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What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, where is your verb, what is its tense, where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? Wh...

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The Pipers of Piper's Hill, later known as Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill, was first serialised in the Australasian in 1888 and published in many editions in the 1890s.

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Explores the secrets of the most famous National Parks of Australia's Red Centre. It will tell you about the area's pre-history and origins, its geology and landforms, its plants and animals and how they live. This book also unlocks the door on it...

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Contains 475 original and previously unpublished biological drawings showing the external and internal anatomy of 80 species that are frequently studied in the laboratory in zoology and marine biology courses. They are accompanied by notes on the ...

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In this provocative book, Peter Timms asks confronting questions. Why is contemporary art so in thrall to spruikers and promoters, and why do their extravagant claims so rarely match the reality? Why does the market have such power, and how does i...

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Traces the changing role of coaching in the history of Australian sport. The book details the current rise of coaching from the 1850s to the present, from when it was considered a pastime to the current situation where it is normal to view coachin...

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Possums are the most common arboreal mammal in Australia. - Understandably, many people find the doe-eyed and bushy-tailed critters to be very appealing: many feed them from their suburban balconies while others volunteer to care for injured or or...

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A useful book for anyone interested in engineering mechnanics. It is primary intended to be a textbook for undergraduate engineering students and is treasured both for its brevity and clarity of expression.

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This book describes the bitter power struggles of the Australian constitution's forging, and paints the founding fathers as implausible heroes who managed a profound historical achievement. It talks about parliaments, courts, judges and ministers ...

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This revised edition of Newspaper Feature Writing is at the cutting edge of the revolution. It has three main aims: to maintain and enhance the systematic approach to feature writing pioneered in the earlier editions; to help lecturers integrate C...

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Jock Given looks at how the events of 11 September 2001 have altered the debate over how countries like Australia can preserve and strengthen their film and television industries. The book offers a vivid account of how culture and trade are intera...

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This text considers the roles played by the key political parties, lobby groups and ideologies in determining Australia's welfare-related outcomes. It looks at the influence of economic rationalism and social democracy, and the values and assumpti...

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This volume provides a complete listing of all 721 titles published by UNSW Press since its inception in 1962 to 2002.

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Written for those who find themselves in a world where the ability to use computers, the Internet and email is assumed, and who know nothing about them. Every explanation is accompanied by practical step-by-step exercises and screen illustrations,...

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Tracks the profound changes that have occurred in Australias population profile over the last 30 years and then predicts the expected population trends for the next 30.

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The first comprehensive book that digs beneath the surface of the Internet in Australia. Moving beyond the 'how to' books, Virtual Nation offers a surprising, thought-provoking, and rigorous introduction to a technology that we now can't do withou...

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Construction Contract Administration 2ed is the only book to focus specifically on the two main construction contracts in Australia: ABIC MW - 2003 major works contract and AS4000 - 1997 General Conditions of Contract. In this book Greg Goldfayl s...

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Gives a unique perspective on approaches to problem drinking among Aboriginal people, and the role that cultural difference has played. It finds that in the 1980s there was an innovative and lively international debate about addictions, yet these ...

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Australia Fair argues that we should be doing whatever it takes to keep Australia fair. One of Australia's leading thinkers draws on a lifetime of research, analysis and commonsense in his blueprint for making a better Australia. Hugh Stretton arg...

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Renowned nutritionist, Rosemary Stanton, and prominent exercise scientist, Andrew Hills, provide answers to common questions about obesity and overweight in children. They give the facts about body fat, good eating and healthy activities, and look...

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Delves behind the too-often negative media headlines and stereotypes about regional Australia, and considers the true state of Australias regions, including metropolitan regions, and what can be done to improve their economic, social and environme...

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One of Australia's foremost scientists provides a lively, accessible introduction to solar technology: its development, the present state of the art, and the prospects for a greater use of solar power in domestic, commercial and industrial spheres...

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'You've buried the lead!' These are the words that every cadet journalist dreads. It means they have not satisfied the most basic requirement of good journalistic practice; they have failed to spot the most important angle to the story. Spotting t...

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The central theme of this text is that the introduction of agricultural and pastoral systems in Australia's temperate grazing lands has often created dynamic and sustaining ecosystems. The author argues that these ecosystems have made an immense c...

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In just a few years a generation has grown up believing that everything can be found on the Web and indeed there are now more than two billion documents in cyberspace, not including the 550 million documents that can be accessed via the "deep...

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An accomplished study of the interactions of journalists, soldiers and civilians at a time when lying, particularly in the national interest, was not only the norm, but considered a patriotic duty.

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This book is an explanation of topical and newsworthy law-and-justice dilemmas that most affect society and individuals, containing ideas and ideals of law in our lives and exposes the myths and enlivens law's contemporary issues and challenges.

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Sylvia Lawson moves the essays and stories in this collection through settings in and out of Australia - across Paris, West Papua, Britain, Indonesia - listening to the distinctive local voices from our cultural margins and reclaiming concerns the...

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Language Education in the Primary Years provides a coherent and structured account of language and learning and of language pedagogy using a functional grammar approach. It provides a metalanguage essential for the preparation of teachers of Engli...

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