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This ghost memoir tells the life of Catharine Maber, from her harsh beginnings as a child in Ireland, to her eventual marriage and transportation to a penal colony in Australia. A skilled embroiderer, which often helped her to survive, Catharine tells her story through the making of a patchwork quilt.
Catharine's story is told from family research and written from Catharine's point of view, outlining how she survived in a harsh environment, with a...
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This book is a dramatic account of the making of a family of 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. It also captures the texture of everyday life in Australia and Russia, with humour and insight. Importantly, it is much more than a tale of dreams and deceptions. It is an unflinching chronicle of love and courage in the face of concerted opposition by both the Menzies' authoritarian government of 'illiberal democracy' and the...
283) Shape of a Boy
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Giving you a glimpse into World War 1 and the endeavors that followed, this autobiography and collection of memoirs are written through the eyes of an infantry soldier as he navigates war, abandonment, betrayal, loss, and love.
Beginning in England, Robert shares his inspirational story demonstrating what life was like during The Great War.
From early childhood memories to Navy adventures, joining the Australian Imperial Forces, everyman to France,...
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Fifteen writers with diverse personal and scholarly backgrounds come together in this collection to examine issues of identity, viewing it as both a departing point and end destination for the various peoples who have come to call New Zealand "home." The essays reflect the diversity of thinking about identity across the social sciences as well as common themes that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Their explorations of the process of identity-making...
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This early work by Herbert Brayley Collett was originally published in 1922 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19' is a work that details the history of the battalion during the First World War. Colonel Collett evidently asked himself: "What do the friends of the men of the Battalion want to know?" They want to know what the men did and what...
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Afghanistan is a long way from both Canada and Australia, but from 2001, fate conspired to bring the three countries together. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Australia and Canada joined the U. S. and other Western allies in attacking al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan. Operation Enduring Freedom began on October 4, 2001, but this was only the beginning of a much longer engagement in Afghanistan for both Canada and Australia, with a legacy...
287) My Father My Father
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Bernard Marin, a successful Jewish accountant, was almost fifty when he was suddenly, struck down by crippling headaches. The problem, however, was not just physical. Bernard's distress was the result of years of denial over his poor relationship with his father, who had died fourteen years before.
Stan Marin had told his son nothing of his life; indeed, he had barely seemed to notice his son's existence. When his father died, Bernard had felt only...
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A collection of essays on the war in Iraq; including pieces by Jean Chrétien and John Howard, the prime ministers during the war. When it was declared in 2003, the U. S. -led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. While a few of America's partners, like Australia, joined in the war, many, including Canada, refused to take part. However the war in Iraq was viewed at the time, though, it is clear that that war and the war in Afghanistan have...
289) While we run
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"It's the year 2128, and Tegan Oglietti, the world's first successfully revived cryonics patient, and her maybe-boyfriend, Abdi Taalib, are on the run from the government and from a dangerous rebel group. When they uncover shocking new information about the cryonics program, they are faced with an impossible decision that will put thousands of lives in their hands"--
290) Five Months at Anzac
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"Shortly after the outbreak of War-after the first contingent had been mobilized, and while they were undergoing training-it became evident that it would be necessary to raise another force to proceed on the heels of the first. Three Infantry Brigades with their Ambulances had already been formed; orders for a fourth were now issued, and naturally the Ambulance would be designated Fourth Field Ambulance."
This work is a narrative of personal experiences...
291) Bloody Colonials
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A clever integration of whodunit, historical fiction and wall-to-wall satire, Bloody Colonials is a wickedly satirical piece of crime fiction set in a forbidding landscape, where big fish battle to the death in a dangerously small pond. Set in a fictitious early NSW penal colony, somewhere to the vaguely tropical north of Sydney, the book ruthlessly exposes the follies of the times, while retaining an essential faith that some humans are okay, subject...
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When Beastly nearly kills a friend, he knows it is time to take a rest from his job, as a Kings Cross night club bouncer, and get out of town for a while.
Travel with Beastly as he heads out bush to find his sense of self again.
In a sense, a 'coming of age' story, with a difference, set in Australia in the 70s or 80s, you will find yourself drawn in from the first page!
Warm and philosophical, full of fascinating characters with that disarming...
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A small but significant group of Queensland's 9th Battalion Anzacs holds the unique honour of being the first soldiers ashore at the Gallipoli landing. Their identity was a serious matter of battalion and unit pride for World War 1 Diggers and, for many Queensland communities and families, today, these men represent a proud connection to the Anzac Legend. The author's extensive research of wartime letters, diaries, newspaper reports and interviews...
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L'Australie, île-continent située entre l'océan Pacifique sud et l'océan Indien, ne compte que 22 millions d'habitants (2010) sur un territoire de 7 682 300 kilomètres carrés. Le territoire australien est une partie de l'ancien Gondwana et fut habité il y a 60 000 ans par des populations venues de l'ancien continent de Sahul, aujourd'hui l'Asie...
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Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation renders his books devastating and unforgettable. Now, for the first time, Lindqvist's most beloved works are available in one beautiful and affordable volume with a new introduction by Adam Hochschild. The Dead Do Not Die includes the full unabridged text of "Exterminate All...
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'I came from a traditional Buddhist family. When I came to Australia to study in high school in 1971, I was an atheist. One person tried to share with me
the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had so many questions for him, but he couldn't answer them. ... [I came to know the Lord] through the ministry of OCF, especially through Lim Kim Bew and his wife, Judy, who are ex-OCFers. They have been very good in reaching out to overseas students, opening their
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297) Aliens & Savages
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Aliens & Savages is a hands-on historical record of the racism that underpins Australia's growth as a nation. First published twenty-five years ago, this new and revised edition asks: what has changed?
As we approach the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, Aliens & Savages is still the only publication of its kind - a survey of racism and xenophobia in Australian popular writings before the advent of social...
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Many Australian Christians know little of the numerous others in this country who, by God's grace, were effective witnesses to Christ. In AAPB (1977), a few local festivals were included, but not Australian people. In APBA (1995), the Calendar included a dozen or more people in whose lives God's grace was so evident that they are commemorated in some part of this land. Australian Anglicans Remember covers all Australian and New Zealand commemorations...
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As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how...
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When escapologist Harry Houdini toured Australia in 1910, he brought magic, mystique, his wife and an airplane. Houdini conquered crowds and nearly caused riots, he escaped straitjackets and shackles and flew through the air. Some said he was supernatural, to others he was a fraud, but Houdini confounded them all. This is the story of Harry Houdini, 'the greatest and most astounding artist that ever appeared in Australia'.