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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Andrew Markus; Margaret Taft
29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History Ser.
They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourn ...Show more
Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical Christians In Australian History, 1914-2014 by Stuart Piggin, Robert D Linder
49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
In this major new contribution Stuart Piggin and Robert Linder tell the story of how Australian evangelical Christians responded to the decline of the British empire and to the expanding international reach of their religious mission and beliefs, of how these Christians reacted to the challenges of secu ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognize that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most we ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist by Richard Allsop
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country's past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian im ...Show more
History Alive 10 AC & EB Plus by Robert Darlington; Tom Hawkins; Luke Jackson; Ashley Wood (Editor)
54.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: History Alive for the Australian Curriculum Ser.
Jacaranda will be publishing a 2nd edition of Jacaranda History Alive 10 for the Australian Curriculum in 2017 for use in 2018. The updated title will be available as print or a new eBook powered by learnON, the immersive digital learning platform. Please visit the Jacaranda Australian Curriculum Histor ...Show more
History Alive 7 for the Australian Curriculum by Elizabeth Harnwell
19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: History Alive for the Australian Curriculum Ser.
History Alive 7 for the Australian Curriculum Student Workbook is designed to deepen and enhance student learning, with additional classroom or homework activities for each chapter. KEY FEATURES: ? Thinking tools worksheets explore a range of helpful thinking tools ? Vocabulary worksheets to help stud ...Show more
History Alive 7 for the Australian Curriculum & EBookPLUS by Robert Darlington
54.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: History Alive for the Australian Curriculum Ser.
Based on the highly successful Humanities Alive series, History Alive 7 for the Australian Curriculum and eBookPLUS provides the most engaging and fascinating coverage of the new Australian Curriculum for History for year 7 students across Australia. KEY FEATURES ? Visually appealing double-page spreads ...Show more
I Wonder: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis by Peter Browne (Editor); Seumas Spark (Editor)
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach -- summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' -- won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about re ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more