• Contemporary Australian Literature: preliminary materials 

      Birns, Nicholas
      Published 2015-12-01
      Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left ...
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    • Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories: Introduction 

      Brewster, Anne
      Published 2015-11-01
      A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publication of Sally Morgan’s My Place (1987), which became a bestseller. While ...
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    • Animal bones in Australian archaeology: a field guide to common native and introduced species 

      Fillios, Melanie; Blake, Natalie
      Published 2015-12-01
      Zooarchaeology has emerged as a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, zooarchaeologists can uncover important information on the economy, trade, ...
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    • Beyond Thalidomide: Birth defects explained 

      McCredie, Janet
      Published 2007-01-01
      How do birth defects happen? What goes wrong in the embryo? These perennial questions were brought into sharp focus in the wake of the thalidomide catastrophe (1958–1962). How did thalidomide mutilate the embryo? Despite ...
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    • A decade of Australian general practice activity 2005–06 to 2014–15 

      Britt, Helena; Miller, Graeme C; Henderson, Joan; Bayram, Clare; Valenti, Lisa; Harrison, Christopher; Pan, Ying; Wong, Carmen; Charles, Janice; Gordon, Julie; Pollack, Allan J; Chambers, Timothy; Family Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney
      Published 2015-11-04
      This report is the 39th book in the General practice series from the Bettering the Evaluation of Care and Health (BEACH) program. It includes summary results from the most recent 10 years of the program, from 2005–06 to ...
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