Publications
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Peopled Landscapes (Terra Australis 34)
(2012)
This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia, ...
Julia 2010: The caretaker election
(2012)
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of one of Australia’s most historic elections, which produced a hung parliament and a carefully crafted minority government that remains a heartbeat away from collapse, as well ...
The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat Among Javanese Muslims
(2006)
Cirebon; Rituals; Islam; Muslims; Indonesia
Islamising Indonesian
(2008)
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is the most interesting phenomenon in contemporary Indonesian politics. Not only is it growing rapidly in membership and electoral support, it is also bringing a new and markedly different ...
Islands of Turmoil
(2006)
Politics and government; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Fiji
Journey of a book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things
(2007)
De proprietatibus rerum, ‘On the properties of things’, has long been referred to by scholars as a medieval encyclopedia, but evidence suggests that it has been many things to many people. The sheer number of extant ...
A Kind of Mending
(2010)
With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fertile environment for developing new approaches to crime and conflict. Interactions between formal justice systems and ...
Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific
(2007)
Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses Japan’s successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures ...
El lago espanol
(2006)
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Altered Ecologies
(2010)
Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging ...