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Pyne, Stephen J.
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(1998)
| 9780295976778 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 548pp | Availability last checked: 4/5/2021
AUD 40.95 (inc. GST), AUD 37.23 (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: 4/5/2021
AUD 40.95 (inc. GST), AUD 37.23 (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: 4/5/2021
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (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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Wagner, Eric.
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(2020)
| 9780295746937 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 264pp | Availability last checked: 24/11/2020
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (ex. GST),
On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as MountSt. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square milesof what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed.Ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades,...
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Bjorkman, Eileen A.
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(2019)
| 9780295746081 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 224pp | Availability last checked: 16/11/2020
AUD 37.95 (inc. GST), AUD 34.50 (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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Kaimal, Padma.
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(2021)
| 9780295747774 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 296pp | Availability last checked: 1/3/2021
AUD 105.95 (inc. GST), AUD 96.32 (ex. GST),
Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north indeep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but withgentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage, drenched insunlight, facing south. These figures adorn the eighth-century Kailasanathatemple...
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(2021)
| 9780295748344 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 302pp | Availability last checked: 1/2/2021
AUD 154.95 (inc. GST), AUD 140.86 (ex. GST),
The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is stillvenerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from thelife of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty(1368–1644) into vernacular short fiction, legends, plays, sutras,...
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(2021)
| 9780295748351 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 302pp | Availability last checked: 1/2/2021
AUD 57.95 (inc. GST), AUD 52.68 (ex. GST),
The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is stillvenerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from thelife of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty(1368–1644) into vernacular short fiction, legends, plays, sutras,...
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Beavert, Virginia R. Jacob, Michelle M. Jansen, Joana W.
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(2021)
| 9780295748245 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 336pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (ex. GST),
Central to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal Elders toshare lessons, values, and customs with younger generations across the ColumbiaRiver plateau and the Pacific Northwest. Drawn from a time before the coming ofhuman beings when animals were like people, the stories present characters...
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Handler-Spitz, Rivi. Lee, Pauline C. Saussy, Haun.
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(2021)
| 9780295748382 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 296pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (ex. GST),
Iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a central figure in the culturalworld of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial words andactions shaped print culture, literary practice, attitudes toward gender, andperspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. Although banned, his writings...
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Moss, Madonna L. Thornton, Thomas F.
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(2021)
| 9780295748290 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 280pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (ex. GST),
Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, andsocio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the mostimportant fish species in the Northern Hemisphere. Human dependence on herringhas evolved for millennia through interactions with key spawning areas—buthumans...
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Handler-Spitz, Rivi. Lee, Pauline C. Saussy, Haun.
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(2021)
| 9780295748375 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 296pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 154.95 (inc. GST), AUD 140.86 (ex. GST),
Iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a central figure in the culturalworld of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial words andactions shaped print culture, literary practice, attitudes toward gender, andperspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. Although banned, his writings...
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Cheng, Hsiao-wen.
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(2021)
| 9780295748313 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 240pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 154.95 (inc. GST), AUD 140.86 (ex. GST),
A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts,religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were consideredpeculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women whorefused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married...
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Moss, Madonna L. Thornton, Thomas F.
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(2021)
| 9780295748283 | University of Washington Press | hbk. | book | 280pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 154.95 (inc. GST), AUD 140.86 (ex. GST),
Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, andsocio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the mostimportant fish species in the Northern Hemisphere. Human dependence on herringhas evolved for millennia through interactions with key spawning areas—buthumans...
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Cheng, Hsiao-wen.
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(2021)
| 9780295748320 | University of Washington Press | pbk. | book | 240pp | Availability last checked: 1/1/2021
AUD 48.95 (inc. GST), AUD 44.50 (ex. GST),
A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts,religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were consideredpeculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women whorefused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married...
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