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	Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait Islands - Lonely Planet What is the significance of dots in contemporary Aboriginal painting? How many languages were spoken in Australia before colonisation? What did the Mabo and Wik decisions mean? With contributors from more than 50 Indigenous Australians, including Yothu Yindi lead singer Mandawuy Yunupingu, internationally acclaimed writer Herb Wharton and former social justice commissioner Mick Dodson, this guidebook gives an overview of the main issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people today. Use this practical companion guide to find organised tours, festivals, indoor and outdoor art galleries, films, literature, Internet sites and other points where Indigenous people share their culture. Also included are tips and protocols for interacting respectfully with Indigenous people, recommended retailers working with Aboriginal communities and detailed information on the permits required to enter Aboriginal land. In addition to full-colour sections on Indigenous art, bush food and sport, this guide includes more than 40 detailed maps and a fold-out language group map. 'There are many common stereotypes of Aboriginal peoples. One is that we are all the same and conform to the idealized image of the naked Aborigine standing with spear in hand watching the sun set. This is a picture which quickly dissolved into the reality of the 21st century. We are as different as the landscapes of coast, desert, rainforest and snowy mountains. The land is different and so are we, the first peoples of the land.' - Dr Irene Watson, Aboriginal lawyer, writer and activist Publisher: Lonely Planet Authors: Sarina Singh et al. ISBN: 1864501146 Published: 2001, 1st edition Paperback: 448 pages Price: £12.99


	Sydney Style Click picture to look inside Shot by Italian interior photographer Giorgio Possenti, these sumptuous photographs of penthouses, open space interiors and minimalist homes are a rare and wonderful treat. 'One for the homesick Aussies abroad or those who want to show off the best of the harbour city to friends and family' - Luxury Interiors Magazine, Sydney Authors: Christiane Reiter and Giorgio Possenti Publisher: Taschen ISBN: 3822832294 Published: 2004 Flexicover: 140 x 195 mm, 192 pages Price: £4.99


	The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture This volume covers the whole art spectrum including photography, sculpture, media, film, performance, rock art, body painting and more. The emphasis is upon visual art, while survey entries on indigenous literature, theatre and music, among other areas, provide a wider context. 'the careful arrangement and linkage of information does what a Companion should; it gives the reader a sense of exploring a vibrant Aboriginal landscape in company with a series of highly articulate guides' - Times Literary Supplement Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand Editors: Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale ISBN: 0195506499 Published: 2001 Paperback: 804 pages, 40 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, 245 x 190 mm Price: £45.00


	Aboriginal Art For thousands of years Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of the Dreamtime, art is also a means of expressing individual and group identity. Howard Morphy surveys the great variety in Aboriginal art, showing the interrelationships between such diverse art forms as body painting, dance, the decoration of weapons and utensils, and painting on bark and canvas. Professor Howard Morphy is Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University. Publisher: Phaidon Author: Howard Morphy ISBN: 0714837520 Published: 1998 Paperback: 448 pages, 220 x 160 mm, 240 colour illustrations Price: £14.95


	Aboriginal Myths - Tales of the Dreamtime From acts of creation and the deeds of the Great Spirit, to totemic ancestors and tales explaining natural phenomena, this delightful collection of stories paints a picture of the mystical bond that exists between Aboriginal people, the environment and the spirit life of the Dreamtime. Publisher: New Holland Publishers Author: A. W. Reed ISBN: 1876334142 Published: 1998 Softcover: 128 x 197 mm Price: £7.99


	The Journals of Captain Cook Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals amply reveal the determination, courage and skill which enabled Cook to wrestle with the continuous dangers of uncharted seas and the problems of achieving a relationship with the peoples whose unannounced guest he became. This edition, abridged from the four-volume collection published by the Hakluyt Society, makes Cook's inimitable personal account of his nine years of voyaging widely accessible for the first time. The selection preserves the spirit and rhythm of the full narrative, as well as Cook's idiosyncratic spelling. Philip Edwards gives an introduction to each voyage together with maps, a glossary of unusual words and indexes of people and places. A postscript offers a full assessment of the controversies surrounding Cook's death. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0140436472 Published: 1999 Paperback: 688 pages Price: £9.99


	Germaine Greer - The Whole Woman Reviving the debate she launched with The Female Eunuch, in thirty-five self-contained 'chapterkins' of fiery rhetoric, authoritative insight, outrageous humour and broad-ranging enquiry, Germaine Greer once again sets the agenda for the future of feminism, arguing that in spite of a widespread feeling of complacency, the woman question is far from answered. 'Into the pale politeness of post-feminism, Greer has thrown a polemical bomb...Greer's acid anger comes as a surprising reminder of what the point of a feminist book was meant to be. It is funny, unforgiving, unapologetic, unappeasing' - The Guardian, UK Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 1862300577 Published: 2000 Paperback: 464 pages Price: £7.99


	Pacific Designs Pacific Designs presents a rich collection of designs drawn from the varied heritage of the Pacific cultures, including those of Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia. The illustrations are carefully researched and based on close observation of many types of artefacts from pottery and wood carving to textiles, whilst the introduction describes the history of the peoples of Oceania. Publisher: British Museum Publications Author: Rebecca Jewell ISBN: 0714180769 Published: 1998 Paperback: 128 pages, 276 x 219 mm, 300 black and white illustrations Price: £9.99

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