8,032円 Oceania was the last region on earth to be permanently inhabited, with the final settlers reaching Aotearoa/New Zealand approximately AD 1300. This is about the same time that related Polynesian populations began erecting Easter Island's gigantic statues, farming the valley slopes of Tahiti and s...

785円 A narration of auto-biographical events and narrations with a backdrop of events affecting women in Philippine History. The book is premised on the idea that happiness is hinged on accepting and celebrating womanhood and being a Filipino. Written with the Filipina in mind, the book encourages the...

782円 At the age of nine, lying on the old shared mattress next to her sleeping sister and Nonna, Trish vowed not to live like this forever. Looking through a hole in the asbestos wall, the night was dark, as black as black, but through the hole she could see the speck of a star in the far sky, and to ...

2,647円 Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two...

2,024円 How did one long and expensive party change a city forever? World Expo 88 was the largest, longest, and loudest of Australia's bicentennial events. A shiny 1980s amalgam of cultural precinct, shopping mall, theme park, travelogue, and rock concert, Expo 88 is commonly credited as the catalyst for...

3,183円 Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of ...

10,612円 Most Wesleyan-Holiness churches started in the US, developing out of the Methodist roots of the nineteenth-century Holiness Movement. The American origins of the Holiness movement have been charted in some depth, but there is currently little detail on how it developed outside of the US. This boo...

9,948円 This volume examines the dynamics of socio-political order in post-colonial states across the Pacific Islands region and West Africa in order to elaborate on the processes and practices of peace formation. Drawing on field research and engaging with post-liberal conceptualisations of peacebuildin...

2,254円 Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about killer whales in the first place...

7,292円 This book provides a concise and innovative history of Italian migration to Australia over the past 150 years. It focuses on crucial aspects of the migratory experience, including work and socio-economic mobility, disorientation and reorientation, gender and sexual identities, racism, sexism, fam...

2,519円 The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come. 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past...

1,657円 Il libro è il racconto di un lungo viaggio sul più originale dei continenti, l'autore se ne va in giro per un mese attraverso l’immenso Western Australia. Con l'ironia che lo contraddistingue ha messo su carta i luoghi visitati, gli incontri fatti e una miniera di informazioni raccolte in prima p...