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THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. THE CHARTS AND MAPS OF THE NAVIGATORS AND EXPLORERS by T. M. Perry. 27 x 37 cm, 159 pages, plates. Nelson: Melbourne 1982 (ISBN 0 17 006069 1) $A60.00

EARLY ILLAWARRA: People, Houses, Life (An Australia 1838 Monograph) by K. Henderson and T. Henderson. 29 x 21 cm, viii and 146 pages, tables, text figures. History Project Incorporated, Australian National University: Canberra 1983 (ISBN 0 949776 11 4) $A12.00

NORTHERN AUSTRALIA by P. P. Courtenay. 21 x 13 cm, xiv and 335 pages, tables, text figures. Longman Cheshire: Melbourne 1982 (ISBN 0 582 71476 1) $A15.95 limp

GOVERNMENT REPORTS ON THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY 1905–1980 (Historical Bibliography No. 4) by C. Jones. 25 x 17 cm, iv and 64 pages. Australia 1788–1988 A Bicentennial History, University of New South Wales: Sydney 1981, $A3.50

POLICY PRIORITIES FOR AUSTRALIAN STEEL REGIONS. Proceedings of the Conference Organised by the Institute of Industrial Economics (Conference Series No. 12) edited by M. T. Gordon and B. L. J. Gordon. 21 x 30 cm, xi and 239 pages, tables, text figures. Institute of Industrial Economics, University of Newcastle, New South Wales: Newcastle 1983 (ISBN 0 7259 0477 1) $A20.00

URBAN RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN AUSTRALIA by F. L. Sweetser. 24 x 17 cm, ix and 193 pages, tables, text figures. Australian National University Press: Canberra 1983 (ISBN 0 7081 1846 1) $A14.00 limp

SOCIAL PROCESS AND THE CITY (Urban Studies Yearbook No. 1) edited by P. Williams. 22 x 14 cm, 233 pages, tables, text figures, photographs. George Allen and Unwin: Sydney 1983 (ISBN 0 86861 245 6) $A10.95 limp

GEOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHERS: Anglo‐American Human Geography since 1945 (2nd edn) by R. J. Johnston. 21 x 13 cm, ii and 264 pages, text figures. Edward Arnold: London 1983 (ISBN 0 7131 6387 9) $A20.95 limp

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series D, Behavioural and Social Sciences No. 14) edited by PADC Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning Unit. 24 x 17 cm, xii and 439 pages, tables, text figures. Martinus Nijhoff: The Hague 1983 (ISBN 90 247 2765 0) $A51.30

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS IN POLITICS (Resource Management Series No. 6) by P. Lowe and J. Goyder. 23 x 15 cm, xiv and 208 pages, tables, text figures. George Allen and Unwin: London 1983 (ISBN 0 04 329044 2) $A18.95 limp

PLURALISM AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY: People, Territory and State edited by N. Kliot and S. Waterman. 22 x 14 cm, 323 pages, tables, text figures. Croom Helm: London 1983 (ISBN 0 312 61766 6) $A32.95

LIVING UNDER APARTHEID: Aspects of Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa (London Research Series in Geography No. 2) edited by D. M. Smith. 24 x 16 cm, xiii and 256 pages, tables, text figures. George Allen and Unwin: London 1982 (ISBN 0 04 309110 5) $A39.95

ADELAIDE ABORIGINES: A Case Study of Urban Life 1966–1981 by F. Gale and J. Wundersitz. 24 x 17 cm, xviii and 191 pages, tables, text figures. Australian National University Press: Canberra 1982 (ISBN 0 909150 81 8) $A12.00 limp

THE AMERICAN URBAN SYSTEM: A Geographical Perspective by R. J. Johnston. 23 x 25 cm, xii and 348 pages, tables, text figures. Longman: London 1982 (ISBN 0 582 30101 7) $A19.50 limp

THE CITY'S COUNTRYSIDE: Land and its Management in the Rural‐Urban Fringe by C. R. Bryant, L. H. Russwurm and A. G. McLellan. 23 x 15 cm, xii and 249 pages, tables, text figures. Longman: London 1982 (ISBN 0 582 30045 2) $A22.30 limp

EXPLORING THE URBAN PAST: Essays in Urban History by H. J. Dyos edited by D. Cannadine and D. Reeder. 23 x 15 cm, xix and 258 pages, tables. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1982 (ISBN 0 521 28848 7) $A19.50 limp

FUTURE CITIES: Spatial Analysis of Energy Issues by J. R. Beaumont and P. Keys. 24 x 15 cm, xviii and 198 pages, tables, text figures. Wiley: New York 1982 (ISBN 0 471 10451 5) $A55.50

URBAN PROBLEMS AND PLANNING IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD edited by M. Pacione. 14 x 22 cm, 324 pages, tables, text figures. Croom Helm: London 1981 (ISBN 0 7099 0191 7) £13.50

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA edited by Chi‐ming Hou and Tzong‐shian Yu. 26 x 19 cm, xiii and 877 pages, tables, text figures. Academica Sinica: Taipei 1982 (distributed by University of Washington Press: Seattle) (ISBN 0 295 95997 5) $US40.00

AGRICULTURE IN THE MALAYSIAN REGION (Geography of World Agriculture No. 11) by R. D. Hill. 24 x 17 cm, 234 pages, tables, text figures. Akademiai Kiado: Budapest 1982 (ISBN 963 05 2825 8) $A27.60

ROOTS OF THE EARTH by P. Sillitoe. 16 x 24 cm, xvi and 285 pages, text figures, tables, plates. New South Wales University Press: Sydney 1983 (ISBN 0 86840 064 3) $A39.95

THE ARID LANDS: Their Use and Abuse (Themes in Resource Management Series) by R. L. Heathcote. 23 x 15 cm, xx and 323 pages, tables, text figures. Longman: London 1983 (ISBN 0 582 30048 7) $A19.95 limp

DESERTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT: Dryland Ecology in Social Perspective edited by B. Spooner and H. S. Mann. 24 x 16 cm, xviii and 407 pages, tables, text figures. Academic Press: London 1982 (ISBN 0 12 658050 2) $A52.00

INTERPRETATIONS OF CALAMITY: From the Viewpoint of Human Ecology (Risks and Hazards Series No. 1) edited by K. Hewitt. 23 x 16 cm, xi and 304 pages, tables, text figures. George Allen and Unwin: Boston 1983 (ISBN 0 04 301161 6) $A24.95 limp

THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S DESERTS edited by T. L. Smiley. 29 x 21 cm, 134 pages, plates, text figures, tables. Societas Upsaliensis pro Geologia Quaternaria: Uppsala 1982 (ISBN 91 7388 035 3)

MAN, A GEOMORPHOLOGICAL AGENT by Dov Nir. 18 x 25 cm, xii and 165 pages, text figures, tables, plates. Reidel: Dordrecht 1983 (ISBN 90 277 1401 0) $A38.40

LANDFORMS OF NEW ZEALAND edited by J. M. Soons and M. J. Selby. 18 x 24 cm, vi and 392 pages, text figures, tables, plates. Longman Paul: Auckland 1982 (ISBN 0 582 71786 8) $A34.95 limp

CARTOGRAPHIC RELIEF PRESENTATION by E. Imhof. 18 x 26 cm, xviii and 389 pages, text figures, tables, plates. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin and New York 1982 (ISBN 3 11 006711 0) $A90.10