The Rise & Fall of Marvellous Melbourne

Business & Money

Davison, Graeme

Economics

Melbourne University

A history of Brighton

Weston Bate

Railways have played an immense part in the history of New South Wales. The parallel lines extended as the population grew and themselves made possible new settlement and new industries. Railways crossed the mountain barriers that surround Sydney and opened up both the vast hinterland and the northern and southern coasts. Railways joined every part of New South Wales to Sydney in a distinctive, centralized pattern. They also joined New South Wales to the neighbouring colonies and states.

Along Parallel Lines

History

Gunn, John

Australia & Oceania

First-hand accounts of the myth-laden Burke and Wills expedition are remarkably few, in contrast to the reams of subsequent commentary and conjecture. Wills's journal and statements by others in the party were published at the time, but little more.Hermann Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the expedition, wrote the only other substantial account, in his native German. The manuscript remained with his family for nearly a century. It is now published for the first time.This highly readable account, with drawings and maps, offers insights into the causes of the expedition's failurea "an ill-chosen leader and route, and inappropriate and excessive supplies. In increasingly desperate conditions Beckler collected and identified the native flora, and recorded vivid and positive descriptions of the landscape and the Aboriginal people. His acute observations indicate what might have been achieved had the expedition pursued its scientific brief.

A Journey To Cooper's Creek (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)

Beckler, Hermann

Biographies & Memoirs

This volume surveys current knowledge and ideas about sexuality, social theory and research. There has been much debate about controversial issues of sexual conduct from contraception to AIDS prevention but, until now, few books have offered systematic thinking across the whole field of sexuality. This book brings together state-of-the-art social theory, public policy issues, and historical and survey research. It covers issues ranging from AIDS and gay identity to perceptions of women's sexuality and relations between the state and our sexual behaviour.

Rethinking Sex: Social Theory & Sexuality Research

Self-Help

W, Connell R

John Perceval

Attractively illustrated book which explores the life and career of this renowned Australian artist from the 1920s to the present. Contains a catalogue raisonn}}, list of principal exhibitions, summary of biographical details and an extensive bibliography are included. The hardback is a limited edition.

Perceval, John

Allen, Traudi

Working in areas as diverse as intelligence and chemical warfare research, the 27,000 women who served in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force changed the role of women in wartime. Joyce Thomson firmly establishes the WAAAF 's place in history and examines the political and public debate stirred by its formation and development amidst male prejudice and the changing status of women.

The Waaaf in Wartime Australia

Thomson, Joyce A.

The Eureka Stockade

Carboni, Raffaello

...history is my passion. Writing it, teaching it, reading it fills the days and years of my life. In all passions, there is pain and pleasure. Greg Dening In this collection of writings some new, some previously published Greg Dening reflects on his experiences both as a historian and a participant in history. Performances brings together the personal and the scholarly, demonstrating how our lives are saturated with history, how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past and how in thinking about the past we mirror the time and place of our own living. Each of these essays can be enjoyed on its own, yet throughout them all run the common themes of the intricate relationships between past and present, the personal and the political, historical research and the imagination. Dening writes with elegance and candour, inviting readers to reflect upon their own participation in the performance of history.

Performances

Dening, Greg

Historical Study & Educational Resources

The life of George Johnston, author of the best-selling My Brother Jack, was in many ways symbolic of Australian post-war cultural life. He was a complex character, dogged by feelings of mediocrity, betrayal and failure that he ultimately transformed though the writing of his brilliant trilogy. In this award-winning biography, Garry Kinnane examines the process by which Johnston selected people, places and events for this creative transformation. In doing so, he reveals the reality that lay behind the glamorous outer facade of the life of Johnston and his wife, the writer Charmian Clift.

George Johnston

Kinnane, Garry

Arts & Literature

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