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Saving the Earth as a Career

Posted: 4 July 2008, Last Updated: 4 July 2008
Many people want a career in conservation. What kinds of jobs are available? What training is needed? Is post-graduate training necessary and what would a research project or thesis involve? What are the ways that a conservation professional can contribute to helping to “save the earth”? These and many other questions are tackled in the new book “Saving the Earth”. The book provides a window on the array of different career options are open to conservation professionals.

Australia Under Construction

Posted: 27 May 2008, Last Updated: 27 May 2008

The Australian nation is a work in progress. So conclude the authors whose views are represented in this most recent offering in the ANZSOG monograph series, Australia Under Construction: Nation-building past, present and future . From its beginnings as a settler society through to present day concerns about ‘broadbanding the nation’, the nation-building narrative has resonated with Australians. A stimulating read for anyone interested in the history, challenges and prospects of nation-building in Australia.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity:  How the Modern World is Making us Fat

Posted: 2 May 2008, Last Updated: 18 June 2008

Think 'seven deadly sins', link them to Australia's runaway obesity epidemic, and most people's minds will turn to St Thomas Aquinas and the likes of Sloth and Gluttony. The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity takes an entirely different tack on the topic. It argues that the skyrocketing increase in obesity levels is not caused by individuals' moral weakness, but is due to modern society lacking the virtues necessary for people to adopt and maintain healthy behaviours.

Pedigree and Panache: A History of the Art Auction in Australia

Posted: 2 May 2008, Last Updated: 2 May 2008

Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and Panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia.

Encountering Aboriginal Languages: Studies in the history of Australian linguistics

Posted: 2 May 2008, Last Updated: 2 May 2008

This edited volume represents the first book-length study of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, and collects together 18 original papers on a wide variety of topics, spanning the period from first settlement to the present day. The papers challenge the typically anachronistic approaches to the history of Aboriginal linguistics, and reveal the need to examine previous research in the context of their times — and the advantages of doing so to contemporary understanding and language documentation.

Faces of the Living Dead

Posted: 4 March 2008, Last Updated: 6 March 2008

Faces of the Living Dead, a new British Library publication by Martyn Jolly, examines the phenomenon of spirit photography that developed in the 1870s and is the first book of its kind to bring together the extensive collection of spirit photographs from the British Library’s Barlow Collection. Illustrated by works of the leading spirit photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Ada Deane, William Hope, Frederick Hudson and Edward Wyllie it also includes spirit photographs of one of spirit photography’s most high-profile advocates, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Capturing Wealth from Tuna by Kate Barclay with Ian Cartright

Posted: 4 March 2008, Last Updated: 6 March 2008
Capturing Wealth from Tuna

The Western and Central Pacific Ocean is home to the largest tuna fishery in the world - around half of the world’s tuna supply - and is a vital economic resource for Pacific island countries. The potential of the Pacific tuna fishery to contribute to economic development in the Pacific island countries is enormous, but will require a cooperative regional strategy to maximise access fees from distant water fishing nations, as well as targeted domestic policy.

Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta: Place and Mobility in the Cosmopolitan Periphery

Posted: 4 March 2008, Last Updated: 11 March 2008
Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta

This fascinating account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong delta, and of its creative accommodation to the modernizing reforms of the Vietnamese government, shows how Islam provides a unifying focus for Cham Muslims in their diversely constituted rural settlements. Full of Cham Muslim people's stories and voices, this highly readable ethnographic study reverberates with the texture of everyday life in rural Southeast Asia.

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