The Crying Years - Australia's Great War
The Great War continues to fascinate us all. In this origina...
The Waler - Australia's Great War Horse DVD
Over 130;000 Australian horses served in the 1914- 1918 war;...
The Waler - Australia's Great War Horse
When the first convoys of the ANZAC Expeditionary Forces sai...
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) Steam CD Key
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) Steam CD KeyPlatform:SteamRe...
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) Steam CD Key
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) Steam CD KeyPlatform:SteamRe...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Cente...
The first book in a new series that will explore AustraliaÂ’...
The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War
The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War - Uni...
WWI - The Great War Collector's Edition
The definitive War collection from the History Channel. E...
The Crying Years - Australia's Great War
Sophie's Patch - Inspiration And Practical Ideas From The Popular Gardening Australia Presenter
Inspiration and practical ideas from popular Gardening Australia presenter Sophie Thomson A gorgeous, inspirational and fun gardening book jam-packed with ideas, tips, projects and great advice all based on SophieÂ’s own garden in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.Sophie has transformed what was once a dry, windswept cow paddock surrounding her historic stone cottage into a lush garden. But itÂ...
44 Days - 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia
‘Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It’s also a top read.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH The epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia’s 75 Squadron – and the 44 days when these brave and barely trained pilots fought alone against the Japanese. In March and April 1942, RAAF 75 Squadron bravely defended Port...
Broken Nation - Australians in the Great War
Winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History.‘If you read only one book about Australia’s 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...
Teaching Literacies in the Middle Years - Pedagogies and diversity
Teaching Literacies in the Middle Years addresses a ‘hot topic’ in education – the teaching of literacy – in relation to the middle years of schooling. It provides the foundations for understanding some of the issues and challenges in working with middle years’ students in the current Australian context. All chapters are theoretically grounded in a socio-cultural perspective of literacy. The ...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australia’s role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air – warfare’s newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britain’s flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
1835 - The Founding Of Melbourne & The Conquest Of Australia
With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land – and more people – was conquered than in the preceding fifty. In 1835 James Boyce brings this pivotal moment to life. He traces the power plays in Hobart, Sydney and London, and describes the key personalities of Melbourne’s early days. He con...
Anything Can Happen... - Sportsgirl: The Bardas Years
Sportsgirl changed AustraliaÂ’s fashion history. In the 1960s it introduced youth fashion, instantly becoming the `go toÂ’ place for Australian girls loving their first taste of freedom. Anything Can Happen is the story of the Bardas years of Sportsgirl (1948-1994) when the Bardas family ran the business. These years of excitement and creativity ended in tragedy but for Australian women Sportsgir...
Grunt - The Curious Science of Humans at War
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize `The most entertaining writer in science’ – The Times, Books of the Year War. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and weapons. But there’s a whole other side to the gruesome business of the battlefield. In Grunt, the inimitable Mary Roach explores ...
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia - History, Principle and Interpretation
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia examines the body of constitutional jurisprudence in an original and rigorous yet accessible way. It begins by exploring the historical and intellectual context of ideas surrounding the ConstitutionÂ’s inception, and closely examines its text, structure, principles and purposes in that light. The book then unpacks and critically analyses the High C...
The Crying Place
In the rear vision, the road was golden and straight and even, its length making sense of the sky, of the vast black cloud that was set to engulf it. I pulled over and got out. Stared at it, this gleaming snake – where I’d been, where it was going. The route that Jed had once taken. After years of travelling, Saul is trying to settle down. But one night he receives the devastating news of the d...
Fighting the Kaiserreich - Australia's epic within the Great War
This book portrays a modern epic – of an army that sailed across the world to fight a war. Its struggle with the Kaiserreich (German empire) became the most formidable campaign Australian troops have ever fought. By the time Monash’s soldiers broke through the Hindenburg Line, their achievement and its cost were staggering. This epic was created by normal Australians, and is understandable to no...
Field Guide To The Birds Of Australia - 8Th Edition
Since it was first published in 1984, Simpson & Day’s Field Guide to the Birds of Australia has been one of the most – if not the most – respected bird guide in the country. It has sold over 500 000 copies. The guide contains 132 superb full-colour plates showing all Australian bird species; key points of identification using the latest classification system; distribution maps for all species; ...
Australia's Great War - 1914
Louis Jullian and his older brother Thomas are on holiday in Sarajevo, enjoying the privileges of life in a diplomatÂ’s family. But the peace is shattered as a bomb explodes and the heir to the Austrian Empire is assassinated in front of their eyes. As Europe descends into war, Louis convinces his parents to let him go to the front as a war correspondent. Sent to northern France, Louis witnesse...
A Chaplain at Gallipoli - The Great War Diaries of Kenneth Best
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War – others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working with the troops under fire. Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians – the first Territor...
The The Europeans in Australia - The Europeans in Australia Vol. 1
It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative – using moral imagination above all – and even-handed. The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the ...
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life - (Middle School 1)
Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca. Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, heÂ’s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if he can pull it off. With his best friend Le...
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.George’s 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...
The Crying Of Lot 49
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former loverÂ’s estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oep...
A Prayer for Gallipoli - The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War – others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working with the troops under fire. Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians – the first Territ...
Horrie the War Dog - The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, HorrieÂ’s exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraft two minutes before his human counterparts and repeatedly saved the lives of the thousand-stro...
Ranger's Apprentice The Early Years 2 - The Battle of HackhamHeath
When Baron Morgarath escaped to avoid punishment for treason, an uneasy peace fell on Araluen. But the Rangers know Morgarath will be planning his next move. King Duncan must prepare for war. Halt volunteers for a seemingly impossible task – climbing the deadly cliffs of the Mountains of Rain and Night and venturing deep into enemy territory to spy on Morgarath. Meanwhile, Crowley must ensure the...