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MP-MEL Melbourne University Letters to a Critic Alan McCullochs World of Art
The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period of intense political, policy and strategic transition, which saw a popular Labor Government and its state-led vision for post-war reconstruction toppled by Robert Menzies.
£26.81
MP-MEL Melbourne University Australia at the Venice Biennale A Century of Contemporary Art
With the support of the Australian art community, the Venice Biennale today remains an aspiration and career highlight for contemporary artists and Australia's love affair with the exhibition thrives. Discover the untold stories of the world's most important art event through one hundred years of Australian modern art.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Parliament in the Twenty First Century Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Governing Forests
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin Their Early Political Careers and the Making of the Modern Labor Party
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MP-MEL Melbourne University The Fires Next Time Understanding Australias Black Summer
Offers a comprehensive assessment of Australia’s Black Summer fires. Contributors analyse the event from many vantage points and disciplines - historical, climate scientific, ecological, economic, and political, and assess its impacts on human health and wellbeing, on native plants and animals, and on fire management and emergency response.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University The Good Death Through Time
Delving into what euthanasia activists, doctors, lawyers, religious leaders and lay people have thought and felt about dying, this book shows that understanding the radical historical shift in Western attitudes to managing dying and suffering helps us better grasp the stakes in today’s contestations over what it means to die well.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University What Birdo is That A Field Guide to Birdpeople
Reveals how bird-people in Australia have gone about their craft across the years. The stories come from wild places - at sea as well as on the land - from dusty archives, from restoration projects, gardens and urban wastelands. They are human stories, but the birds themselves interject and interrupt any self-important anthropocentrism.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors Australia and the threat from the Soviet Union in the Cold War and Russia Today
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MP-MEL Melbourne University The People vs The Banks
The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law. The day of reckoning for liars and thieves in pin-striped suits has arrived.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Faith in Freedom Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Raewyn Connell Research Politics Social Change
So much of social science is collaborative, so much depends on organisations, networks, shared ideas and shared excitement. This book is not an autobiography, but it is a collection of work by one researcher over forty years. The author shows by example how intellectual projects can develop, how different lines of thought can meet and weave.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Shifting the Boundaries The University of Melbourne 19752015
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Growing in to Autism
Part personal, funny, endearing and enlightening memoir, and part rigorous explication of the nature of autism, Growing in to Autism is a book for all people, memorably conveying the need for better understanding and ways of making space for a group of individuals in our society who have so much to offer.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Seeking Justice in Cambodia Human Rights Defenders Speak Out
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Intending the World A Phenomenology of International Affairs
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Lionel Lindsay in Spain An Antipodean Abroad
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Older and Bolder Life After 60
For the first time in history, women can expect to live well from their sixties for another three decades. In Older and Bolder, Renata Singer contrasts the stories of the pioneers of active, productive old age against the anxieties of those facing the milestone of turning sixty, considering each viewpoint in the light of revealing research.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Life As I Know It
Michelle Payne rode into history as the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. She and her 100-to-1 local horse Prince of Penzance took the international racing world by surprise but hers was no overnight success story. Her story is about hope triumphing over adversity, and how resilience and character made a winner.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University The Most Dangerous Man in the World The Inside Story on Julian Assange and the Wikileaks Secrets
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MP-MEL Melbourne University The Truth of the Palace Letters Deceit Ambush and Dismissal in 1975
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Thisvolume reveals their meaning and significance for understanding the dismissal.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Faith in Freedom Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Irresistible Forces Women in Science
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Under the Stars Astrophysics for Bedtime
Transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky. Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith brings the night sky to life with her engaging storytelling, combined with brilliantly colourful illustrations.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University The Invention of Melbourne A Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Tough Customer Chasing a Better Deal for Battlers
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Dangerous To Know An Australasian Crime Compendium
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MP-MEL Melbourne University National Versus Human Security Australian and Canadian Military Interventions
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MP-MEL Melbourne University European Vision and the South Pacific
The republication of European Vision and the South Pacific is an essential part of the discourse reframing the interconnections and crossing of cultural boundaries between Europe and antipodean societies. This new edition of a significant Australian classic coincides with the 250th anniversary of Cook's landing on the east coast of Australia.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Sunburnt Country The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia
Pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It shows a continent always vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It gives an unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been in existence for millions of years, and what climate change in our own backyard looks like.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Breaking the Silence Aboriginal Defenders and the Settler State 19051939
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia Pacific
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MP-MEL Melbourne University A Networked Community Jewish Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century
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MP-MEL Melbourne University League of Nations Histories legacies and impact
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MP-MEL Melbourne University John Howard A Life The Definitive Biography
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MP-MEL Melbourne University What Happens Next Reconstructing Australia after COVID19
With contributions from some of Australia's most respected academics and leading thinkers, What Happens Next? sets out a progressive, reforming agenda to tackle the twin crises of climate change and inequality. It provides a framework through which our collective effort can be devoted to improving lives.
£28.59
MP-MEL Melbourne University Banning Islamic Books In Australia
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Oil Under Troubled Waters Australias Timor Sea Intrigue
Explores the sordid history of Australian government dealings with East Timor and how the actions of both major political parties have enriched Australia and its corporate allies at the expense of its tiny neighbour and wartime ally, one of the poorest nations of the world.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Art Climate Change II
Presents the work of Australian and international artists across a broad range of exhibitions, performances and events from CLIMARTE's ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 festival. Essays on the climate emergency by artists, curators and arts writers help us imagine a world where we protect and care for the earth.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Finishing the Job Realworld Policy Solutions in Health Housing Education and Transport
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MP-MEL Melbourne University A Liberal State How Australians Chose Liberalism over Socialism 19261966
The fourth title in a landmark five-volume Australian Liberalism series, A Liberal State examines how Australians reasserted their claim to control their own lives, following decades of expanded government control over economic and social life, and intrusive wartime and post-war restrictions.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University The Pivot of Power Australian Prime Ministers and Political Leadership 19492016
Leadership turnover in recent years has seen more prime ministers in Australia rise and fall than at any time since the decade after federation. What explains this volatility? The Pivot of Power is the second volume in a unique blend of collective biography and institutional history that shows the skills, limitations and passions of incumbents are only part of the story.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Womens Human Rights and the Muslim Question Irans One Million Signatures Campaign
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MP-MEL Melbourne University But Wait Theres More A History of Australian Advertising 19002000
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Incorrigible Optimist A Political Memoir
A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades, Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions to conflict resolution, genocide prevention and curbing weapons of mass destruction. In this sometimes moving, often entertaining, and always lucid memoir, Evans looks back over the highs and lows of his public life.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Helpem Fren Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 20032017
Drawing on still-classified official documents and over thirty interviews, this book records the preconditions, motivations and dynamics of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) between 2003 and 2017.
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MP-MEL Melbourne University The Menzies Watershed Liberalism Anticommunism Continuities 19431954
The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period of intense political, policy and strategic transition, which saw a popular Labor Government and its state-led vision for post-war reconstruction toppled by Robert Menzies.
£23.24
MP-MEL Melbourne University A Secretive Century Monte Punshons Australia
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