Links to Books in Alphabetic order
- “After the Waterfront – the workers are quiet” by LeftPress
- “Iraqi Icicle” by Bernie Dowling
- How To Make Trouble And Influence People
- “Liberating Pine Gap” by Jim Dowling (ed.)
- “Minyung Woolah Binnung” by Lionel Fogarty
- Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy 1880 to 1947
- “Pig City: from the Saints to Savage Garden” by Andrew Stafford
- “The Sydney Connection” by John Jiggens
- “Vuelo Lan Chile” by Marcial Parada
- Book Launch of “VUELO LAN CHILE” by Marcial Parada
- The Killer Cop and the Murder of Donald Mackay by John Jiggens
- The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
- Love Letters from the Bar Table by Shane Dowling
- Resistance – a childhood fighting for East Timor by Naldo Rei
Books are also listed on the blogroll (on the right hand side).
Radical Books collection held by the Institute of Social Ecology at the Ellen Taylor Community Centre, West End, Brisbane
Parallel importation of books
Hi all
http://sherylgwyther.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/hunters-collectors-entry-the-fray/
Cheers
Sheryl
Sheryl Gwyther – author
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Two book notices
Scribe have produced a local edition of The Open Veins of Latin America
by Eduardo Galeano.
Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organised the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Natural resources—such as gold, coffee, and copper—are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.
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Jeremy Salt’s The Unmaking of the Middle East will be in paperback in sept-october.
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Thanks to Sheryl Gwyther for her comments.
My response below is to Hunters & Collectors enter the fray and The anti-Parallel Import Petition goes to Canberra.
The focus of the campaign against Parallel Importation of Books [Saving Aussie Books Petition] is on overseas publishers partcularly those in the USA. ‘Our’ culture is being ‘americanised’.
Photo: Sheryl Gwyther from Saving Aussie Books campaign with the petition in Canberra
People draw paralells between the music industry and the book industry.
Why stop there? There is the film industry.
It is not only our culture that is americanised. What about the food industry with the paralell importation of californian oranges?
And why stop with America? There is a huge trade in films & bootleg music in the form of DVDs and CDs made in various parts of Asia, from Thailand, from Taiwan, and also China.
What have ‘Australian’ publishers ever done for writers here in Australia? And what did the big record companies ever do for musicians?
As in the USA, in Thailand, in Taiwain and in China, they looked after their profits and never gave much to the creators of the books, or the music, or the film. Unless you are a Peter Carey or a Delta Goodrem.
The problem with the book industry like all the others is capitalism not merely its latest manifestation in paralell importation. Hence our opposition to the paralell importation of books should extend to opposition to the big publishers everywhere using profit as their motive.
Ian Curr
October 2009
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Reading is content driven
A great little video which supports the model of reading we support.
Peter Curtis
Email: pedrocurtis@bigpond.com
[Peter Curtis is teacher and a member of the Australian Education Union.
His blog spot can be found at: http://criticalconsciousness.wordpress.com/2009/07/
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Campaign for the equitable provision of resources to students in the public education system.
Join other teachers, parents and citizens who care about education and are Opposing standardised testing and the Federal Government’s support of school league tables.
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Reading is content driven
A great little video which supports the model of reading we support.
Peter Curtis is teacher and a member of the Australian Education Union.
His blog spot can be found at: http://criticalconsciousness.wordpress.com/2009/07/
(Link doesn’t work? Please paste it into the address bar of your browser) pedrocurtis@bigpond.com Campaign for the equitable provision of resources to students in the public education system. http://www.forourfuture.org.au/ Join other teachers, parents and citizens who care about education and are Opposing standardised testing and the Federal Government’s support of school league tables. Go to: http://www.soscanberra.com/
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An award-winning crime novel that breaks new ground in Australian fiction
Winner of the 2009 David Unaipon Award
Long ago, Meston Park in Brisbane’s West End marked the city’s boundary. A curfew kept its Aboriginal population outside the city limits after dark.
When the park becomes the site of a multi-million dollar development, the Corrowa People vow to fight and file a native title claim. Hours after rejecting the claim, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered.
Some believe it is the work of an ancient assassin, returned to destroy the boundary.
While the investigation forces Detective Jason Matthews to confront his buried heritage, lawyer Miranda Eversely battles a sense of personal failure at the Corrowa’s defeat
How far will it take her to the edge of self-destruction?
Review at http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/book-reviews/story-fn6ck8la-1226128323427
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