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 Craft in Society |  Just Talk: Gossip, Meetings, and Power in a Papua New Guinea Village (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, No. 11)Best Price: $30.00 Just Talk examines the often overlooked role of gossip and rumor in creating power in small... |  Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume V: 1987 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy)Best Price: $56.15 Volume 5 includes contributions by Thomas C. Brickhouse, Yahei Kanayama, Theodor Ebert, A. C.... |  Mind Over Matter (Delta Expedition)Englishmen Ranulph Fiennes and Mike Stroud together made four failed attempts on the North Pole.... |  Journals: Scott's Last Expedition (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $3.53 In January 1912, Britain's Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had... |
 Rights and Redemption: History, Law, and Indigenous PeopleBest Price: $45.00 This book examines the role of history in key Indigenous rights cases which occurred during the... |  Chased by the Sun: The Australians in Bomber Command in World War IIBest Price: $14.98 In the publicity, the documentaries about the Royal Air Force, it is often overlooked that the... |  For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands (Second Edition)Best Price: $16.99 A wonderful book from a man that knows, that has been there, and is still there watching the... |  Disaster at the Pole: The Crash of the Airship ItaliaBest Price: $2.24 While exploring the polar regions in 1928, Nobile and a group of fellow adventurers crashed in... |  Quarantined |
 The Convict Settlers of AustraliaWho were the convicts transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and what sort of... |  The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500Best Price: $29.92 This is a very well-written intellectual piece tracing Greenland colonies from establishment, to... |  Hawaiian Kingdom 1854-1874, Twenty Critical YearsBest Price: $32.95 |  The Wound and Dream: Sixty Years of American Poems about the Spanish Civil War (American Poetry Recovery Series)Best Price: $15.95 |  Plants in Hawaiian Culture (Kolowalu Books)Best Price: $29.95 |
 The Wet and the Dry: Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in PolynesiaBest Price: $74.85 Futuna is virtually the last Polynesian place. World War II extinguished the copra business, and... |  Art of the State: Hawaii (Art of the State)Best Price: $30.36 Having lived in Hawai'i for 11 years, I am deeply impressed by the books content, which is... |  Three Masquerades: Essays on Equality, Work, and Human RightsBest Price: $5.94 Marilyn Waring probes the 'world behind the mask' in these three remarkable essays on women in... |  Old New Zealand and Other Writings (The Literature of Travel, Exploration and Empire)Best Price: $45.00 Old New Zealand put legs under two opinions I've gained in the last ten years or so: 1) many... |  New Zealand (Enchantment of the World. Second Series)Best Price: $25.33 |
 Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and PrehistoryBest Price: $22.76 |  Moko: Maori TattoosWhen I purchased this book I expected more historically traditional photographs, but I was... |  Fatal Passage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time ForgotBest Price: $6.90 After finishing Fatal Passage, I felt perhaps a twinge of the same frustration that John Rae... |  Australian Art (Oxford History of Art)Best Price: $267.04 This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians,... |  Through Fire and Water: HMS Ardent: The Forgotten Frigate of the FalklandsBest Price: $19.75 The average age of the 200 men on board HMS Ardent was 23 in May 1982 when she made a lonely... |
 The Irish in AustraliaBest Price: $87.17 The Irish in Australia is a general history of the contribution of people of Irish birth to... |  Resource Units in Hawaiian CultureBest Price: $211.16 |  Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the DisciplinesBest Price: $32.35 |  The Gippsland Lakes |  Lonely Planet Papua, New Guinea (Lonely Planet Papua New Guinea)And the only one worth carrying for independent, budget travellers, I might add. While this... |
 Australian National Cinema (National Cinemas Series)Best Price: $35.13 This is the one book I require students to buy for my graduate seminar on Australian Film and... |  The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and CultureBest Price: $92.40 Australian Aboriginal art is gaining international recognition, and rightly so. It is an art... |  My place: IllustratedBest Price: $16.35 |  Arctic Experiences: Aboard the Doomed Polaris Expedition and Six Months Adrift on an Ice-FloeBest Price: $14.78 In 1871 veteran navigator George Emory Tyson joined the first American expedition to explore the... |  Digging It Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia (World Archaeological Congress Cultural Heritage Manual Series)Best Price: $28.56 What are the secrets to successful archaeology in Australia? What traps are there for the novice... |
 Reptiles of Australia (Princeton Field Guides)Best Price: $477.40 All the reptiles known on the Australian continent is covered. It is rather easy to identify... |  The Polynesian Family System in Ka'u, Hawai'iThis book is apparently the bible of Hawaiian Studies. Don't expect a typical modern... |  Plant Life in the World's Mediterranean Climates: California, Chile, South Africa, Australia, and the Mediterranean BasinBest Price: $24.95 This book is great. It has plenty of pictures, diagrams and drawings. Most of the pictures are... |  Heidelberg since 1836;: A pictorial history |  A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason, Trials and Transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian Rebels After the 1838 RebellionBest Price: $24.70 |
 The Puzzles of Childhood |  Beach Houses of Australia and New Zealand 2Best Price: $31.42 This architecture book features a whopping 52 beach houses in Australia. If readers were... |  The Eskimos and Aleuts (Ancient Peoples and Places)This is a wonderful book in my view, I feel that the author did a very nice job. I thought it... |  Why warriors lie down & die: Towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact : djambatj mala |  Australian Commandos: Their Secret War against the Japanese in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series)Best Price: $2.98 A. B. Feuer uses first hand accounts coupled with his excellent style to bring you this down to... |
 Concrete Battleship: Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila BayBest Price: $8.95 I am a buff of the first year of the war in the Pacific which drew me to this book. It is not a... |  The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic DisasterBest Price: $24.19 The author was a member of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Arctic Expedition of 1913, and was on board... |  The Eskimo Girl and the EnglishmanBest Price: $11.53 I can't not say enough about this book. It is well written, thoughtful and personal. A must read! |  Manga Reva;: The Forgotten Islands, |  The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South PacificBest Price: $5.99 Fifty years after the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942, deep diver Robert Ballard went to Iron... |
 Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks: During Captain Cook's First Voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, etcBest Price: $31.99 This is an excellent facsimile edition of the original publishing in the 19th century. Be... |  Commando!: The M/Z Unit's Secret War Against JapanBest Price: $64.83 This little-known story of Australia's M/Z Unit commandos, and the part they played in the... |  The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands? |  Contemporary Australian Printmaking: An Interpretative HistoryBest Price: $60.00 |  Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to AntarcticaBest Price: $11.09 Griffiths opens his book: "To voyage towards Antarctica is to go beyond the boundary of... |
 Dog in ArtBest Price: $12.50 This book features photos of artworks from many time periods showing dogs. Most of the artworks... |  Nomads of the Wind: A Natural History of PolynesiaBest Price: $80.00 When I read this book I was looking for a detailed account of the natural history of the south... |  Tahitian holiday; | ||
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