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Ordinary People and the Media

The Demotic Turn

By: Graeme Turner

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The 'demotic turn' is a term coined by Graeme Turner to describe the increasing visibility of the 'ordinary person' in the media today. In this dynamic and insightful book he explores the 'whys' and 'hows' of the 'everyday' individual's willingness to turn themselves into media content through: · Celebrity culture, · Reality TV, · DIY websites, · Talk radio, · User-generated materials online. Initially proposed in order to analyse the pervasiveness of celebrity culture, this book further develops the idea of the demotic turn as a means of examining the common elements in a range of 'hot spots' in debates within media and cultural studies today. Refuting the proposition that the demotic turn necessarily carries with it a democratising politics, this book examines the political and cultural function of the demotic turn in media production and consumption across the fields of reality TV, print and electronic news and current affairs journalism, citizen and online journalism, talk radio, and user-generated content online. It examines these fields in order to outline a structural shift in what the western media has been doing lately, and to suggest that these media activities represent something much more fundamental than contemporary media fashion.

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SAGE Publications

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1848601670

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9781848601673

Barbican

Book 2 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

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Barbican

Book 2 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

This is a series of seven fantasy adventure books written for middle school (c. 10-14 year old) children, although many older teens have been engrossed by the stories, and especially the brainfood they supply. Kings Keep is a (fictional) private school set in bushland near the city ofSydney,Australia. The adventures and mysteries in the books relate to the many former uses of the school site as well as its unusual teaching staff and teaching methods, all of which keep the new students (and the reader) guessing throughout the series. The castle references in each book title are at first cryptic and unexplained to further tantalize the reader. The action centres around the main character, twelve-year-old Alec, a farm boy from far westernNew South Waleswho is very much a fish out of water in the city. He is struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy that has left him angry and vulnerable. Alecs adventures and dilemmas raise important issues including friendship and trust, multiculturalism and aboriginal culture, altruism and self-preservation, uniqueness and destiny, time and space. Liberal sprinklings of Australian history, biography, art, foreign languages and sciences provide interesting and, at times, provocative topics for the reader to explore further.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493101013

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9781493101016

Bastion

Book 4 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

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Bastion

Book 4 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493101692

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9781493101696

Parapet

Book 5 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

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Parapet

Book 5 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

Alecs woes have prompted him to leave Kings Keep Academy and return home to the family farm. In his absence, Rebecca takes charge of dealing with Rods increasingly bizarre behaviour. The girls collectively solve the riddle of Rods first painting, but his second artwork results in a school fire. A field trip to the Blue Mountains puts Minh in danger, and Mitchells well-intentioned concern for Rod twice makes him run foul of an angry Damon. Two shocking revelationsone from his father, another from Mr. Greyshatter Alecs world and leave him wondering who he really is.

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Xlibris Corporation

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150350963X

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Donjon

Book 7 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

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Donjon

Book 7 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

Alec returns to Kings Keep for second semester, only to find his group disintegrating at the hands of an apparent enemy within. More mysterious messages appear, together with a new face who may hold the solutions and a new roommate for Rod that sets Alec seething. Is Rod finally over his bizarre behaviour? Have his strange paintings finally been decoded? An orienteering activity and performing arts production bring out the best, and worst, in the students. Startling new revelations about the invisible world make it impossible for Alec to give up on the cosmic battle. In their final week, he and his friends learn that they will not return to Kings Keep for Year 8.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514440415

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9781514440414

PORTCULLIS

Book 3 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

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PORTCULLIS

Book 3 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

This is a series of seven fantasy adventure books written for middle school (c. 10-14 year old) children, although many older teens have been engrossed by the stories, and especially the ‘brainfood’ they supply. Kings Keep is a (fictional) private school set in bushland near the city ofSydney,Australia. The adventures and mysteries in the books relate to the many former uses of the school site as well as its unusual teaching staff and teaching methods, all of which keep the new students (and the reader) guessing throughout the series. The castle references in each book title are at first cryptic and unexplained to further tantalize the reader. The action centres around the main character, twelve-year-old Alec, a farm boy from far westernNew South Waleswho is very much a ‘fish out of water’ in the city. He is struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy that has left him angry and vulnerable. Alec’s adventures and dilemmas raise important issues including friendship and trust, multiculturalism and aboriginal culture, altruism and self-preservation, uniqueness and destiny, time and space. Liberal sprinklings of Australian history, biography, art, foreign languages and sciences provide interesting and, at times, provocative topics for the reader to explore further.

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Xlibris Corporation

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149310165X

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Boxing's Strangest Fights

Incredible but true encounters from over 250 years of boxing history

By: Graeme Kent

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Boxing's Strangest Fights

Incredible but true encounters from over 250 years of boxing history

By: Graeme Kent

That boxing has always attracted colourful, larger-than-life figures is amply borne out by the bizarre collection of true stories gathered together in this fascinating book. Bringing together the rich history and folklore of the fight game, Graeme Kent, who first became interested in boxing after listening to the tales of his sporting grandmother, has amassed over a hundred events in over 250 years of the sport. These intriguing stories include that of the two boxers who scored a double knockout; the bout in which four different decisions were given, and the strange tale of the boxer who had part of his ear bitten off, as well as many other besides. In compiling this collection Graeme Kent has interviewed many fighters and followers of boxing, and the funny and sometimes tragic tales recounted here provide a rich and offbeat alternative history of this ever-popular sport.

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Portico

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1910232432

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9781910232439

Hunter-Gatherer Ireland

Making Connections in an Island World

By: Graeme Warren

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Hunter-Gatherer Ireland

Making Connections in an Island World

By: Graeme Warren

Explores the Irish Mesolithic - the period after the end of the last Ice Age when Ireland was home to hunter-gatherer communities, mostly from about 10,000-6,000 years ago. At this time, Ireland was an island world, with striking similarities and differences to its European neighbours - not least in terms of the terrestrial ecology created by its island status. To understand the communities of hunter-gatherers who lived there, it is essential that we consider the connections established between people and the other beings and materials with which they shared the world and through which they grew into it. Understanding the Mesolithic means paying attention to the animals, plants, spirits and things with which hunting and gathering groups formed kinship relationships and in collaboration with which they experienced life. The book closes with a reflection on hunting and gathering in Ireland today. The overriding aim of the book is to provide a point of entry into the lives of the Irish Mesolithic, to show the different ways in which people have lived on this island, and to show how we might narrate those lives.

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Oxbow Books

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1789256844

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9781789256840

DRAWBRIDGE

Book 1 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

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DRAWBRIDGE

Book 1 in the Kings Keep Series

By: Graeme Butz

This is a series of seven fantasy adventure books written for middle school (c. 10-14 year old) children, although many older teens have been engrossed by the stories, and especially the ‘brainfood’ they supply. Kings Keep is a (fictional) private school set in bushland near the city ofSydney,Australia. The adventures and mysteries in the books relate to the many former uses of the school site as well as its unusual teaching staff and teaching methods, all of which keep the new students (and the reader) guessing throughout the series. The castle references in each book title are at first cryptic and unexplained to further tantalize the reader. The action centres around the main character, twelve-year-old Alec, a farm boy from far westernNew South Waleswho is very much a ‘fish out of water’ in the city. He is struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy that has left him angry and vulnerable. Alec’s adventures and dilemmas raise important issues including friendship and trust, multiculturalism and aboriginal culture, altruism and self-preservation, uniqueness and destiny, time and space. Liberal sprinklings of Australian history, biography, art, foreign languages and sciences provide interesting and, at times, provocative topics for the reader to explore further.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493100998

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Peter Sculthorpe

The Making of an Australian Composer

By: Graeme Skinner

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Peter Sculthorpe

The Making of an Australian Composer

By: Graeme Skinner

Peter Sculthorpe, who died in 2014, remains Australia’s best-known composer and is widely held to be the most important creative musical spirit the country has produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorised biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe’s formation years: his quest for personal voice, and his arrival – through many creative friendships and collaborations – at a place in the collective heart of the nation. It charts the realisation of a youthful vocation to become not merely a composer, but an Australian composer. Graeme Skinner’s biography is also a social history, examining Sculthorpe’s unique role in the creation of Australian musical modernism in the 1960s – an important era in Australia’s cultural evolution.

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NewSouth

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1742242162

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9781742242163

Great White Hopes

The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson

By: Graeme Kent

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Great White Hopes

The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson

By: Graeme Kent

In Sydney, Australia, in 1908 the talented black fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world from the Canadian Tommy Burns. There was an immediate storm of protest. It was predicted that his reign would lead to civic unrest and race riots. This is the story of sport, racism, corruption and larger-than-life characters.

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The History Press

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0752496158

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9780752496153

Corporate Accounting in Australia

By: Michael Gaffikin,Ron Dagwell,Graeme Wines

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Corporate Accounting in Australia

By: Michael Gaffikin,Ron Dagwell,Graeme Wines

Corporate Accounting in Australia, Fourth Edition, is a textbook designed for one- or two-semester company accounting courses at both under- and postgraduate level.

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596

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UNSW Press

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0868405345

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Making Men in the Age of Sail

Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860–1914

By: Graeme J. Milne

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Making Men in the Age of Sail

Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860–1914

By: Graeme J. Milne

Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. As sail gave way to steam, sailing-ship mariners became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heritage, representing a timeless, heroic masculinity in an era when the modernizing industrial world was challenging assumptions about gender, class, work, and society. Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail argues that maritime writing moulded the reading public’s image of the merchant seaman. Authors chronicled their lives as they grew from boy sailors to trained seafarers, telling colourful tales of the men they worked with – most never doubted that the sailing ship had made them better men. Their testimony reinforced and preserved conservative perspectives on seafaring manhood as Britain’s economic and technological priorities continued to evolve in the new steamship age. Offering a gender analysis of the image of the seafarer, Making Men in the Age of Sail brings the history of British sailors into wider debates about modernity and masculinity.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228021839

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9780228021834

William Wallace

By: Graeme Morton

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William Wallace

By: Graeme Morton

A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the i

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748685650

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9780748685653

Corporate Collapse

Accounting, Regulatory and Ethical Failure

By: Frank Clarke,Graeme Dean,Kyle Oliver

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Corporate Collapse

Accounting, Regulatory and Ethical Failure

By: Frank Clarke,Graeme Dean,Kyle Oliver

This revised edition of Clarke, Dean and Oliver's provocative book tells why accounting has failed to deliver the truth about a company's state of affairs or to give warning of its drift towards failure. A number of well-known cases of corporate collapse from the 1960s to the 1990s and beyond are studied and the recent HIH and One.Tel collapses are examined. Corporate Collapse is essential reading for professional accountants and auditors, company directors and managers, regulators, corporate lawyers, investors and everyone aspiring to join their ranks.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521534267

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9780521534260

The Backroom Boys

Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46

By: Graeme Sligo

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The Backroom Boys

Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46

By: Graeme Sligo

The Backroom Boys is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia’s most senior soldier, General Blamey, and through him to the Government for the remainder of the war and beyond. This band of academics, lawyers and New Guinea patrol officers formed a unique military unit, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, under the command of an eccentric and masterful string-puller, Alf Conlon. The Directorate has been depicted as a haven for underemployed poets or meddlesome soldier-politicians. Based on wide-ranging research, this book reveals a fuller and more fascinating picture. The fierce conflicts in the wartime bureaucracy between public servants and soldiers, in which the Directorate provided critical support to Blamey, went to the heart of military command, accountability and the profession of arms. The Directorate was a pioneer in developing approaches to military government in areas liberated by the combat troops, as demonstrated by the Australian Army in New Guinea, and Borneo in 1945-46. It is an issue of enduring importance. The Directorate established the Australian School of Pacific Administration, and had an important role in founding the Australian National University. Its influence extended into post war Australia. The Backroom Boys emphasises the personality of Colonel Alf Conlon, as well as the talented men and women he recruited. Above all, this book shows how, unexpectedly, the Australian Army fostered a group of men and women who made a lasting contribution to the development of Australia in the decades after the war.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922132543

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9781922132543

Geotechnical Engineering of Dams, 2nd Edition

By: Robin Fell,Patrick MacGregor,David Stapledon,Graeme Bell,Mark Foster

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Geotechnical Engineering of Dams, 2nd Edition

By: Robin Fell,Patrick MacGregor,David Stapledon,Graeme Bell,Mark Foster

Geotechnical Engineering of Dams, 2nd edition provides a comprehensive text on the geotechnical and geological aspects of the investigations for and the design and construction of new dams and the review and assessment of existing dams. The main emphasis of this work is on embankment dams, but much of the text, particularly those parts related to geology, can be used for concrete gravity and arch dams. All phases of investigation, design and construction are covered. Detailed descriptions are given from the initial site assessment and site investigation program through to the preliminary and detailed design phases and, ultimately, the construction phase. The assessment of existing dams, including the analysis of risks posed by those dams, is also discussed. This wholly revised and significantly expanded 2nd edition includes a lengthy new appendix on the assessment of the likelihood of failure of dams by internal erosion and piping. This valuable source on dam engineering incorporates the 200+ years of collective experience of the authors in the subject area. Design methods are presented in combination with their theoretical basis, to enable the reader to develop a proper understanding of the possibilities and limitations of a method. For its practical, well-founded approach, this work can serve as a useful guide for professional dam engineers and engineering geologists and as a textbook for university students.

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1384

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CRC Press

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1138000086

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9781138000087

Gone Fishing in Search of the Anglers' El Dorado

By: Graeme Sinclair

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Gone Fishing in Search of the Anglers' El Dorado

By: Graeme Sinclair

Graeme Sinclair talks about his experiences of making the television programme 'Gone fishin'', including the people he has met and the joy of experiencing some of the best fishing in the world.

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1877256153

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