ETHNICITY & CROSSCULTURAL from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2019. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, minor edgewear, sticker front cover, autograph (author's owner's written name title page). 298 pp. This autobiography of Munjed Al Muderis is a followup from his first book about his amazing journey as a boat person to Australia, and his life-changing new surgical technique for amputees.… Read more about this item

Stuttgart, Germany: Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, 1983. Paperback small quarto, good condition, black & white text-photos (few full-page photos), corner tips few pages lightly creased, small mark fore-edge, spine & top edge covers faded, top corner front cover creased, front and rear hinges slightly split (pages firm), spine & free flyleaf little creased, minor edgewear. 290 pp.… Read more about this item

London: Little, Brown, 2006. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few tiny ridges spine (binding error), minor edgewear. 374 pp. Philippe Legrain combines first-hand reporting from around the world, incisive socioeconomic analysis and a broad understanding of the importance of immigration. The diversity of immigrants enriches their new country of settlement.

Woodburn, NSW: New Italy Museum Inc., 2013. Revised, reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, map, black & white text-photos, minimal edgewear, brochure loosely inserted. 64 pp. Anne-Gabrielle Thompson tells the story of over 300 men, women and children who left the poverty of northern Italy to make a new life in a tropical paradise east of Papua New… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Altona: Common Ground, 2005. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos centre spread, few tiny closed hairline tears on spine, faint foxing edges, minor edgewear. 207 pp. This book explores the experiences and journeys of Vietnamese women who arrived in Australia as part of the massive exodus of refugees from Vietnam following the end of the… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 1987. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, black & white text-photos, spine little faded, minor edgewear, owner's written name inside front cover. 44 pp. Brief study of Yungaba's history (Queensland migrant centre). During its 100 years, this Brisbane building known until 1947 simply as the Immigration Depot has seen far-reaching social and economic changes. Because… Read more about this item

Sydney, Kensington: School of French, University of New South Wales / CEEFA, 1984. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, flexible covers, single-colour photos, few figures, tiny closed tear base spine, few tiny marks rear cover, top edge lightly toned, front hinge little split (pages firm), minor edgewear. 282 pp. These papers are from a symposium held at the University… Read more about this item

Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 1st ed.. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), tiny tear top edge jacket (minor edgewear). 334 pp. This book is a collection of new essays by leading and emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences, about multiculturalism today. a comprehensive look at this important field. The editor gives… Read more about this item

New Delhi: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 1995. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), tables, top corner covers slightly bumped, spine ends jacket little chipped (closed tear top corner front cover, light creases, few scratches front cover), edges lightly toned. 400 pp. This book contains the papers presented and the discussions held at the… Read more about this item

[Lismore, NSW]: New Italy Memorial Committee, 1961. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, black & white text-photos, adverts, minor edgewear. Unnum 20 pp. Title continues: 'Dr. G. Carnevali, Consul-General for Italy, on Saturday, 8th April, 1961.' Celebrates the founders of New Italy, an Italian immigrant colony on the Richmond River, near Woodburn and Casino, northern NSW. They… Read more about this item

Canberra: Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Research School of Social Studies, Australian National University, 1991. Paperback trade, very good condition, tables, figures, light rubbed area & biro mark front cover, minimal edgewear, errata slip loosely inserted. 152 pp. This book was produced as part of the second Workshop on the History of Australian Immigration (initially mainly British) held… Read more about this item

Brisbane, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press (UQP), 1979. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), figures, tables, pages toned as usual, minor edgewear, old price marks, bookplate front pastedown. 206 pp. (This copy: Hardback dustjacket.) This well-researched in-depth study by Gillian Bottomley of Greeks in Sydney focuses on second generation adults. The… Read more about this item

Dublin: Poolbeg Press, 1991. 1st ed.. Paperback, very good condition, pages lightly toned, corner tips little creased few pages, tiny dent rear cover, minor edgewear. 279 pp. This collection of essays represents a major contribution to our understanding of Irish-Australian history. A group of international scholars investigate the Irish origins and Australian outcomes of Irish emigration to the Antipodes… Read more about this item

Brisbane, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press (UQP), 1983. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), rear cover jacket little marked, minor edgewear. 288 pp. This collection brings together some of the most enlightening stories written by or about immigrants in the past decade.

Singapore: Times Books International, 2000. Revised, reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos & cartoons, minor edgewear covers & some pages, rear free flyleaf annotated (corner creased), old price marks. 247 pp. This book explains language, food and entertaining, social customs, festivals, relationships, helpful business tips, and explanations of daily sights and scenes, for travellers… Read more about this item

New York: Berghahn Books, 2003. 6th revised ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, covers slightly lifting, minor edgewear. 460 pp. This study offers an authoritative analysis by presenting the Armenian tragedy as a case study of genocide and by seeing it as a historical process in which a domestic conflict escalated and was consumed by a global war. This… Read more about this item

London: Kuperard, 1996. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos & cartoons, minor edgewear. 280 pp. Culture Shock: Japan, by Rex Shelley (1996). This book explains language, food and entertaining, social customs, festivals, relationships, helpful business tips, and explanations of daily sights and scenes, for travellers to Japan.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin / Housing Industry Association, 1998. Paperback small octavo, very good plus condition. 160 pp. Immigration and its consequences have always been topics of public debate in Australia and in recent times the debate has intensified. Strong views are held on the advantages and disadvantages of immigration, and on the desirable size and composition of the… Read more about this item

London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 233 pp. Why do some international managers succeed while nearly half of their U.S. counterparts fail? According to insider Elisabeth Marx, the answer is culture shock -- the failure to adjust to people with different motivations, behaviors, and ways of making decisions.… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2014. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white & colour photos, few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, bottom corner tip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 325 pp. First edition. This memoir by Munjed Al Muderis is the true story of a young doctor who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a… Read more about this item