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 Robert Manne (ed.) (2008) Dear Mr Rudd,
Black Inc
Dear Mr Rudd offers new essays by leading Australian thinkers on the key areas of interest: climate change, the economy, human rights, education, health, the republic and much more besides.
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Tania Lewis (2008) Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise, Peter Lang Publishing
What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Supernanny and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver all have in common? Smart Living is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between popular media culture and contemporary social life.
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 Judith Brett (2007) Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard,
Black Inc
In Exit Right, Judith Brett explains why the tide turned on John Howard. This is an essay about leadership, in particular Howard's style of strong leadership which led him to dominate his party with such ultimately catastrophic results.
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Sanjay Seth (2007) Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India,
Duke University Press
Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge came to be disseminated in India, such that it came to assume its current status as the obvious, and almost the only, mode of knowing India.
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 Alberto Gomes (2007) Modernity and Malaysia: Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads,
Routledge
Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities.
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John Carroll (2007) The Existential Jesus,
Scribe
Jesus is the man who made the West. What kind of man was he? Is he relevant to a modern world shaken by crises of meaning? This book tells his story, and reveals what he had to say.
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Dwi Noverini Djenar (2007)
Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Perspectives of Preposition Use: A study of Indonesian locatives, Pacific Linguistics
This book is an in-depth study of three locative prepositions which are often interchangeable in Indonesian, namely, di , pada and dalam — roughly corresponding to the English ‘on, in, at'. |
 Hui Ling Xu (2007)
Aspects of Chaozhou Grammar: A Synchronic Description of the Jieyang Variety, University of California
This is an analytical and functional description of a number of important aspects of Chaoshan grammar which include core grammatical structures as well as constructions known to diverge from other Sinitic languages, particularly the official language of China, Putonghua.
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John Fitzgerald (2007) Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, University of New South Wales Press Ltd
Big White Lie pays close attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organisations, and their business and religious lives and shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia. |
John Fitzgerald (2007 Australia-China Relations 1976: Looking Forward, National Archives of Australia
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser visited China in June 1976 on arguably the most colourful and controversial official visit ever undertaken between the two countries. John Fitzgerald tells the story from the archives of 1976.
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James Leibold (2007) Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism: How the Qing Frontier and its Indigenes Became Chinese, Palgrave Macmillan
Leibold argues that the rugged and sparsely populated frontier regions of the Qing empire proved central rather than peripheral to the process of revolution in modern China. |
Peter Beilharz and Robert Manne (eds) (2006) Reflected Light - La Trobe Essays, Black Inc.
This book collects reflections, evocations, commentary, criticism and humour by leading writers with a connection to La Trobe.
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