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Australia's Maritime Bridge into Asia.
BATEMAN, SAM AND DICK SHERWOOD. (EDITORS). Stock ID: 74151 Maps, xxiii + 247pp, index, notes, dustjacket. A collection of essays on the strategic and maritime security setting, some Australian maritime capabilities of relevance to Asia, and the commercial, defence industrial, marine science, and naval 'bridges' into Asia for Australia. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 74151) ... more |
AU$25.00 |
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Is Australia an Asian Country?
FITZGERALD, STEPHEN. Stock ID: 51314 xi + 191pp, endnotes, index, good paperback copy. "Is Australia an Asian Country?" seeks answers to the hard questions which Australians must not be afraid to ask. It offers ways Australians can change so that Australia becomes a society which will hold an honoured place in the region: a small, independent nation contributing as an equal partner within a community of Asian nations. It shows Australians what they must do to put aside our irrelevant sense of superiority, to take up the challenge of engaging intellectually with Asia, to step into the future and to embrace the new, rich and exciting world that awaits Australia. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 51314) ... more |
AU$20.00 |
| Sounds of our Summer Seas.
MENGHETTI, DIANE. Stock ID: 78105 Pictorial endpapers, black and white photographic illustrations, 40pp, hardback, small square quarto. Co-ordinated by Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville and related to the Gallery's Exhibition "Japan in Australia", this publication is an overview of the history between Japan and North Queensland, Australia. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 78105) ... more |
AU$39.95 |
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| The Yellow Lady. Australian Impressions of Asia.
BROINOWSKI, ALISON. Stock ID: 49064 Colour and black and white illustrations, 260pp, notes, references, index, dustjacket patchily faded, lower cover and dustjacket a little damp damaged, small quarto. "Beginning with early Aboriginal contact with Indonesians, The Yellow Lady shows how chances for harmonious co-existence with the neighbourhood were lost in the colonial period. Successive wars set back this process of adaptation. In the final section, as increasing numbers of Asians migrate to Australia and Asian countries become economically dominant, Australian images of Asia undergo rapid change." (When referring to this item please quote stockid 49064) ... more |
AU$33.00 |
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The Yellow Lady. Australian Impressions of Asia.
BROINOWSKI, ALISON. Stock ID: 56750 Colour and black and white illustrations, 260pp, notes, references, index, small damp stain lower edge of lower hinge, dustjacket patchily faded. A sound and otherwise clean copy. "Beginning with early Aboriginal contact with Indonesians, The Yellow Lady shows how chances for harmonious co-existence with the neighbourhood were lost in the colonial period. Successive wars set back this process of adaptation. In the final section, as increasing numbers of Asians migrate to Australia and Asian countries become economically dominant, Australian images of Asia undergo rapid change." (When referring to this item please quote stockid 56750) ... more |
AU$33.00 |
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Unpolished Gem.
PUNG, ALICE. Stock ID: 98321 282pp, paperback. Offers a vivid and ironic sense of two worlds Chinese/Cambodian. Combines the story of Pung's life growing up in suburban Footscray, with the inherited stories of the women in her family. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 98321) ... more |
AU$26.95 |
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Growing Up Asian in Australia.
PUNG, ALICE. Stock ID: 122666 351pp, paperback. Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: Quiet Achiever. FOB. Gangster Chigger. Mainlander. Banana. But are these labels based on some degree of truth, or only fiction? What is it like to grow up Asian in Australia? Unpredictable, honest, reflective and irreverent, this collection throws out the clichés and takes us behind the stereotypes. A young man tentatively steps toward manhood with Mariah Carey blasting in his ears, while two primary-school misfits stage a playground revolt. A white Australian woman describes mothering her adopted Asian son, and a teenage boy learns all about philandering from his visiting uncles. Here are respected public figures as well as exciting new voices, drawn from all walks of life and spanning several generations. With insight, courage and a large dose of humour, they shed new light on what it is like to grow up Asian, and Australian. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 122666) ... more |
AU$29.95 |