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1788-1809 Year by Year by Victoria Macleay
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Timelines Ser.
The first 22 years of the colonisation of Australia were tumultuous ones. They began with the arrival of the First Fleet and ended with the aftermath of the only military insurrection Australia has ever experienced. This book covers all the major events the arrival at Botany Bay, the settlement at Sydne ...Show more
25 Years of Australian Geographic Photography - Special Ed by Australian Geographic
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
A quarter of a century ago, the Australian Geographic journal began documenting an Australia only thrown a passing glance by other media: a land of red dirt, big skies and faces etched with experience of this sometimes harsh and unforgiving land. Founder Dick Smiths love for the Aussie bush manifested i ...Show more
A Better Death: Conversations About the Art of Living and Dying Well by Ranjana Srivastava
Category: Health | Series: Australian Psychology
A powerful, timely exploration of the art of living and dying on our own terms by one of Australia's most respected voices Of all the experiences we share, two universal events bookend our lives: we were all born and we will all die. We don't have a choice in how we enter the world but we can have a say ...Show more
A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An uplifting and magical story of childhood, family and finding ways to change the inevitable ...Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 ... 33 ... and 93. On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction: ‘One ocean: plant in the backyard.’ S ...Show more
A Lot With A Little by Tim Costello
Category: Memoir | Series: Australian
In this evocative memoir, Tim Costello explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a socially active fighter for the world's most challenging issues. Tracing each defining stage of his life with stark insight and honesty, Tim untangles his ongoing struggle to align his self-perception ...Show more
A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski
Category: No Category | Series: AUSTRALIAN
"[A Month of Sundays] demonstrates the capacity of a book to act as a mirror to the soul and an eloquent guide to a more contented future." WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN I wonder if we'll ever have the chance to actually be in the same room together,' Judy had ventured. For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Sim ...Show more
A Naturalist's Guide to Dangerous Creatures of Australia: Australia by Peter Rowland, Scott Eipper
Category: No Category | Series: AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC
Photographic identification guide to the 280 species of dangerous creature most commonly seen in Australia which is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, si ...Show more
A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Andrew Markus; Margaret Taft
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History Ser.
They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourn ...Show more
A Trip to the Dominions - The Scientific Event That Changed Australia by Lynette Russell (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Studies
On the eve of the Great War, in 1914 the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to?travel to Australia for their annual conference. Over 150 scientists were fully funded by the Australian Commonwealth government and they travelled on three s ...Show more
A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice by Sue Taffe
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
"A white hot flame indeed - here is an important contribution to our national story." --Kim Scott *** Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal ...Show more
AWW 5 Ingredients Slow Cooker by Australian Women's Weekly Weekly
Category: Cooking | Food | Drink | Series: The\Australian Women's Weekly Ser.
The best thing about slow cooking is that you can throw all the ingredients into a slow cooker and let it do the work for you. It?s so easy. But we?ve found a way to make it even easier! By using just 5 ingredients, not only will you have less to buy, but there?ll be less to prep too, and it will still ...Show more
AWW 501 Low-Carb Recipes (PB) by Australian Women's Weekly
Category: No Category | Series: The Australian Women's Weekly Ser.
Lose weight and feel great by reducing the amount of carbohydrates in your diet. Whether your goal is to lose weight fast, or more slowly, or just to maintain your ideal weight, these recipes are easy to follow and so delicious that you'll want to make them part of a new way of eating. Back by popular d ...Show more