University Of Wales Press: 420 books

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How to Do a Liver Transplant

Stories from My Surgical Life

by Kellee Slater
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

As a female surgeon, Dr. Kellee Slater works in one of the most demanding areas of medical operations, liver transplantation. In this inspiring, heartbreaking, and darkly humorous memoir, she opens up the fast-paced world of donor surgery. She takes readers with her as she flies across the Rocky Mountains...
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by Brendan Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

A fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, this work tells the story of the intertwined lives of four people: Ludwig von Beethoven; a concert pianist who was a self-taught child prodigy; a fanatical inventor who disassembled pianos as a child; and a television cameraman...
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Big Coal

Australia's Dirtiest Habit

by Guy Pearse, David McKnight, Bob Burton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

A look at the underbelly of an industry whose power continues to soar even as its expansion feeds catastrophic climate change, this work dissects the Australian coal industry’s influence to publicly, and behind closed doors, get its way. The book exposes the myth of clean coal and the taxpayer-funded...
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In the Shadow of Gallipoli

The Hidden Story of Australia in WWI

by Robert Bollard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

The fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons; the war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. This bookcorrects such historical amnesia by looking at what occured on the Australian home front during WWI, showing that...
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by Sophie Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

A year in Melbourne's city life told in diary form, this contemporary and personal portrait depicts major events from the Australian heat wave, which culminated in more than 400 bushfires, to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. While walking through Melbourne’s oldest suburb to its largest market,...
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by Chris Bonner, Jane Caro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school...
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The ABC of XYZ

Understanding the Global Generations

by Mark McCrindle, Emily Wolfinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Based on a more than a decade of research, this reference is designed for marketers, managers, educators, and parents who need a useful, fun, not-too-technical introduction to generational research. The breezy vocabulary of this kind of study is familiar to most people-Are Gen X-ers still slackers?...
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Vanda & Young

Inside Australia's Hit Factory

by John Tait
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

Featuring revealing interviews with the members of AC/DC and other chart-topping acts, this chronicle profiles the careers of Australia’s top songwriters, producers, and star-makers: Harry Vanda and George Young. From their partnership as members of Easybeats to their diverse range of hits-including...
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by David Whish-Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Dispelling some of the more unflattering stereotypes of Perth, acclaimed author and Perth native David Whish-Wilson describes how the city strikes a perfect harmony with its own eccentricities and contradictions, presenting a place of surprising beauty—of brilliant light and sand-swept peace—where...
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The Europeans in Australia

Volume 3: Nation

by Alan Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

This, the third and final volume of a landmark, award-winning series, gives an account of Australia's settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the 18th century to the end of World War I. It also tells the...
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by Carolyn Holbrook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) remain at the heart of Australia’s national story. But standing firm on the other side of the Anzac enthusiasts is a chorus of critics claiming that the appetite for Anzac is militarizing the nation’s history and indoctrinating their children....
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Time Bomb

Work, Rest and Play in Australia Today

by Barbara Pocock, Natalie Skinner, Philippa Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Time poverty is a conundrum for many Australian households and workers. Australians start work young, and we are working more, and longer into old age. And while maximising our productivity and enhancing our professional skills, we must raise our children well, care for our aged, be involved in our...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

The first of its kind, this landmark poetry anthology contains the work of Australia’s major poets as well as lesser-known but equally affecting writers of Australian poetry since 1788. Ranging from concrete to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional,...
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A Way Through

The Life of Rick Farley

by Susan Boden, Nicholas Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

Engaging and informative, this is the biography of a unique man whose determination and sense of justice has left a lasting legacy for many Australians: Rick Farley. From his boyhood in Queensland to his tragic death in 2006, this account demonstrates how Farley became the head of the Cattlemen’s...
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