Nonfiction
From Under a Leaky Roof...Afghan Refugees in Australia
Phil Sparrow
ISBN: 1 92106 436
From Under a Leaky Roof...traces the journey of many of the Afghan refugees currently in Australia - from discrimination and persecution under the Soviet, Mujahideen and Taliban regimes to the incarceration, and discrimination they now experience in Australia. Philip Sparrow, a UN aid worker, suggests more durable and humane approaches which should be adopted for those who have been forced from their homes.
Babes in the Bush
Kim Torney
ISBN: 1 92073 135
Along with drought, fire and flood, the child lost in the Bush has played a powerful part in the Australian imagination since early colonial times. These fascinating stories are drawn from popular journals, newspaper accounts and films, diaries and letters, and provide intriguing insights into the relationship between Europeans and Aboriginals.
Bluff Rock
Katrina Schlunke
ISBN: 1 92073 171
Focusing on the reported massacre of Aborigines at Bluff Rock, New England, NSW during the 1840s, and using a wide variety of historical and cultural sources - from letters, memoirs, tourist brochures and local histories - Bluff Rock probes the meanings of the massacre in local and national memory.
Fremantle Impressions
Ron Davidson
ISBN: 1 9781 863 6
Fremantle Impressions explores the character and charm of Fremantle, its rich and colourful array of stories, people and places. Filled with rare photos and information about the town's history, and carefully bound in hardback.
Survivors: Great Open Boat Voyagers
Douglas R G Sellick
ISBN: 1 92106 418
Drawn from original diaries and captains' journals, thrilling tales of survival at sea are brought to life by the masterly historian Douglas Sellick. From the Antarctic to the Bounty, from the well-known to the little-known or long-forgotten, this book is comprised of 8 real-life stories of open boat voyages that are sure to enthrall.
Black Glass
Kate Auty
ISBN: 1 92073 104
Between 1936 and 1954 the West Australian government operated Courts of Native Affairs that heard murder and manslaughter cases where defendant and victim were Aboriginal. Cases, which for every other citizen had the status of Supreme Court trials, were reduced to summary hearings conducted by amateurs. Black Glass explores these little known courts, along with the silence in which they were buried and the strategic silences exercised by their Aboriginal subjects.
Pioneers of the Pacific
Nigel Rigby & Pieter van der Merwe
ISBN: 1 920694 64
The figure of Captain Cook understandably dominates the story of Pacific exploration but one of the effects of his fame has been that many voyages of science and exploration following him have not received the attention they deserve. This book aims to correct this imbalance. The voyages of William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, La Perouse and Arthur Phillip span a time that saw Britain become the world's leading maritime power.
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Beneath Southern Seas, The Silent Service
John Davison & Tom Allibone
ISBN: 1 920694 62
Beneath Southern Seas is a stunning visual portrayal of the world of the Australian submarine Force Element Group. The open access granted to the authors by the RAN, have culminated in a collection of images and 40 thought provoking interviews that together offer an intimate look at this unique world.
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Seeking the Sydney, A Quest for Truth
Glenys McDonald
ISBN: 1 920694 54
The wartime loss of Australia's pride, HMAS Sydney, with all hands on board, remains among the great riddles of modern maritime history and one that has teased authorities, naval experts and researchers for more than six decades. For author Glenys McDonald, Sydney's final voyage and its ill-fated clash with the German raider Koormoran herald a personal quest that will take many unexpected turns in a detailed account of how a brush with the past turns to deepening obsession in a bid to help families of the 645 sailors win closure.
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Ernest Hodgkin's Swanland
Anne Brearley
ISBN: 1 920694 38
Swanland is a synthesis of the results of many years of research on estuarine environments from the Murchison to Esperance, Western Australia. Anne Brearley's more recent and widely sourced research has been grafted onto Ernest Hodgkin's extensive knowledge of this topic. Scientifically correct and readily accessible.
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Harvest of the Suburbs
Andrea Gaynor
ISBN: 1 920694 48
Who has grown their own food in Australian suburbs and why? In focusing on the meanings of food production for gardeners and animal-keepers, Harvest illuminates a range of contemporary ideas relating to work, social organisation, health and the body, gender roles and relationships between people and nature.
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Geriatric Medicine, Early Policy and Practice in WA
Richard Lefroy
ISBN: 1 920694 44
Geriatric Medicine is a fascinating chronicle of the early days of the Western Australian Public Health Department's geriatric service, from its small beginnings in one of the State's two so-called 'benevolent homes' - these, the relics of the asylum era when custodial care was the accepted solution to the health and social problems of old age.
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From Paesani to Global Italians, Veneto Migrants to Australia
Loretta Baldassar & Ros Pesman
ISBN: 1 920694 50
A study of the migration history and experiences of migrants from the Veneto region in the north-east of Italy. As the Veneto, which includes the province of Venice, is today one of the most affluent regions in Italy, this book provides a contrast to the rather more well-known story of southern Italian migration.
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Corporate Elders 'Organisation Men' Look Back
Leonie Still
ISBN: 1 920694 61
A rare look at the Australian executive culture and lives of its inhabitants through a holistic picture of the careers and personal challenges of 50 managerial and professional men in their 50s.
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Through Silent Country
Carolyn Wadley Dowley
ISBN: 1 86368 281
A compelling investigation of the escape of fifteen Wongai people from the notorious Moore River Native Settlement in 1921 and their return home to Laverton, over 800kms away, on foot, in fourteen days. The author draws on the memories and voices of the Wongai, a range of written documents and testimonies, as well as physically retracing the journey.
Our State of Mind: Racial Planning & the Stolen Generations
Quentin Beresford & Paul Omaji
ISBN: 1 86368 235
A timely work which examines the reasons why the policy of assimilation and the removal of Aboriginal children was introduced and maintained for so long. It reveals some of the long term effects of the policy and shows why the stolen generations remain as much a part of our present as they are of our past.
Enough is Enough
Noel Olive
ISBN: 1 978 9210 6
An historic account that embraces the Aboriginal side of the Pilbara story, Enough is Enough is an alarming look into the justice system that failed to treat indigenous Australians as equals. Noel Olive represented Aboriginal families before the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in custody.
Fremantle Walks
David Hutchison
ISBN : 1 920106 424
The perfect companion for a visit or stay in one of Australia's most popular cities. Fremantle Walks is an ideal pocket-size illustrated guide for locals and tourists alike to the history and culture, the services and facilities of this vibrant and endlessly fascinating port city.
Gallipoli
Wes Olsen
ISBN : 1 920694 82 
Provides a moving, fresh perspective on the ANZAC legend by recounting the stories of Western Australian soldiers who fought and died in this epic military campaign.
No Ordinary Determination
Jeff Hatwell
ISBN : 1 92073 141
Percy Black and Harry Murray were two obscure working men in the WA bush when they enlisted as privates in the AIF in 1914. Starting as the crew if a machine gun at Gallipoli, their extraordinary courage and natural abilities tool both men to high rank and earned them several awards for gallantry.
What Women Want Next
Susan Maushart
ISBN : 1921145145
In her ground-breaking new book, Susan Maushart is on the trail of the holy grail - happiness. Maushart turns her trademark passion, razor-sharp wit and unerring sense of style loose on the essential elements of a woman's life: love and sex, marriage and motherhood, friends and family, career and chocolate.
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Soul of the Desert
Philippa Nikulinsky
ISBN : 1 92106 406 
WA's premier botanical artist has created a stunning, long awaited new title. This lavish hardcover book includes beautiful reproductions of Nikulinsky's paintings, with detailed text and extended captions by the desert botany specialist Stephen Hopper.
Water
Edited by Andrea Gaynor
ISBN : 1 920694 80 
As raindrops keep falling on our heads with increasing irregularity, this topical book offers a multidisciplinary approach to issues relating to water and its successful management.
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The End of Innocence
Estelle Blackburn
ISBN : 978-1-74066-
Estelle Blackburn goes behind the scenes of her best selling true-crime book Broken Lives, to take the reader on a journey to the heart of our criminal justice system - where good and evil are tightly entwined and truth is sometimes hard to find...
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Pray for me in Santiago
Theresa Burkhardt-Felder
ISBN : 1 92073 145 
The ancient pilgrimage on the road to Santiago de Compostela is becoming increasingly popular with people from all corners of the globe. A personal account of the life-changing nature of this journey is brought to vivid life in this travel memoir, which is beautifully illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs.
Mind the Country
Salhia Ben-Messahel
ISBN : 1 920694 69
A valuable resource that explores the major themes and techniques that characterise the works of one of Australia's foremost writers. Includes interviews with the subject.
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Marking the Land
Edited by Brian Dibble and Jim Evans
ISBN : 1 920694 46
There is much wisdom and many a laugh to be found in the delightful collection of Australian sayings. The play of humour, practical good sense and irony locates them unmistakably in this country, and in the particular good habits of people in the bush. Beautifully captured pictures by Richard Woldendorp perfectly complement the text.
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Ways of Seeing China
Timothy Kendall
ISBN : 1 92073 183
This is a fascinating look at how Australian media, popular culture, and the arts have constructed ways of seeing China. It looks at how we 'tell tales' of China, and how these storytelling forms are used time and again and continually resurface in different guises. An interdisciplinary look at how old attitudes are given new life and are reflected in changing policies.
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Australian Pastoral
Jeanette Hoorn
ISBN : 978 1 920731
Australian Pastoral maps the tradition of pastoral painting in Australia, charting its entanglement with the great pastoral settlement of the country. With over 100 full colour reproductions of major Australian paintings, including works by Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Hans Heyson.
Beyond Good and Evil
Dennis Haskell, Megan McKinlay & Pamela Rich
ISBN : 1 920694 63
In this volume of Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region, writers and scholars from the region examine subjects ranging from the Japanese 'evil' of the 2nd World War to the appropriation of Indigenous cultures and the ethics of biographical writing. Although diverse, the essays share an interest in the conflicts between relativism and fundamentalism, between certainty and sureness.
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