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Dorothy Porter writes about love, sex, heartbreak and desire like no one else. "Love Poems" collects her most powerful love poetry: portraits of longi...
A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times
This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of publ...
'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book' A wonderful, ultimately joyous, ins...
Dorothy Porter's fourth verse novel follows the orbits of an astronomer, an astrobiologist and a dying scholar as they move around each other in an un...
Akhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history - archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign, ...
Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's true originals, renowned for her passionate, punchy poetry and verse novels. This collection, the best of her li...
A dark story of sex, death and psychology set in and around Sydney's iconic asylum Callan Park, laid out in Dorothy Porter's nimble, heat-seeking voic...
An Erotic Murder Mystery
An erotic murder mystery, set in rhyme. It is narrated by a lesbian PI searching for a missing girl. The locale is Sydney, Australia, and the protagon...
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The British Experience, 1650-1850
Through the interpretation of material gleaned from diaries, letters and memoirs, the authors outline the everyday history of medicine, from the Resto...
Sickness, Health and Medical Care, 1650-1850
Pre-modern society was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. This outstanding new book examines what people did when they fell sick in Brit...
While working with a classmate on a genealogy assignment, a fourteen-year-old Australian teenager discovers that her grandmother is hiding a dark fami...
Essays in Social Medicine and Biomedical Politics
The rights and responsibilities of health citizenship are increasingly at the forefront of public policy debates concerning disease prevention and hea...
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This astonishing collection by award-winning poet Dorothy Porter traverses Greek myth and Russian poets, the memory of cigarettes and the wild abandon...
In 1968, in the Blue Mountains of Australia, thirteen-year-old Shelley meets Leah, also thirteen, who lures her into a sinister world of witchcraft an...
Dorothy Porter's sixth poetry collection (1997-2001) travels the solar system for comets, distant moons and other heavenly bodies before returning to ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...
Compiled by Workers on Projects 271 and 328 of the Works Progress Administration
A Working Bibliography
With Special Reference to Negro Colleges and Universities
A Bibliographical Checklist of Their Writings, 1760-1944
With British Sign Language
Their Heritage and Traditions