Great Disasters in Australian History
A gripping account of the worst disasters to hit Australia s...
Fantastically Great Women Who Made History
Fantastically Great Women Who Made History is the eagerly an...
Victory on Gallipoli - and Other What-ifs of Australian...
Thepast is irreversible, but imagination is unlimited. With ...
Creating Australia: Changing Australian History
Creating Australia: Changing Australian History - University...
The Use and Abuse of Australian History
The Use and Abuse of Australian History - University textboo...
Imagining Australia: Australian History VCE Units 3 & 4...
Imagining Australia: Australian History VCE Units 3 & 4 - Un...
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
The Oxford Companion to Australian History - University text...
Turning Points in Australian History
Turning Points in Australian History - University textbook f...
Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Austra...
Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Australian ...
Intimacy, Violence and Activism: Gay and Lesbian Perspe...
Intimacy, Violence and Activism: Gay and Lesbian Perspective...
Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Sin...
Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 17...
What's Wrong with ANZAC?: The Militarisation of Austral...
What's Wrong with ANZAC?: The Militarisation of Australian H...
Great Disasters In Australian History
Carving a History: a Guide to the Great Court
This comprehensive guide to the sandstone centrepiece of The University of Queenslandâs St Lucia campus â the Great Court â navigates the reader effortlessly through the siteâs iconic carvings and their history.Carving a History: a Guide to the Great Court is a major update and restructure of the existing publication A Guide to the Great Court; first produced by UQ's Media and ...
The Great Shame
The eagerly-awaited paperback of an incredible work of history, h social injustice and survival
a grandly conceived and prodigiously researched homage to his Irish forebears The Age
the range and coverage of this material is impressive
his zest is infectious Sydney Morning Herald
engaging and meticulously compiled Australian Financial Review In the nineteenth century, the Ir...
The Great Gatenby
Australias king of young adult fiction The Australian A very funny, very Australian book West Australian Maybe deep down every kid knows his parents want him to be the Pride of the School, the Captain of Cricket and Tennis and Rowing and Darts and Knitting and anything else thats going down. They dont want to know about the fact that youve had more detentions than any other new...
Genocide and Settler Society - Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History
often new, probing and rich examinations of the takeover of a continent by white Anglos and the long-term impact
the book is replete with detailed and meticulously sourced information on the scope, scale and persistence of the cruelty and violence involved actual and structural over a 200-year period
there is a great deal in this excellent volume that demands grounds for deep reflect...
Great Australian Outback Police Stories
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill Swampy Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game
Boasting the biggest beats in the world some as large as France Australias outback police have seen...
Australian Lives - An Intimate History
`Life is long. When youre forty-eight, theres been a lot of stuff thats happened (laughs). Its got elements of comedy and there are elements of heartache and drama and thriller and its got so many things in it. Rhonda King, born 1965 `I really like the idea that in maybe a hundred years someone could listen and hear about my life to learn about what living in 2012 or 2013 was like. Th...
Great Australian Outback Police Stories
I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game
Boasting the biggest beats in the world some as large as France Australias outback police have seen it all: natural disasters, incredible acts of selflessness, unspeakable crimes and daring rescues, just to name a few. And theyve met some unforgettable characters along the way: from the murderer who stuffed his victims...
Great Australian Outback Nurses Stories
Stories and memories that capture the experience of nursing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill Swampy Marsh, bestselling author of Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories and Great Australian Police Stories. Ive been a trained nurse for almost sixty years now and Ive never once gone to work thinking, I dont want to do this. In fact, Ive always said how its been a privileg...
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The Imperial Love Affair
One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra
Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair Economist It was historys most successful political partnership as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin wil...
Tasmanian Aborigines - A History Since 1803
Lyndall Ryans new account of the extraordinary and dramatic story of the Tasmanian Aborigines is told with passion and eloquence. It is a book that will inform and move anyone with an interest in Australian history. Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania A powerful and insightful historical account about a unique island and its First peoples, their dispossession and their str...
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts - A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City
Australian history is
so curious and strange, that it
does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies
It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened. Mark Twain Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in ...
Ednapedia - A History of Australia in a Hundred Objects
Dame Edna Everage, Australias most famous and funniest export, tells the history of her homeland in 100 objects. Its very rare that we see the emergence of a completely original idea in the world of books. Dame Edna Everages masterly history of Australian civilization is one such idea, and, possums, you will never think of historical writing in the same way again. From our dainty gu...
Great Australian Scams, Cons And Rorts - A book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city
Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that weve never been shy of pulling a trick or two. So how did a clever bushman who couldnt lie straight in bed steal a thousand head of cattle an...
Australia Gone Wild: Australian Geographic's greatest animal stor
For more than 30 years; Australian Geographic has been showcasing Australiaâs unique natural history through the words and images of the nationâs finest writers and photographers. This brand new 224-page hard cover compendium brings together over 40 of the best stories spanning the natural world from the smallest of invertebrates to the creatures that inhabit the waters that surround us ...
Broken Nation - Australians in the Great War
Winner of the 2014 Prime Ministers Literary Award for Australian History.If you read only one book about Australias experience of World War I . make it Broken Nation, an account that joins the history of the war to the home front, and that details the barbarism of the battlefields as well as the desolation, despair, and bitter divisions that devastated the communities left behind. Maril...
Australian History In 7 Questions
If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable and dull. From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australias past and present. Hirst asks and answers questions that get to the heart of Australias hi...
Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of Chinas Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the Peoples Republic of China.Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the co...
A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport
When it comes to sport, Australians are mad. Completely, irrationally insane. Its the closest thing we have to a culture. From Don Bradmans singular focus to Steven Bradburys heroic not falling over, sport has shaped our sense of self. But how did we get here? Part history, part social commentary and a lot of nonsense, Titus OReily, Australias least insightful sports writer, explains. Co...
Looking for Blackfellas' Point - An Australian History of Place
Blackfellas Point lies on the Towamba River in south-eastern New South Wales. As the river descends rapidly from its source on the Monaro plains, it winds its way through state forest, national park and farming land. Around twenty-five kilometres before it reaches the sea, just south of Eden, it passes through Towamba, the small village in which Mark McKenna now owns eight acres of land. Marks...
European History for Dummies 2E
The rich variety of Europes history rolled into one thrilling account. This book takes you on a fascinating journey through the disasters, triumphs, people, power and politics that have shaped the Europe we know today and youll meet some incredible characters along the way! From Roman relics to Renaissance, World Wars and Eurovision, European History For Dummies packs in the facts alongside...
Exiles at Home - Australian Women Writers 1925-1945
Exiles At Home traces the lives of a generation of Australias women writers through letters, diaries, notebooks and the memories of their contemporaries. Invaluable to all readers seriously interested in the history of Australian literature. Weekend Australian At the end of the 1920s Christina Stead had left Australia and was poised to write Seven Poor Men of Sydney. In London Miles Fra...