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Joyful strains: making Australia home
By Alice Pung, Ali Lemerm, Catherine Rey, Diane Armstrong, Danny Katz, Arnold Zable, Chris Flynn, Meg Mundell, Mark Dapin, Kent MacCarter, Maria Tumarkin, Paola Totaro, Alison Lemer, Amy Espeseth. 2013
Joyful Strains collects twenty-seven memoirs from writers describing their expatriation to Australia. These are stories about what they found, who…
they became and what they now think of Australia - stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians. Contributors include: Alice Pung, Danny Katz, Mark Dapin and Diane Armstrong, with an introduction from Arnold Zable.The writer's reader: a guide to writing fiction and poetry
By Brenda Walker. 2002
Sailing to Australia: shipboard diaries by nineteenth-century British emigrants
By Andrew Hassam. 1995
Between 1788 and 1880 some 1.3 million free emigrants arrived in Australia from the British Isles. For these people, the…
journey to this new promised land was fraught with difficulty and danger. It was a huge transition, both geographically and culturally. Andrew Hassam analyses the journals and diaries that offer snapshots and experiences of many ordinary men and women who embarked on the adventure.The Akkadian influences on Aramaic (Assyriological studies #19)
By Stephen A Kaufman. 1974
The Aramaic Language is unique among the Semitic languages in that its development as a living language is well documented…
for a period of almost three thousand years, from the earliest inscriptions in the first centuries of the first millennium B. C. until the present day.Defending God
By Harvestime Books. 2002
David Malouf
By Ivor Indyk. 1993
David Malouf is one of Australia's most popular novelists, and also one of its most elusive. Drawing on the whole…
range of his work - fiction, poetry, essays, his plays and his libretti - Ivor Indyk presents Malouf as both a primitive and a romantic, a writer who draws deeply on the rhythms of nature in his expression of dark desires which go largely unrecognised in the social domain.Under the wintamarra tree
By Doris Pilkington. 2002
Doris Pilkington Garimara was born on traditional birthing ground under the Wintamarra tree. This is her life story, which follows…
on from the story of her mother Molly, told in Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. Taken from her family by authorities as a three-year -old, Doris tells her story as an institutional orphan through to her training as a nurses' aide, and finally, her decision as an adult to trace her mother and father.Agamemnon's kiss: selected essays
By Inga Clendinnen. 2006
In this selection of essays, Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to…
what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death. And she writes movingly about other people who have changed her own life. Many of the themes which are central to Clendinnen's work are teased out in Agamemnon's Kiss: the question of black/white relations in Australia, the way we think about the Holocaust and its perpetrators, and the investigative power of history.Alan Marshall's battlers
By Alan Marshall, Gwen Hardisty. 1983
Alan Marshall writing on the poor, the dispossessed, and those who suffered the Great Depression of the 1930's. We meet…
Rattly Bob, the boxer who was paid to lose, a pieman, a street photographer, prostitutes, the 'seagulls', who lived on the food thrown out from ships and the Collingwood poor who heated themselves on "Collingwood Coke" and took their food from rubbish bins. There are Aborigines in the far North and in the city, and the men of the cattle stations; further afield, a Chinese peasant girl, Mongolian tribesmen and the old men of Abkhazia. Marshall also writes of himself, of delerium in hospital, and of his old friends - his crutches.Stories, journalism and criticism by: Kate Grenville, Barbara Hanrahan, Beverley Farmer, Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley, Jessica Anderson, Olga Masters and…
Helen Garner - eight voices representing a decade in Australian literature dominated by women.Through other eyes: the Fred Hollows Foundation ten years on
By Thomas Keneally. 2002
In the 10 years since Fred Hollows died, the Fred Hollows Foundation has continued his pioneering work to help bring…
sight and better health to the disadvantaged. To mark the decade anniversary, various journalists and photographers visited the Foundation's health and eye-care programs in Australia and overseas - to meet those who run them and the people they seek to help. Through Other Eyes is the result - a collection of inspiring accounts of the blind seeing again, and the committed individuals working ceaselessly to achieve first-class eye-care in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable. Contains an introduction by Thomas Keneally.Macular degeneration: the complete guide to saving and maximizing your sight
By Marja Mogk, Lylas G Mogk. 1999
The author, a doctor and loving daughter of a parent with this frightening though manageable condition, explains the ailment and…
how to take steps to limit its effect on one's life. Includes information on reducing risk factors, experimental treatments and research, coping with depression and frustration, what families and friends can do to help and healthy recipes.Into the woods: the battle for Tasmania's forests
By Anna Krien. 2010
For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of…
old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games are played in the courts and parliaments.In Into the Woods, Anna Krien, armed with a notebook, a sleeping bag and a rusty sedan, ventures behind the battlelines to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause. She speaks to ferals and premiers, sawmillers and whistle-blowers. She investigates personalities and convictions, methods and motives. This is a book about a company that wanted its way and the resistance that eventually forced it to change. Into the Woods is intimate, intrepid reporting by a fearless new voice.Whatever you do, don't run: my adventures as a Botswana safari guide
By Peter Allison. 2007
Peter Allison was only nineteen when he left Australia for Africa, thinking he might travel around and see a bit…
of the country before going home to a 'proper job'. But Africa worked its magic, and Peter ended up falling, quickly and completely, in love with the country and its wildlife. Landing in a game reserve in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta, he became a safari guide and, some twelve years later, his short holiday in Africa isn't over yet. Whatever You Do, Don't Run is his guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Like the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more 'fashionable' hot pink ensemble, or the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it, there's not much in the African bush that Peter hasn't seen, photographed or been chased by.Trouble: evolution of a radical : selected writings 1970-2010
By Kate Jennings. 2010
In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally with a pull-no-punches speech that put 'women's lib' on the…
map. Brave, impassioned and searing, the speech set the tone for the idiosyncratic career that was to follow. A few years later, she was on her way to New York, where she would make her name as a writer and enjoy a ringside seat at some of the most confronting events of our time. With a polemical anger tempered by a keen sense of the absurd and a fiercely independent streak, she writes incisively about politics, morality, finance, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider and looks back at Australia with an expatriate's frankness. Trouble is both an unconventional autobiography and a record of remarkable times. From the protest movements of the 1970s, via Wall Street's heyday and dramatic collapse, to the historic election of Barack Obama, Jennings captures the shifts - seismic and subtle, personal and political - that brought us to where we are now. After four decades, Kate Jennings' work is as exhilarating and impossible to categorise - shocking with the shock of recognition - as the day it was written.Life lines: Australian women's letters and diaries 1788-1840
By Dale Spender, Patricia Clarke. 1992
Niagara's gold
By Jeff Maynard. 1996
In June 1940, the Bank of England attempted to ship eight tons of gold to America. On June 19th the…
ship, the RMS Niagara, hit a German mine and sank off the coast of New Zealand. In the months that followed one man would search for the ship and its gold.Leading religion scholar Philip Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and how the…
earliest, most influential churches of the East-those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church-died. In this paradigm-shifting book, Jenkins recovers a lost history, showing how the center of Christianity for centuries used to be the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, extending as far as China. Without this lost history, we can't understand Islam or the Middle East, especially Iran, Iraq, and Syria.Another day in the colony
By Chelsea Watego. 2021
A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations…
people.In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out.Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea tells her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court, and in media. It's a stance that takes its toll on relationships, career prospects, and even the body. Yet when told to have hope, Watego's response rings clear: Fuck hope. Be sovereign.Well hello: meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3
By Annabel Crabb, Leigh Sales, Miranda Murphy. 2021
In 2014, two of Australia's most high-profile journalists sat at a kitchen table, hit record on a phone and started…
a rambling conversation that's still going on (and on). From books to TV, music to cooking, friendship to films, there's little cultural terrain Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales haven't traversed in their oddly named but nonetheless wildly popular podcast Chat 10 Looks 3.Now, in their first book together, the pair takes a stroll through some of the issues of our time, offering advice for would-be writers, thoughts on developing a rich reading life, tips for navigating the perilous world of social media, and the secrets of a great friendship, all with the digressions that listeners of their podcast have come to love. Here Crabb and Sales discuss kindness, success and failure, and not taking yourself - or others - too seriously, with a liberal sprinkling of fairy wrens, granny pants, show tunes, creative insults, diabolical mum bags and CLANGs.Whether you're a devoted listener of Chat 10 Looks 3, curious as to what all the fuss is about, or simply looking to cry-laugh on public transport, Well Hello is the book for you.