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  • Holding Men

    by Brian McCoy ...
    This is an easily readable book that explores how Indigenous men understand their lives, their health and their culture. Using conversations, stories and art, the author shows how Kimberley desert communities have a cultural value and relationship described as kanyirninpa or holding. The author uses examples from Australian Rules football, petrol sniffing and imprisonment to reveal the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The A.E.F. (Unabridged)

    Unabridged

    5 hours 14 min

    In the annals of war, the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) stand as a testament to the indomitable spirit of a nation. Heywood Broun's "The A.E.F. (Unabridged)" offers an unvarnished account of the Great War from the perspective of the American soldiers who fought in the trenches of France. Through vivid prose and poignant anecdotes, Broun captures the horrors, camaraderie, and sacrifices ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Memory Code

    by Lynne Kelly ...
    In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Atomic Thunder

    British Nuclear Testing in Australia

    An in-depth account of Great Britain's atomic testing efforts in South Australia in the 1950s and '60s, and its effects.British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • W.E.H. Stanner

    Selected Writings

    One of Australia’s finest essayists, the first to cut through ‘the great Australian silence’ to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians‘The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia’s Indigenous people’ —Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Unnecessary Wars

    A critical examination of Australia's involvement in the Boer War and its lasting impact on national identity. Why did Australia lose 600 men in a three-year conflict fought in Africa? Henry Reynolds dissects Australia's commitment to Britain's wars overseas, revealing how it shaped a national identity and established a dangerous precedent.Unnecessary Wars explores the mythology surrounding ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let the Land Speak: A history of Australia - how the land created our nation

    by Jackie French ...
    From one of our most respected and award-winning authors, Jackie French, comes a fascinating and fresh interpretation of Australian history, focusing on how the land itself, rather than social forces, has shaped the major events that led to modern Australia.to understand the present, you need to understand the past. to understand Australia's history, you need to look at how the land has shaped not ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Whitefella Jump Up

    The Shortest Way to Nationhood; Quarterly Essay 11

    Series Book 11 - Quarterly Essay
    In Whitefella Jump Up, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense of being Aboriginal might save the soul of Australia.In a sweeping and magisterial essay, touching on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Deep Time Dreaming

    Uncovering Ancient Australia

    With a historian's inquiring mind, Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing twentieth century histories: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archeologists.Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution- the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The War of the Worlds

    by Noel Pearson ...
    Series Book 3 - Short Blacks
    'How many Australians born in the 137 years since Truganini's death learnt her legend and scarcely thought deeper about the enormity of the loss she represented, and the history that led to it? Her spirit casts a long shadow over Australian history, but we have nearly all of us found a way to avert our eyes from its meaning.'In The War of the Worlds, Noel Pearson considers the shadow over ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow

    Series Book 12 - Short Blacks
    'I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women ... The flame will burn and intensify – an immense smoke, cloud-like and black, will arise, which will send off a signal and remind people that we, the Gumatj people, are the people of the fire. There are people of the fire around Alice Springs – and I reach out to them, too. We can then burn united, together.'Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901

    by Tim Rowse ...
    As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus