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Out in the Open
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The Australian Collection
Gathers selections from important Australian fiction and nonfiction, offers a brief profile of each writer, and includes a critical discussion of each work
Her Own Devices
After witnessing a kidnapping in gritty Piraeus, Greece, a Swiss ex-pat and ex-activist with an energetic five-year-old son vows to put the culprit, his swaggering partner, and the cop protecting them, out of business, relying on home-brew surveillance devices and a loose coalition of allies. All the while, an ethereal narrator -- the spirit of the boy's late father, denied entry to Paradise -- worriedly surveils them. He seeks to unite them with his long-lost brother, but lacks agency. Barely surviving her flash mob's climactic confrontation with the bad guys, our heroine learns that you never know who your friends are until you need them, and even then you still might not know... but that's okay.
White on Black
Discusses early explorers & artists attitudes to natives, differing national attitudes of British & French, analysis of painting styles & ways in which Aborigines are depicted; includes notes on cartoons, notes on artists & paintings.
Creative Lives
Henry Lawson - Miles Franklin - Henry Handel Richardson - Kenneth Slessor - Eleanor Dark - Christina Stead - Kylie Tennant - Patrick White - Thomas Keneally - Mem Fox.
The Art Instinct
The Dinka have a connoisseur's appreciation of the patterns and colours of the markings on their cattle. The Japanese tea ceremony is regarded as a performance art. Some cultures produce carving but no drawing; others specialize in poetry. Yet despite the rich variety of artistic expression to be found across many cultures, we all share a deep sense of aesthetic pleasure. The need to create art of some form is found in every human society.In The Art Instinct, Denis Dutton explores the idea that this need has an evolutionary basis: how the feelings that we all share when we see a wonderful landscape or a beautiful sunset evolved as a useful adaptation in our hunter-gather ancestors, and have ...
Glucuronidation of Drugs and Other Compounds
Published in 1980: In a previous publication on glucuronic acid both free and conjugated, the author expressed the hope that glucuronic acid studies over the following few years might expand vigorously. The have expanded, and none more vigorously that the study of biosynthesis of simple glucuronides.
Kenneth Slessor
Reissue of a biographical study of one of Australia's finest poets, first published in a deluxe paperback edition in 1991. Explores Slessor's career as a journalist, war correspondent and poet and examines his often stormy private life. Written by one of Australia's most noted men of letters, this book has been acclaimed as a 'masterpiece of literary biography' (Clement Semmler).
