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Motivate Your Child - A Christian Parent'S Guide To Raising Kids Who Do What They Need To Do Without Being Told

by Joanne Miller e Scott Turansky

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 Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN, teach parents how to help children form the internal strength they ll need every day as they grow older."
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On The Home Front - Melbourne In Wartime: 1939-1945

by Kate Darian-Smith

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 What really happened on the Australian home front during the Second World War? For the people of Melbourne these were years of social dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of daily life. This book presents the story of their work, leisure and relationships.
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Military Stress And Performance - The Australian Defence Force Experience

by Anne Goyne, George E. Kearney, Mark Creamer e Ric Marshall

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 Managing stress is an important issue not only for the military, but equally for other high-risk professions. Focusing on the Australian Defence Force experience, this work provides a synthesis of a wide range of research, offering a coherent, integrated approach to the subject.
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American Citizens, British Slaves - Yankee Political Prisoners In An Australian Penal Colony, 1839-1850

by Cassandra Pybus e Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

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 This work tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's land in 1839-40. These exiles endured years of harsh treatment before they were eventually pardoned. Not being British subjects, their transportation was almost certainly illegal.
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What'S Wrong With Addiction?

by Helen Keane

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 Addicts are generally regarded with either pity or grave disapproval. But is being addicted to something necessarily bad? Challenging conventional accounts of addiction, this book aims to show that most ideas about addiction take certain ideals of health and normality for granted.
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Up We Grew - Stories Of Australian Childhoods

by Pamela Bone

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 Illuminates the influences that shape us from early life: family, friendships, and school. Through a series of interviews, this work considers how some famous and less well known Australians coped with the death of a parent, divorce, differentness; talent, opportunity, money, or the lack thereof.
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Old Land, New Landscapes - A Story Of Farmers, Conservation And The Landcare Movement

by Chris Williams

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 Tells the story of a farming community fighting to rehabilitate land degraded by more than a century of farming. This work tells of the trials and triumphs of the Sutherland family and other volunteers, as they set out to restore native vegetation and create the Genaren Hill wildlife sanctuary.
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Irresistible Forces - Women In Science

by Claire Hooker

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 Describes the cast of characters who have contributed to diverse fields from palaeontology to medicine. Providing insights into the ways in which women have been able to create careers in a male domain, this book brings to life the stories of women scientists' experiences, from colonial times, when many are leaders in their fields.
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Mythform - The Making Of Nearamnew

by Paul Douglas Carter

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 The revolutionary urban design of Federation Square, Melbourne has captured the imagination of visitors and residents alike. At the heart of its appeal is Nearamnew, a 7500 square metre ground pattern woven into the fabric of the square's main plaza. This work tells the story of how this extraordinary work was conceived, developed and installed.
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Green Pens - A Collection Of Gardening Writing

by Katie Holmes, Kylie Mirmohamadi e Susan K. Martin

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 Reveals the passion, frustration, joy and despair that gardens have inspired throughout Australia's history. Letter and diary entries show people revelling in or struggling with their gardens, extracts from gardening catalogues, planting guides, novels and poems reflect the range of what a garden can mean.
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Consortia - International Networking Alliances Of Universities

by David Teather

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 Throughout the 1990s international higher education networks, including the International Association of Universities and the Association of Commonwealth Universities, were joined by a wave of smaller, more homogeneous groupings of universities, known as global consortia. This book evaluates these alliances.
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Trikojus - A Scientist For Interesting Times

by Ross Humphreys

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 Professor, Victor Trikojus exerted enormous influence on the development of biochemistry in Australia. His forceful personality and his ability to master intricate detail meant that he also imposed considerable influence on academic affairs, particularly at the University of Melbourne. This work reveals the man behind this intriguing scientist.
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The Biographical Dictionary Of The Australian Senate

by Ann Millar

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 Contains articles on 103 male senators and one woman, the Senator Agnes Robertson Robertson of Western Australia, and the three clerks who served them. This book shows senators grappling with a mechanised society, major industrial, economic and social problems and the complexities of public policy.
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Australian Children'S Books - A Bibliography

by Kerry White

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 Intended for librarians, book collectors, scholars, and those interested in Australian cultural history. This bibliography helps readers trace changes in the popularity of specifically Australian themes and settings, and identify publishing trends including variations in the physical appearance of books.
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The Ethical State? - Social Liberalism In Australia

by Marian Sawer

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 The ethical state, a state committed to the common good and equal opportunity, was the central tenet of the social liberalist theory that emerged in the late 19th century. Here, the author explores how Australia embraced the ideal.
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Mawson - A Life

by Philip Ayres

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 In the heroic age of polar exploration, Sir Douglas Mawson stands in first rank. In this biography Mawson's many achievements are illuminated, which enabled us to understand the human side to the man.
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Lionel Lindsay In Spain - An Antipodean Abroad

by Colin Holden

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 This work presents a selection of the dramatic etchings and brilliant water colours of the Mediterranean countries produced by Lionel Lindsay in the 1920s and 1930s.. Colin Holden draws on Lindsay's extensive diaries, correspondence and other material to provide insights into the processes of printmaking, and more.
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Australian Republicanism - A Reader

by Mark Mckenna e Wayne Hudson

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 This title aims to transform the way Australians understand republicanism. It offers Australian viewpoints, from the famous to the obscure, the official to the flagrantly informal, the rhetorical to the ridiculous. The authors argue that the republic has a place in Australia's future, but only if it is a republic founded on a vision of inclusion.
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A Tradition Of Giving - Seventy-Five Years Of Myer Family Philanthropy

by Michael Liffman

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 Explores the remarkable influence of the Myer family on the lives of Australians. This book tells Sidney Myer's classic 'rags to riches' story, which sets the foundation for four generations of Myer philanthropists. His generosity was epitomised by the legendary Christmas lunch he staged at the Melbourne Exhibition Building.
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A Short History Of The University Of Melbourne

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A Short History Of The University Of Melbourne

by Richard Selleck e Stuart Macintyre

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 When its first university was founded 150 years ago, Melbourne was a frontier town of only forty thousand people. This illustrated work tells of the tensions as well as the achievements. It documents the evolution of the campus and evokes the variety of student life. It is suitable for students and their families.
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Historical Records Of Australia - Series Iii Volume Viii

by Chapman, Peter

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 This aims to be an authoritative documentary source on the early history of Australia that opens in the year 1828 when the colony of Van Dirman's Land was entering a period of its development that was to be of great significance in the wider history of Australia.
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Lina Bryans - Rare Modern 1909-2000

by Gillian Forwood

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 Lina Bryans was an influential artist of the modernist movement in Australia. Modern and international in her outlook, her life of artistic liberalism reflected the ideal of "the artist in society". In the idiom of her day, she was a "new woman". This book explores her role in Australian art.
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The Ice And The Inland - Mawson, Flynn And The Myth Of The Frontier

by Hains, Brigid

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 A study of how the frontier became etched in the Australian imagination in the early-20th century in the image of folk heroes. It focuses on the mythology surrounding two such heroes - Douglas Mawson, legendary Antarctic explorer, and John Flynn, founder of the outback Flying Doctor Service.
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The Fuss That Never Ended - Essays On The Life And Work Of Geoffrey Blainey

by Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre e Tom Stannage

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 Takes a look at the career of Geoffrey Blainey. As a historian, he is a maverick - respected for his originality and prodigious productivity, but sometimes dismissed as a blinkered populist. He has steered Australian history into the nation's conversation.
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