This third edition published by Kangaroo Press in 1988. First edition published 1986 by Reed in Australia and Princeton University Press in US as The Flowering of Gondwana. The Fossil Record studied is not just a collection of dusty old rock speciments. It is a tantalising key to visualising the world as it was long ago. the plants tell us of past climates. They conjure up a picture of ancient landscapes, and explain configuration of land and sea on the ever-changing face of the Earth. Third edition updated to incorporate the most recent ideas about the evolution of Australia's modern flora and the nature of Gondwana forests at the time of separation from Antarctica. Illustrated with over 400 magnificent photographs of fossils and living plants, plus maps, diagrams and artist's drawings. for the first time scientist, specialist and the general reader can follow Australia's plant ancestry, and appreciate the individuality that has evolved from an inheritance in common with plants from other southern lands.

The Greening of Gondwana: Third Edition

History

White, Mary E.

World

Rosenberg Publishing

Now available in paperback! In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and the Portuguese became the first Europeans to sail the Eastern Seas in search of spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains, and other oriental goods. Over the next 100 years, the Portuguese spread their trading network from India as far north as China and Japan, and as far east as Timor in the eastern end of the Indonesian Archipelago. In 1595 and 1601 respectively, the first Dutch and English trading expeditions rounded the Cape of Good Hope and soon the trading monopoly of the Portuguese Crown was being challenged by the Dutch East India Company and then the English East India Company, the world's first joint stock and multi-national trading companies. For the next 250 years, the struggle for supremacy between the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English was to range across the Eastern Seas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki, Solor, Batavia, Macassar, Johor, and Singapore. This book follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port cities across the East Indies and the Orient. The story is told by the history of these port cities, beginning in Malacca, which was one of the world's largest trading ports in the 16th century, and finishing with the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong, which became some of the world's largest trading ports in the 20th century. [Subject: History]

East Indies: The 200 Year Struggle Between the Portuguese Crown, the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company for Supremacy in the Eastern Seas

Burnet, Ian

Asia

This book is a thoughtful and perceptive overview of the development of obstetrics and gynaenocology in Australia from the beginning of the twentieth century. It contains myriads of little known facts on the revolution in this discipline during the 20th century, which saw childbirth in Australia change from the dreadful, dangerous, and frightening experience of the 19th century into the cocooned safety of today where Australia is now the safest place in the world to bear a child. The author weaves his 60 year journey in obstetrics into the national narrative to provide a fascinating read. The reader will not only learn a great deal about the science and art of obstetrics, but also the personal issues faced by every conscientious obstetrician. Alan Hewson rose from a humble background to become one of the most influential doctors to have graduated with the first wave of those admitted to Sydney University post-WWII. He achieved national prominence in both his own discipline of obstetrics and the wider medical community. His career included not only obstetrics and gynaecology, but many aspects of formal education, medical politics, and third world medicine, administration, and nursing education. Also included are 159 photos and diagrams. *** "This is the first book that documents the development of obstetrics and gynaecology in Australia, and the socio-cultural, political, legal and economic contexts which influenced such development. It not only focuses on the medical discipline but also includes the development of the midwifery discipline and the importance of inter-professional collaboration, due to the author's energetic research and lively writing. It should be required reading for medical, midwifery and nursing students, those interested in obstetrics and gynaecology, and anyone wishing to understand the positive transformation of care for expectant mothers in the 20th century." --Professor Sally Chan, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean of School, Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle *** "an impressively informative and exceptionally well presented historical study that is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library Health & Medicine collections and supplemental studies reading lists." --The Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch, The Health/Medicine Shelf, April 2018 [Subject: Health, Women's Medicine, Obstetrics, Medical History, Australian Studies]

Tragedy, Trials and Triumphs: Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Australia in the Twentieth Century

Hewson, Alan Donald

Australia & Oceania

Gary Nash tells the story of his Russian grandparents who suffered the traumas of the Revolution and Civil War. They escaped to China and found their new life shattered by the Japanese invasion. It is a story of courage and determination. Gary was born, of Russian parents in Tiensin. The family were eventually moved to a displaced persons camp in the Philippines and finally reached Australia. Aida, the grandmother, held the family together and eventually they were all in Australia.

The Tarasov Saga: From Russia through China to Australia

Biographies & Memoirs

Nash, Gary

Arts & Literature

Beautifully illustrated with forty one of Robert Carter's detailed paintings. These paintings each with its own descriptions, reveal yet another story from the days of sail. Scrupulously accurate, and wonderfully evocative. Robert Carter's marine paintings are world renowned. The book is full of primary source material about the final days of the great ships - Windjammers, or Tall Ships. Every major maritime national now posses at least one sail training ship along with a plethora of other vessels engaged in charter work, together with stationary museum ships.

Windjammers: The Final Story

Carter OAM, Robert

From the first bacterial 'germ of life' cells that formed in the hot, hostile, and highly volcanic Earth nearly 4 billion years ago, to the present day, life has been an unbroken continuum. Bacterial cells have been the building blocks from which higher living things, including humans, are constructed. The biochemical pathways and metabolic processes that bacteria evolved and perfected still give life to the DNA of all living matter. By definition, the thin outer layer of our planet, the biosphere-that is metabolizing as a result of the life it contains-is alive. The essential role of microbes in maintaining the living Earth did not cease or diminish with the coming of visible living organisms. Only recently has it been recognized to just what extent invisible life controls the planet. We need to acknowledge the symbiotic nature of the biosphere, where microbes represent more than half of the living matter; the interconnections between all living things and the environment; and the dangers of not taking into account the factors required for maintaining the life-friendly balances that result from the functioning of all the webs of life. Because terrestrial life is dependent on plants-whose photosynthesis provides the basis of all food chains-the role of soil micro-organisms is all-important. Understanding how plants and the soil biota interact is basic to achieving sustainable land use and thus our survival. Earth Alive! From Microbes to a Living Planet gives a new perspective and reveals the significance of life's bacterial ancestry, and the continuing enormous importance of the invisible world of micro-organisms that still sustain the living Earth.

Earth Alive!: From Microbes to a Living Planet

Historical Study & Educational Resources

This book covers the history of the Australian continent from the arrival of the first humans about 100,000 years or so BCE, up to the present. It analyses the ecological and environmental impacts of human beings on the continent, and attempts to delineate the ways in which human intervention and cultural formations over-rode experience in the era of British colonization, and continue to do so. They way in which the application of an inappropriate culture that stressed the establishment of small-scale agriculture as the primary mode of production mandated failure for white Australians in the colonial period depicted.

Australia in a Nutshell: A Narrative History

Clarke, Frank

A broad introduction to the Mediterranean gardening tradition. It offers a private view; one that encourages exploration of the vast world of plants and the equally diverse design options that can be drawn on by gardeners who work their magic in Mediterranean climes everywhere. Trevor Nottle has an international reputation as a writer and lecturer and is also well known as a garden historian.

Plants for Mediterranean Climate Gardens

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Nottle, Trevor

Gardening & Landscape Design

Explores the tempestuous partnership, both marital and literary, of George Johnston and Charmian Clift. The joint work won a prestigous Australian Literary prize. George was an acclaimed war correspondent, and a noted foreign correspondent. His novel, My Brother Jack, won the Australian Miles Franklin Award.The disintegration of their literary and marital partnership under the strains of alcoholism, illness and jealousy is described. It presents an interesting picture of pre-war, wartime and post-war Australia from the newspaperman's perspective.

Charmian and George: The Marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift

Brown, Max

Literature & Fiction

Under the various headings of Groundcovers, Tufting Plants, Climbers, Shrubs and Trees over 100 very choice plants are described. Cultivation and propagation information is provided for each plant, together withsuggestions for plant groupings. Basic cultivation information on container plants, pruning and shaping of plants, watering, fertilizing, mulching, and pests and diseases.

Australian Plants for Mediterranean Climate Gardens

Elliot, Rodger

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