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The Politics of Australian Child Care: Philanthropy to Feminism and Beyond
ISBN: 9780521635103 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, now in a revised edition, is a political history of child care in Australia from the 1890s to the 1990s. Once provided by philanthropic groups and available only to those deemed underprivileged, child care has now become part of the mainstream political agenda. Deborah Brennan provides an in-depth analysis of policy developments in this significant area since the Commonwealth became involved in 1972. The revised edition provides a detailed analysis of the shifts in policy under Labor as well as an up-to-date account of developments under the Howard government since 1996.
This book, now in a revised edition, is a political history of child care in Australia from the 1890s to the 1990s. Once provided by philanthropic gro...
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213,82 zł |
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The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia
ISBN: 9780521669740 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Labour of Loss explores how mothers, fathers, widows, relatives and friends dealt with their experiences of grief and loss during and after the First and Second World Wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries, this study makes a significant contribution to understanding how people came to terms with the deaths of friends and family. Unlike other studies in this area, The Labour of Loss considers how mourning affected men and women in different ways, and analyzes the gendered dimensions of grief.
The Labour of Loss explores how mothers, fathers, widows, relatives and friends dealt with their experiences of grief and loss during and after the Fi...
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149,22 zł |
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Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II
ISBN: 9780521782227 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fighting the Enemy is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during World War II, this powerful and resonant book contains many moving descriptions of high emotion and drama. Soldiers' interactions with their enemies are central to war, and their attitudes to their adversaries are crucial to the way wars are fought. This book is an unprecedented and thorough examination of the way Australian combat soldiers interacted with troops from the four powers engaged in World War II.
Fighting the Enemy is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during...
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306,05 zł |
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
ISBN: 9780521851374 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was ultimately destroyed by...
In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their ...
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366,01 zł |
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A History of Queensland
ISBN: 9780521876926 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human habitation up to the present. It encompasses pre-contact Aboriginal history, the years of convictism, free settlement and subsequent urban and rural growth. It takes the reader through the tumultuous frontier and Federation years, the World Wars, the Cold War, the controversial Bjelke-Petersen era and on, beyond the beginning of the new millennium. It reveals Queensland as a sprawling, harsh, diverse and conflictual place, where the struggles of race, ethnicity, class,...
A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human habitation up to the pres...
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393,62 zł |
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Great Words : Speeches That Shaped Australia
ISBN: 9780522846812 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Capturing the essence of formative moments in Australian history, this collection of public addresses and speeches--from impassioned Parliamentary harangues to succinct and pithy one-liners--provides fresh glimpses into Australian society, culture, and people.
Capturing the essence of formative moments in Australian history, this collection of public addresses and speeches--from impassioned Parliamentary har...
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160,64 zł |
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The Rocks: Everyday Life in Early Sydney 1788-1830
ISBN: 9780522848441 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rather a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity than coercion, discipline and punishment. Hardcover ISBN 0522847226 $34.95.
Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rat...
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136,25 zł |
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Invisible Invaders: Smallpox and Other Diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880
ISBN: 9780522849394 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceed European settlement. She believed they originated in regular visits to the northern coast of Australia by Macassan fishermen from southern Sulawesi and nearby islands.
Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceed European settlement. She believed they originated in regular visi...
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141,12 zł |
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Sand in Our Souls: The Beach in Australian History
ISBN: 9780522849455 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Images of the beach pervade Australian popular culture. But the deeper significance of the experience of the beach, and its influence on Australian culture generally, has not yet been seriously explored. How, why and when did the beach become part of the Australian way of life? This work describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded Australian's enjoyment of sand and surf. The ways in which artists, writers, film-makers and the advertising industry have depicted the beach are examined for the light they throw on the beach's significance. The arguments should stimulate debate...
Images of the beach pervade Australian popular culture. But the deeper significance of the experience of the beach, and its influence on Australian cu...
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141,12 zł |
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Facing North, Volume I: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia: 1901 to the 1970s
ISBN: 9780522850086 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first volume assesses the whole history of Australia's relations with Asia from Federation to the 1970s. It explains major changes in official Australian policies towards Asia, and also broader cultural challenges.
This first volume assesses the whole history of Australia's relations with Asia from Federation to the 1970s. It explains major changes in official Au...
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175,25 zł |
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining
ISBN: 9780522850093 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Australian landscape is littered with mines. This text tells the story of Australia's mineral discoveries, describes the giants of its mining history and records the tremendous influence that mining has had on its attitudes to unionism, religion, law and politics.
The Australian landscape is littered with mines. This text tells the story of Australia's mineral discoveries, describes the giants of its mining hist...
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136,25 zł |
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The Fuss That Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN: 9780522850345 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Takes a look at the career of Geoffrey Blainey. As a historian, he is a maverick - respected for his originality and prodigious productivity, but sometimes dismissed as a blinkered populist. He has steered Australian history into the nation's conversation.
Takes a look at the career of Geoffrey Blainey. As a historian, he is a maverick - respected for his originality and prodigious productivity, but some...
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136,25 zł |
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A Short History Of The University Of Melbourne, A
ISBN: 9780522850581 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its early buildings erected at the same time as those of the Victorian parliament, the University of Melbourne was raised when its namesake was a frontier town and the first classes offered were attended by just 16 students. Lively, shrewd, and erudite, this history explores the evolution of the campus site, the tensions and achievements of the academicians it employed, and the variety of students who studied there. The subtlety of storytelling and the reverence for the university imbue this tribute with a respect for how the university has offered a critical perspective on the...
With its early buildings erected at the same time as those of the Victorian parliament, the University of Melbourne was raised when its namesake was a...
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72,96 zł |
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A History of Port Phillip District: Victoria Before Separation
ISBN: 9780522850642 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period from the first temporary convict camp of 1803 to the formal separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851 encompasses years of struggle and adversity. They saw the future of the territory shaped by Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators and immigrants.
The period from the first temporary convict camp of 1803 to the formal separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851 encompasses years of strugg...
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136,25 zł |
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Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851-1901
ISBN: 9780522850659 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This workbook has been written to accompany the First Time French Dictionary, and is an introduction to dictionary skills. It is designed to help pupils develop dictionary skills by working through a range of practical exercises. Clear, photocopiable worksheets, with appealing illustrations, show young learners that dictionaries can be fun and easy to use. Additional pages give ideas for teachers on how to encourage dictionary use in the classroom, whilst reinforcing the teaching of literacy. Used together with the First Time French Dictionary, this workbook will help both teachers and young...
This workbook has been written to accompany the First Time French Dictionary, and is an introduction to dictionary skills. It is designed to help pupi...
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87,57 zł |
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The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia
ISBN: 9780522850666 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This memoir of Celeste de Chabrillan, former Parisian courtesan, circus performer, dancer, and wife of the French consul, offers a firsthand account of the years she spent in gold rush Victoria during the middle of the 19th century. De Chabrillan recounts stories of her childhood in the village of St. Kilda, her time spent in the Ballarat gold field, and her attendance of a public hanging and Governor Hotham's "beer ball." The publication of this memoir, which includes descriptions of her illegitimate birth, miserable adolescence, and celebrity career as a bareback rider and polka dancer,...
This memoir of Celeste de Chabrillan, former Parisian courtesan, circus performer, dancer, and wife of the French consul, offers a firsthand account o...
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136,25 zł |
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Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke/Into the Smother/The Sword and the Blossom
ISBN: 9780522850673 / Angielski / Miękka / 972 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both the courage and the inhumanity displayed during wartime are chronicled in these three diaries penned by Ray Parkin, who served during World War II. Engaging narratives and pictures detail his experience on the "HMAS Perth in the Sunda Strait battle with the Japanese naval force that eventually sunk his ship. Also recounted are Parkin's 15 months as a prisoner of war, during which he helped construct the Burma-Siam railway. Details of his final 12 months of captivity in a crowded tramp steamer reveal the endurance of soldiers who survived submarine attacks and weathered a typhoon. These...
Both the courage and the inhumanity displayed during wartime are chronicled in these three diaries penned by Ray Parkin, who served during World War I...
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194,71 zł |
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Hill End: A Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape
ISBN: 9780522850765 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work unravels the myths surrounding the gold rushes in order to reveal the hidden histories of the Wiradjuri people, of the graziers and convicts who occupied the Wiradjuri lands, and of the multi-cultural gold boom community that endured for generations after the boom had passed.
This work unravels the myths surrounding the gold rushes in order to reveal the hidden histories of the Wiradjuri people, of the graziers and convicts...
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136,25 zł |
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Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History
ISBN: 9780522851144 / Angielski / Miękka / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This definitive account explores the treaties made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia and the different ways in which the two groups interpreted those acts of possession. Questions such as "Why were these agreements forged?""How did the Aborigines understand the terms of the agreements?" and "On what basis did whites claim to be the rightful owners of the land?" are thoroughly discussed as well as the ways the settlers rewrote history to remove mention of the destruction and displacement of the Aborigines.
This definitive account explores the treaties made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia and the different ways in which the two g...
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136,25 zł |
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The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne
ISBN: 9780522851236 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a new preface and epilogue and a collection of picture essays by contemporary writers, this updated edition explores the economic, political, social, and cultural consequences of the economic rise and fall of Melbourne during the 1880s.
With a new preface and epilogue and a collection of picture essays by contemporary writers, this updated edition explores the economic, political, soc...
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136,25 zł |
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