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Grog War

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369378668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Grog War written by Alexis Wright and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award-winning author Alexis Wright.First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpired over 25 years ago, Grog War provides historical context and Indigenous-led solutions to the challenges still confronting communities and towns throughout Australia.In the '90s, Wright was commissioned by the Julalikari Council of Tennant Creek to write Grog War, to document how Aboriginal Elders and leaders dealt with the invasion of grog on Warumungu land and the enormous struggle it took to introduce simple alcohol restrictions in the town. Grog War traces an Indigenous-led movement of self-determination that shifted the blame from Aboriginal people for public drunkenness to looking at the way grog is pushed and sold, in turn challenging the town and government to share responsibility.Aboriginal Elders and community advisors in Tennant Creek fought for years to put alcohol restrictions in place and they are still fighting. Their courage and tenacity is an inspiration for other towns in Australia who are battling against the tide of alcohol abuse and resistance from licencees and the broader community.Grog War is essential reading for all those working towards and interested in Indigenous self-determination, for community leaders, legislators, health workers, social workers - and for our young people - so that all Australian children might grow up with a better understanding of what Indigenous people have fought hard to achieve in this country.

Grog War

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grog War written by Alexis Wright and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grog war.

The Swan Book

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501124781
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Swan Book written by Alexis Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.

Grog War

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781459640450
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Grog War written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zones of Control

Author : Pat Harrigan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026233495X
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Zones of Control written by Pat Harrigan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game history. This volume fills that gap, providing a diverse set of perspectives on wargaming's past, present, and future. In Zones of Control, contributors consider wargames played for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. They consider both digital and especially tabletop games, most of which cover specific historical conflicts or are grounded in recognizable real-world geopolitics. Game designers and players will find the historical and critical contexts often missing from design and hobby literature; military analysts will find connections to game design and the humanities; and academics will find documentation and critique of a sophisticated body of cultural work in which the complexity of military conflict is represented in ludic systems and procedures. Each section begins with a long anchoring chapter by an established authority, which is followed by a variety of shorter pieces both analytic and anecdotal. Topics include the history of playing at war; operations research and systems design; wargaming and military history; wargaming's ethics and politics; gaming irregular and non-kinetic warfare; and wargames as artistic practice. Contributors Jeremy Antley, Richard Barbrook, Elizabeth M. Bartels, Ed Beach, Larry Bond, Larry Brom, Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, Rex Brynen, Matthew B. Caffrey, Jr., Luke Caldwell, Catherine Cavagnaro, Robert M. Citino, Laurent Closier, Stephen V. Cole, Brian Conley, Greg Costikyan, Patrick Crogan, John Curry, James F. Dunnigan, Robert J. Elder, Lisa Faden, Mary Flanagan, John A. Foley, Alexander R. Galloway, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Don R. Gilman, A. Scott Glancy, Troy Goodfellow, Jack Greene, Mark Herman, Kacper Kwiatkowski, Tim Lenoir, David Levinthal, Alexander H. Levis, Henry Lowood, Elizabeth Losh, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Rob MacDougall, Mark Mahaffey, Bill McDonald, Brien J. Miller, Joseph Miranda, Soraya Murray, Tetsuya Nakamura, Michael Peck, Peter P. Perla, Jon Peterson, John Prados, Ted S. Raicer, Volko Ruhnke, Philip Sabin, Thomas C. Schelling, Marcus Schulzke, Miguel Sicart, Rachel Simmons, Ian Sturrock, Jenny Thompson, John Tiller, J. R. Tracy, Brian Train, Russell Vane, Charles Vasey, Andrew Wackerfuss, James Wallis, James Wallman, Yuna Huh Wong

Un-Australian Fictions

Author : Eleni Pavlides
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865907
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Un-Australian Fictions written by Eleni Pavlides and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un-Australian Fictions sets out to analyse a subset of Australian literary fictions published between 1988 and 2008 – from the bicentenary of British settlement to the global financial crisis and into a new millennium. During a new transnational era, Australians faced sober and unsettling times. Already accorded the status of national obsession, issues of national identity were vigorously contested. Concepts such as the nation, multiculturalism and globalisation became topics for heated discussion in the public sphere. Australia’s literary communities were not immune or isolated from these ongoing discussions. The “un-Australian fictions” which this book studies represent the challenges which these texts, in their own unique way, bring to the Australian national ethos and the national mythology, which is predicated on traditions such as masculism; a bush ethos; the pre-eminence of white colonial settlement; connectedness to an imaginative European geography; as well as an unbreakable tie to Britain. As un-Australian fictions, these texts reflect the destabilisation of what were once certain, spatial and psychic borders and orders of Australianness. They affect as well as reflect, the wider conversation that continues today about what being Australian means in a new millennium.

Carpentaria

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811238040
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Carpentaria written by Alexis Wright and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.

Songs, Naval and Military

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Songs, Naval and Military written by and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plains of Promise

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702267392
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Plains of Promise written by Alexis Wright and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission. With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grand-mother's suffering. Mary's return re-ignites community anxieties, and the Council of Elders again turn to their spirit world.

Trouble

Author : Kieran Finnane
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702257184
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Trouble written by Kieran Finnane and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is going on in the often troubled town of Alice Springs? Trouble goes into the ordered environment of the courtroom to lay out in detail some of the dark disorder in the town's recent history. Men kill their wives, kill one another in seeming senseless acts of revenge, families feud, women join the violence, children watch and learn from the sidelines. Journalist Kieran Finnane follows the stories through witness accounts, recognizing the horror and tragedy of violent events, and the guilt or innocence of perpetrators. She draws on a 25-year practice of journalism in Alice Springs, as well as experience of its everyday life, to add fine grain to the portrait of a town and region being painfully remade.

The Alien's Secret Volume 1

Author : Robert M. Doroghazi
Publisher : AKA-Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1942168039
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book The Alien's Secret Volume 1 written by Robert M. Doroghazi and published by AKA-Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Planet of Oria, and its nearby neighbors, a near utopian society has been developed by the leaders and most intelligent beings on the planets. The great Rankin has developed a perpetual energy source by harnessing the power of the binary black hole / star through the construction of The Cube. An evil force on Oria has recently developed a desire to gain control of the planet through dubious and dangerous acquisition of nuclear weapons recently found on our planet Earth. The Committee of Ten, comprised of the greatest leaders of Oria, has found out about the evil plan that could wipe out billions of innocent people. Lyton Rennedee must be stopped. Consensus is met to call upon their best and most worthy Major in their Military. Hoken Rommeler is truly up to the test.

From Colonies to Country

Author : Joy Hakim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195153231
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book From Colonies to Country written by Joy Hakim and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers American history from the French and Indian War to the Constitutional Convention.

The Sailor's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sailor's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grog Wars

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Grog Wars written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Planetary Clock

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259950X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Planetary Clock written by Paul Giles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of The Planetary Clock is the representation of time in postmodern culture and the way temporality as a global phenomenon manifests itself differently across an antipodean axis. To trace postmodernism in an expansive spatial and temporal arc, from its formal experimentation in the 1960s to environmental concerns in the twenty-first century, is to describe a richer and more complex version of this cultural phenomenon. Exploring different scales of time from a Southern Hemisphere perspective, with a special emphasis on issues of Indigeneity and the Anthropocene, The Planetary Clock offers a wide-ranging, revisionist account of postmodernism, reinterpreting literature, film, music, and visual art of the post-1960 period within a planetary framework. By bringing the culture of Australia and New Zealand into dialogue with other Western narratives, it suggests how an antipodean impulse, involving the transposition of the world into different spatial and temporal dimensions, has long been an integral (if generally occluded) aspect of postmodernism. Taking its title from a Florentine clock designed in 1510 to measure worldly time alongside the rotation of the planets, The Planetary Clock ranges across well-known American postmodernists (John Barth, Toni Morrison) to more recent science fiction writers (Octavia Butler, Richard Powers), while bringing the US tradition into juxtaposition with both its English (Philip Larkin, Ian McEwan) and Australian (Les Murray, Alexis Wright) counterparts. By aligning cultural postmodernism with music (Messiaen, Ligeti, Birtwistle), the visual arts (Hockney, Blackman, Fiona Hall), and cinema (Rohmer, Haneke, Tarantino), this volume enlarges our understanding of global postmodernism for the twenty-first century.

Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck

Author : Samuel Leech
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336892138X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck written by Samuel Leech and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009099507
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel written by Nicholas Birns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.