- At the beginning, what was its name? Is it the same as today's name?
- Its appearance
- Who were the first authors of the first articles?
(Note: the cover is just illustrative, not original!)

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Essays
Guy Redden From RAE to ERA: research evaluation at work in the corporate university
Special Section: Rural Cultural Studies
David Carter, Kate Darian-Smith and Andrew Gorman-Murray Introduction
Andrew Gorman-Murray, Kate Darian-Smith and Chris Gibson Scaling the Rural: Reflections on Rural Cultural Studies    
Phil McManus and John Connell Country Week: Bringing the City to the Country?
Deb Anderson Drought, Endurance and ‘The Way Things Were’: The Lived Experience of Climate and Climate Change in the Mallee
Kate Bowles Rural Cultural Research: Notes from a Small Country Town
Special Section: Marketing Asian-Australianness
Olivia Khoo Introduction
Tom Cho ‘No One Puts Baby in a Corner’: Inserting My Self into the Text
Simone Lazaroo Not Just Another Migrant Story
Merlinda Bobis ‘Voice-Niche-Brand’: Marketing Asian-Australianness
Book Reviews
Reviewed by Aidan Davison     Patriots: Defending Australia’s Natural Heritage by William Lines
Reviewed by Caroline Hamilton This Crazy Thing a Life: Australian Jewish Autobiography by Richard Freadman
Reviewed by Melissa Harper     Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity by Catriona Elder
Reviewed by Fiona Jenkins Judith Butler: Live Theory by Vicki Kirby
The Ecological Humanities
Deborah Rose Introduction
Jessica Weir Connectivity    
Jinki Trevillian Talking with Ghosts: A Meeting with Old Man Crocodile on Cape York Peninsula
Mary Graham Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews

Essays
Shino Konishi ‘Inhabited by a race of formidable giants’: French Explorers, Aborigines, and the Endurance of the Fantastic in the Great South Land, 1803
Kevin Murray Keys to the South
Stephen Muecke Cultural Studies’ Networking Strategies in the South    
Raewyn Connell Extracts from Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science    
Margaret Jolly The South in Southern Theory: Antipodean Reflections on the Pacific    
Reviews
Reviewed by David Carter The Book is Dead (Long Live the Book), by Sherman Young    
Reviewed by Paul Gillen The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia, by Melissa Harper    
Reviewed by Anne Maxwell Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand, edited by Laurence Simmons, and Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual, edited by Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguly    
Reviewed by Emily Potter Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica, by Tom Griffiths    
Eco-Humanities Corner Emily Potter and Paul Starr     Australia and the New Geographies of Climate Change    
Val Plumwood Shadow Places and the Politics of Dwelling
Val Plumwood (1939-2008) in memoriam

Dark Horse Comics is proud to present one of the authentic landmarks in graphic fiction, Lone Wolf and Cub, to be published in its entirety for the first time in America. An epic samurai adventure of staggering proportions - over 7000 pages - Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Okami in Japan) is acknowledged worldwide for the brilliant writing of series creator Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of the late Goseki Kojima, creating unforgettable imagery of stark beauty, kinetic fury, and visceral thematic power that influenced a generation of visual storytellers both in Japan and in the West. Don`t miss this monumental monthly release, twenty-eight volumes, with each collection approximately 300 pages!
LW&C vol. 1 - `The Assassin's Road' does an admirable job of setting forward the characters and conflicts that shall dominate the Epic as a whole, but on its own, it is perhaps the least of the twenty-eight volumes. The art, storytelling, and language translation all improve with successive volumes. The last two stories alone make this compilation worth the price, however, and we whole-heartedly recommend Lone Wolf and Cub to both manga-enthusiasts and those curious about Japanese history. All the rest is even better.

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