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As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that "a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African." Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice the occupants of these positions functioned as hidden lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial o...

Howard Winston Johns has just attempted suicide, but he is not sure why. A member of VIC Parliament for the seat of Canberra, Howard has a prestigious job in a world in which Democracy is Freedom, Freedom is Choice and Choice is the Consumer's. He has everything in the world he could need, and can have much more. He should be consummately happy. Yet something is missing. Thus begins a quest for meaning that, with the aid of Cyber Champion, Mi...

In this novel for 11-15 year olds we meet Christy Barnfield, who hates the Elford Folk Festival. Every year it brings disruption to his otherwise quiet country town. Skye Luxford loves the festival. Every year she travels from her home town of Sunshine, in the northern coastal region of Rainbow Bay, with her parents to enjoy the Australia Day event. The two youths meet when they both see - or believe they see - a dinosaur in the River Lynn. Th...

Rhea Barnett has lost her mother but, despite a healthy period of grieving with her family, is unable to resolve her feelings. So she travels to India seeking spiritual plurality. There she meets an Australian who is unlike any male she has met before. But it is not long before Rhea uncovers in Reiner the same insecurities as the English males of her past. In the end she leaves him, stoned and dancing around a self-immolating backpacker on a b...

In this novel for teenagers, a rookie hero, Staragonemis Events, is just at the beginning of his life of action, mystery and adventure when Slug, a character who has died in 8 previous novels, turns up determined to live this time. Slug elicits from Staragonemis a promise that he will assist her in achieving this goal. Mysteriously, even before his Master reveals his quest to him, characters from stories in which Slug has previously been the ...

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Mei-ling Lee pioneered cultural tourism in Australia, incorporating tourism education into a profitable tourism business, bringing new economic opportunities to regional Australia. Head-hunted by the Singapore Tourism Commission, in five years Mei-ling transformed the island nation's tourism business. She now returns to Australia to bring a new dimension of profitability to the Arts in Cooksland by linking it to the economics of cultural touri...

When Becky Cheshire is offered the chance of returning to protect the dead body of her baby from the flames consuming her flat, she little understands the life before her. Caught up in her role as grieving mother and wife, having also lost her husband in the conflagration, she finds herself drawn into another role beyond life, as a curator facilitating the passage of the souls of trauma victims into a realm beyond her knowing. The Curators fol...

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Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and children has changed from the aftermath of the "end of slavery" in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Vah size günahkarlar Okyanusun ortasinda ve kuru toprakta size karsi ser hatirasi bulunur.Vah size, haksizlikla gümüs ile altini kazananlar ve söyle diyenler Biz zenginliklerle zenginiz ve mallarimiz vardir. Diledigimiz her seye sahibiz. Simdi niyet ettigimizi yapalim. Cünkü biz gümüsü biriktirdik. Evlerimizdeki hizmetcilerimiz coktur. Ambarlarimiz suylaymis gibi doludur.Evet, su gibi yalanlariniz da akip gidecek, cünkü zenginliginiz daimi olm...

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