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At a glance...
HB=Hardback; PB=Paperback; eb=e-book. All prices are in Australian dollars, GST-inclusive.
 

 

 

FewDropsShortPint
 
Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Creative Non-Fiction. This inspiring travel memoir is about a man learning to open up to the new culture around him, letting in freedom and happiness. Written in an honest and natural voice Chris skillfully balances keen observations on Ireland, as well as historical and cultural details, with a good dose of humour.
  Rainshadows   The Best of IP 10th Anniversary Celebration CD, with nearly 400 pages of fiction, poetry, multimedia, podcasts, even a movie trailer from some of the finest authors working in Australia today.  
A Few Drops Short of a Pint, Chris Dowding, IP.
PB: ISBN 9781876819729
208 pp., $30.

Release date: November 2007
Rainshadows, David P Reiter, ed., IP Digital, 2007.
Mac/Windows CD-ROM, $27.
 
 
 
TeraniaCreek The story of a seminal conflict between the forest industry and the conservation movement. “Terania Creek: Rainforest Wars strikes a brilliant balance between artful story telling and objectively woven historical fact.”
— Lauren Daniels
IfTheseWallsTalk The author uncovers the reasons why her great-grandfather survived the Holocaust when so many in his family perished. “She has provided a rich tapestry — through narrative, visual images and sound — of Jewish life in that period.
— Suzanne Rutland
If These Walls Could Talk... Genevieve Cumming-Jaffé, IPD. Interactive (Win/Mac) CD-ROM: ISBN
1876819626 $27.50.
Terania Creek: Rainforest Wars, Dr Nigel Turvey, GHB, 2006,.
PB: ISBN 9781876819354
200 pp., $28
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Inge
A stunning biography set on the Great Barrier Reef. “Veron reveals the heart and soul of a person whose profound love of Nature touched all who knew her.” — Isobel Bennett, author of The Great Barrier Reef AustraliaFirstMovement An in-depth exposé of the Ultra Right in Australia during World War II, and how their nationalism degenerated into support for German fascism and Japan as well as rabid anti-Semitism. “A valuable reference to anyone working on the Australian Right in the 1930s and 1940s and on issues relating to detention and internment today.” Dr Andrew Bonnell, Univ of Qld
Inge, John Veron, GHB, 2003. PB: ISBN 1876819944 240 pp., $25.
  The Australia-First Movement and the Publicist, 1936-42, Barbara Winter, GHB, 2005.
PB: ISBN 187681991X
304 pp., with index and bibliogaphy, $27
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MyPlanets Cutting edge multimedia, blending memoir, astronomy, mythology and documentary. Phase 1 of an ongoing project supported by a major grant funding by Arts Queensland. GoldMine A history of intrigue and corruption in the 1880s at the highest levels in the celebrated Taranganba Gold Mine and the Sydney Company. An essential text for students of the history of resource development in Australia, exhaustively researched, with an index and extensive correspondence and reports from the period.
My Planets, David P Reiter, IPD, 2005. DVD-ROM: ISBN 187681960X $16.50.
The Biggest-Ever Mining Swindle in the Colonies, John Robert Peach.
HB: ISBN 9781876819774
600 pp., $69.95.
Release date: 15 July 2008
       
NoMiddleName Winner IP Picks 2005 Best Non-Fiction. ‘ A wonderful story of ordinary people made extraordinary through events not of their own making, coping with a much loved but always difficult child, and with an unheeding and incredibly unhelpful bureaucratic system.’ – Sharyn Pearce, QUT. Endorsed by SANE, Australia. Cane Navarre has a passion for the colourful and different personalities who made a positive contribution to the Planet, and little known places in the Australian Outback. Extensive interviews and documentary photographs.
No Middle Name, Tilly Brasch, 2005.
PB: ISBN 1876819901
168 pp, $27
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The Cane Barracks Story, Eugenie Navarre, GHB.
PB: ISBN 9780646476537
124 pp., $30.
Release date: 15 July 2008
       
Orchid The essential reference and research guide for professional and amateur growers of orchids. Over 100 pages of interactive text and 750 colour images about orchid genera worldwide. IntrigueMaker An intriguing true story of the role Australia and its intelligence agencies played during the Pacific campaign of World War II. With endnotes, bibliography and index.
Orchidopaedia, Volume 1, Genera (Version 2.1) Greg Steenbeeke & Gary Yong Gee, Orkology Kreations, 2002. Win/Mac CD-ROM: ISBN 0957788606 $88 The Intrigue Master, Barbara Winter, Boolarong, 1995.
HB: ISBN 0864391846
348 pp, $35
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