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Our State of Mind: Racial Planning and the Stolen Generations

Our State of Mind: Racial Planning and the Stolen Generations

Quentin Beresford

Because I was taken away from my parents I really did not know who I was, where I was heading.
The Godfather: The life of Brian Burke

The Godfather: The life of Brian Burke

Quentin Beresford

This is the first major biography of this charismatic and influential politician who even out of power and disgraced, pulled political strings in WA and beyond.
Governments, Markets and Globalisation: Australian Public ...

Governments, Markets and Globalisation: Australian Public ...

Quentin Beresford

With opportunities for active learning, the text aims to shed new light on the complex business of gover.
The Salinity Crisis: Landscapes, Communities and Politics

The Salinity Crisis: Landscapes, Communities and Politics

Quentin Beresford

Based on extensive research this book is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about one of Australia's most serious environmental problems. New edition with an epilogue.
Conflict and Consensus: Politics and Law in Australia

Conflict and Consensus: Politics and Law in Australia

Quentin Beresford

Text for senior secondary students covering the year 11 and 12 politics and legal studies course in WA. Provides recent research findings, exercises, review and discussion questions and chapter objectives.
The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd:

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd:

Quentin Beresford

Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania’s decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all. ‘This is a tale that needed telling.
Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice

Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice

Quentin Beresford

Set against the tumultuous background of racial politics in an conflicted nation, this book explores Rob Riley's rise and influence as an Aboriginal activist.
Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin

Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin

Judith Tannenbaum

When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing class at San Quentin prison, one of the students commented, "Now I'm going to give you an assignment: write about these past four years from your point of view; tell your story; let us ...
Ready to Dance And other Poems

Ready to Dance And other Poems

James Beresford Atlay

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., Regius ...

Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., Regius ...

James Beresford Atlay

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Goya: A Pictorial Biography

Goya: A Pictorial Biography

Vyvyan Beresford Holland

Includes many hitherto unpublished illustrations. 136 photogravure illustrations, 8 color plates.
Son of Oscar Wilde

Son of Oscar Wilde

Vyvyan Beresford Holland

The author recalls his own life and his remembrances of his father, who died when the author was a young boy
The Cornhill Magazine

The Cornhill Magazine

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JAMES BERESFORD ATLAY. IT is true of most men that their weight among their fellows rests upon what they have done. Such influence as they enjoy in the world in which they move rests upon their work; either upon its sheer excellence,  ...
Shadow of Cain: A Novel

Shadow of Cain: A Novel

Vincent Bugliosi

Raymond Lomak is a mass murderer, and he's due to be released from San Quentin. Has he been rehabilitated?
Perfect Chaos Spring Break in San Quentin

Perfect Chaos Spring Break in San Quentin

Dana White

Along the old walkways there is blood embroidered in the bottomless cracks yes, this book is about bloodstains.
Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

Kari Palonen

This book is the first comprehensive exposition of the work of one of the most important intellectual historians and political theorists writing today.
Historic Photos of Fort Worth

Historic Photos of Fort Worth

Quentin McGown

This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of hundreds of historic photographs.
Vanishing Games

Vanishing Games

Roger Hobbs

'If you enjoyed I AM PILGRIM, you'll love this' Guardian The perfect blend of a Lee Child novel and a Quentin Tarantino film, this is the latest from the bestselling author of GHOSTMAN.
Agatha Christie: Murder in four acts : a centenary ...

Agatha Christie: Murder in four acts : a centenary ...

Peter Haining

Profiles the adaptations of Agatha Christie detective fiction for performance in various media, including accounts of the actors who have played Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford

who called from an unknown number?