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An Everyday Transience: The Urban Imaginary of Goldfields Photographer John Joseph Dwyer (Book)

Goldswain Philip

ISBN:9781921401442

Revisit Australias Goldfields during the late 19th and early 20th century with the photographs of John Joseph Dwyer. Based in Kalgoorlie, Dwyer captured the development of the Goldfields. His outstanding images comprised street and industrial photography as well as underground and night-time photography...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:216

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Arrhythmia (Book)

Richard Rossiter

ISBN:9781921401411

This collection of short fiction explores what lies beneath the apparently normal, even mundane, surfaces of peoples lives. Desire in its many manifestations is the unifying theme of these stories. This exploration of interior lives...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:200

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Asia Papers (Book)

Robert Lamberton

ISBN:9781875560714

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Format:Paperback  Pages:160

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Birding Sites Around Perth (Book)

Ron Van Delft

ISBN:9781876268039

This book provides, details on thirty-eight outstanding sites. For each site there is a map, a list of birds likely to be seen, and notes on species of special interest. Information is given on feeding and nesting habits. As well as describing these sites...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:160

USD $16.00

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Boomtown 2050 (Book)

Richard Weller

ISBN:9781921401213

Perth, a city of 1.5 million relatively complacent people, is changing at a phenomenal rate. Latest predictions are that the city will grow from 1...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:453

USD $97.51

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Bride Flight (Book)

Pol Marieke van der

ISBN:9781921401312

Its 1953 - Ada, Marjorie and Esther yearn to escape the hardships of post-war life in the Netherlands, and their own past. They take part in an international air race and travel to New Zealand in a flight full of other girls like them: brides on their way to their fiancs. During the trip they meet Frank...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:444

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Carpet of Silver (Book)

Phillip Playford

ISBN:9781875560738

The Zuytdorp, one of the great ships of the Dutch East India Company, disappeared without a trace after leaving Cape Town in 1712, en route to Batavia (Jakarta). The ship was carrying a rich cargo including some 250...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:272

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Counterpoint (Book)

Enquist Anna

ISBN:9781921401602

Johann Sebastian Bachs music forms the backdrop to this stunning short novel about motherhood and loss. Following the death of her daughter, a bereaved pianist immerses herself in Bachs Goldberg Variations. As the woman perfects the complex musical architecture of Bachs own study in grief...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

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Dearest Isabella (Book)

Joske Prue

ISBN:9780855643065

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Detritus (Book)

Archer Robyn

ISBN:9781742580678

Due to significant demand, UWA Publishing has gathered together a selection of Robyn Archer's most memorable keynote speeches and memorial lectures from the past seven years. Key addresses include: Garma Opening Keynote: Garma Festival...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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European Impacts on the West Australian Environment, 1829-1979 (Book)

Octagon Lectures

ISBN:9780855641740

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Far from Home (Book)

N Green

ISBN:9781875560929

Far From Home identifies more than 3,600 Aboriginal Prisoners who served time on Rottnest Island. Some were associated with historic events such as the battle of Pinjarra (1834)...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:376

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Fear Factor (Book)

Bharat Meenakshi

ISBN:9781921401640

In 1997, the murder of her daughter Ciara left a mother and her family shattered by grief. Ciaras Gift, expressed with honesty and insight, is the story of the mothers often lonely search for meaning after this cruel and devastating event. In a series of deeply moving and thought-provoking memories and reflections...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:115

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For Their Own Good 2D Ed (Book)

Anna Haebich

ISBN:9781875560141

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Gaza: Law, Morality and Politics (Book)

Gaita Raimond

ISBN:9781742580968

Raimond Gaita brings together a thought-provoking collection of essays by public intellectuals on the subject of conflict. Following the Israeli Army invasion of the Gaza strip...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:222

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Gold & Silversmithing: In Western Australia: A History (Book)

University of Western Australia Press

ISBN:9781921401435

Gold & Silversmithing tells the story of Western Australias many talented gold and silversmiths, placing the jewellery and silver-plate into the stylistic...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:479

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Ground Truthing: Explorations in a Creative Region (Book)

Carter Paul

ISBN:9781742580708

Australias evocative Mallee region is rich with histories, impressions and geographical complexities. It is also a microcosm of a world in turmoil. Ground Truthing allows the Mallee to speak: to show its nurturing and renewable self. In searching for the creative principles that bring the Mallee into being...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:343

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Headlong (Book)

Susan Varga

ISBN:9781921401237

Julia has suddenly lost her husband and, along with him, her will to live. The vital, energetic old woman that her daughter Kati thought she knew has disappeared almost overnight. How is Kati to cope with a mother constantly on the verge of suicide? This finely wrought tale of love and conflict casts a searchlight into dark areas how people deal with ageing...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:230

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Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia (Book)

Gregory Jenny

ISBN:9781921401152

The Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia is an authorative and comprehensive guide to the regions history. It will become the outstanding reference for researchers...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:1000

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Imperfect Birds (Book)

Lamott Anne

ISBN:9781742580975

Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. Shes intelligent; athletica former state-ranked tennis doubles champion; and beautiful. She is...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:300

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Kimberley: Australia's Last Great Wilderness (Book)

Laurie Victoria

ISBN:9781921401329

This is the Kimberley at its most beautiful, from the teeming bird life at Roebuck Bay, Broome, to elusive desert animals; from cascading waterfalls and tangled vine thickets to wide savannah plains...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:270

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Lure of Politics: Geoff Gallop's government 2001-2006 (Book)

Van Schoubroeck Lesley

ISBN:9781742580692

The Lure of Politics takes readers back through the pivotal moments during Geoff Gallops five years as premier of Western Australia. Gallop was elected to power after eight years of conservative rule during which the reputation of previous Labor administrations had been damaged in the findings of the WA Inc Royal Commission...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:309

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Murdering Stepmothers: The Execution of Martha Rendell (Book)

University of Western Australia Press

ISBN:9781921401459

Sensational rumours of the murder of three small children by their stepmother ignite the passions of Perth citizens in 1909. Shocked by horrific descriptions of how she poisoned the children...more details
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Must Eat (Book)

Blaikie Russell

ISBN:9781921401671

Must Eat, is the story of classic French bistro food made with love and all the best produce; its the story of respect and admiration for top-quality growers and farmers; but mostly its the story of Russell Blaikie...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:300

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My Driver (Book)

Maggie Gee

ISBN:9781921401374

Vanessa Henman, a brittle middle-aged British writer, is attending a Pan-African Writers Conference in Uganda. She decides to pay her former cleaner...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:326

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On Campus and Off (Book)

Fred Alexander

ISBN:9780855642648

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Format:Hardcover  Pages:162

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ORCHIDS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (Book)

Andrew Brown

ISBN:9780980296457

Written by three of Western Australias most prominent orchidologists and featuring over 200 hundred full-page, colour illustrations by renowned botanical artist Pat Dundas...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:421

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Passion for Pulses (Book)

Nancy Longknecker

ISBN:9781920694296

Nutritious pulses such as chickpeas, beans, peas and lentils are easy to prepare, versatile and economical. They are also a low-fat, high-fibre food listed in the eat more category of the Australian Nutrition Foundations healthy eating pyramid. But...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:128

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Screw Light Bulbs: Smarter Solutions for Australia's Future (Book)

Green Donna

ISBN:9781742580685

Australia was the first country in the world to officially ban old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs as a solution to climate change but was it a good idea? In fact...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:203

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Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett (Book)

Lilley Kate

ISBN:9781921401473

Leading Australian literary figure, Dorothy Hewett is remembered and rediscovered in this very personal book of selected poetry. Compiled by Dorothys daughter...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:208

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Shaking Hands on the Fringe (Book)

Tiffany Shellam

ISBN:9781921401268

In 1826 the British set up a garrison on the edges of an Aboriginal world at King Georges Sound, the site of present day Albany, Western Australia...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:267

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Slow Burn (Book)

George Alexander

ISBN:9781921401244

An organisation called The Cleaners is making threats, days before the Australia Day holiday in Sydney. An Aboriginal protester was murdered the year before. Lost in the emotional quicksand of marital breakup...more details
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Spiel (Book)

David Sornig

ISBN:9781921401251

Berlin, New Years Eve. A young architect abandons the apocalyptic heat of a Melbourne summer for the streets his grandfather once walked. Barely off the train...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:256

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Studies in Western Australian History (Book)

Jenny Gregory

ISBN:9780646316925

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Sustenance (Book)

Lazaroo Simone

ISBN:9781742580715

In a small hotel on an island renowned for its hospitality and beauty, the Balinese staff and their Western guests are unexpectedly taken hostage. During the overnight siege...more details
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The Darwin Poems (Book)

Emily Ballou

ISBN:9781921401275

This exquisite collection of poetry, while loosely following Charles Darwins life, is more a portrait in verse of his inner and family life. In 1836...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:192

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The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam (Book)

University of Western Australia Press

ISBN:9781921401480

The Perfume River offers the reader perspectives on Vietnam from both inside and outside the country. The diverse array of writers include renowned authors of the Vietnamese literary canon...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:328

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The Summer Exercises (Book)

Ross Gibson

ISBN:9781921401206

Author Ross Gibson cleverly captures the world of Sydney in 1946 sordid and bruised after decades of depredations. In The Summer Exercises, Gibson uses approximately 175 carefully selected black and white photographs from the collection of the Justice & Police Museum taken during the years immediately after World War II. These photographs...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:270

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The Unforgiving Rope (Book)

Simon Adams

ISBN:9781921401220

Colonial Western Australia was formed not only by adventurous sea captains, governors, and stoic pioneers, but also by murderers, thieves, rapists and the hangman. More than 150 people were hanged in Western Australia between 1840 and 1964. Some had committed heinous crimes for profit or vengeance; some had killed out of jealousy...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:285

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The Workshops (Book)

Bobbie Oliver

ISBN:9781920694838

For 90 years, the Government Railway Workshops at Midland were the largest Industrial workshops in Western Australia, training tradesmen to build and repair locomotive engines and rolling stock...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:300

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Theo & Co. (Book)

Theo Kalogeracos

ISBN:9781921401404

Theo & Co. covers all aspects of pizza making, from the raw ingredients and the fine art of dough to the decadent and delicious finished pizzas. Step by step instructions...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:200

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Toss of a Lemon (Book)

Viswanathan Padma

ISBN:9781921401305

Inspired by her family history, Padma Viswanathan brings us deep inside the private lives of a Brahmin family as the subcontinent moves through sixty years of intense social and political change. At the novels heart is Sivakami...more details
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Valmiki's Daughter (Book)

Shani Mootoo

ISBN:9781921401367

The story circles around a well-to-do Trinidadian family, in particular, Valmiki, a renowned doctor and loving if confused father, and his youngest daughter...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:398

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Vite Italiane: Italian Lives in Western Australia (Book)

Iuliano Susanna

ISBN:9781921401503

Vite Italiane documents the migration flow of Italian immigrants from the late 1800s to the present day. This work integrates the history of the largest non-English-speaking migrant group in Western Australia into the mainstream historical record and in so doing shows how the Italian-speaking community has become an integral part of Western Australias...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:220

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Western Heritage (Book)

Oldham Ray & John

ISBN:9780855641344

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Where Have You Been? (Book)

James Wendy

ISBN:9781921401466

A domestic thriller that takes the form of a classic imposter novel, but with a 21st century twist. A seemingly perfect family household is rocked by the reappearance of a sister they thought was long gone. Suspicions soon arise and no one is sure if she is who she claims to be. Wendy James combines her wry observation of the domestic...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:252

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Why She Loves Him (Book)

Wendy James

ISBN:9781921401190

These are tales of fugitive lives: dazzling portraits of women and men on the run; from their present, their past, their future from themselves Here...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:240

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World Ocean Census: A Global Survey of Marine Life (Book)

Crist Darlene Trew

ISBN:9781921401596

What once lived in the global ocean? What is living there now? What will live there in the future? The answers to these questions are at the heart of World Ocean Census...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:256

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Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Book)

Richardson Mark

ISBN:9781921401299

Zen and Now is a vivid chronicle of a journalists heartfelt and determined journey to reconnect with a beloved American classic. In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his eleven-year-old son...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:288

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Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (Book)

Davis Wade

ISBN:9781742580524

This years best selling Massey Lecture The Wayfinders takes readers on a journey through time on a discovery of ancient wisdoms, languages and cultures. Some are already extinct...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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