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One-way Ticket: The Untold Story of the Bali 9    Our Price: $36.99 Format: Paperback, 320 pages, New title Edition Condition: New Author: Cindy Wockner, Madonna King Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 9 March 2006 ISBN: 0732283469 EAN: 9780732283469 Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.3 centimetres Other Information: 16pp colour photos Country of Publication: Australia On 17 April 2005, nine young Australians were arrested in Bali on charges of trafficking heroin. Four of the group - Renae Lawrence, Martin Stephens, Scott Rush and Michael Czugaj - were caught with the drugs taped to their bodies. Two others, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were alleged to be the ringleaders of the operation. And a final three - Si Yi Chen, Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen and Matthew Norman - were also scooped up as the final element in the Bali 9, as the group came to be known. Their arrests, so closely following that of Schapelle Corby, shocked Australians; even more shocking was the revelation that all nine could face the death penalty in Indonesia. Public opinion has been loud and divided on their individual levels of guilt, and on the appropriate punishment. Journalists Cindy Wockner and Madonna King have investigated the extraordinary untold story of the Bali 9. With the cooperation of several family members of the Bali 9, they explore the histories of these eight men and one woman who have so unwittingly come into the public eye, to try to discover why these young people would take such a perilous risk. They also look at the controversial role of the Australian Federal Police in the fate of the Bali 9, and they are present at the trials and sentencing. "One-way Ticket: The Untold Story of the Bali 9" is a compelling, clear-eyed portrait of an unforgettable chapter in Australia's history. It also serves as a chilling warning to all parents: this could be your child, too.

The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali Our Price: $63.99 $57.57 (Free delivery Australia wide) Format: Paperback, 376 pages Usually ships within: 6-12 days Condition: New Author: Geoffrey Robinson Publisher: Cornell University Press, April 1998 ISBN: 0801481724 EAN: 9780801481727 Dimensions: 23.57 x 16.71 x 2.21 centimetres (0.55 kg)

After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia Our Price: $112.99 $105.93 (Free delivery Australia wide) Format: Paperback, 424 pages Condition: New Author: Kumar Ramakrishna (Editor), See Seng Tan (Editor) Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, December 2003 ISBN: 9812387153 EAN: 9789812387158 Dimensions: 22.56 x 15.90 x 2.26 centimetres (0.62 kg) This book is the first to deal with the specific threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia after the Bali blasts of 12 October 2002, and in the wake of the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological nature, sociopolitical motivations, trans-regional linkages, geographic loci and functional characteristics of the terrorist threat in the region. The contributors include leading scholars of political Islam in the region, renowned terrorism and regional security analysts, as well as highly regarded regional journalists and commentators from two of Asia's top think tanks--the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, both based in Singapore. This represents a formidable and hitherto unequalled combination of expertise. Paperback Version: Our Price: $112.99 $105.93 (Free delivery Australia wide) Hardcover Version: Our Price: $200.99 $189.27 (Free delivery Australia wide)

The Crystal Spirit: My Bali Diary The Crystal Spirit: My Bali Diary Our Price: $42.99 Format: Paperback, 101 pages, New title Edition Condition: New Author: Totty Ellwood Publisher: Peridot Press, 12 October 2003 ISBN: 0901577979 EAN: 9780901577979 Dimensions: 21.0 x 15.0 centimetres Other Information: illustrations Country of Publication: United Kingdom Product description: Shortly after 11pm on 12 October 2002, two bombs devastated the popular nightlife area of Kuta on the paradise island of Bali, Indonesia, killing more than 200 people. Among them was Jonathan Ellwood, an international school teacher, who had just arrived to attend a conference. With no clear information available his sister Totty, a teacher in Malaysia, immediately went to Bali to find out what had happened to him. There, amidst the confusion, she was met by unflagging support from local volunteers, unending red tape ­ and British officialdom's inability to get to grips with the catastrophe. This is her story.

Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali 2007 - Brand New! Pre-Order! Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali Our Price: $181.99 (Free delivery Australia wide) Format: Hardback, 200 pages, New title Edition Pre-order. This title will ship upon release. Condition: New Author: Michael Hitchcock, Nyoman Darma Putra Publisher: Ashgate, 28 March 2007 ISBN: 0754648664 EAN: 9780754648666 Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 centimetres Other Information: includes 3 tables, 2 figures & 2 maps Country of Publication: United Kingdom The book investigates tourism as a form of globalization within the context of the island of Bali, which has been voted the world's top island destination for the third time running by American travellers. It takes off with the onset of the Asian Crisis, the largest stock-market crash since the Great Depression. The authors chart the turbulence that has afflicted the island at a time of market uncertainty and global political strife and analyse the responses of Bali's business and community leaders to the crises that have buffeted the island since the fall of Suharto. In particular, the book analyses crisis management with regard to the Bali Bombings, the impact of the bombings on the tourism development cycle and investigates the motives of the bombers. The authors argue that the actions of the bombers can best be understood with regard to the rise of political Islam as a global issue and the book breaks new ground with an analysis of the bombers' global experiences. The book also examines home-grown resistance to certain aspects of globalization, notably the attempt to turn Besakih, the island's mother temple, into a World Heritage Site and top tourist destination. Table of Contents Introduction: a paradise globalized; The importance of tourism; A brand created; Bali's global villages; Street traders and entrepreneurs; Global-local encounters; World heritage as globalization; Bali during the Asian crisis; The 2002 Bali bombings crisis; Global conflict and the bombers; The rise and fall of tourism; Coping with globalization; Conclusion; References; Index. About the Author Professor Michael Hitchcock is the Director of the International Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development, at London Metropolitan University, London.Dr Nyoman Darma Putra is in the Faculty of Letters at Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia.

Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali 2007 - Brand New! Pre-Order! Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali Our Price: $18.99 Format: Paperback, 216 pages, New edition Edition Pre-order. This title will ship upon release. Condition: New Author: J.Stephen Lansing Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2 April 2007 ISBN: 0691130663 EAN: 9780691130668 Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 centimetres Country of Publication: United States For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has taken shape. According to Stephen Lansing, the need for effective cooperation in water management links thousands of farmers together in hierarchies of productive relationships that span entire watersheds. Lansing describes the network of water temples that once managed the flow of irrigation water in the name of the Goddess of the Crater Lake. Using the techniques of ecological simulation modeling as well as cultural and historical analysis, Lansing argues that the symbolic system of temple rituals is not merely a reflection of utilitarian constraints but also a basic ingredient in the organization of production. Reviews [A]n enjoyable and stimulating book. -- Geoffrey Samuel Journal of Asian Studies Priests and Programmers is written with admirable clarity and should be of interest ... to anybody working on applied social research. -- Michael Hitchcock Contemporary South Asia [B]rilliant and delightful... [N]ot only has [Lansing] written a superb book, but he has contributed materially and humanely to the quality of life of the people he has studied. Too few scholars can make this claim. -- Bryan Pfaffenberger Technology and Culture About the Author J. Stephen Lansing is a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and in the departments of Anthropology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He is the author of "Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali" (Princeton).

Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali Our Price: $367.99 $288.03 (Free delivery Australia wide) Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Condition: New Author: Thomas Reuter (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall, January 2003 ISBN: 0415296889 EAN: 9780415296885 Dimensions: 24.49 x 15.54 x 1.85 centimetres (0.48 kg) Indonesia has experienced a quick succession of new governments and fundamental reforms since the collapse of Suharto's dictatorial regime in 1998. Established patterns in the distribution of wealth, power and knowledge have been disrupted, altered and re-asserted. The contributors to this volume have taken the unique opportunity this upheaval presents to uncover social tensions and fault lines in this society. Focusing in particular on disadvantaged sectors of Balinese society, the contributors describe how the effects of a national economic and political crisis combined with a variety of social aspirations at a grass roots level to elicit shifts in local and regional configurations of power and knowledge. This is the first time that many of them have been able to disseminate their controversial research findings without endangering their informants since the demise of the New Order regime.

Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali Our Price: $87.99 $83.29 (Free delivery Australia wide) Format: Paperback, 460 pages Condition: New Author: Margaret J. Wiener Publisher: University of Chicago Press, April 1995 ISBN: 0226885828 EAN: 9780226885827 Dimensions: 22.81 x 15.44 x 2.95 centimetres (0.64 kg) In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and more than 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. The question of what their action meant and its continued significance in contemporary Klungkung forms the basis of Margaret Wiener's complex anthropolological history. Wiener challenges colonial and academic claims that Klungkung had no "real" power and argues that such claims enabled colonial domination. By focusing on Balinese discourses she makes clear the choices open to Balinese, both at the time of the Dutch conquest and in its narration. At the same time, she shows how these discourses, which revolve around magical weapons acquired from invisible agents such as gods, spirits, and ancestors, offer an alternative understanding of Klungkung's power. Moving between Balinese and Dutch narratives and between past and present, Wiener critiques colonial accounts by recounting Balinese memories and interpretations. Her attention to history and local situations illuminates the ways in which colonialism and orientalist scholarship have obscured the power of indigenous rulers and shows how Klungkung, once Bali's paramount realm, was relegated to a peripheral corner of the Indonesian nation-state. Both as a fascinating story and as a rich example of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book will interest students of colonialism, anthropology, history, religion, and Southeast Asia.

Fragrant Rice: My Continuing Love Affair with Bali Fragrant Rice: My Continuing Love Affair with Bali Our Price: $39.99 Format: Paperback, 307 pages Condition: New Author: Janet de Neefe Publisher: Periplus Editions, October 2006 ISBN: 0794650287 EAN: 9780794650285 Dimensions: 20.47 x 13.21 x 2.21 centimetres (0.37 kg) This gently-written book is in part an autobiography, in part an exposition of Balinese life and philosophy, and in part a cookbook. Melbourne-born Janet de Neefe visited Bali in 1974 and again in 1984. Now living in Ubud with her Balinese husband, she operates hotels and a cooking school in partnership with him. She offers many insights into Balinese ways of life and into the impacts of the tragedy of 12 October 2002 Bali bombing.

Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali Our Price: $85.99 $80.20 (Free delivery Australia wide) Format: Hardcover, 225 pages Condition: New Author: John Stephen Lansing, J. Stephen Lansing Publisher: Princeton University Press, March 2006 ISBN: 0691027277 EAN: 9780691027272 Dimensions: 24.13 x 16.31 x 2.01 centimetres (0.48 kg) Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation flows for everyone. Did someone have to design Bali's water temple networks, or could they have emerged from a self-organizing process? "Perfect Order"--a groundbreaking work at the nexus of conservation, complexity theory, and anthropology--describes a series of fieldwork projects triggered by this question, ranging from the archaeology of the water temples to their ecological functions and their place in Balinese cosmology. Stephen Lansing shows that the temple networks are fragile, vulnerable to the cross-currents produced by competition among male descent groups. But the feminine rites of water temples mirror the farmers' awareness that when they act in unison, small miracles of order occur regularly, as the jewel-like perfection of the rice terraces produces general prosperity. Much of this is barely visible from within the horizons of Western social theory. The fruit of a decade of multidisciplinary research, this absorbing book shows that even as researchers probe the foundations of cooperation in the water temple networks, the very existence of the traditional farming techniques they represent is threatened by large-scale development projects. Hardcover Edition: Our Price: $85.99 $80.20 (Free delivery Australia wide) Format: Hardcover, 225 pages Hardback New Title Edition: Our Price: $63.99 (Free delivery Australia wide) Format: Hardback, 240 pages, New title Edition

Adding as soon as I can find an Australian distributor: Three Weeks in Bali: A Personal Account of the Bali Bombing By Alan Atkinson 2002: Sydney: ABC Books, After Bali By Jason McCartney with Ben Collins Melbourne: Lothiam Books 2003 In the Arms of the Angels…. Memoirs of a medical volunteer, Bali, October 2002 By Kim A. Patra Sanur: Saritaksu, 2003 Schapelle Corby: My Story By Schapelle Corby With Kathryn Bonella Book Details ISBN: 1405037911 ISBN-13: 9781405037914 Author: Schapelle Corby With Kathryn Bonella Pages: 320 Publisher: Macmillan Australia Weight: 540g