CDU Press title listing - current titles by region
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NORTHERN AUSTRALIA |
southeast asia & the pacific |
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Community, Development & Identity
Human Health & Well Being
Natural & Cultural Resource Management 
Teaching, Learning & Living(Prices are in Australian dollars, including GST, and exclude freight. Books sent overseas are GST free. Prices may be subject to change.)
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Aboriginal Health: Social and Cultural Transitions | ||
Gary Robinson (ed)
ISBN 0 949070 86 6 PB 319pp 297x209 1996 Indigenous; Health & Medicine; Northern Australia |
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
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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; Northern Australia |
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
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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
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Attracting and Keeping Nursing Professionals in an Environment of Chronic Labour Shortage: A Study of Mobility among Nurses and Midwives in the Northern Territory of Australia |
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Garnett, S. T., Coe, K., Golebiowska, K., Walsh, H., Zander, K.K., Guthridge, S., Li, S. & Malyon, R. ISBN 9781921576003 PB Dec 2008 Health and Medicine; Politics and Society; Northern Australia |
This report looks at the demographic profile of the Territory’s nurses and midwives, how that has changed in the last few decades and explores prospects for the future. Now available by download only. |
OP [$25.00] Hard copy is no longer available - now available by download only.
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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
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Broken Dreams and Broken Promise: The Cane Conspiracy |
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Ian Mackintosh Hillock
ISBN 1 876248 48 3 PB 128pp 249x175 2000 Environment & NRM; 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
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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
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The Chinese in the Northern Territory (Third Edition) |
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Timothy G Jones
ISBN 1 876248 01 7 PB 151pp 210x149 2005 History; Politics & Society; Northern Australia |
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
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Crossing Cultures: Art, Politics and Identity | ||
Sylvia Kleinert (ed)
ISBN 0-9758356-4-5 PB 152+xivpp 250x176 2006 Politics & Society; Indigenous; Anthropology; Northern Australia |
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
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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
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Djama and VET: Exploring Partnerships and Practices in the Delivery of Vocational Education and Training in Rural and Remote Aboriginal Communities | ||
Australian National Training Authority Research Advisory Council
ISBN 1 876248 14 9 PB 111pp (Vol 1), 224p (Vol 2) 220x155 1998 Teaching & Learning; Northern Australia |
Djama and VET addresses the pressing issues of Vocational Education and Training delivery to rural and remote Aboriginal communities. The research produced six case studies and a synthesis volume in which an argument is developed for best practice in the delivery of Vocational Education and Training to Aboriginal communities. |
Low $33.00
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Empty North: The Japanese Presence and Australian Reactions 1860s-1942 | ||
Pam Oliver
ISBN-13: 978-0-9802923-3-6 PB 220pp New reprint A5 July 2008 [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. Now available in A5 format at the new price of $39.95 |
Buy now and save! $39.95
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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
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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
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Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory (Revised Edition) |
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Alan Powell
ISBN 9780980457872 PB Feb 2009 History; Northern Territory |
This fifth edition has been revised to bring the Territory story into the twenty-first Century. |
$45.00
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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
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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
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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
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In Your Face: A Case Study in Post Multicultural Australia |
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Margot Ford
ISBN 9781921576058 PB Dec2009 Northern Australia; Indigenous Issues; Politics & Society |
Australia has now gone beyond multiculturalism. The slow dismantling of the multicultural policy during the Howard years has been replaced with a policy of ‘social inclusion’ by the Labor government. How do these policy shifts affect Darwin, one of the most racially and ethnically diverse cities in Australia? |
$44.00 |
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Indigenous Issues in Australian Universities: Research, Teaching, Support |
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Jack Frawley, Maggie Nolan, Nereda White (eds)
ISBN 9781921576072 PB Dec2009 Australia; Indigenous Issues; Teaching & Learning; Politics & Society |
This collection of essays by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars offers a range of perspectives on issues confronting Indigenous students, staff and Indigenous studies in Australian higher education. It is multidisciplinary covering topics including law, history, feminism, business, health and education as well as cultural awareness and safety. |
$33.00 |
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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
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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
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The Long Road to Territory Health: An Account of Clinical Medicine in the Northern Territory 1965-1985 |
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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
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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
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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. |
$34.95
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Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography Revised Edition |
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pathways to Expertise | ||
Jennifer Rennie, Karen Sinclair and Diane Szarkowicz
ISBN 1 876248 86 6 PB x+ 81pp 250x175 2005 Teaching & Learning; Northern Australia |
A collection of stories from fourteen experienced educators who have worked in the Northern Territory. Each story provides a unique snapshot of the diverse and challenging nature of being an educator in the Northern Territory. |
$44.00
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Prepare for Impact: When People and Environment Collide in the Tropics |
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Natasha Stacey, Guy Boggs, Bruce Campbell, Will Steffen (eds)
ISBN 9780980665017 PB Dec2009 |
South East Asia and tropical Australia are undergoing major changes, which are likely to intensify in the next decade: booming economies, climate change, land cover transformations, human disease outbreaks, and more. In this volume, by leading researchers and policy makers reflect on the challenges to be faced. |
$33.00 |
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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
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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. |
$52.00
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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
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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
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The Tiwi: From Isolation to Cultural Change | ||
John Morris
ISBN 1 876248 60 2 PB 160pp 249x175 2001 Indigenous; Northern Australia; Politics & Society |
The Tiwi Islanders are unique in Aboriginal society, possessing a distinct culture and language. Although isolated from mainland Aborigines for thousands of years, they had intermittent contact with visitors from Southeast Asia and Europe from at least the seventeenth century. This book is an ethnohistory, exploring the reaction of the Tiwi to this exposure to outside cultures until 1918. More information >> |
$45.95
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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
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Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu |
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Margie West, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)
ISBN 9780980384673 PB Dec 2008 Indigenous; Art; Northern Australia |
The first Indigenous art publication to focus upon one significant ancestral site. It has been produced on behalf of members of the Rirratjingu clan to celebrate Yalangbara (Port Bradshaw), the landing site of the Djang’kawu ancestors; the law-givers and progenitors of the people throughout north-east Arnhem Land. |
$66.00
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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
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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
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Dasher Wheatley and Australia in Vietnam | ||
Ian Walters
ISBN 1 876248 10 6 PB 179pp 230x150 1998 History; Anthropology; 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
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Democratic Governance in Timor-Leste: Reconciling the Local and the National |
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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
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GIS Applications for Sustainable Development and Good Governance in Eastern Indonesia and Timor Leste |
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Rohan Fisher, Bronwyn Myers, Max Sanam
ISBN 9781921576065 PB Aug 2009 Southeast Asia; Environment & NRM; |
The high diversity of GIS applications in eastern Indonesia and Timor Leste is evident in the scope of papers included in this bilingual (English/ Indonesian) publication, ranging from land use to health services. |
$44.00
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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
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Prepare for Impact: When People and Environment Collide in the Tropics |
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Natasha Stacey, Guy Boggs, Bruce Campbell, Will Steffen (eds)
ISBN 9780980665017 PB Dec2009 |
South East Asia and tropical Australia are undergoing major changes, which are likely to intensify in the next decade: booming economies, climate change, land cover transformations, human disease outbreaks, and more. In this volume, by leading researchers and policy makers reflect on the challenges to be faced. |
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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
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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
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Step by Step: Women of East Timor, Stories of Resistance and Survival |
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Jude Conway (comp.)
ISBN 9781921576096 PB Feb2010 Southeast Asia; Politics & Society; Biography |
This compilation provides the opportunity for thirteen outspoken East Timorese women to tell their life stories: what it was like living in a Portuguese colony; how they were affected by the Indonesian invasion; what day to day life was like under the occupation or in the diaspora; how they contributed to the resistance; and how they have adapted to the stark contrast of independence. |
$44.00
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