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9780253219848 02 03 9780253219848 15 9780253219848 BC African Expressive Cultures http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219848.htm 1 A01 McNaughton, Patrick R. 328 GTB 02 In 1978, Patrick McNaughton witnessed a bird dance masquerade in the small town of Dogoduman. He was so affected by this performance that its dazzling artistic power has never left him. As he revisits that very special evening in A Bird Dance near Saturday City, McNaughton carefully considers the components of the performance, its pace, the performers, and what the entire experience means for understandings of Bamana and West African aesthetics and culture. The performance of virtuoso dancer Sidi Ballo becomes McNaughtons vehicle for understanding the power of individuals in African art and the power of aesthetics as a cultural phenomenon. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 46.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9780748623945 02 03 9780748623945 15 9780748623945 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780748623945.htm 1 B01 Poddar, Prem 2 B01 Patke Rajeev 3 B01 Jensen, Lars 504 DSR 02 This volume complements A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English. It is the first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative mine of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have emerged from the major European Empires. Written by recognised scholars in the fields of postcolonial studies, the entries cover major events, ideas, movements, and figures in postcolonial histories. Edinburgh University Press 01 Edinburgh University Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 400.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252033445 02 03 9780252033445 15 9780252033445 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252033445.htm 1 B01 Greer, Mary Dalton 200 AVGC 02 In About Bach, fifteen scholars show that the immense magnitude of Johann Sebastian Bachs achievement in the history of Western music extends from choral to orchestral music, from sacred music to musical parodies, and also to his scribes and students, his predecessors and successors. The contributors demonstrate a diversity of musicological approaches, ranging from close studies of Bachs choices of musical form and libretto to wider analyses of the historical and cultural backgrounds that impinged upon his creations and their lasting influence. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 55.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781841502021 02 03 9781841502021 15 9781841502021 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841502021.htm 1 A01 Walters, James 224 APFA 02 With the popularity of such films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Donnie Darko, this volume provides a timely examination of alternative worlds in Hollywood cinema. This is the first book to analyze these imaginary realms, tracing their construction and development across periods, genres, and history. Through an analysis of such landmark films as The Wizard of Oz, Vanilla Sky, and Back to the Future, the book reveals how unconventional worlds are crucial to each films dramatic agenda and narrative structure. Intellect Books 01 Intellect Books 02 20080801 01 230 mm 02 174 mm UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 44.95 UNIREPS 05 AU 02 01 20080801 9780253351326 02 03 9780253351326 15 9780253351326 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253351326.htm 1 A01 Hirdman, Yvonne 488 BG 02 Alva Myrdal, the scholarly partner and wife of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, was an innovative social scientist and thinker in her own right. She helped to lay the intellectual foundations of Swedens social welfare state, pioneered educational innovations, and became an activist for human rights. Her extensive disarmament efforts won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. At the same time, she struggled with many of the issues that todays ambitious women still find challenging. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080105 UNIREPS 02 10 20080105 02 59.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080105 9780816651054 02 03 9780816651054 15 9780816651054 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780816651054.htm 1 A01 Sexton, Jared 328 JFSL3 02 Despite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the postcivil rights United States, the principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More accurately, Jared Sexton argues in Amalgamation Schemes, multiculturalism displaces both by evoking longstanding tenets of antiblackness and prescriptions for normative sexuality. University of Minnesota Press 01 University of Minnesota Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 39.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252033438 02 03 9780252033438 15 9780252033438 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252033438.htm 1 A01 Pizer, Donald 112 JFSR1 02 Otherwise known for their progressive social values, Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather all also expressed strong anti-Semitic prejudices throughout their fiction, essays, letters, and other writings, producing a contradiction in American literary history that has stymied scholars and, until now, gone largely unexamined. In this breakthrough study, Donald Pizer confronts this disconcerting strain of anti-Semitism pervading American letters and culture, showing how these writers racist impulses represented more than just personal biases, but resonated with larger social and ideological movements within American culture. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 55.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780253219909 02 03 9780253219909 15 9780253219909 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219909.htm 1 A01 Sharma, Asha 400 BG 02 Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., a son of a prominent Philadelphia family, was a 21-year-old Quaker missionary when he arrived in India in 1904 to work in a home for lepers. He soon became disillusioned with the foreign missionary community and began a new spiritual quest, adopting Indian dress, forgoing the privileges of a Westerner in colonial India, and founding a mendicant religious brotherhood. Later in life he married a Rajput Christian girl, converted to Hinduism, and adopted a new name. Stokes became a leader in Gandhis independence movement in the 1920s, and was the only American jailed by the British for this cause. He is most often remembered in India, however, as the man who introduced American Delicious apples to the Himalayas. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 39.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780253219787 02 03 9780253219787 15 9780253219787 BC Blacks in the Diaspora http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219787.htm 1 A01 Braziel, Jana Evans 312 JFC 02 Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of big men. She focuses on six artists and their work work: writer Dany Laferrire, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Drd (a.k.a. Mildrd Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of Americas diaspora communities and openly resist domestic imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 46.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9780252033070 02 03 9780252033070 15 9780252033070 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252033070.htm 1 B01 McLelland, Mark 272 JFSL 02 This collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. These diverse studies range across the Pacific Rim and encompass a variety of forms of social, cultural, and personal expression, examining sexuality through music, cinema, the media, shifts in popular rhetoric, comics and magazines, and historical studies. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 130.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781869404161 02 03 9781869404161 15 9781869404161 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781869404161.htm 1 A01 Freegard, Janis 2 A01 Robinson, Reihana 3 A01 Liddy, Katherine DC 02 This is the third in AUPs New Poets series, which began in 1999 and has launched an oustanding range of poets. The new poets in this volume, Janis Freegard, Katherine Liddy and Reihana Robinson, all have vastly different yet complementary styles. Auckland University Press 01 Auckland University Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 27.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780815753407 02 03 9780815753407 15 9780815753407 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780815753407.htm 1 A01 Lo, Bobo 300 JPSL 02 Few relationships have been as misunderstood as the strategic partnership between Russia and China. Official rhetoric portrays it as the very model of international cooperation: Moscow and Beijing claim that ties are closer and warmer than at any time in history. In reality, however, the picture is highly ambiguous. Axis of Convenience cuts through the mythmaking and examines the Sino-Russian partnership on its own merits. It steers between the overblown interpretation of an anti-Western (particularly, anti-American) alliance and the complacent assumption that past animosities and competing agendas must always divide the two nations. Brookings Institution Press 01 Brookings Institution Press 02 20081001 UNIREPS 02 10 20081001 02 62.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20081001 9780252075483 02 03 9780252075483 15 9780252075483 BC New Black Studies http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252075483.htm 1 A01 Dunn, Stephane 176 JFSL3 02 This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on black femininity. While low-budget blaxploitation films typically portrayed black women as trifling bitches compared to the supermacho black male heroes, the terms baad bitches and sassy supermamas signal the emergence of films featuring self-assured, empowered, and tough (or baad) black female protagonists. Stephane Dunn closely examines a distinct moment in the history of African American representation in popular cinema, tracing its influences from the Black Power movement and feminism. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 39.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780816649655 02 03 9780816649655 15 9780816649655 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780816649655.htm 1 A01 Bovilsky, Lara 208 JFSL1 02 Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, Barbarous Play examines English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Middleton, Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are enerated by narratives of boundary crossingespecially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals deep parallels between the periods conceptions of race and gender. University of Minnesota Press 01 University of Minnesota Press 02 20080827 UNIREPS 02 10 20080827 02 39.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080827 9781841502045 02 03 9781841502045 15 9781841502045 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841502045.htm 1 A01 Maule, Rosanna 288 APF 02 A comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. Maule examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationship with the authorial tradition of the national cinema to which each belongs. The book studies the work, practices and styles of European film-makers including Luc Besson, Claire Denis, Gabriele Salvatores and Alejandro Amenbar. Intellect Books 01 Intellect Books 02 20080801 01 230 mm 02 174 mm UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 89.95 UNIREPS 05 AU 02 01 20080801 9781877257735 02 03 9781877257735 15 9781877257735 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781877257735.htm 1 A01 Kuiper, Koenraad 76 DCF 02 The opening sequence of sonnets pays homage to Frank Hurley, the photographer on Shackletons Endurance, which was crushed in the pack-ice in Antarctica in 1915. The central sequence of the collection recounts the voyage of the Bounty alongside that of the Odyssey, through sonnets addressed to blind fiddler, Michael Byrn, who enjoyed allurements of dissipation beyond anything that can be conceived in Tahiti, was shipped back in chains to England and court-martialled, was found not guilty, and almost certainly hanged the three of his shipmates who were found guilty. Canterbury University Press 01 Canterbury University Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 25.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781869404260 02 03 9781869404260 15 9781869404260 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781869404260.htm 1 A01 Neich, Roger JFSL9 02 The classic account of one of the most influential traditions of Maori wood carving in New Zealand. It pieces together the history of Ngati Tarawhai carving from pre-European times to the present day and analyses the personalities, families, and social changes that shaped the work. Carved Histories includes biographies of key carvers, a list of all known Ngati Tarawhai carvings, maps and genealogies as well as black and white and colour illustrations. Auckland University Press 01 Auckland University Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 65.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252033261 02 03 9780252033261 15 9780252033261 BB Music in American Life (Hardcover) http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252033261.htm 1 A01 Magee, Gayle Sherwood 216 BGF 02 Reexamines a number of critical assumptions about the life and works of this significant American composer, drawing on many new sources to explore Ivess creative activities within broader historical, social, cultural, and musical perspectives. Gayle Sherwood Magee portrays Ivess life, career, and posthumous legacy against the backdrop of his musical and social environments from the Gilded Age to the present. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 65.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252075001 02 03 9780252075001 15 9780252075001 BC Pop Culture and Politics Asia Pa http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252075001.htm 1 B01 Fu, Poshek 272 JFCA 02 Started in Shanghai in the 1920s, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio began to dominate the worldwide Chinese film market after moving its production facilities to Hong Kong in 1957. Drawing together scholars from such diverse disciplines as history, cultural geography, and film studies, China Forever addresses how the Shaw Brothers raised the production standards of Hong Kong cinema, created a pan-Chinese cinema culture and distribution network, helped globalize Chinese-language cinema, and appealed to the cultural nationalism of the Chinese who found themselves displaced and unsettled in many parts of the world during the twentieth century. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 45.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252075100 02 03 9780252075100 15 9780252075100 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252075100.htm 1 A01 Kline, Tiny 2 B01 Davis, Janet M. 336 JFCA 02 This engaging memoir follows the life and career of circus performer Tiny Kline (18911964) from the burlesque house to the circus tent, and on to Disneyland and the silver screen. While working for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, Kline became well known for her signature slide for life stunt, an iron jaw act in which she slid to the ground while dangling from trapeze rigging by her teeth. Kline renewed her spectacular acrobatics at the age of seventy when she played Tinker Bell in the Fantasy in the Sky fireworks show at Disneyland. In that same year, she also began writing her life story. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 50.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781841585840 02 03 9781841585840 15 9781841585840 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841585840.htm 1 A01 Graham, Eric J. 256 TRL 02 The Civil War of 186165 was one of the defining moments in the history of America. The Blockade of the USs Southern ports during the war is well known. Less well known, however, is the role that Scotland played in this aspect of the conflict almost 40 per cent of the ships were Scottish. Using contemporary accounts and individual case studies, combined, Clydebuilt presents a full and fascinating account of Scotlands involvement in the American Civil War Blockade, an involvement which almost certainly prolonged the conflict by several years. Birlinn 01 Birlinn 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781841586991 02 03 9781841586991 15 9781841586991 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841586991.htm 1 A01 Fenton, Alexander 200 WND 02 Country Life in Scotland is the updated version of Scottish Country Life the classic account of rural life in Scotland by Professor Alexander Fenton provides a vivid picture of the way in which the countryside has changed over the past 300 years and the people who changed with it; their ways of working, their tools and equipment, their homes and way of life, and their food. It is a treasurehouse of factual material on rural life as it was lived in the Lowlands and in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the past. Birlinn 01 Birlinn 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780253219855 02 03 9780253219855 15 9780253219855 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219855.htm 1 B01 Nevile, Jennifer 392 ASD 02 From the mid-13th to the mid-18th century the ability to dance was an important social skill for both men and women. Dance performances were an integral part of court ceremonies and festivals and, in the 17th and 18th centuries, of commercial theatrical productions. This original collection brings together the work of 12 scholars from the disciplines of dance and music history. Their work presents a picture of dance in society from the late medieval period to the middle of the 18th century and demonstrates how dance practices during this period participated in the intellectual, artistic, and political cultures of their day. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 41.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780253351166 02 03 9780253351166 15 9780253351166 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253351166.htm 1 A01 Armes, Roy 416 GTB 02 This is an inclusive, comprehensive treatment of films and filmmaking on the African continent. The dictionary covers African feature filmmaking from the first locally produced films to todays thriving film industry, listing 5,415 films made by 1,253 filmmakers in 37 countries. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 124.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9780253351289 02 03 9780253351289 15 9780253351289 BB Life of the Past http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253351289.htm 1 B01 Ausich, William I 2 B01 Webster, G.D. 472 RBX 02 Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left a rich and, for science, extremely useful fossil record. For various reasons, they provide the ideal source for answers to the questions that will help us develop a more complete understanding of global environmental and biodiversity changes. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 114.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9789971694043 03 03 9789971694043 15 9789971694043 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9789971694043.htm 1 B01 Green, Alexandra 256 AC 02 The collection of Burmese art housed at the Denison Museum in Granville, Ohio, USA, includes more than 1,500 objects dating from the late first millennium AD through the twentieth century. While particularly strong on textiles originating with minority groups in Burma, it also showcases Buddha images, lacquer objects, works on paper, manuscripts, wood carvings, and pieces made from bronze, silver, and ivory. Eclectic Collecting is both a catalogue of the collection and a scholarly examination of Burmese art. NUS Press 01 Singapore University Press 04 20080601 01 218 mm 02 275 mm UNIREPS 02 21 02 90.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20080601 9780253219954 02 03 9780253219954 15 9780253219954 BC Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219954.htm 1 A01 Mooney, Edward F. 312 HRAB 02 Collects essays from 13 leading scholars that center on key themes that characterize Kierkegaards philosophy of religion. With their unique focus on notions of the self, views on the command to love ones neighbour, thoughts on melancholy and despair, and the articulation of religious vision, the essays in this volume cover the breadth and depth of Kierkegaards philosophical and religious writings. Poised at the intersection of Kierkegaards moral psychology and its religious significance, they offer vivid testimony to the ongoing power of his unique and fervent religious spirit. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 46.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9781841501987 02 03 9781841501987 15 9781841501987 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841501987.htm 1 B01 Terzis, George 216 JP 02 This book investigates how the print, broadcast, film and advertising industries and journalists, scriptwriters and consumers unions are lobbying in Brussels. The book examines the role in media governance of ten European organizations from a variety of media sectors including the Federation of European Film Directors, the European Newspaper Publishers Association, the Federation of Scriptwriters in Europe as well as the work of the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Consumers Association. The book addresses the identity of these organizations, how they influence media governance, what they do and whom they represent. Intellect Books 01 Intellect Books 02 20080801 01 230 mm 02 174 mm UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 89.95 UNIREPS 05 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252075391 02 03 9780252075391 15 9780252075391 BC Women in American History http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252075391.htm 1 B01 Gilmore, Stephanie 2 A23 Evans, Sara 328 JFSJ1 02 Much of the scholarship on second-wave feminism has focused on divisions within the womens movement and its narrow conception of race and class, but the contributors to this volume remind readers that feminists in the 1960s and 1970s also formed many strong partnerships, often crossing boundaries of race, class, and sexual identity. These essays focus on alliances that addressed crucial social justice issues such as reproductive rights, womens health, the peace movement, Christianity and other religions, and neighborhood activism. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 45.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780713474848 02 03 9780713474848 15 9780713474848 BC Historic Scotland http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780713474848.htm 1 A01 Tabraham, Chris 2 A01 Grove, Doreen 128 HBLL 02 The hundred years between 1650 and 1750 were among the most troubled in Scotlands history. This period began with Cromwells invasion and ended with the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlies Jacobite army at the bloody battle of Culloden. With the aid of over 100 illustrations, Chris Tabraham and Doreen Grove not only tell the story of these forts, barracks and roads against the backdrop of momentous historical events; they also bring to life the men who defended them, lived in them and marched forth from them men who formed part of the first standing army. John Donald Publishers 01 Birlinn 02 20080801 01 248 mm 02 187 mm UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 49.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781841587042 02 03 9781841587042 15 9781841587042 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841587042.htm 1 B01 Hubbard, Tom 2 B01 Glen, Duncan 208 DQ 02 This is the first ever anthology of writing about Fife, a part of Scotland with an immensely rich tradition of history and literature. It gathers together all of the great characters of Scottish history who have acted out their dramas within the famous Kingdom of Fife. All walks of life are represented herethe whalers of Kirkcaldy and the miners of Lindsay Colliery; ambulance men and Hammermen; witches and magicians; golfers and distillers. Birlinn 01 Birlinn 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 39.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252075384 02 03 9780252075384 15 9780252075384 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252075384.htm 1 A01 Halle, Randall 248 JFCA 02 What is the work of film in the age of transnational production? Randall Halle finds an answer in the film industry of Germany, one of Europes largest film markets. In the 1990s, Germany shifted from a state-subsidized mode of film production to one dominated by private interest. At the same time, the European Union began drawing together Europes national markets, forming a homogenous yet synergistic whole. This book not only studies these changes broadly, but also focuses on the transformations in their particular national context. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 45.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780816645794 02 03 9780816645794 15 9780816645794 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780816645794.htm 1 B01 Moorti, Sujata 352 JFCA 02 Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western films such as Vanity Fair and Moulin Rouge. Global Bollywood shows how this currency in popular culture and among diasporic communities marks only the latest phase of the genres world travels. University of Minnesota Press 01 University of Minnesota Press 02 20080827 UNIREPS 02 10 20080827 02 44.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080827 9781931368131 02 03 9781931368131 15 9781931368131 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781931368131.htm 1 A01 Emmerson, Donald K. 320 JPRB 02 Security has long trumped democracy as a priority for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But the brutal dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar, political pluralism in Indonesia, and the global growth of democratic norms have led some Southeast Asians to question ASEANs habit of turning a blind eye to domestic abuses by member states. The concept of regional security, meanwhile, is being reoriented from military threats toward new dangers to health and the environment and from state. In Hard Choices, experts grapple with key and controversial questions for Southeast Asia today and tomorrow. Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Centre 01 Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Centre 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 55.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781876843588 02 03 9781876843588 15 9781876843588 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781876843588.htm 1 A01 Kawakami, Norito 2 A01 Kobayashi, Yasuki 3 A01 Hashimoto, Hideki JH 02 Do the rich live longer than the poor? To what extent does class and occupational positions affect ones health? How does social capital relate to illness? In what ways does social structure influence health literacy? How about other variables such as the place of residence, house ownership, educational level, residential density and marriage status? Eleven experts collectively grapple with these and other questions in the Japanese context through empirical studies and comparative analysis. Trans Pacific Press 01 Trans Pacific Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 54.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781841587202 02 03 9781841587202 15 9781841587202 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841587202.htm 1 A01 Foreman, Carol 244 WTH 02 From the golden merchant ship on top of the Merchants House, through the abandoned Britannia Panopticon Music Hall in Argyle Street, from the schoolroom in the attic of Trades House to the Lock Hospital for dangerous women, Carol Foreman takes us through the Glasgow we walk through every day and makes us see it with a different eye. From the top of the Tolbooth steeple to the many tunnels and preserved buildings under the ground, she reveals the essence of a great city in all its dimensions and brings to life a Glasgow both hidden and forgotten. Birlinn 01 Birlinn 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 0748624864 03 02 0748624864 03 9780748624867 15 9780748624867 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0748624864.htm 1 A01 Hogg, James 2 B01 De Groot, Hans 352 WTL 02 Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing. Edinburgh University Press 01 Edinburgh University Press 04 20080801 01 234 mm 02 156 mm UNIREPS 02 20 02 120.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20080801 9780253219756 02 03 9780253219756 15 9780253219756 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219756.htm 1 B01 Hawley, John C. 312 JFC 02 Traces the longstanding interaction between these two regions, showing that the Indian Ocean world provides many examples of cultural flows that belie our understanding of globalization as a recent phenomenon. These connections have deep historical roots, and their dynamics are not attributable solely to the effects of European colonialism, modernity, or contemporary globalizationalthough these forces have left their mark. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 46.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9780253219824 02 03 9780253219824 15 9780253219824 BC Jewish Literature and Culture http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219824.htm 1 B01 Norris, Stephen M. 2 B01 Torlone, Zara M. 200 JFSR1 02 Identifying who was inside and who was outside the Soviet/ Russian body politic has been a matter of intense and violent urgency, especially in the high Stalinist and post-Soviet periods. It is a theme encountered prominently in film. Employing a range of interpretive methods practiced in Russian/Soviet film studies, Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 41.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9780253219947 02 03 9780253219947 15 9780253219947 BC American Philosophy http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219947.htm 1 A01 Willett, Cynthia 176 HP 02 Willetts philosophical reflection on comedy issues a powerful challenge to standard conceptions of freedom by proposing a new kind of freedom that is unapologetically feminist, queer, and multiracial. This book provides a wide-ranging, original, thoughtful, and expansive discussion of citizenship, social manners, and political freedom in our world today. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 37.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9780748633753 02 03 9780748633753 15 9780748633753 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780748633753.htm 1 A01 Babaie, Sussan ACQ 02 An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91 at the millennial threshold of the Islamic calendar (1000 A.H.), transformed Isfahan from a provincial, medieval, and largely Sunni city into an urban-centered representation of the first Imami Shii empire in the history of Islam. The historical process of Shiification of Safavid Iran and the deployment of the arts in situating the shifts in the politico-religious agenda of the imperial household informs Sussan Babaies study of palatial architecture and urban environments of Isfahan and the earlier capitals of Tabriz and Qazvin. Edinburgh University Press 01 Edinburgh University Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 230.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781841587127 02 03 9781841587127 15 9781841587127 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841587127.htm 1 A01 Atkinson, Robert 384 WTL 02 In 1935, Robert Atkinson and John Ainslie set out on an ornithological search for the rare Leachs Fork-tailed Petrel. The search took them from to many of the remote islands off the North West coast of Scotland, to an almost inaccessible North Rona and beyond. Robert Atkinsons account of his twelve year adventure provides a detailed and emotive description of the wildlife and landscape of the Hebridean outlanders. He records the primitive lifestyles of the islanders, their living conditions, traditions and histories. His writing has inspired many of the later accounts of Hebridean travel. Birlinn 01 Birlinn 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781876843694 02 03 9781876843694 15 9781876843694 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781876843694.htm 1 A01 Watanabe, Hiroyuki WSXF 02 Is Japanese whaling based on national culture and tradition? A young sociologist, Hiroyuki Watanabe, challenges this question by examining the history of whaling in modern Japan and a wide range of arguments over decades within the country. The book provides a detailed account of anti-whaling disturbances organized by fishermen in the early twentieth century, presents successful attempts to designate whales as protected species in pre-war years, and shows regional differences in whale-meat eating practices. It is a sober and critical analysis of the cultural defense of Japans whaling industry. Trans Pacific Press 01 Trans Pacific Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 54.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781841587219 02 03 9781841587219 15 9781841587219 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841587219.htm 1 A01 Marshall, Rosalind K. 256 HRCC9 02 Rosalind K. Marshall traces the life of one of the Reformations central characters. Following his career in Scotland, England, France, Switzerland and Germany, she explains in straightforward terms the issues and beliefs which concerned him so deeply. This book untangles truth from mythology in the life of this strange, complex and determined man and constructs a balanced picture of sixteenth century Scotland that places Knox clearly within the context of change and reformation which was sweeping the whole of Europe. Birlinn 01 Birlinn 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252033421 02 03 9780252033421 15 9780252033421 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252033421.htm 1 A01 Perritt, Henry H. 224 JP 02 The military intervention by NATO in Kosovo was portrayed in American media as a necessary step to prevent the Serbian armed forces from repeating the ethnic cleansing that had so deeply damaged the former Yugoslavia. Leading the struggle against Serbia was the Kosovo Liberation Army, also known as the KLA. This book provides a historical background for the KLA and describes its activities up to and including the NATO intervention. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 75.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780253351678 02 03 9780253351678 15 9780253351678 BB Studies in Continental Thought http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253351678.htm 1 A01 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 2 B06 Butler, Clark 264 HPL 02 Hegel gave many lectures in logic at Berlin University between 1818 and his untimely death in 1831. Edited posthumously by Hegels son, Karl, these lectures were published in German in 2001 and now appear in English for the first time. Because they were delivered orally, Lectures on Logic is more approachable and colloquial than much of Hegels formal philosophy. The lectures provide important insight into Hegels science of logic, dialectical method, and symbolic logic. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 76.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9781841587479 02 03 9781841587479 15 9781841587479 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781841587479.htm 1 A01 Coghill, Hamish 272 WTL 02 Edinburgh attracted some of the worlds greatest architects to design and build and shape a unique city. But over the centuries many of those fine buildings have gone. The buildings which stood in the way of what was deemed progress are the heritage of Lost Edinburgh. Hamish Coghill sets out to trace many of the lost buildings and find out why they were doomed. Lavishly illustrated, Lost Edinburgh is a fascinating insight into an ever-changing cityscape. Birlinn 01 Birlinn 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 33.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780252075322 02 03 9780252075322 15 9780252075322 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780252075322.htm 1 B01 Grajeda, Tony 336 GTC 02 As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. Introducing new methods of thinking about the interaction of sound and music in films, the contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, ambient noise, and avant-garde film sound affect identity formation and subjectivity. University of Illinois Press 01 University of Illinois Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 45.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780253219862 02 03 9780253219862 15 9780253219862 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253219862.htm 1 A01 Wood, William Warner 248 AFW 02 This book introduces us to the people, places, and ideas that create Zapotec textiles and give them meaning. From Oaxaca, where guides escort tourists to weavers homes and then to the shops and markets where weavings are sold, to the galleries and stores of the American Southwest, where textiles are displayed and purchased as home decor or ethnic artwork, W. Warner Woods ethnographic account crosses the border in both directions to describe how the international market for Native American art shapes weavers design choices. Everyone involved in this enterprise draws on images of rustic authenticity and indigenous tradition connecting the Mexican nation to its pre-Hispanic past, despite the fact that Zapotec textiles are commodities through and through. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080801 UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 39.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780253351524 02 03 9780253351524 15 9780253351524 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780253351524.htm 1 A01 Jones, David W. 288 HBTB 02 Examines how the United States became the worlds most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The books historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of U.S. motorization and the difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the worlds oil supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles. Indiana University Press 01 Indiana University Press 02 20080815 UNIREPS 02 10 20080815 02 76.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080815 9781877257742 02 03 9781877257742 15 9781877257742 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781877257742.htm 1 B01 Graham, Kennedy 256 LNDH 02 Arising from proceedings of a 2007 symposium organised by the University of Canterburys School of Law, the National Centre for Research on Europe and the University of the South Pacific, this book explores the challenges facing the vulnerable small Pacific island countries in the 21st century and the models of regional governance available to them. It reviews the development of Pacific regionalism to date, surveys the state of the art in other regions, especially the EU integration movement in Europe, and considers the merits of the contemporary Pacific Plan. Canterbury University Press 01 Canterbury University Press 02 20080801 01 152 mm 02 228 mm UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 39.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780748636730 02 03 9780748636730 15 9780748636730 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780748636730.htm 1 A01 Newton, K M 192 DSBH 02 This book explores modern literatures responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Edinburgh University Press 01 Edinburgh University Press 02 20080801 01 244 mm 02 156 mm UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 180.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9780748633067 02 03 9780748633067 15 9780748633067 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9780748633067.htm 1 A01 Hemmings, Robert 176 DSBH 02 This book explores Siegfried Sassoons writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. It situates his ongoing anxiety about Englishness, modernity, and his relation to modernist aesthetics, within the context of other literary responses to the legacy of war, and the threat of wars return, by writers including Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T. E. Lawrence. Edinburgh University Press 01 Edinburgh University Press 02 20080801 01 234 mm 02 156 mm UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 150.00 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781869404253 02 03 9781869404253 15 9781869404253 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781869404253.htm 1 A01 Dunn, Michael 204 AFKB 02 For this updated edition, the author has added a new chapter, Crisis of Identity: Sculpture since 2000, in which he discusses New Zealand sculptures international reach, its role at Venice Biennales and the importance of overseas-based New Zealand sculptors such as Francis Upritchard and Ronnie van Hout. The book now charts the growth of sculpture from the era of British imports and influence to the more confident art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Auckland University Press 01 Auckland University Press 02 20080801 01 265 mm 02 270 mm UNIREPS 02 10 20080801 02 109.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20080801 9781843410423 02 03 9781843410423 15 9781843410423 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781843410423.htm 1 A01 Weaver, H.G. 198 HBWQ 02 Sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak with the loss of more than 800 of her crew, was Germanys first shattering blow against Britain in the 193945 war. Within six weeks the long-standing German dream of breaching the defences of Scapa Flow had been achieved. The author has interviewed Royal Oak survivors, members of U-47s 1939 crew, Lt. Priens widow and members of the firm which published his autobiography. He has examined all the official accounts and investigated every point of controversy until he was able to set down a documented, definitive account of this British naval disaster. Birlinn 01 Birlinn 02 20080801