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Vietnam as if… : Tales of youth, love and destiny
Vietnam as if… follows five young people who have moved from the countryside to the city. Their dramatic everyday lives illuminate some of the most pressing issues in Vietnam today: ‘The Sticky Rice Seller’ explores gender roles; ‘The Ball Boy’ is all about the struggles of sexual and ethnic minorities; ‘The Professional’ examines relations between rich and poor; ‘The Goalkeeper…
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- 13
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- 9781925022315
- Collation
- 202
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- -
- Call Number
- 362.709597.HUY
Indigenous peoples' innovation: intellectual property pathways to development
Traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems. This book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of inte…
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- 9781921862786
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- -
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- 346.048 DRA i
Kastom, property and ideology : Land transformations in Melanesia
The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new ‘land rush’ or ‘land grab’ in developing countries. T…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461065
- Collation
- 434
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.73130995.MCD
Maverick mathematician: the life and science of J.E. Moyal
J.E. Moyal has been pronounced ‘one of Australia’s most remarkable thinkers’. Yet, he was, essentially, a scientific maverick. Educated in a modest high school in Tel Aviv, he took himself to France to train as an engineer, statistician and mathematician and escaped to England as France fell. It was from outside academia that he entered into communication with the ‘high priest’ of …
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- -
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- 9781920942595
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- 212 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 510.92 MOY m
The archaeology of rock art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually …
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- -
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- 9781760461621
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- xxiiii, 499p.; ill.
- Series Title
- Terra Australis
- Call Number
- 919.429 DAV t
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls : European missionary agendas in Australia
This book covers the missionary activity in Australia conducted by non-English speaking missionaries from Catholic and Protestant mission societies from its beginnings to the end of the mission era. It looks through the eyes of the missionaries and their helpers, as well as incorporating Indigenous perspectives and offering a balanced assessment of missionary endeavour in Australia, attuned to …
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- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760462055
- Collation
- 280
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 266.00899915.GAN
Islam, humanity and the Indonesian Identity
"Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When these specific cultural contexts are marginalized, Islam is reduced to an ahistorical religion without the ability to contribute to humanity. This limited understanding of Islam has been a contributing factor in many of the violent conflicts in the present day. Reflecting on Islam in Indonesia, the wo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789400603097
- Collation
- 289p
- Series Title
- Debates on Islam and Society
- Call Number
- 950 MAA
Securing Village Life : Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing small…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922144850
- Collation
- 318
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.9009953.MAC
Australia’s Fertility Transition : A study of 19th-century Tasmania
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most countries in Europe and English-speaking countries outside Europe experienced a fertility transition, where fertility fell from high levels to relatively low levels. England and the other English-speaking countries experienced this from the 1870s, while fertility in Australia began to fall in the 1880s. This book investigates the fertility tran…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760463373
- Collation
- 318
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.6309946.MOY
Japan at War and Peace : Shidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy
The question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between democracy and diplomatic coherence. This dilemma is not unique to the twenty-first century; it has been a constant challenge to the development of democracy. In non-Western countries, democratisation ori…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464974
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 952.044092.HAT
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