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  • Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia

    A Pocket Field Guide

    This field guide to introduced dung beetles covers all species found in Australia, including two newly introduced species. It will enable farmers, Landcare workers and the interested public to identify and learn about the basic biology of these beetles found in cattle dung. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Exile in Colonial Asia

    Kings, Convicts, Commemoration

    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • France and Indochina

    Cultural Representations

    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    At the intersection of literary, cultural, and postcolonial studies, this volume looks at French perceptions of 'Indochina' as they are conveyed through a variety of media including cinema, literature, art, and historical or anthropological writings. The volume is long awaited, as France's memory of 'Indochina' is understudied compared to its relationship with its former colonies in West and North ... Read more

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  • Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopuses of Australasia

    The Australasian region is home to the greatest diversity of cephalopods — squid, cuttlefish, octopuses — in the world. Yet, we know very little about these fascinating marine animals. This book provides insights into the biology and behaviour of more than 60 species. From the Giant Squid to the deadly Blue-ringed Octopus, the secret lives of cephalopods are revealed in a highly readable form with ... Read more

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    The World of Polyclads

    Marine Flatworms provides a fascinating introduction to the intriguing world of polyclad flatworms, a group of large, free-living marine Platyhelminthes, which are found throughout the world but are most colourful in tropical waters. Although not related to molluscs, they are often mistaken for sea slugs because of their brilliant colour patterns. Written in an accessible style by two leading ... Read more

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  • A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia

    Australians have a love–hate relationship with spiders. Some spiders, such as the Redback and the Sydney Funnelweb, inspire fear. Yet Peacock Spiders, with their colourful fan-spreading courtship dances, have won rapturous appreciation worldwide.A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia uses photographs of living animals to help people identify many of the spiders they encounter. Featuring over 1300 ... Read more

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  • Jumpers

    Vincent Calvino Crime Novels, #16

    Series Book 16 - Vincent Calvino Crime Novels
    In Jumpers, Christopher G. Moore delivers one of his most haunting Vincent Calvino investigations—a Bangkok noir where foreigner's death has many stories to tell. When bodies begin falling from high-rises, private eye Vincent Calvino finds himself drawn into a web of suicides, art, bitcoins and betrayal. Behind the façades of the city's luxury towers and shadowed alleyways lies a meditation on ... Read more

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    The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    For the farmer, the seed is not merely the source of future plants and food; it is a vehicle through which culture and history can be preserved and spread to future generations. For centuries, farmers have evolved crops and produced an incredible diversity of plants that provide life-sustaining nutrition. In India alone, the ingenuity of farmers has produced over 200,000 varieties of rice, many of ... Read more

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  • The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia

    Australia has a rich diversity of phasmids – otherwise known as stick and leaf insects. Most of them are endemic, few have been studied and new species continue to be found. Stick insects are, by far, Australia’s longest insects – some of them reach up to 300 mm in body length, or more than half a metre if you include their outstretched legs. Many stick insects are very colourful, and some have ... Read more

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  • The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

    A Novel of Shanghai

    by Wang Anyi ...
    Translated by Michael Berry, Susan Chan Egan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    The classic story of a woman in post-World War II China. "[A] complex and penetrating portrayal . . . that best displays [Anyi's] gifts as a novelist."— The New York TimesInfatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao—a girl born of the longtang, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods—seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant. This ... Read more

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    Insects for Kids - Entomology

    Series series Children's Zoology Books
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