The War at Home interprets the experience of the Australian people during the Great War in Australia itself, in the politics of war, its economic and social effects, and in the experience of war; what is conventionally called social history. It seeks to show that the war affected many aspects of Australians lives and that peoples' experience of 1914-18 included more than just the war. It also addresses the impact of the war on Australia's culture and artistic responses to the war.This volume draws on the uneven but still substantial body of scholarship that has grown up in the decades since Ernest Scotts official history appeared in 1936, which in turn has largely been founded on an array of sources mainly made available since then. The Bibliographic Essay discusses the secondary literature on which it is based. It also reflects the experience of the years since then. The events of our past change how we understand more distant history. It is impossible now to think of the internment of German Australians without also reflecting on the experiences of those detained in immigration detention camps, to think of the battle of Broken Hill without also thinking of the war on terror pursued from 2001, or to look at Norman Lindsay's posters without recalling the insidious influence of propaganda in the century since. Before understanding the way the Great War affected Australians, we need to acknowledge the texture of life in 1914. Australia before the Great War was, as Michelle Hetherington writes in a survey of the last full year of peace, a world of glorious possibilities, in which as a social laboratory of progressive social, industrial and economic legislation it was eager to learn, to develop, to dream. The war would damage that dream, arguably fatally.

The War at Home: Volume IV: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War

History

Grey, Jeffrey

Stanley, Peter

Connor, John

Yule, Peter

Australia & Oceania

Oxford University Press

Regarded as the major venue of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Assembly Rooms over the years have housed comics like Griff Rhys-Jones, Ben Elton, Lenny Henry, Rik Mayall, John Sessions, Jools Holland, Gerry Sadowitz and Julian Clary. Here John Connor, cabaret editor of "Time Out", presents a decade of photographs, jokes and anecdotes in a book which aims to reflect the changing face of comedy during the 1980s.

Comics: A Decade of Comedy at the Assembly Rooms

Humor & Entertainment

SMITH, ARTHUR

Humor

Pan/Macmillan

This is the A2 volume in the Sigue series - the best selling two volume A Level Spanish course from the leading A Level Spanish publishers. Key features A one stop shop: the student book combines authentic source material (culturally rich with many references to Spain and El Mundo Hispanohablante), carefully graded language learning exercises and extensive grammar practice all within a coherent, tried and trusted philosophy of language learning. Fully supported with Teachers Resource Book and Audio CDs. The best of the old plus the best of the new: the authors have over 60 years' teaching and examining experience which they have applied to the previous best selling editions of Sigue and which they have now distilled still further to provide a motivating course that delivers outstanding results for students and teachers. This course is rooted in traditional values, but using imaginative approaches and modern methodologies to make language learning a truly rewarding experience. Clear and coherent: stimulating and challenging tasks carefully graded through the book to ensure an appropriate level of demand for all students, clear rubrics; plus uncluttered design which is easy to navigate both for student and teacher with no waste - every element is used for effective learning. Exam success: thorough coverage of the specification topics, skills and content but without reducing the A Level course to two years of exam practice. Endorsed by OCR but useful for all A Level boards including AQA and WJEC. 'We like using these books as the topics are well covered and there is a variety of exercises which challenge the students to improve their Spanish. There is a wealth of material meaning we are never stuck for ideas for topics.' Ian Kendrick, Head of MFL, Ashville College

Sigue!: Tercera Edicion, A2 (English and Spanish Edition)

Mort, David

Hodder Education

<p>This is the AS volume in the Sigue series - the best selling two volume A Level Spanish course from the leading A Level Spanish publishers. Key features A one stop shop: the student book combines authentic source material (culturally rich with many references to Spain and El Mundo Hispanohablante), carefully graded language learning exercises and extensive grammar practice all within a coherent, tried and trusted philosophy of language learning. Fully supported with Teachers Resource Book and Audio CDs. The best of the old plus the best of the new: the authors have over 60 years' teaching and examining experience which they have applied to the previous best selling editions of Sigue and which they have now distilled still further to provide a motivating course that delivers outstanding results for students and teachers. This course is rooted in traditional values, but using imaginative approaches and modern methodologies to make language learning a truly rewarding experience. Clear and coherent: stimulating and challenging tasks carefully graded through the book to ensure an appropriate level of demand for all students, clear rubrics; plus uncluttered design which is easy to navigate both for student and teacher with no waste - every element is used for effective learning. Exam success: thorough coverage of the specification topics, skills and content but without reducing the A Level course to two years of exam practice. Endorsed by OCR but useful for all A Level boards including AQA and WJEC. "We like using these books as the topics are well covered and there is a variety of exercises which challenge the students to improve their Spanish. There is a wealth of material meaning we are never stuck for ideas for topics." Ian Kendrick, Head of MFL, Ashville College</p>

Sigue! AS (Spanish Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Sigue!: Tercera Edition (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

A Child's Game

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Magna Large Print Books

Unsafe

<p>First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.</p>

Implementing In-Service Education And Training

Morrison, Marlene

Burgess, Robert G.

Galloway, Sheila

Newton, Malcolm

Routledge

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Burgess, Robert G. G.

Phoenix

The 8th April 1996 was a bad day for Karen Sharpe, the eighth anniversary of something so deeply buried she had hoped to forget it ever happened. But each year it was there again, pushing to get out. And each year she tried to cope in whatever way she could. Most years she turned to booze. But this year that wasn't going to work. Sometime after midnight Phil Leech, her DS and partner on Operation Anvil, is executed in a military style killing, whilst Fiona Mitchell, his pretty 21 year old informant, ends up face up on a South Pennine moor with bullets through her face and chest. Karen had been due to meet both when drink and memories intervened, preventing her from getting there. The police operation to find Leech's killer - Phoenix - is one of the largest in the history of West Yorkshire. Detective Chief Superintendent John Munro is the Senior Investigating Officer. He thinks two middle tier drug dealers - Coates and Varley - are the most likely suspects. Fiona Mitchell was Coates' girlfriend and both men were the targets on Anvil. There is even a rumour of a deeper relationship between Leech and Mitchell. But Karen isn't sure.Odd details keep pulling her back, forcing her to look inside herself and examine her own unclear memories. As Munro's enquiry focuses its efforts on Coates and Varley, Karen follows her instincts to different and more disturbing clues, embedded in her own secret history. She must confront her past and act quickly if she is to prevent the seed of destruction planted eight years before from wreaking devastating and brutal consequences.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Orion an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

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