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The Boomerang Information Book
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An Introduction to the Dreamtime
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The Really, Really Serious How to Play the Didgeridoo Book
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Price: AUD $8.00
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Price: AUD $8.00
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Price: AUD $8.00
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Title: The Boomerang Information Book
Author: Ian King
Description: A great quick read telling you of the various types of boomerang and the distribution of boomerangs throughout Australia. This book also includes throwing instructions, catching techniques and locations of Boomerang Associations.
Cover: Soft
Pages: 28
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 21cm – 14.5cm
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Title: An Introduction to the Dreamtime
Author: R. Lewis
Description: Drawing from an entire lifetime devoted to the study of ancient religion and myth, R. Lewis has provided a brief and concise insight into what is meant by the Dreamtime, followed by a unique collection of Dreamtime stories which will, undoubtedly, reach the little child in all of us.
Cover: Soft
Pages: 16
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 21cm – 14.5cm
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Title: The Really, Really Serious How to Play the Didgeridoo Book
Author: R. Lewis
Description: R. Lewis has produced here an easy-read, informative, low cost, humorous book. Information includes a brief introduction to the didgeridoo, buying this wonderful musical instrument, how to play and about the Dreamtime Didgeridoo.
Cover: Soft
Pages: 16
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 21cm – 14.5cm
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A Beginner's Guide to Australian Aboriginal Words
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"Aboriginals of Australia" by Douglass Baglin and Barbara Mullins
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"Art History Place" by Christine Nicholls
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Price: AUD $8.00
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Price: AUD $13.50
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Price: AUD $17.95
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Title: A Beginner’s Guide to Australian Aboriginal Words
Author: R.Lewis
Description: One very successful way to meet and greet someone from another tribe is to know at least a little of their language. Just a few words can often demonstrate respect and send apprehension and fear to flight with a smile. Barriers are broken asunder and tumble to the ground. Hands are clasped. The bad pronunciation is – in laughter – corrected. And the black man and the white man, without giving utterance to the thought know they are brothers – sons of God.
Translated words in this book include: parts of the body, the whole family, insects, birds, reptiles, and simple and common phrases.
Cover: Soft
Pages: 16
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 21cm - 14.5cm
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Title: Aboriginals of Australia
Author: Douglass Baglin and Barbara Mullins
Description: This book shows a record of their fast-vanishing traditional way of life, featuring over ninety full colour photographs.
Cover: Quality soft cover
Pages: 34
Language: English
Book Dimensions 24cm – 18.5
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Title: Art - History - Place
Author: Christine Nicholls
Description: In Art – History – Place, recognized art expert, Christine Nicholls, looks at the astonishing diversity and visual power of Indigenous Australian art today and explores the traditions and influences that have shaped its development.
Her discussion ranges from the traditional work of artists from the Central and Western Desert regions of Australia and the rarrk painters of Arnhem Land, to contemporary Indigenous crafts and Western influenced paintings and installations by artists including Ian Abdulla, John Packham and Michael Long.
Dr Nicholls reveals that while much of contemporary Indigenous art is part of an artistic movement that is more than 40,000 years old, Indigenous artists have a remarkable capacity to incorporate new media, styles and subject matter into their work.
The result is a fascinating overview of a dynamic body of work.
Cover: Quality soft
Pages: 40
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 25cm – 24cm
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"The Little Red Yellow Black Book"
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"Boomerang - Behind an Australian Icon" by Philip Jones
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"The Lizard Eaters" by Douglas Lockwood
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Price: AUD $17.95
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Price: AUD $22.50
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Price: AUD $24.95
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Title: The Little Red Yellow Black Book
Author: Written by AIATSIS with Bruce Pascoe
Description: This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to know about Australia’s rich Indigenous cultures, but don’t know where to begin. It is an invaluable pocket-sized guide written from an Indigenous perspective, with mini-essays providing a range of views. The topics covered include: history - culture – arts – sport – languages – population – health – participation in education – employment – governance – resistance – reconciliation.
Information on travelling respectfully on Indigenous land, and Indigenous festivals and tours, is included. A list of further reading and a complementary website allows readers to explore further the themes in this book.
The Little Red Yellow Black Book is the ideal tool for people who want to learn what they weren’t taught at school: for cross-cultural training: for tourists: for reconciliation groups, and within education.
Cover: Quality Soft
Pages: 139
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 19.5cm – 13cm
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Title: Boomerang
Author: Philip Jones
Description: The Australian boomerang has become a mysterious, almost magical, object in the European imagination. But in the process many of its remarkable qualities have gone unnoticed. These qualities made the boomerang a key element in the successful adaption of Aboriginal societies to the harsh Australian environment.
Did you know that the Central Australian boomerang, or karli, can be used to make fire, and serves as a knife, a lever, a digging tool, a ceremonial object and a musical instrument? That Aboriginal people in the Kimberley fished with boomerangs? That most Aboriginal boomerangs fly aeronautically but do not return? That the current long-distance record for a returning boomerang exceeds 230 metres?
In this book, Phillip Jones draws on the world’s largest boomerang collection, housed at the South Australian Museum, to describe the boomerang’s traditional uses and its more recent flight into western culture. There has rarely been such a stimulating and comprehensive survey of a traditional artifact.
Cover: Quality soft
Pages: 134
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 17cm – 21cm
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Title: The Lizard Eaters
Author: Douglas Lockwood
Description: In 1957, officers from the Welfare Branch of Northern Territory Administration began patrolling the Gibson and Great Sandy Desserts. Here they found the Pintubi people, who had never been in touch with white civilization. In 1963 the Melbourne Herald’s correspondent, Douglas Lockwood, was invited to join a patrol into the Gibson Desert to a point about 960 km west of Alice Springs, and 320 km across the Western Australia border.
The Lizard Eaters tells the fascinating story of that journey and the discovery of yet more Pintubi people. Lockwood describes the thrill he felt on meeting Aborigines who had never before set eyes on a white face ... and the profound respect he developed for human beings who had lived in unbelievably harsh conditions for thousands of years.
Cover: Quality soft
Pages: 171
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 20.5cm – 13.5cm
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"Understanding Aboriginal Culture" by Cyril Havecker
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"We the Aboriginies" by Douglas Lockwood
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"Aboriginal Myths, Legends and Fables" by A.W. Reed
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Price: AUD $26.50
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Price: AUD $26.50
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Price: AUD $29.95
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Title: Understanding Aboriginal Culture
Author: Cyril Havecker
Description: This book gives the reader a legacy of untold value left by the Dreamtime heroes of the Australian Aboriginal people; a race so ancient it is reputed to be descended from the gods. This is a priceless heritage which belongs to every Australian, black or white.
The records left by the Wisemen of the Aborigines tell of the creation myth, how Baiame the Supreme Intelligence of the universe, created all living things and how extrasensory perception was used as a means of gaining knowledge of the past and future. There are laws for loving on earth and laws for living in the multi dimensions beyond earth.
Theirs is a powerful philosophy, one which has meaning and cannot be changed by time or circumstances. It is a spiritual philosophy which most Australians, until recent years, saw as primitive and of little importance to the world. How wrong we were.
Cover: Soft cover
Pages: 110
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 15cm -21cm
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Title: We, The Aborigines
Author: Douglas Lockwood
Description: Author’s Note: I have tried in this book to show the Australian Aborigines as human beings rather than scientific phenomena, as people rather than things. I have attempted to tell at least one facet of their lives in each story in the hope that, taken as a whole, a fairly comprehensive picture will emerge.
I talked personally with most of the men and women whose photographs are reproduced. But where direct speech is attributed to any of them, it is mine and not theirs.
This book is full of fascinating true stories from many Tribes across Australia.
Cover: Soft cover
Pages: 259
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 21cm – 13.5
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Title: Aboriginal Myths, Legends & Fables
Author: A. W. Reed
Description: Aboriginal Myths, Legends and Fables presents a wealth of poetic and imaginative tales from Aboriginal cultural heritage. While retelling the stories simply, this book captures the mystical bonds that exist between Aboriginal people, their environment and the spirit life of the Dreamtime. Each story provides you with an insight into the fascinating beliefs of one of the oldest living cultures on earth.
Cover: Quality soft
Pages: 412
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 19.5cm – 12.5cm
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"Why Warriors Lie Down and Die" by Djambatj Mala
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Price: AUD $39.00
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Title: Why Warriors Lie Down and Die
Author: Richard Trudgen
Description: This book is essential reading for anyone interested in indigenous peoples. It provides hope and new direction for those simply searching for answers as to why “the problems” seem to persist in Aboriginal communities. It also offers insights for those who want a greater understanding of the issues involved in achieving true reconciliation.
In Arnhem Land the situation is dire: health is poor, unemployment rife and life short.
Why Warriors Lie Down and Die provides a fresh analysis of this crisis and offers examples of how the people can once again take control of their own lives. Finding the real cause requires the reader to look at it from the other side of the cultural language divide.
Cover: Quality soft cover
Pages: 269
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 24.5cm – 17cm
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