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| Title: A Land in Between |
| Sub-title: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age |
| Edited by: Melissa Kennedy |
| ISBN10-13: 1743327188 : 9781743327180 |
| The Orontes Valley in western Syria is a land â in betweenâ , positioned between the small trading centres of the coast and the huge urban agglomerations of the Euphrates Valley and the Syro-Mesopotamian plains beyond. As such, it provides a critical missing link in our understanding of the archaeology of this region in the early urban age.A Land in Between documents the material culture and socio-political relationships of the Orontes Valley and its neighbours from the fourth through to the second millennium BCE. The authors demonstrate that the valley was an important conduit for the exchange of knowledge and goods that fuelled the first urban age in western Syria. This lays the foundation for a comparative perspective, providing a clearer understanding of key differences between the Orontes region and its neighbours, and insights into how patterns of material and political association changed over time. |
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Introduction: A Land In-Between - The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age by Melissa A. Kennedy 1. Northern Levantine Spheres of Interaction: The Role of the 'Amuq Plain in the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age by Lynn Welton
2. The Origin of Caliciform Ware in Inland Northern Syria During the Mid-Third Millennium BC: A View from Tell Mardikh/Ebla and Hama by Agnese Vacca
3. Ebla in the Third Millennium BC: Architecture and Urban Planning by Frances Pinnock
4. A Matter of Style: Ceramic Evidence of Contacts Between the Orontes Valley and the Southern Levant During the Mid-Late Third Millennium BC by Marta D'Andrea
5. Militarisation and the Changing Socio-Political Landscape of the Northern Levant in the Early Bronze Age IVB by Melissa A. Kennedy
6. Evolutions of Pottery Production Over a Millennium: Petrographic Analysis of the EB Ceramic Assemblage from Tell Arqa by Mathilde Jean
7. The 1968 Survey in the Beqa' of Lebanon and Its Relevance to the Archaeology of the Central Levant Ca. 2500-2000/1900 BC by Kay Prag
8. Sequence, Chronology and Culture at Tell Nebi Mend in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages by Stephen J. Bourke
About the contributors
Index
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| Published: Sydney University Press - December 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Archaeology |
| List Price: 53.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 224 |
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| Title: Academic Writing Is... |
| Sub-title: A Guide to Writing in a University Context |
| By (author): Terri Morley-Warner |
| ISBN10-13: 0980429722 : 9780980429725 |
| Academic Writing Is â ¦ demystifies many of the practices of academic writing for students in an Australian university. This is an indispensable guide for any students undertaking university studies in Australia who want to develop their academic writing. Terri Morley-Warnerâ s book covers the major types of academic texts and guides students through carefully annotated examples. These are supported by a broad selection of strategies and easy-to-follow practical activities. |
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Preface
Introduction 1. Understanding what is expected
2. Understanding your writing process
3. Writing the essay
4. Writing the report
5. Making it 'sound' academic: tone and style
6. Text types
7. Referencing
8. Proofreading
A final word
Bibliography
Appendix
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Pages: 119
Size: 250x176mm
Illustrations: 6
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| Published: Sydney University Press - January 2010 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Writing & editing guides |
| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 224 |
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| Title: Academic Writing Is... |
| Sub-title: A Guide to Writing in a University Context |
| By (author): Terri Morley-Warner |
| ISBN10-13: 1743320043 : 9781743320044 |
| Academic Writing Is â ¦ demystifies many of the practices of academic writing for students in an Australian university. This is an indispensable guide for any students undertaking university studies in Australia who want to develop their academic writing. Terri Morley-Warnerâ s book covers the major types of academic texts and guides students through carefully annotated examples. These are supported by a broad selection of strategies and easy-to-follow practical activities. |
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| Preface; Introduction; Understanding what is expected; Understanding your writing process; Writing the essay; Writing the report; Making it 'sound' academic: tone and style; Text types; Referencing; Proofreading; A final word; Bibliography; Appendix; Index. |
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Pages: 119
Size: 250x176mm
Illustrations: 6 illus
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| Published: Sydney University Press - February 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Educational: English language: reading & writing s |
| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 3 of: 224 |
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| Title: After Alexander |
| Sub-title: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan |
| By (author): John Tidmarsh |
| ISBN10-13: 1743329636 : 9781743329634 |
| After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan details the excavation of Hellenistic and Early Roman period horizons carried out at Pella in Jordan by the University of Sydney since 1979. It deals with both the stratigraphy of the Hellenistic and Early Roman levels at Pella, and catalogues the pottery recovered from them. Short summaries of relevant work by the College of Wooster are also included.After a brief introduction to the site and history of excavations, a detailed description of the Hellenistic and Early Roman levels on the main mound of Khirbet Fahl, on nearby Tell Husn, and in select hinterland locations, then follows.The heart of the study centres on a detailed catalogue of the corpus of some 900 individual Hellenistic-Early Roman pottery fragments, accompanied by outline drawings for each fragment, and a smaller number of images of the more important pieces.Discussion of the relevance and importance of the material remains to the history and archaeology of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods at Pella and more broadly to Jordan and the southern Levant concludes the study. |
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Pages: 500
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| Published: Sydney University Press - May 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Educational: English language: reading & writing s |
| List Price: 66.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 224 |
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| Title: Alex Miller |
| Sub-title: The Ruin of Time |
| By (author): Robert Dixon |
| ISBN10-13: 1743324073 : 9781743324073 |
| Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelistâ s eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness â substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight.Among his many prizes and awards, Alex Miller has twice won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game in 1993, and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003; the Commonwealth Writersâ prize, also for The Ancestor Game in 1993; and the New South Wales Premierâ s Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize, for Conditions of Faith in 2001 and Lovesong in 2011. He received a Centenary Medal in 2001 and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Having published his eleventh novel, Coal Creek, in 2013 â which won the Victorian Premierâ s Fiction Award in 2014 â Miller is currently writing an autobiographical memoir with the working title Horizons. |
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| Acknowledgements; Introduction; Unravelling the change: The Tivington Nott and Watching the Climbers on the Mountain; Multiple modernities: The Ancestor Game; Black mirror: The Sitters; The iron world: Conditions of Faith; The central Queensland novels: Journey to the Stone Country; The third hand: Prochownik's Dream; The central Queensland novels: Landscape of Farewell; The economy of gift: Lovesong; Eye of the storm: Autumn Laing; Reading lessons: Coal Creek; Afterword; Works cited; Index. |
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Walter McRae Russell Prize
2015
Australia
Joint winner
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"Dixon maps the expanses of Miller's thought - the 'intellectual achievement' of the fiction - with precision and understanding ... It is heartening to read a critical work of such scope and acuity, and important for the future of Australian literature that publishers such as Sydney University Press continue to be so committed to Australian criticism." -- Brenda Walker, Australian Book Review
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'The concept of 'the ruin of time,' Dixon's overarching thematic and critical approach, is woven into his analysis of all eleven novels. His ability to extract different resonances from this idea, particularly in his discussion of some of Miller's most memorable images or scenes, such as the decaying homestead in Journey to the Stone Country, is a testament to Dixon's precise and detailed knowledge of the writer.' -- Joe Cummins -- Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL)
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'Despite its many immediate rewards The Ruin of Time is a book that will have a long shelf-life. It is not (of course) the final word on Alex Miller, but due to its compendious nature it will become the 'go to' source for future readers or critics looking to navigate his body of work. It is thoughtful, knowledgeable, studious, engaging and entertaining, and in writing it Dixon has further enhanced both his own reputation and that of his subject.' -- Paul Genoni -- Journal of Australian Studies
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'This 'critical survey' is recommended for teachers as 'a reliable and stimulating point of reference' and to students who can cope with the language demands of a complex and sophisticated text.' -- Leisa Harvey -- mETAphor
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'Dixon's Alex Miller is a sustained and impressive appreciation of an Australian novelist who, although much decorated, and despite his considerable skills as an actor and public performer, remains a more elusive figure than his contemporaries Tom Keneally and Peter Carey.' -- Peter Pierce -- The Australian
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'In Dixon, Miller finds a reader of generosity, curiosity, intelligence and grace, one who in turn opens the work for others' access and consideration. Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time enacts the lucid reading Celan hopes for, and offers its readers, in turn, illumination.' -- Felicity Plunkett -- Southerly
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Pages: 247
Size: 250x175mm
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| Published: Sydney University Press - August 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literature: history & criticism |
| List Price: 40.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 224 |
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| Title: Ambivalent Macbeth |
| By (author): Robert S. White |
| ISBN10-13: 1743325487 : 9781743325483 |
| Macbeth is often read in a singular fashion: either as a cautionary morality tale warning against ambition, or as a psychological study of evil. In Ambivalent Macbeth, renowned Shakespeare scholar R.S. White argues that these differing readings result from a profoundly ambivalent play, and that this quality is a clue to its greatness.White explores how radical ambivalence permeates the atmosphere, imagery, themes and characterisation of â the Scottish playâ . He considers Shakespeareâ s historical context and source material, and examines key cinematic, theatrical and other adaptations of the play. Throughout, he argues that an open-minded acceptance of ambivalence can inspire a multitude of readings, and that this complexity helps to explain the playâ s intriguing longevity. |
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Preface and acknowledgements Prologue: sinners as heroes
1. Contexts of ambiguity: text, sources, history
2. 'Fair is foul and foul is fair': the radical ambivalence of Macbeth
3. 'Nothing is but what is not': emotional worlds of characters in Macbeth
4. 'The seeds of time' and the Macbeths
5. 'Palter with us in a double sense': leading ideas - temptation, equivocation, evil
6. 'This is the very painting of your fear': imagery and the emotional world of Macbeth
7. Macbeth on stage and screen
Bibliography
Index |
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'Having seen two Macbeths already this year ... I was glad to have this exploration of why it is so perennially reinterpretable. ... It is informed, too, by his work for the Centre for the History of Emotions, resulting in a fine discussion of the characters' emotional worlds. Other highlights are the account of the problematics of blending pro-Scot and pro-English sources and of the play's insistence on the numbers two and three; the performance history; and a revisiting of the almost lost art of the study of Shakespeare's imagery.' -- Lisa Hopkins -- Times Higher Education
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'For White, Shakespeare poses open and problematic questions, and insists our answers must be indeterminate and inconclusive. [White] goes further to suggest that this is the essence of the quality of the play.' -- Barry Gillard -- The Australian
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'[A demonstration of] White's hope for this work to provide 'suggestions which other scholars might take up' ... Ambivalent Macbeth helpfully foregrounds the many questions that Macbeth raises and certainly prompts further research.' -- Michael Cop -- Parergon
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'Themed chapters treat an impressive array of topics, including sources, scholarship, character and emotion, time, equivocation, evil, imagery, and dramatic history.' -- Ellen Mackay -- Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
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Pages: 221
Size: 210x148mm
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| Published: Sydney University Press - May 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literature: history & criticism |
| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 224 |
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| Title: Animal Activism On and Off Screen |
| Edited by: Claire Parkinson, Lara Herring |
| ISBN10-13: 174332975X : 9781743329757 |
| Animal Activism On and Off Screen examines the relationship between animal advocacy and the film and television industries. Leading scholars, activists, and film industry professionals critically analyse the ways in which animal activism has been represented inside and outside film and television programs in relation to the politics of celebrity, vegan, and animal activism.Case studies include UK, US, and German television crime fiction, feature-length advocacy documentaries such as Blackfish (2013), The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013), The Animal People (2019) and Meat the Future (2020); fiction films such as Okja (2017) and Cloud Atlas (2012); as well as celebrity chefs, French activism and celebrity activists Pamela Anderson, Joaquin Phoenix and James Cromwell.By exploring three key aspects of the current context for animal rights: representations of activism on screen; activist texts and their reception; and celebrity vegans and animal advocates, Animal Activism On and Off Screen evaluates the efficacy of advocacy narratives in film and on television, and offers important insights intended to inform animal advocacy strategies and campaigns. |
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Pages: 370
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| Published: Sydney University Press - July 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literature: history & criticism |
| List Price: 26.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 224 |
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| Title: Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology |
| Sub-title: A Field Guide to Common Native and Introduced Species |
| By (author): Melanie Fillios, Natalie Blake |
| ISBN10-13: 1743324332 : 9781743324332 |
| Zooarchaeology has emerged as a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, zooarchaeologists can uncover important information on the economy, trade, industry, diet, and other fascinating facts about the people who lived there.Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology is an introductory bone identification manual written for archaeologists working in Australia. This field guide includes 16 species commonly encountered in both Indigenous and historical sites. Using diagrams and flow charts, it walks the reader step-by-step through the bone identification process. Combining practical and academic knowledge, the manual also provides an introductory insight into zooarchaeological methodology and the importance of zooarchaeological research in understanding human behaviour through time. |
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List of figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
Bone identification 101 1. Mandible
2. Scapula
3. Humerus
4. Radius
5. Ulna
6. Pelvis
7. Femur
8. Tibia
9. The extremities: hands and feet
Theoretical and practical applications in zooarchaeology
Works cited
Further reading
Index |
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'Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology is a welcome contribution to Australian zooarchaeology ... Fillios and Blake have created a clear and concise Australian faunal reference guide, ideal not only for students, heritage consultants and non-specialists who only require a simple guide, but also for more experienced faunal analysts, who may find it a useful companion to their reference collections. This handbook can - and should - become a standard tool in the arsenal of all archaeologists working on Australian sites.' -- Carly Monks -- Archaeology in Oceania 51(3)
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' ... it is a useful and functional guide to be used in the field. The presentation is logical and clear, and contains most of the essential introductory information you would need when trying to classify faunal remains. It should be considered a key starting resource for identifying native Australian species.' -- Hayley Foster -- Environmental Archaeology
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Pages: 191
Size: 250x176mm
Illustrations: 110
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| Published: Sydney University Press - November 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Archaeology |
| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology |
| By (author): Melanie Fillios, Natalie Blake |
| ISBN10-13: 1743324596 : 9781743324592 |
| Zooarchaeology has emerged as a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, zooarchaeologists can uncover important information on the economy, trade, industry, diet, and other fascinating facts about the people who lived there. Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology is an introductory bone identification manual written for archaeologists working in Australia. This field guide includes 16 species commonly encountered in both Indigenous and historical sites. Using diagrams and flow charts, it walks the reader step-by-step through the bone identification process. Combining practical and academic knowledge, the manual also provides an introductory insight into zooarchaeological methodology and the importance of zooarchaeological research in understanding human behaviour through time. |
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Size: 250x176mm
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| Published: Sydney University Press - November 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Archaeology |
| List Price: 28.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Animal Death |
| Series: Animal Publics |
| Edited by: Jay Johnston, Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey |
| ISBN10-13: 174332023X : 9781743320235 |
| A danger for animal studies is that too heavy an emphasis on animal suffering and death risks catalysing further inertia: either by contributing to a sense of powerlessness, or by provoking others to rile against perceived opprobrium. From this perspective, Animal Death is a triumph. The chapters dealing with issues such as factory farming are unsparing, but equally argue that optimism is not impossible if such topics are broached with cultural and philosophical understanding. |
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| List of figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG; Introduction by Jay Johnston and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey; In the shadow of all this death by Deborah Bird Rose; Human and animal space in historic 'pet' cemeteries in London, New York and Paris by Hilda Kean; Necessary expendability: an exploration of nonhuman death in public by Tarsh Bates and Megan Schlipalius; Confronting corpses and theatre animals by Peta Tait; Respect for the (animal) dead by ChloÃ" Taylor; Mining animal death for all it's worth by Melissa Boyde; Reflecting on donkeys: images of death and redemption by Jill Bough; Picturing cruelty: chicken advocacy and visual culture by Annie Potts and Philip Armstrong; Learning from dead animals: horse sacrifice in ancient Salamis and the Hellenisation of Cyprus by Agata Mrva-Montoya; The last image: Julia Leigh's The Hunter as film by Carol Freeman; Euthanasia and morally justifiable killing in a veterinary clinical context by Anne Fawcett; Preventing and giving death at the zoo: Heini Hediger's 'death due to behaviour' by Matthew Chrulew; Nothing to see - something to see: white animals and exceptional life/death by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey; 'Death-in-life': curare, restrictionism and abolitionism in Victorian and Edwardian anti-vivisectionist thought by Greg Murrie; Huskies and hunters: living and dying in Arctic Greenland by Rick De Vos; On having a furry soul: transpecies identity and ontological indeterminacy in Otherkin subcultures by Jay Johnston; About the contributors; Index. |
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| Jay Johnston is senior lecturer, Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney and senior lecturer, School of Art History and Art Education, COFA, University of New South Wales. |
| Fiona Probyn-Rapsey is a professor in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong. |
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"This collection is a worthwhile read for those concerned about animal ethics. As Chloe Taylor writes, "how we treat the dead has direct implications for how we treat the living"." -- Kelsi Nagy, Journal of Animal Ethics
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"The inspiring and inclusive ways in which the book challenges readers are enhanced by the chapters dealing with animal death in less predictable settings, and by its artistically oriented interrogations ... no reader of the book need feel excluded from this at once descriptive and aspirational conception of life." -- Sam Cadman, Australian Book Review
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Pages: 348
Size: 210x150mm
Illustrations: 18 illus
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| Published: Sydney University Press - June 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Natural history |
| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 10 of: 224 |
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