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| From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World |
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Author/Editor: Duncan Green
ISBN: 9780855985936 (PB)
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
Subject: Development studies; Microeconomics
Readership Level: Tertiary/Undergraduate; General
Recommended Retail Price: $38.08 (usual discounts apply)
Description: Examines the key challenges of the next ten years, based on Oxfam's analysis of current trends in poverty, inequality, and vulnerability. Explores trends in issues such as climate change, changing disease patterns, global integration, the rise of China, the spread of electoral democracy, and concepts of human rights.
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| Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000 |
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Author/Editor: Barry Cunliffe
ISBN: 9780300119237 (HB)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Archaeology; Maritime history
Readership Level: Tertiary/Undergraduate; General
Recommended Retail Price: $48.52 (usual discounts apply)
Description: In this magnificent book, the distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe sees Europe not in terms of states and shifting land boundaries, but as a geographical niche particularly favoured in facing many seas.
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| The USS Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine |
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Author/Editor: Michael Sturma
ISBN: 9780813124810 (HB)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Navies & warfare; History; World War II
Readership Level: General
Recommended Retail Price: $36.37 (usual discounts apply)
Description: A vivid recounting of the harrowing story of the USS Flier has all the elements of a classic World War II survival tale: sudden disaster, physical deprivation, a ruthless enemy, friendly guerillas, and a dramatic escape from behind enemy lines. Sturma, Murdoch University, Australia.
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| The Fight Over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System |
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Author/Editor: Wynne Wright (ed) & Gerad Middendorf (ed)
ISBN: 9780271032757 (PB)
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Subject: Food industry
Readership Level: Tertiary/Undergraduate
Recommended Retail Price: $34.86 (usual discounts apply)
Description: These essays analyse and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the food system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an 'accumulation of resistance' that greatly affects the market of food production.
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| Wrestling Starbucks; Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino |
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Author/Editor: Kim Fellner
ISBN: 9780813543208 (HB)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Structure of enterprises
Readership Level: Tertiary/Undergraduate
Recommended Retail Price: $30.15 (usual discounts apply)
Description: The book is is a look at the muscle and soul of Starbucks. Through the voices of Central American coffee farmers, officers at corporate headquarters, independent caf owners, unionists, baristas, traders, global justice activists, and consumers, Fellner explores the forces that affect Starbucks' worth and worthiness.
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| Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants |
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Author/Editor: Peter Bernhardt
ISBN: 9780813542669 (HB)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Botany & plant science; Myths & mythology
Readership Level: Tertiary/Undergraduate; General
Recommended Retail Price: $30.51 (usual discounts apply)
Description: Reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names in a series of interlocking stories. Australian author.
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| Books as History |
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Author/Editor: David Pearson
ISBN: 9780712349239 (HB)
Publisher: British Library
Subject: Books & book-collecting; Social history
Readership Level: Tertiary/Undergraduate
Recommended Retail Price: $60.73 (usual discounts apply)
Description: With examples of books from the Middle Ages to the present day, this book explores why books may be interesting beyond their contents.
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| True Thoughts |
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Author/Editor: Pam Brown
ISBN: 9781844714278 (HB)
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Subject: Australian Poetry
Readership Level: Tertiary/Undergraduate; General
Recommended Retail Price: $23.97 (usual discounts apply)
Description: The latest collection of poetry from Pam Brown, whose previous book, Dear Deliria, won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2004.
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| Life as It Is: Biology for the Public Sphere |
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Author/Editor: William F. Loomis
ISBN: 9780520253575 (HB)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Biology & Life Sciences, Evolution
Readership Level: Postgraduate
Recommended Retail Price: $30.15 (usual discounts apply)
Description: This concise, accessible book considers from a biological perspective the controversial issues of our day: abortion, euthanasia, engineered evolution, cooperativity, and the future of sustainable life on this planet.
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| The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace |
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Author/Editor: Ali A. Allawi
ISBN: 9780300136142 (PB)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: International relations; Terrorism & revolutions
Readership Level: Tertiary/Undergraduate; General
Recommended Retail Price: $24.17 (usual discounts apply)
Description: Involved for over thirty years in the politics of Iraq, Ali A. Allawi was a long-time opposition leader against the Baathist regime. In the post-Saddam years he has held important government positions and participated in crucial national decisions and events.
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