Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
by Bain Attwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
'We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people' Bill Onus, 1967
Aboriginal people were the original landowners in Australia, yet this was easily forgotten by Europeans settling this old continent. Labelled as a primitive...
Widening Minds
The University of New South Wales and the Education of Australia's Defence Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Since 1967 more than 25,000 students have graduated from UNSW after studying at Duntroon, HMAS Creswell, the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tom Frame examines the productive 50-year partnership between UNSW and the Australian Defence Force.In a candid exploration of the highs and lows of the longest...
Long Road
Australia's Train, Advise and Assist Missions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Helping neighbors and partners stabilize their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force. The Long Road analyzes the successes and failures of ADF's ‘train, advise, assist' missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville,...
The Censor's Library
Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, this enlightening and enthralling discussion is based on Nicole Moore’s discovery of the secret "censor’s library" in the National Archives. Combining scholarship with the narrative tension of a thriller, the book...
by Albert Moran, Errol Vieth
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. This book is an introduction and guide to the film of Australia and New Zealand. With entries on many exceptional...
by Justin Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Nannygoat Hill stands in the Wolli Valley, about 10km from Sydney’s central business district. One of the few surviving remnants of the City’s natural environment, it supports a wide range of native plants and animals and is a much-loved local ‘beauty spot’. In 1967, Brambles Industrial Services...
Southwest Passage
The Yanks in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur’s arrival...
Abelam people History and Culture
Tradition and Social Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Abelam people tradition and culture from their origin to present, Abelam art Oceania culture and history, find out more about Oceanic environment and Abelam people, the book titled Abelam people History and Culture will give you all the information
by Chris Pash
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
At the end of the 1970s, one young reporter bears witness to the final days of Australia’s whaling industry. Thirty years after the last whale was captured and slaughtered in Australia, this incisive account tells the very human story of the characters and events that brought whaling to an end....
by Morris Graham
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Arthur Hill Griffith (1862-1946) was a rare species: a noteworthy Minister of the Crown in an Australian state parliament. He has immortality of a kind in the Riverina city named after him and since 1997 in the name Griffith-Hack, giving a firm of patent attorneys an ancestry stretching back to the...
by Shawn Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Melbourne is Australia’s second largest city and the capital of the state of Victoria. The city is often mentioned as Australia’s finest and offers numerous galleries, parks, museums and theatres alongside beaches, cafes and shopping. Many people use the city as a base from which to explore the...
Brisbane & Cairns Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
The sunshine state of Queensland, located in the northeast of Australia is one of the country’s best tourist destinations. Queensland’s largest city is the state capital of Brisbane and together with the neighbouring Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast has beautiful beaches, constant sunshine and some...
Breathe
Australian health, yoga and meditation retreats
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Breathe offers a vast selection of Australia health, yoga and meditation retreats in which to slow down and look after yourself. With detailed reviews, enticing photos and a beautiful design, Breathe is a travel guidebook and armchair companion, providing inspiration to look after our most important...
Darwin 1942
The Japanese attack on Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Following the devastating raids on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, lightning advances by Japanese forces throughout the Pacific and the Far East, and a desperate battle by the Allied command in the Dutch East Indies, it became evident that an attack on Australia was more a matter of 'when' and not...