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Flora of the South West

Lorraine Graham, Margaret Lewington, Neville Marchant, Judy Wheeler

• Hardcover | Engels | Flora of Australia Supplementary Series | nr. 12
• The flora of south-western Australia is internationally renowned as one of the richest in the world. Every year, in spring and summer, thousands of vi... Lees meer

The Workshops

• Paperback | Engels
• For 90 years, the Government Railway Workshops at Midland were the largest industrial workshops in Western Australia, training tradesmen to build and ... Lees meer

Mining My Own Business

Xavier Toby

• Paperback | Engels
• ''Why not do a comedy show about something funny? You should do a show about this. The mine, ''said Dale. "That'd be way funnier than politics and tha... Lees meer

Leading Edge

Stephen Langford

• Paperback | Engels
• The advent of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in the 1930s was a testimony to Australian innovation and ingenuity. Much has been written about the ear... Lees meer

Vagabondage

Beth Spencer

• Paperback | Engels
• Vagabondage is a book of poems tracking a year in the life of a single woman who sells her house when she turns 50 to live in a camper van. Vagabondag... Lees meer

Chromatic

Paul Munden

• Paperback | Engels
• 'Munden's vivid, well realised poems range across hemispheres and centuries, embracing music, art, film, historical events, and the potent catalysts o... Lees meer

Rogue Intensities

Angela Rockel

• Paperback | Engels
• In this remarkable book of place and decades of daily encounters in the natural world, Angela Rockel lays out the ways of describing and understanding... Lees meer

Richard Spencer

Gwen Chessell

• Hardcover | Engels | Staples
• Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN was a 19th century man of action. He was adventurous, resourceful, and devoted to those in his care. He is remembered t... Lees meer

No Longer A Wandering Spirit

Sharon Huebner, Ezzard Flowers

• Paperback | Engels
• In June 1867, Bessy Flowers was sent away from Minang Country, never to return. She was a young woman, educated, musical, confident and hopeful. Bessy... Lees meer

Will Mozart Make My Baby Smart?

Whitehouse

• Paperback | Engels
• Do mobile phones and bicycles kill sperm? Do pregnant women really suffer from "baby brain?" Does sugar make kids hyper? Do violent video games cause ... Lees meer

Dwoort Baal Kaat

Kim Scott, Russell Nelly, Wirlomin Noongar Language and Project

• Paperback | Engels | Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project
• Koora, Noongar keny dwoort boolarang. Baalang Ngoonang dwoort. Baal djerabiny dwoortang daatjak ngardanginy. / One day a long time ago, one of our peo... Lees meer

A Journey Travelled

Murray Arnold

• Paperback | Engels
• A Journey Travelled is a pivotal Australian story long overdue for the telling: how Aboriginal and European people interacted with each other followin... Lees meer

Tiny Museums

Carolyn Abbs

• Paperback | Engels
• Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. "Carolyn Abbs's poems in her poised collection The Tiny Museums live ... Lees meer

Burnt Umber

Paul Hetherington

• Paperback | Engels
• PRAISE FOR BURNT UMBER In this expansive and exciting collection Hetherington moves with power and grace through an impressive range of form and conte... Lees meer

Preparations for Departure

Nathanael O'Reilly

• Paperback | Engels
• Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Nobel laureate, once remarked that memory and art have in common the 'ability to select, a taste for detail.' In the work ... Lees meer

Asylum

John Hughes

• Paperback | Engels
• 'Just because you can't see the chains doesn't mean they don't exist.' In the Sanctuary, two robed men cut the hair of clients who have been called to... Lees meer

To the Beach

Thor Kerr

• Paperback | Engels
• When property developers, politicians and a vocal community debate how local land should be used, with the media intent on exposing conflicting intere... Lees meer

Just_a_girl

Kirsten Krauth

• Paperback | Engels
• Layla is only 14. As she sits in bed with a laptop, her mother Margot sleeps in the next room. But, what separates them is more than just a wall. It's... Lees meer

Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education

• Paperback | Engels
• This revised edition of Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education takes a fresh look at the challenges and achievements that have occurred in this... Lees meer

Mission Girls

Christine Choo

• Paperback | Engels
• This text examines the situation of Aboriginal women who lived on the Catholic missions of Beagle Bay and Kalumburu, in the north-west of Australia, b... Lees meer

MR Big of Bankstown

Moore

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1955, Raymond Fitzpatrick - a rough-hewn, ill-educated, Sydney businessman known in the media as 'Mr. Big of Bankstown' - and Frank Browne - a jour... Lees meer

Border Security

Bruce Dawe

• Paperback | Engels
• 'With each change of poetic clothes, at each moment, [Dawe] displays us ironically, satirically, good-humouredly to ourselves, with a warmth and sadne... Lees meer

Gaza

• Paperback | Engels
• This is a book that explores nationalism, intractability, the point of no return, and the jurisdiction over war crimes. In Gaza: Law, Morality and Pol... Lees meer

Criminal Re-Register

Ross Gibson

• Paperback | Engels
• 'Ross Gibson's poetry is marked by the numinous, then undercut by the quotidian, the earthy, a different way of seeing.' Jen Webb, Australian Book Rev... Lees meer