takes nine Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and positions them at the centre of these gripping, poignant tales set in the heart of Australia's frontier zone. more...

  • Michi's Memoriesby Keiko Tamura

    Pandanus Books 2001; US$ 28.00

    The story of a Japanese war bride. Michi tells of the difficulties war brides faced in Australia when general hostility towards Japan as an enemy nation was still strong. more...

  • Weaving A Double Clothby Myra J Bourke; Susanne Holzknecht; Annie Bartlett

    Pandanus Books 2002; US$ 24.00

    A collection of interviews with women from the Asia-Pacific region living in Australia. I provides lively and moving personal accounts of the joys and heartaches of migratin. more...

  • Imagining Australiaby Macgregor Duncan; Andrew Leigh; David Madden

    Allen & Unwin 2004; US$ 27.26

    Australia is ready for a new national vision, a roadmap for its future. Four exciting, new and talented young Australians articulate such a vision offering fresh ideas and bold thinking about the country's future political, economic and social policy. more...

  • Hmong of Australiaby Nicholas Tapp; Gary Lee

    Pandanus Books 2004; US$ 28.00

    A collection of interdisciplinary papers, ranging across anthropology and linguistics, musicology, material culture, gender issues and sociology, gives the general reader an introduction to this fascinating and relatively unknown community. more...

  • Where the Ancestors Walkedby Philip Clarke

    Allen & Unwin 2003; US$ 31.81

    'Philip Clarke has penned an insightful and wide-ranging account of Australia's Aboriginal cultures from a perspective of great learning and insider privilege. It's an immensely significant work, revealing the extraordinary richness of one of the world's oldest continuous cultures.' Tim Flannery, author of The Future Eaters. Since their arrival many thousands of years ago, Australia's Aboriginal people have developed a unique, rich and elaborate way of life. With a deep spiritual attachment to land and a strong sense of community, they have drawn on tradition to respond to new situations. In this way, they have thrived in Australia's changing and often harsh landscape. Early European settlers in Australia judged Aboriginal culture as 'primitive'.... more...

  • Glory Garageby Nadia Jamal; Taghred Chandab

    Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 17.22

    A collection of true stories that present a fascinating insight into a culture that remains mysterious to many non-Lebanese Muslims. Warm, provocative, funny and poignant, these tales of family and community life, contradictions and customs, are a vivid insight into an exotic and vibrant culture. more...

  • Telling the Truth About Aboriginal Historyby Bain Attwood

    Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 34.50

    One of Australia's leading Aboriginal historians takes us to the heart of the ?history war' over our Aboriginal past. Bain Attwood argues that controversy over interpretations of our Aboriginal past has never been so intense, and never mattered more. more...