Indigenous Archives - The Making and Unmaking of Aborig...
In recording and ordering documents considered important, th...
Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Co...
Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Communi...
The American Gardener: A Treatise on the Laying-Out of ...
The American Gardener: A Treatise on the Laying-Out of Garde...
The Ninja and their Secret Fighting Art
Look past the legends and learn about the REAL ninjas of feu...
Serving our Country - Indigenous Australians, war, defe...
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first c...
The Memory Code - Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of...
In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal e...
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry...
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry - Un...
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Complete G...
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Complete Guide ...
Learning and Teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait E...
Learn from real voices and experiences Learning and Teaching...
Learning and Teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait E...
Learn from real voices and experiences Learning and Tea...
Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art
Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art - University tex...
Indigenous Archives - The Making And Unmaking Of Aboriginal Art
The Dreaming And Other Essays
W.E.H. Stanners words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as The Dreaming Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale, regarding the fate of the Aborigines, for which he coined the phrase the great Australian silence. And in h...
Specky Magee And A Legend In The Making
The Booyong High Bugle Footy News! Only last month, former Booyong High student Simon Specky Magee led the Gosmore Grammar Knights to victory against our courageous Booyong Lions. But now hes back in town! Well, we at the Bugle would like to welcome Simon home, but even his best mates dont want him on the team. And now we cant help but wonder just how specky-tacular Magee really...
Out of Australia - Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the Dawn of the Human Race
In their startling new book, Steven and Evan Strong challenge the out-of-Africa theory. Based on fresh examination of both the DNA and archaeological evidence, they conclude that modern humans originated from Australia, not Africa. The original Australians (referred to by some as Aborigines), like so many indigenous peoples, are portrayed as backward and primitive. Yet, as the Strongs...
The Making of Home - The 500-year story of how our houses became homes
The idea that home is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, home is a relatively new concept. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens of Oz that There is no place like home, she was expressing a view that was a culmination of 3...
Reach for the Stars - and Other Advice for Life's Journey
This hilarious look at idiomatic expressions will be loved by both children and adults. It is suitable for children age 4+. The young hero of Serge Blochs delightful Butterflies in My Stomach is back, along with his loyal dog Roger. The two are embarking further on the perilous journey of life. Like all of us, they encounter many FORKS IN THE ROAD and UPHILL BATTLES but they also find tha...
Learning and Teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Education
Learn from real voices and experiences Learning and Teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education 3rd edition helps pre-service teachers prepare themselves for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in urban; remote and rural primary and secondary schools. It also prepares teachers to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in their progr...
Children, Meaning-Making and the Arts
This Australian text is about childrens voices their minds, feelings, souls. Its about how childrens voices are liberated through the arts, and how children make and communicate meaning through still and moving images, sounds, textures, gestures and the use of many other signs. It is also about how teachers, parents, peers and the community influence childrens early development, and h...
The Monk and the Riddle - The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Life
What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life
? Its a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to do what we have to do to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller The Monk and the Riddle, entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The books timeless advice-to make work pay not just in cash, but in experience, sa...
Golf Style - Homes and Collections Inspired by the Course and the Clubhouse
Golf is more than just a sport. It is an incomparable source of camaraderie, a test of ones equanimity, and a reminder of the sheer joy of playing a simple gamein concept, at leastin the fresh air. Like any pursuit that people grow to love, it just wont stay put. Its allure extends far beyond the course, turning up in the ways we decorate and in the clothes we wear, in our art and literatu...
Inside the Vault - The history and art of Australian coinage
Celebrating the history and art of Australian coinage for the first time, Inside the Vault uncovers the fascinating story of the nations currency. Bestselling author Peter Rees traces significant events the Rum Rebellion, the gold rushes of the 19th century, the opening of the Royal Australian Mint, the introduction of decimal currency in 1966 and their effect on Australias coinage. Lavi...
The Growth Delusion - The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations
A revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning editor of The Financial Times A near miracle Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Dont Tell You About Capitalism In The Growth Delusion, author and prize-winning journalist David Pilling explores how economists and their cult of growth have hijacked our policy...
The Stockmen - The Making Of An Australian Legend
Working in some of the worlds most challenging natural landscapes with beasts from tame to totally wild, the stockman speaks to something within the soul of every Australian. Evan McHugh, one of Australias foremost chroniclers of the outback and the bush, presents the fascinating history of the stockmen and women who have carved a living from the rugged ranges of the high country to the vast...
Womb Wisdom - Awakening the Creative and Forgotten Powers of the Feminine
In the past and in present-day indigenous traditions, women have known that the womb houses the greatest power a woman possesses: the power to create on all levels. Utilised in the process of giving birth, this power of creation can, also, be tapped in the birth of projects, careers, personal healing, spirituality and relationships. However, because the womb stores the energetic imprint of every i...
The Complete Book of Pork Butchering, Smoking, Curing, Sausage Making, and Cooking
From nose to tail, theres a right and a wrong way to dress and cook a pig. Learn the right way. Pork is the most consumed meat in the world. Its inexpensive and versatile, yet relatively few home cooks feel comfortable moving beyond pork chops. And the vast majority never dream of making chorizo or curing their own hams or bacon. The Complete Book of Pork Butchering, Smoking, Curing, Sausage ...
The Best Years Of Your Life - Growing Up in Sydney in the Thirties and Forties
George Hutchinson grew up in western Sydney, Australia in the 1930s and 1940s a time of great local and global change.Georges boyhood was marked by the legacy of the Great Depression, and later by the Pacific Front of World War II. But it was also a time when the wireless radio and the local picture theatre were still new and wondrous forms of entertainment. When boys passed the time by makin...
Goodbye Christopher Robin - A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
Goodbye Christopher Robin is drawn from Ann Thwaites acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, and of Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Christopher Robin. But the fictional Christopher Robin was based on Milnes own son. This heart-warming and touching book, which ties in to a major film directed by Simon Curtis, offers a ...
Sunburnt Country - The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia
What was Australias climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles? Sunburnt Country pieces together Australias climate history for the...
The Rock and Gem Book - ...And Other Treasures of the Natural World
The Rock and Gem Book is packed full of photos of natural wonders, including rocks, minerals, gems, shells and fossils. This childrens encyclopedia displays more than 1,200 full-colour specimens, from sapphires and rubies to silver and pearl, revealing the unique qualities of each material and how it is used in industry, architecture, art and science. Including precious metals, rare fossils, t...
Australia's Welfare Wars - The players, the politics and the ideologies
In this fully revised third edition of Australias Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia. Rather than concentrating on the history of the welfare state, or the process of making social policy, Mendes examines welfare politics in Australia f...
The LEGO (R) NINJAGO (R) Movie (TM) The Making of the Movie
Packed with stunning concept art, sketches, artwork, inspiration and LEGO ® builds, the book tells the fascinating story of how The LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE was made. Find out how your favourite heroes, villains, vehicles and locations were created for the movie. Learn about each development stage of the movie, from the initial idea and storyboarding to recording the dialogue and special effects. Cre...
The Empress of Art - Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia
An art-oriented biography of the mighty Catherine the Great, who rose from seemingly innocuous beginnings to become one of the most powerful people in the world. A German princess who married a decadent and lazy Russian prince, Catherine mobilized support amongst the Russian nobles, playing off of her husbands increasing corruption and abuse of power. She then staged a coup that ended with him b...