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Pyne, Stephen J.
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(1998)
| 9780295976778 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 548pp | Availability last checked: 1/4/2020
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (ex. GST),
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation toits use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what ahistorian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to ourawareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a majorcontribution...
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Pyne, Stephen J.
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(2019)
| 9780295746180 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 240pp | Availability last checked: 1/4/2020
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (ex. GST),
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand thedomain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In thisconcise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as“the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores...
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Pyne, Stephen J.
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(1998)
| 9780295976785 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 456pp | Availability last checked: 1/4/2020
AUD 53.95 (inc. GST), AUD 49.05 (ex. GST),
“The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know,yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page. . . . Pyneconveys a view of Antarctica that interweaves physical science with humanisticinquiry and perception. His audacity as well as his presentation warrantadmiration,...
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Steele, Janet. , Keyes, Charles F. Rafael, Vicente. Sears, Laurie J.
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(2018)
| 9780295742960 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 183pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (ex. GST),
Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steeleexamines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, fromconservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary newsorganizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as anunderground...
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Bjorkman, Eileen A.
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(2019)
| 9780295746081 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 224pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
AUD 43.95 (inc. GST), AUD 39.95 (ex. GST),
On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designedand built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class.He was eighty-two at the time and the flight represented the culmination of adream he’d cultivated since his childhood in the 1930s.Eileen Bjorkman...
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Miller, Ian M. , Sutter, Paul S.
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(2020)
| 9780295747330 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 272pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
AUD 79.95 (inc. GST), AUD 72.68 (ex. GST),
Coming in July 2020
The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the mostsignificant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed onimperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typicallyviewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating...
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Hough, Susan.
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(2020)
| 9780295747361 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 248pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
AUD 57.95 (inc. GST), AUD 52.68 (ex. GST),
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In the first half of the twentieth century, when seismology was still in in itsinfancy, renowned geologist Bailey Willis faced off with fellow high-profilescientist Robert T. Hill in a debate with life-or-death consequences for themillions of people migrating west. Their conflict centered on a consequentialquestion:...
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Goings, Aaron.
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(2020)
| 9780295747415 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 240pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
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In the early twentieth century so many dead bodies surfaced in the rivers aroundAberdeen, Washington, that they were nicknamed the “floater fleet.” WhenBilly Gohl (1873–1927), a powerful union official, was arrested for murder,local newspapers were quick to suggest that he was responsible for...
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Hirsch, Shana Lee.
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(2020)
| 9780295747491 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 208pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
AUD 189.95 (inc. GST), AUD 172.68 (ex. GST),
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Drought. Wildfire. Extreme flooding. How does climate change affect the dailywork of scientists? Ecological restoration is often premised on the idea ofreturning a region to an earlier, healthier state. Yet the effects of climatechange undercut that premise and challenge the ways scientists can work,destabilizing...
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Tubb, Daniel. , Sivaramakrishnan, K.
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(2020)
| 9780295747521 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 264pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
AUD 189.95 (inc. GST), AUD 172.68 (ex. GST),
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People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the ChocĂł,in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides withhand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscapewith excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining...
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Ghosh, Pika. , Kaimal, Padma. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Yang, Anand A.
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(2020)
| 9780295746999 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 288pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
AUD 129.95 (inc. GST), AUD 118.14 (ex. GST),
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In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorfultextiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha fromlayers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use themas shawls, covers, and seating mats.Making Kantha, Making Home explores...
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Silberstein, Rachel.
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(2020)
| 9780295747187 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 288pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
AUD 129.95 (inc. GST), AUD 118.14 (ex. GST),
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Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much aboutwomen’s participation in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and theflourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing on women’s work and fashion, AFashionable Century presents an array of visually compelling clothing...
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Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn. Jonaitis, Aldona.
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(2020)
| 9780295747132 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 352pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
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Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aestheticallyand performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, fromdemonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. Contributorsto this volume foreground Indigenous understandings in recognition of this...
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Cummings, BJ.
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(2020)
| 9780295747439 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 256pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
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With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people toits shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. ChiefSe’alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlersestablished their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightenedthe...
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Fleischman, Thomas. , Sutter, Paul S.
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(2020)
| 9780295747309 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 288pp | Availability last checked: 26/2/2020
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The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic’s attemptsto create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communistprinciples. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita thanWest Germany and the UK, while also suffering myriad unintended consequences...
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