Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2005
ISBN 10: 1741141044 ISBN 13: 9781741141047
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Offering a fun, sassy, and girl-power-inspired approach to understanding puberty, this beautifully packaged guide offers tweens an appealing and fresh take on entering adolescence. This celebration of maturing bodies and spirits is invariably positive, while providing factual information on menstruation, pubic hair, acne, eating disorders, and other issues essential to girls entering puberty. The emotional challenges of this stage are also addressed, including information on sexual abuse, bullying, maturation reluctance, and conflict resolution. With straightforward and conversational advice on everything from tampons to teasing, Puberty Girl is a trustworthy resource for girls seeking answers to embarrassing questions and looking for a way to embrace their new selves. Inspiring photographs of real girls create a sense of shared community, while instructional illustrations teach young girls about their changing bodies.
Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2006
ISBN 10: 1741145074 ISBN 13: 9781741145076
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. A vivid, insiders account of one of the most inaccessible and mysterious countries in Asia, this book looks beyond topographical features to discover the psyche of the people of Myanmar. Appointed to train local journalists for 18 months at the English-language weekly The Myanmar Times, and despite a measure of danger in accepting the assignment, Peter Olszewski throws himself into the daily life and culture of Yangoneven finding himself in a real-life, fairy-tale romance. Myanmar has recently been the focus of humanitarian and political outrage in developed countries, and this book gives a surprising, new perspective on the question of democratization.
Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2006
ISBN 10: 1741145287 ISBN 13: 9781741145281
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. As a self-proclaimed twitcher-a birdwatching extremist who travels around the country trying to catch a glimpse of as many species of birds as possible-the author took a year off in 2002 with the goal of seeing 700 birds and thereby breaking the national record for most birds seen in one year. In this amusing memoir, he recounts his quest, including how he spent all of his inheritance from the untimely death of his parents to make his dream a reality. Populated by unusual characters and interesting species of birds, this part confessional-part travelogue for both bird nerds and the general population follows the author as he works out what it means to be normal despite his unusually avid compulsion toward twitching.
Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2006
ISBN 10: 1741148456 ISBN 13: 9781741148459
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Fresh insight into the "troublesome" Generation Y-the children of baby boomers-is offered in this personal, witty, and thought-provoking analysis. This fascinating volume investigates Gen-Yers' attitudes about sex, relationships, marriage, friendship, consumerism, celebrity, body image, work, politics, and religion. Also addressed is how the generation defines happiness, and what it envisions for the future.
Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2007
ISBN 10: 1741750040 ISBN 13: 9781741750041
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Product DescriptionA postcard from Leo Schmidt? I can't believe it. I'm trying to solve the mystery of a boy called Leopold Schmidt who migrated to Australia years ago. Leopold is long dead, but this new Leo is very much alive and kicking.Henni lives in Melbourne, Leo lives in Berlin. Different countries, different lives, so far apart; but sometimes the person furthest away is just the one you need. Emails fly as they explore the world according to Henni and Leo. It's friendly and funny, but deadly serious, too. Without Leo, Henni would never unravel the dark secrets from the past. Without Henni, Leo would have to save his friend Felix single-handed. Readers will seldom meet two such quirky, endearing characters as Henni and Leo.About the AuthorElizabeth Honey is the author of such titles as Don't Pat the Wombat!, Fiddleback, The Moon in the Man, and Remote Man. Heike Brandt is a children's book writer and a German translator.
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Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2006
ISBN 10: 1741147638 ISBN 13: 9781741147636
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. In this concise and compelling history, Cambodias past is described in vivid detail, from the richness of the Angkorean empire through the dark ages of the 18th and early-19th centuries, French colonialism, independence, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Pot regime, and its current incarnation as a troubled democracy. With energetic writing and passion for the subject, John Tully covers the full sweep of Cambodian history, explaining why this land of contrasts remains an interesting enigma to the international community. Detailing the depressing record of war, famine, and invasion that has threatened to destroy Cambodia, this discussion shows its survival to be a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
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Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2004
ISBN 10: 1865088633 ISBN 13: 9781865088631
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Covering the history of Bali from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri, this examination highlights the ethnic dynamics of the island and its place in modern Indonesia. Included is an analysis of the arrival of Indian culture, early European contact, and the complex legacies of Dutch control. Also explored are the island's contemporary economic progress and the environmental problems generated by population growth and massive tourist development.
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Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2007
ISBN 10: 1741148529 ISBN 13: 9781741148527
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Compelling and vivid, this memoir presents an intimate portrait of Castros Cuba through a wide-eyed and eager boy growing up in the 1960s. At the nave age of 10, Luis M. Garcia, embarrassed by his anti-revolutionary parents, pledges his allegiance to Lenin, Marx, and the mythical Che Guevara, knowing that this is the only path to become a better revolutionary-and to get out of school early. Told with a detailed intimacy and a gentle humor that conveys the richness and warmth of Cuban life, this memoir illuminates the uncertainty, fear, and political force that tore families apart as Castro sought to destroy capitalism and establish Cuba as a world superpower.
Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2003
ISBN 10: 1865086576 ISBN 13: 9781865086576
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. This social and historical exploration traces the history of sugarcane from its home in New Guinea to Shakespeares England. Fascinating sugar lore and anecdotes are included, such as how Queen Elizabeth I became so partial to hippocras (mulled wine), sugared almonds, and pastilles that her teeth turned completely black. Explored are the political and sociological impacts of sugar on the world and the tremendous riches available to the unscrupulous few who grew and sold it. The days of manual processing are described, when fortunes were built on the backbreaking labor of slaves. The resulting wars and geopolitical shifts that have shaped the modern world are discussed in detail.
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Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2005
ISBN 10: 1865088781 ISBN 13: 9781865088785
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Softcover. Zustand: New. This horrific true crime work tells the story of Katherine Knight, a grandmother and slaughter house worker who became Australia's most notorious female murderer. Author Peter Lalor covered the case for a top daily newspaper in Australia and interviewed Knight's ex-lovers, family, friends, and a former cop who worked on the investigation to present this chilling true story.
Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2007
ISBN 10: 174114745X ISBN 13: 9781741147452
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. This extraordinary true tale follows the disappearance of more than 20 million dollars worth of precious diamonds during World War II. In 1942, as the Japanese army advanced on Java, two wealthy businessmen entrusted a Russian aviator, Captain Ivan Smirnoff, with a small, mysteriously-unmarked package, to be delivered to a businessman in Sydney. The plane was attacked during a Japanese air raid and under heavy fire, but Smirnoff miraculously landed the badly damaged plane on an isolated beach on Java's far northwest coast. A few weeks later, Jack Palmer stumbled across the lost package-containing precious diamonds-among the plane's wreckage. Nicknamed "Diamond Jack," Palmer and two others were charged with theft of the diamonds. This true adventure follows the diamonds as they are lost, found, and lost again.
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Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2007
ISBN 10: 174114874X ISBN 13: 9781741148749
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. In this unique journey into traditional Aboriginal life and culture, a European business-management professor and an Aboriginal elder collaborate to create a powerful and original model that western societies can use to build environmentally sustainable organizations, communities, and ecologies based upon the same Aboriginal traditions that allowed the Aborigines to create sustainable societies in very fragile landscapes.
Verlag: Allen & Unwin Academic, 2013
ISBN 10: 1743310803 ISBN 13: 9781743310809
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. The tallest and most stately trees I ever saw in any nobleman's ground in England cannot excel in beauty those which nature presented to our view." -First fleet surgeon Arthur BowesEucalypts are a familiar part of Australia's natural landscape and an integral part of the Australian identity. They have been farmed and used to build houses, furniture, roads, and bridges since the beginning of white settlement. Australians and international visitors alike have been inspired by them, painted them, made films about them, written books about them, and of course Aboriginal Australians have long made musical instruments from them. Though a small number are found as native plants in several other countries, Eucalypts are a very Australian tree. This book celebrates their diversity, their beauty and the role they play in the history, culture, and economy of Australian nation. It looks at their evolution, biology, horticulture, and ecology, together with their classification and the botanists involved. Through historic and contemporary images, it examines the many ways in which they have served Aboriginal, colonial, and contemporary Australians in both practical and aesthetic ways. Eucalypts have quite literally been the building blocks of the nation and this beautiful book tells their complete story for the first time.