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  • A Concise History of Australia
    Stuart Macintyre
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    30,08 €

  • Convict Australia
    Jennifer Twemlow
    Where is the missing fortune that James Dingle and his convict crew stole in a huge bank heist in 1828 that equates to about 20 million dollars by today’s standards? How did a small group of convicts manage to steal a leaky ship and sail halfway across the world? How did Joseph Samuels become the man they couldn’t hang? From astonishing escapes to tragic shipwrecks, piratical s...
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    20,27 €

  • United We Stand
    Tom O’Lincoln
    In the state-run prison that was early New South Wales, pockets of capitalism sprang up like sturdy weeds. with them came wage labour and class struggle. Australian workers were organisiing well before the gold rushes, and later a mass labour movement confronted the employers across the continent, opening the way for bitter confrontations.Controversy surrounds the colonial labo...
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    18,73 €

  • Tracy
    Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a swathe of destruction across the entire town. Few buildings escaped.Sixty-six people died, many of them on vessels which put to sea, while many hundreds we...
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    27,26 €

  • Tallawudjah Creek ... and Me
    Elizabeth Webb
    Author and historian, Elizabeth (Bessie) Webb, traces her family roots growing up in Tallawudjah Creek near Glenreagh, on the Mid North Coast of NSW, between WWI and II. A prolific contributor to the history of the Glenreagh area, evidenced by eight other historical works she has researched and authored, Bessie shares her childhood memories. Her collection of photographs adds a...
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    22,29 €

  • Samuel Carvosso 1814-1874
    John A Carvosso
    Cornishman Samuel Carvosso, with Louisa and four children, arrived in South Australia, in February 1849. An ’Old Colonist’, this historical biography reveals Samuel’s life, personality, and motivation within the business, Wesleyan, and political life of the early years of Adelaide. An extensive appendix includes:family treesSamuel’s contemporaries and extended family intersecti...
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    15,37 €

  • A Veritable Hell
    Gavin Scrimgeour
    During the Battle of Fromelles on one terrible night in July 1916, the 32nd Battalion from South Australia and Western Australia lost over 85% of its fighting strength.Using the words of those from the 32nd Battalion who survived, the course of the battle in their sector during that night is reconstructed, and the tragic experiences of brave men thrust into an impossible situat...
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    15,94 €

  • Rabbits and other Immigrants
    Julie Lenora Parsons / Julie Parsons
    In the 1850s, the long arm of destiny stretched across the oceans and plucked young George Parsons and some rabbits from a village in England and brought them to a grazier’s property in south eastern Australia. The boy, who was ill-treated, made good his escape, as did the rabbits. Both went forth and multiplied. Both cleared the land, one at the bidding of the government, the ...
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    58,40 €

  • Alive in the Five
    Glen Humphries
    In 1982 the Illawarra Steelers played their first season in the NSW Rugby League competition. It wasn’t a great start for the club - they finished second-last on the ladder. The rest of the 1980s didn’t bring much joy - the club picked up the wooden spoon three times, including a double in 1985 and ’86.But then the new decade brought with it the bright, shining season of 1992, ...
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    16,63 €

  • Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960
    This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. ...
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    70,29 €

  • Regulating Refugee Protection Through Social Welfare
    Peter Billings
    This book scrutinises the nature and diverse effects of social welfare rights and services for refugees and asylum seekers. ...
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    73,09 €

  • Constitutionalism of Australian First Nations
    Maria Salvatrice Randazzo
    This book provides an original account of Australian First Nations’ legal orders as legitimate sites of constitutionalism. ...
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    73,20 €

  • History of New Zealand
    Thomas Estrada
    This meticulously researched and engaging book delves deep into the captivating history of new zealand, offering readers an insightful narrative that spans centuries. Discover the land’s pre-european roots, as the indigenous maori people cultivated a vibrant polynesian culture, setting the stage for a unique and enduring heritage.Dive into the pivotal treaty of waitangi, a docu...
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    16,03 €

  • The Moore Family
    Garry Moore
    John Moore and his wife, Margaret Moore (née Considine), were early European pioneers who settled in around 1843 in the North East of what was then known as the Port Phillip District of the Colony of New South Wales and is now the State of Victoria. Like the great majority of their fellow settlers, neither John nor Margaret was born in Australia.John Moore was born in Woodchurc...
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    33,64 €

  • Reading the Bible in Australia
    Reading the Bible in Australia invites reflection about how the Bible matters to Australia. Contributors probe intersections between vital debates about Australian identity (who we have been, are, and aspire to become) and the Bible, bringing a range of perspectives to critical themes--indigeneity, colonization, and migration; landscape, biodiversity, and climate; gender and ma...
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    33,70 €

  • Reading the Bible in Australia
    Reading the Bible in Australia invites reflection about how the Bible matters to Australia. Contributors probe intersections between vital debates about Australian identity (who we have been, are, and aspire to become) and the Bible, bringing a range of perspectives to critical themes--indigeneity, colonization, and migration; landscape, biodiversity, and climate; gender and ma...
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    46,18 €

  • Lessons From Our First 20 Years
    Laurence F Rowston
    This is the 9th book on Tasmanian Baptist History by Laurence F Rowston. It looks at the beginnings of sixteen of our Baptist Churches in Tasmania commencing about 1880. The churches are Bracknell, Blackwood Creek, Burnie, Deloraine, Devonport, Hobart, Latrobe, Launceston, Longford, Perth, Sheffield, Smithton, Ulverstone, Wynyard and Yolla and also Memorial, the Henry Reed Miss...
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    44,69 €

  • The Violence of Others
    Rosemary Duncan
    The highly decorated pilot, Squadron Leader Charles Scherf, returns home to take up his role of father, husband and heir to the wealthy family estate in northern NSW.It is post-war Australia. A war has been won but for some the battle has just begun. Violent energies within and without infect the whole family and especially the young daughter born when the father was at war. Th...
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    17,59 €

  • Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand
    Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand offers new research and analysis of women’s offending and criminalisation in Australia and New Zealand from British settlement through to the late-twentieth/early twenty-first century. ...
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    241,20 €

  • Reach Out, Build Up, Send Back
    May Kuan Lim
    ’I came from a traditional Buddhist family. When I came to Australia to study in high school in 1971, I was an atheist. One person tried to share with methe gospel of Jesus Christ. I had so many questions for him, but he couldn’t answer them. ... [I came to know the Lord] through the ministry of OCF, especially through Lim Kim Bew and his wife, Judy, who are ex-OCFers. They hav...
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    32,03 €

  • Australian Women’s Justice
    Deborah Jordan
    This book explores how women spearheaded the democratic suffrage campaign in colonial Queensland. ...
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    241,02 €

  • The Coliban Main Channel A Walking Guide
    Stephen Charman
    Over the course of its seventy kilometres from the Malmsbury Reservoir in the south to Crusoe Reservoir in Bendigo in the north, the Coliban Main Channel winds it’s way through forests, parks and farmland. For much of its length, paths and tracks accompany the Channel, providing opportunities for walkers to trace one of Victoria’s greatest infrastucture projects of the nineteen...
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    26,97 €

  • The Life and Work of Ante Dabro, Australian-Croatian Sculptor
    Peter Read
    Ante Dabro believes that the ability to see what other people don’t see is a real gift. He says, ’It’s like a star wheeling round the earth, fertilising the imagination as it goes.’ This book explores the different ways he has liberated an essence of humanity by releasing the soul of a human form from its imprisoning substance, whether it be from wood, marble, stone or plaster....
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    57,06 €

  • Aboriginal Mythology
    Mudrooroo
    Aboriginals believe they have lived in Australia since the Dreamtime, the beginning of all creation, and archaeological evidence shows the land has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years. Over this time, Aboriginal culture has grown a rich variety of mythologies in hundreds of different languages. Their unifying feature is a shared belief that the whole universe is alive...
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    22,24 €

  • Soundtrack Of My Life
    Kit Calder-White
    Have you ever wondered how you got here?How you ended up where you are today?Nick Blackwell is on a quest to discover how his life brought him to where he finds himself: International music producer, DJ, author, husband and loving father.A settled life of sorts.But it wasn’t always like that.After tragedy befalls him, Nick is forced to return home in order to seek solace from t...
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    10,78 €

  • McDouall Stuart hitches a ride
    Rosemary Cadden
    Take a front seat on this road trip through the centre of Australia for an unsettling journey through history as journalist and adventurer Rosemary Cadden follows the tracks of fellow Scot, 19th-century explorer John McDouall Stuart. He seemed a natural choice to show her around this country where she’s lived for fifty years. Although their boat trips were 140 years apart, both...
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    28,39 €

  • Born in 1944? What else happened? 2025 Edition
    Ron Williams / TBD
    ABOUT THIS SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. I could have found out about the times they lived in. But I d...
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    16,03 €

  • An Outlaw’s Journal
    Stones
    After months of isolation and punishment in Beechworth Gaol, Joe Byrne is freed only to find himself in a world that has left him behind. While he tries to wrap his head around the many changes in his life, his frustrations lead to even more trouble when an altercation with some of the local Chinese men turns violent. Georgina Stones brings this pivotal chapter in the story of ...
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    17,04 €

  • Discovering Australia
    Sarah Cloete Jones
    Embark on a captivating journey through the diverse landscapes, rich cultures, and unique experiences that define the enchanting continent of Australia. 'Discovering Australia: A Traveler’s Guide' invites you to explore the extraordinary tapestry of this vast and vibrant land, providing an expertly crafted companion for both first-time visitors and seasoned travelers seeking ne...
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    12,78 €

  • The 1972 Parramatta Jail Glossary
    Bruce Moore
    In 1972, a group of prisoners at Parramatta Jail in Sydney put together a glossary of prison words and phrases. It is a list of 362 words with definitions. Many of the terms describe life in the prison, including punishments, the psychological effects of incarceration, and male to male sex. Others come from the prisoners’ encounters with police and the legal system or from the ...
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    15,89 €


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