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Venice Biennale Australia 2007 Catalogue

Venice Biennale Australia 2007 Catalogue

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Established in 1895, the Venice Biennale is one of the world's most important critical forums for contemporary visual art. Thousands of the world's leading curators, collectors, gallery directors and critics...
The Stranger from Melbourne: Frank Hardy - A Literary Biography

The Stranger from Melbourne: Frank Hardy - A Literary Biography

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Frank Hardy is perhaps Australia's most famous Communist writer. In his literary biography on Frank Hardy, author Paul Adams traces the relationship between Hardy's writings, his political activism and the...
Gun-guwelamagapa: The Land of Our Old People: All the different camps

Gun-guwelamagapa: The Land of Our Old People: All the different camps

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Gun-guwelamagapa: Gun-nerranga gun-nerranga rrawa, An-barra gun-nika describes the An-barra Archaeological Project, which investigated the archaeological sites around the mouth of the Blyth River (An-gartcha Wana literally "Big River") in central...
Fitzroy 1974

Fitzroy 1974

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First published in 1974, Into the Hollow Mountains was a landmark book featuring black-and-white images taken by Robert Ashton around the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, alongside original writing from local...
An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion,

An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion,

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This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers,...
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited

This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited

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'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led...
Andrew Fisher

Andrew Fisher

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The story of Australia's first elected Labor Prime Minister, from award-winning historian David Day Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was one of Australia's great nation-builders, yet his story is largely unknown....
The Invincibles: the Legend of Bradman's 1948 Australians

The Invincibles: the Legend of Bradman's 1948 Australians

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The first complete account of the Australian cricket team's 1948 unbeaten tour of England. Includes long profiles of all team members, all match reports and scorecards, and many as yet...
Tall Buildings: Australian Business Going Up

Tall Buildings: Australian Business Going Up

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A history and critical appraisal of the tall office builging in Australia, emphasising their historical significance as part of the evolving story of Australian culture as it presents itself in...
And Bring the Darkness Home: The Tony Dell Story

And Bring the Darkness Home: The Tony Dell Story

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And Bring the Darkness Home is a haunting exploration of how the mental scars of war destroyed an international cricket career, tore a family apart and left destitute a man...
The History Of Prahran

The History Of Prahran

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In this book, the residents of Prahran, past and present, tell something of their own stories. These are as diverse as Prahran itself. There are tales of wine and roses...
Cross-Currents in Contemporary Australian Art

Cross-Currents in Contemporary Australian Art

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Summary of the major art movements that have influenced contemporary art. From the landscape tradition that formed the background to Australian art history, to the movements that have enlivened and...
Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War,

Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War,

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Fighting to the Finish tells the story of the Australian Army in Vietnam during the peak years of the Australian military commitment to Vietnam War. As the ninth and final...
Beautiful Lies: Australia from Kokoda to Keating

Beautiful Lies: Australia from Kokoda to Keating

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'Beautiful Lies' describes the forces that in less that four decades turned Australia from being dependent upon the United Kingdom to becoming an independent power, which, if it owes any...
Driven: A Diplomat's Auto-biography

Driven: A Diplomat's Auto-biography

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The memoir of Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski DRIVEN is a memoir by distinguished Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski, with a particular focus on the cars he has loved and...
The Holy and the Broken: A cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a

The Holy and the Broken: A cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a

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When dehumanisation and destruction become the norm, the cycle must be broken. For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked as an educator, journalist and peacebuilder in Melbourne and Jerusalem....
Phar Lap

Phar Lap

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For decades schoolchildren have made the pilgrimage to the Museum of Victoria to see the final resting place of our greatest racing horse ever. No wonder Phar Lap holds a...
Nell, the Duchess of Manchester

Nell, the Duchess of Manchester

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When an unassuming young Melbourne woman bumped into a handsome naval lieutenant in a Colombo hotel swimming pool in 1926 she would never have dreamed of one day being the...
The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II

The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II

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**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members....
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of

Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of

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Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for,...
Back on the Block: Bill Simon's Story

Back on the Block: Bill Simon's Story

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Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn't want him that he was 'the...
Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia: The Initiation of

Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia: The Initiation of

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Souter describes in fascinating detail the years of rapid and dramatic change from federation in 1901 to the end of the Great War. A new cheaper edition published to coincide...
The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II

The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II

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**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members....
The Time of their Lives

The Time of their Lives

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In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...
Current Contemporary Art from Austral

Current Contemporary Art from Austral

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'Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand' is the first comprehensive survey of all that is cutting edge in Australian and New Zealand contemporary practice. In a landmark publication,...
Boy Swallows Universe

Boy Swallows Universe

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*Make sure you read Trent Dalton's irresistible new novel, LOLA IN THE MIRROR, out now* 'Electric' The Times 'Thrilling' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Joanna Cannon THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A MAJOR...
Boy Swallows Universe

Boy Swallows Universe

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*Make sure you read Trent Dalton's irresistible new novel, LOLA IN THE MIRROR, out now* 'Electric' The Times 'Thrilling' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Joanna Cannon THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A MAJOR...
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?

Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?

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Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...
On the Road

On the Road

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On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...
Perils of the Studio: Inside the Artistic Affairs of Bohemian

Perils of the Studio: Inside the Artistic Affairs of Bohemian

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In the early twentieth century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. Perils of the Studio reveals how the romance and mythology of...
Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne

Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne

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New edition of a classic memoir with new Introduction, bibliography, biographical index and four new previously unpublished photographs. 'Hughenden', the seaside mansion of Kathleen's grandparents, provided the 'solid bluestone foundations'...
Australia's Boer War

Australia's Boer War

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The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but also...
Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within

Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within

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On the streets, under the ground and on the information superhighway, radicals and rebels have made this town their own. The acclaimed Radical Melbourne revealed the hidden history of the...
Sir John Medley

Sir John Medley

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Geoffrey Serle is a graduate of the University of Melbourne where he taught history before moving to Monash and the Australian National universities. He was general editor of the "Australian...
A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance

A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance

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On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's Domain to witness the dedication of the Shrine. It was the largest state war memorial...