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Indigenous peoples history, United States history
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This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population…
and agricultural resources became the method early Americans' employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US "special operations" in the War on Terror.
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History, World War II, Criticism
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La ganadora del Premio Nobel de literatura, Svetlana Alexiévich, le da vida a las numerosas voces de aquellas mujeres silenciadas…
por la guerra. Deberíais crecer, niñas... Estáis muy verdes aún... Es uno de los fragmentos del ensayo La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer: un corpus formado por los desgarradores testimonios de aquellas que vivieron la guerra en sus propias carnes. Mujeres que lucharon, que resistieron, que fueron voluntarias, que fueron arrastradas; mujeres que salvaron y arrebataron vidas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. «Estaba embarazada del segundo... Mi hijo tenía dos años, yo estaba encinta. Estalló la guerra. Mi marido combatía en el frente. Me fui al pueblo donde vivían mis padres e hice... Ya me entiende... Aborté... En aquella época estaba prohibido... ¿Cómo podía dar a luz? Alrededor había tanto dolor... ¡La guerra! ¿Cómo se puede dar a luz si te rodea la muerte?»
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Animal stories, Fantasy, General fiction
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A sequel to the best-selling sensation, "Magic Kitten", this story revolves around Storm, a young wolf sent into our world…
as a magic puppy, by his injured and weak mother of Moon-claw pack. Storm must hide from the Evil shadow and has to find ways to reunite with his mom and Moon-claw pack.
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The Untouchables is the gripping true story of the team of men who broke the back of the vicious Chicago…
crime mob and its stranglehold on the nation, told by the man who orchestrated the effort. Enormously successful as a long-running TV series.
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Politics and government, General non-fiction
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In The Best Australian Political Writing 2008, Lateline's Tony Jones selects the most illuminating, provocative and incisive analysis of the…
past year in politics. Here some of our leading commentators and writers dissect Kevin Rudd's march to the Lodge and John Howard's historic defeat; travel to Afghanistan and a drought-stricken Mallee town; weigh in on the culture wars; and investigate the bungled cases of David Hicks and Mohamed Haneef. This collection brings together the names, events and ideas that shaped a remarkable year.
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Journals and memoirs, Criticism, Politics and government
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In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally with a pull-no-punches speech that put 'women's lib' on the…
map. Brave, impassioned and searing, the speech set the tone for the idiosyncratic career that was to follow. A few years later, she was on her way to New York, where she would make her name as a writer and enjoy a ringside seat at some of the most confronting events of our time. With a polemical anger tempered by a keen sense of the absurd and a fiercely independent streak, she writes incisively about politics, morality, finance, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider and looks back at Australia with an expatriate's frankness. Trouble is both an unconventional autobiography and a record of remarkable times. From the protest movements of the 1970s, via Wall Street's heyday and dramatic collapse, to the historic election of Barack Obama, Jennings captures the shifts - seismic and subtle, personal and political - that brought us to where we are now. After four decades, Kate Jennings' work is as exhilarating and impossible to categorise - shocking with the shock of recognition - as the day it was written.
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Anthologies
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Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. "Stories of one kind or another have a way of pressing themselves…
into Irish conversation, both as entertainment and as a form of communication," writes William Trevor. "For centuries they have been offered to strangers, almost as hospitality is: tall stories, simple stories, stories of extraordinary deeds, of mysteries and wonders, of gentleness, love, cruelty, and violence." Himself an accomplished short story writer, Trevor has gathered here a collection of stories that represent not only the best of Irish short story writing, but the best of the genre. Spanning the entire history of the Irish short story, from folk-tales to modern writing, this is the most broad-ranging anthology available. Included are such masters as James Joyce and Elizabeth Bowen, who established Ireland at the forefront of the modern short story, as well as Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faolain, the two most important writers since Joyce and Bowen. Trevor has selected stories by Bernard McLaverty and Desmond Hogan to represent the new generation of writers. But, as Elizabeth Bowen observed, the modern short story in Ireland is "a young art," and it is against the nation's deeply rooted oral tradition that it must be considered. Toward this end, The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories includes seven folk tales translated from the Irish by Sean O'Sullivan, and Seamus MacManus's re-telling of an Irish fairy tale. William Trevor is one of today's most famous and respected Irish writers. (His work is represented here by the short story "Death in Jerusalem.") The 45 stories he has selected for this anthology, for which he has written a generous introduction, cover a 250-year period and works by 35 authors. Together they demonstrate the development of the short story in Ireland, a land where a flair for storytelling has "become a national characteristic."
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General non-fiction
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The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of our lexicon; it's forever being invoked in debates about the Australian…
way of life, but is all too often misused by those blind to Horne's irony. When it was first published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Although it's a study of the confident Australia of the 1960s, the book still remains illuminating and insightful decades later. The Lucky Country is valuable not only as a source of continuing truths and revealing snapshots of the past, but above all as a key to understanding the anxieties and discontents of Australian society today.
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History, General non-fiction
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What are the qualities at the heart of Australian culture? How did they arise? What distinguishes us from other nations…
beyond a fondness for calling each other 'mate'? And what do such national quirks reveal about our society, our past and our attitudes towards it? Looking for Australia is a fascinating collection of essays by historian John Hirst. Together they form a multi-faceted portrait of Australia as a distinctive nation, with its own political culture, character and style, and particular ways of seeing itself. Among other subjects, Hirst considers the effects of convict origins on national character, what drove the bushrangers to their daring deeds, and why Australia has compulsory voting. He examines whether Aborigines played a part in the origins of Australian Rules football, and asks whether Curtin was indeed our greatest prime minister. He discusses how best to tell Australia's history, and, after reflecting on our past as a British dependency, makes a stirring case for a future, fully independent republic.
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History
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Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime’s original reflection by one of Australia’s most innovative and penetrating historians.…
Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are also celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance, multiculturalism and narrowly nationalistic history, as well as a substantial new essay on Aboriginal dispossession and the history wars. In these essays, John Hirst blends the intimacy of the insider with the objectivity usually only available to the outsider, resulting in Australian history seen at once from within and without. In Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, John Hirst overturns familiar conceptions and deepens our sense of Australia’s development from convict society to distinctive democracy.
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History, Customs and cultures
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John Hirst has assembled the key assessments of the national character of Australia and Australians. There are insiders and outsiders.…
There is celebration and criticism. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like. Hirst provides a set of introductory essays to accompany his selections.
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Home and garden
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This is a practical workbook, a resource book for a writer to work through, with an emphasis on exercises and examples.
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General non-fiction
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In this third Quarterly Essay of 2003, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully…
imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging exploration, she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the the 'Aborigine question' may be settled, but how a sense of being Aboriginal might save the soul of Australia. In a sweeping essay touching on everything from Henry Lawson to multiculturalism, she argues that Australia must enter the Aboriginal web of dreams.
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Politics and government
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Al Grassby has been in the forefront of the struggle against racial prejudice for many years. Here, Grassby approaches these…
issues on a very personal level, illustrating his arguments with anecdotes and observations we can all recognise and identify with.
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Philosophy, General non-fiction
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We live in a world where ignorance is not just bliss, it's celebrated. Celebrities are multiplying like tadpoles; millionaires are…
breeding even faster; values have gone out the window, and commonsense has run off with the pool-boy. Soon we'll be talking about Paris Hilton for US president. Shelley Gare has written a book about how our society is losing the plot. In a series of snapshots covering everything from the rise of the jargon-speaking HR manager to our obsession with cushions, cafes and lifestyle, from the rise of the empty-headed It-girls to the multi-million dollar payouts to failed CEOs, The Triumph of the Airheads looks at how our society has been turned upside-down.
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War, Philosophy
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The war in Iraq is over, so we are told, but huge questions remain unanswered. Why were we lied to…
about the existence of weapons of mass destruction? Why do we still not know how many Iraqis died in the invasion? Why was John Howard so eager to commit Australian troops? Was the invasion legal under international law? And how can we reconcile this critical questioning with the knowledge of how Iraqis suffered under Saddam Hussein? In Why the War Was Wrong, leading Australian writers give their answers. Arguing from legal, political, historical, philosophical and humanitarian standpoints, they aim to make a passionate case for the primacy of our responsibilities to our fellow human beings. With contributions by Robert Manne, Guy Rundle, Eva Sallis, Raimond Gaita, Hilary Charlesworth, Peter Coghlan, and Mark McKenna.
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It's Postcard Day at the Polk Street School. Emily's class is mailing postcards to kids all over the United States.…
Emily Arrow can hardly wait. But what a disaster! First, all the best postcards get grabbed fast, and Emily ends up with a plain ugly white one. Then she writes something that's not true on the card. Ms. Rooney has already collected the cards when Emily starts to worry. What will she do is someone writes back and wants to know more about her lie? Learn all about what happens to Emily's postcard and how to start your own stamp collection. A special stamp album is included in the back of the book! Patricia Reilly Giff is the author of over fifty books for young readers including The Kids of the Polk Street School books, The Polka Dot Private Eye Books and the Lincoln Lion Band Books. She Lives in Westron Connecticut. Pictures are described. You'll find over 75 books in Bookshare's library including books for younger kids, older kids and kids just your age. They are about school and many other things you like to read about.
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Environment, Politics and government
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This book presents the universal issue of radioactive waste management from the perspective of the German legal system, analysing how…
lawmakers have responded to the problem of nuclear waste over the course of the last seventy years. In this book, Robert Rybski unwraps and explains the perplexing legal and social issues related to radioactive waste. He takes readers through the entire ‘life-cycle’: from the moment that radioactive material is classified as radioactive waste, through to the period of interim storage, and right up to its final disposal. However, this last step in radioactive waste management (that of final disposal) has not yet been achieved in Germany, or anywhere in the world, and has been the subject of hefty public debate for dozens of years. As a result, the book analyses the most recent regulations in place to enable final disposal. This book will be of interest to energy policy experts, academics and professionals who work in the area of nuclear energy.
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Women biography, Criticism, Arts and entertainment
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The rise of celebrity stage actresses in the long eighteenth century created a class of women who worked in the…
public sphere while facing considerable scrutiny about their offstage lives. Such powerful celebrity women used the cultural and affective significance of their reproductive bodies to leverage audience support and interest to advance their careers, and eighteenth-century London patent theatres even capitalized on their pregnancies. Carrying All Before Her uses the reproductive histories of six celebrity women (Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen, Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, George Anne Bellamy, Sarah Siddons, and Dorothy Jordan) to demonstrate that pregnancy affected celebrity identity, impacted audience reception and interpretation of performance, changed company repertory and altered company hierarchy, influenced the development and performance of new plays, and had substantial economic consequences for both women and the companies for which they worked. Deepening the fields of celebrity, theatre, and women's studies, as well as social and medical histories, Phillips reveals an untapped history whose relevance and impact persists today.
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Arts and entertainment, History
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This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during…
the long eighteenth century. The event that gave rise to the collection was the 15th David Nochol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, which launched a new Australian and New Zealand Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Two strands of interest are explored by the individual authors. The first four essays work with ideas about material objects and identity formation, suggesting how the artist's physical environment contributes to the sense of self, as a practicing artist or artisan, as an individual patron or collector, or as a woman or religious outsider. The last four essays address the intellectual work that can be expressed through or performed by objects. Through a consideration of the material formation of concepts, this book explores questions that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, and designed forms. In doing so, it introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment.