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The Lumen Seed: Records of a Search in the Australian Desert

By Juno Gemes (foreword by)

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Hardcover:

9781942084242 | Daylight Community Arts Foundation, January 31, 2017, cover price $45.00

War at the End of the World: Douglas Macarthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea 1942-1945

By James P. Duffy

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Hardcover:

9780451418302, titled "War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945" | New Amer Library, January 5, 2016, cover price $28.00

9780521333641, titled "Cambridge Guide to Prehistoric Man" | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $25.00 | also contains Cambridge Guide to Prehistoric Man

Paperback:

9780451418319 | New Amer Library, January 3, 2017, cover price $16.00

The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939

Product Description: When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start...read more

By Melanie Oppenheimer

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9781107125063 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 9, 2016, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'.

The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal

By Stephen L. Moore

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Hardcover:

9780451473752 | New Amer Library, November 3, 2015, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780451473769 | New Amer Library, November 1, 2016, cover price $17.00

Ednapedia: A History of Australia in a Hundred Objects

Product Description: "From our dainty gum nuts and towering Uluru to our world-class sharks and Opera House, marauding possums and poets, taking in game-changing inventions such as the dual-flush toilet and zinc cream, you will be amazed at what our sunburnt country has contributed to modern civilization...read more

By Dame Edna Everage

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9781784975609 | Head of Zues, November 1, 2016, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: "From our dainty gum nuts and towering Uluru to our world-class sharks and Opera House, marauding possums and poets, taking in game-changing inventions such as the dual-flush toilet and zinc cream, you will be amazed at what our sunburnt country has contributed to modern civilization.

Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, C. 18701914

Product Description: The age of steam was the age of Britain's global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world seemed to shrink as timetabled shipping mapped out faster, more efficient and more reliable transoceanic networks...read more

By Frances Steel

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9781526106568 | Reprint edition (Manchester Univ Pr, October 1, 2016), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The age of steam was the age of Britain's global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas.

The Australian Imperial Force: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War

By Jeffrey Grey

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9780195576801 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 21, 2016, cover price $50.00

Last Woman Hanged: The Terrible, True Story of Louisa Collins

By Caroline Overington

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9781460750933 | Harper360, September 20, 2016, cover price $18.99

A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-off

Product Description: Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hill Walk-off in 1966 and questions the meanings commonly attributed to the return of their land by Gough Whitlam in 1975...read more

By Charlie Ward

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9781925377163 | Monash Univ Faculty Info, September 14, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs.

The War With Germany: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War

Product Description: For most Australians the Great War begins with the Gallipoli dawn on 25 April 1915; few appreciate the significance of Australia's first action that occurred seven months earlier on the island of New Britain to Australia's near north...read more

By Jeffrey Grey

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9780195576771 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: For most Australians the Great War begins with the Gallipoli dawn on 25 April 1915; few appreciate the significance of Australia's first action that occurred seven months earlier on the island of New Britain to Australia's near north.

The Vagabond Papers

By Willa Mcdonald (contributor)

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Paperback:

9781922235985 | Expanded edition (Monash Univ Faculty Info, September 1, 2016), cover price $34.95

The Good Neighbour: Australian Peace Support Operations in the Pacific Islands 1980-2006

By Bob Breen

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Hardcover:

9781107019713 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 9, 2016, cover price $120.00

Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

By Tim Low

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Hardcover:

9780300221664 | Yale Univ Pr, September 27, 2016, cover price $32.50

Some Friends Came to See Us: Lord Moyne's 1936 Expedition to the Asmat

Product Description: Walter Edward Guinness (1880â1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in his private yacht in search for ethnographic material, Lord Moyne visited South Papua three times in 1929, 1935 and 1936...read more

By Nick Stanley

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9780861592067 | British Museum Pubns Ltd, July 31, 2016, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Walter Edward Guinness (1880â1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer.

The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills: Forgotten Narratives

Product Description: The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860â61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to which this affected the outcome of the expedition...read more

By Fred Cahir (editor) and Ian D. Clark (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780643108080 | Csiro, October 31, 2013, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860â61.

Paperback:

9781486306275 | Reprint edition (Csiro, July 31, 2016), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860â61.

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

By Patricia Hayes (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781474235501 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 14, 2016, cover price $112.00

Exploring Peace Formation: Security and Justice in Post-colonial States

Product Description: This volumeÂ investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and justice in volatile environments. It aims to take current debates about peacebuilding and statebuilding, the formation of political community, and the foundations of security and social order in conflict-affected or fragile environments further and deeper, by drawing on field research from West Africa and Oceania, but also through theoretical critique and engagement...read more

By Charles T. Hunt (editor)

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9781138999367 | Routledge, October 7, 2016, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: This volumeÂ investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and justice in volatile environments.

Nationalism in Asia: A History Since 1945

By Jeff Kingston

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Hardcover:

9780470673010 | Blackwell Pub, July 5, 2016, cover price $89.95

Paperback:

9780470673027 | Blackwell Pub, July 5, 2016, cover price $34.95

Direct Hit: The Bombing of Darwin Post Office

Product Description: On Thursday, February 19, 1942 at 9.58am, 188 Japanese fighters, bombers, and dive bombers launched the first of more than 60 air raids on Darwin in Northern Australia. Although most Australians know there were bombing raids, the impact and devastation is not always realized...read more

By Brett Bowden

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9781925078848 | Rosenberg Pub Pty Ltd, June 30, 2016, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: On Thursday, February 19, 1942 at 9.

Richard Brooks: From Convict Ship Captain to Pillar of Early Colonial Australia