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Author : Donald Horne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Death of the Lucky Country written by Donald Horne and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Ringwood, Vic. ; Baltimore : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140700497
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Death of the Lucky Country written by Donald Horne and published by Ringwood, Vic. ; Baltimore : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australia written by Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522852226
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (522 download)
Download or read book On How I Came to Write 'the Lucky Country' written by Donald Horne and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication in 1964 of The Lucky Country changed the way that Australians thought about themselves. This work is an extract from Horne's memoirs that recalls the personal and public circumstances, which led him to write The Lucky Country.
Author : Nick Cater
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743098138
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Lucky Culture written by Nick Cater and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and a plea to keep Australia's famed open-mindedness, Cater tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture and outlook since Donald Horne published THE LUCKY COUNTRY in 1964. 'A great book.' Rupert Murdoch A bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and how it is threatened by the rise of a ruling class. Nick Cater, senior editor at the Australian, tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture and outlook since Donald Horne wrote the Lucky Country in 1964. His belief is that countries don't get lucky; people do. the secret of Australia's good fortune is not found in its geography or history. the key to its success is the Australian character, the nation's greatest renewable resource. Liberated from the constraints of the old world, Australia's pioneers mined their reserves of enterprise, energy and ingenuity to build the great civilization of the south. their over-riding principle was fairness: everybody had a right to a fair go and was obliged to do the right thing by others. today that spirit of egalitarianism is threatened by the rise of a new breed of sophisticated Australians - the 'bunyip alumni' - who claim to better understand the demands of the age. their presumption of elitism and superior virtue tempts them to look down on others and dismiss opposing views. Half a century after Donald Horne named Australia 'the Lucky Country', Nick Cater takes stock of the new battle to define Australia and the rift that divides a presumptive ruling class from a people who refuse to be ruled. the Lucky Culture is a lively and original take on 21st century Australia and its people. Sometimes rousing, often provocative and always good-humoured, its unexpectedly moving message cannot be ignored. 'tHE LUCKY CULtURE is a great book and particularly relevant as it comes in a moment of high political excitement. I particularly loved Nick Cater's passion for the great Australian dream. It is the first step in restoring that dream.' Rupert Murdoch
Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988418
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742531571
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Lucky Country written by Donald Horne and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Hugh Mackay 'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.' The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of our lexicon; it's forever being invoked in debates about the Australian way of life, but is all too often misused by those blind to Horne's irony. When it was first published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Although it's a study of the confident Australia of the 1960s, the book still remains illuminating and insightful decades later. The Lucky Country is valuable not only as a source of continuing truths and revealing snapshots of the past, but above all as a key to understanding the anxieties and discontents of Australian society today.
Author : Eamon Evans
Publisher : Affirm Press
ISBN 13 : 1922930989
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Lucky Country written by Eamon Evans and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The karaoke night that launched Kylie's singing career. Australia may be known as 'the lucky country', but just how accurate is that description? Turns out, very. From the Gold Rush to Stephen Bradbury, our history is full of times when lady luck made a spectacular appearance. Now, Eamon Evans dives deep to deliver the most hilarious, fascinating tales of the Australians who were almost too lucky to be believed.
Author : Renate
Publisher : Promised Land Renate
ISBN 13 : 1419633074
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (196 download)
Download or read book From the Promised Land to the Lucky Country written by Renate and published by Promised Land Renate. This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renate's spellbinding story, we're taken along on an incredible journey of survival that spans three countries and one remarkable life. In sun-soaked pages, Renate shows us life on the kibbutz and how a young country experiences the miracle of statehood. Part of Renate's gift is to give us vibrantly real and intimate glimpses of what it's like to be a young mother, nurse and doting wife during turbulent times and in a strange land. She doesn't sugarcoat, but instead shows us both the pleasures and the perils of her life, including the terrifying time when she and her husband, back in Israel, are separated from their children during the Yom Kippur War. Fearlessly honest in her writing, Renate spares no detail. This outstanding book occasionally breaks the fourth wall, allowing the author to talk with readers and reveal to them how freeing it has been for her to write about the traumas in her life. This boldness and strength of spirit give From the Promised Land to the Lucky Country its shining truth and intimacy. "We are meant to enjoy the earth." Renate says, and in this moving memoir, we experience a woman who has, despite all the odds, found purpose and peace.- Ellen Tanner MarshNew York Times best-selling author
Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742284639
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins written by Donald Horne and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.' First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Popular Penguins He just wanted a decent book to read . . . Not too much to ask, was it? It was in 1935 when Allen Lane stood on a British railway platform looking for something good to read on his journey. His choice was limited to popular magazines and poor quality paperbacks. Lane's disappointment and subsequent anger at the range of books available led him to found a company - and change the world. 'We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.' Sir Allen Lane, 1902-1970, founder of Penguin Books Reading habits have changed since 1935, but Penguin still believes in publishing the best books for everyone to enjoy, and that quality books published passionately and responsibility make the world a better place.
Author : Alice Sebold
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529014646
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Lucky written by Alice Sebold and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by the author of Circe and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller In Lucky Alice Sebold reveals how her life was irrevocably changed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten inside a tunnel near her campus. In this same tunnel, a girl had been raped and dismembered. By comparison, Alice was told by police, she was lucky. Though Alice’s friends and family try their best to offer understanding and support, in the end it is Alice’s formidable spirit which resonates most in these pages. In a narrative both painful and inspiring, Alice Sebold shines a light on the true experience of violent trauma. Sebold’s redemption turns out to be as hard-won as it is real.
Author : Mike Enders
Publisher : Hawkins Press
ISBN 13 : 9781876067144
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Policing the Lucky Country written by Mike Enders and published by Hawkins Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing The Lucky Country addresses key challenges of contemporary Australian policing, and places them within the context of Australia's particular culture and history. The book's approach is to combine policing case studies with an analysis of the wider social and political environment. Policing students are given information which enables them to think critically about contemporary policing practice and to understand the factors behind pervasive attitudes in the forces and the community. In this way, it aims to increase each officer's range of responses, leading to appropriate policing practices and increased safety for the officer. One of the key strengths of the book is the discussion of policing and indigenous persons, with articles on policing indigenous peoples and indigenous participation in policing. Specific police-indigenous clashes are examined and situated within the Aboriginal policies of the day. This historical perspective illuminates the discussion of current police force relationships with, and responsibilities towards, indigenous persons. Other issues considered - the use of technology, the enforcement of drug laws, the maintenance of public order, the role of police in industrial disputes, the social construction of crime - are studied in similar fashion, and provide a useful source of information and discussion about areas of policing relevant to contemporary police work. This book is designed for first year policing students, but will also be useful in criminology courses.
Author : Ryan Cropp
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 174382324X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Donald Horne written by Ryan Cropp and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could change In the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity. His book The Lucky Country was profoundly influential and, without doubt, one of the most significant shots ever fired in Australia's endless culture war. Ryan Cropp's landmark biography positions Horne as an antipodean Orwell, a lively, independent and distinct literary voice 'searching for the temper of the people, accepting it, and moving on from there'. Through the eyes -- and unforgettable words -- of this preternaturally observant and articulate man, we see a recognisable modern Australia emerge. 'A compulsive read about a writer who shaped the way we Australians think about ourselves' --Judith Brett 'Unmissable for anybody interested in the intellectual life of this country' --Sean Kelly
Author : Carolyn Ford
Publisher : Red Dog Books
ISBN 13 : 1742591132
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Who Brought the Luck to the Lucky Country?: Great Australian Migrant Business written by Carolyn Ford and published by Red Dog Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various Various
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522859526
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The ON-nibus written by Various Various and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you missed the first eight titles in MUP's acclaimed Little Books on Big Themes series, this is your chance to collect the whole set. Released in time for Christmas, the ON-nibus brings together eight 10,000-word essays on the big themes in life by leading Australian thinkers. Featured authors are Germaine Greer ('On Rage'), David Malouf ('On Experience'), Blanche d'Alpuget ('On Longing'), Barrie Kosky ('On Ecstasy'), Don Watson ('On Indignation'), Gay Bilson ('On Digestion'), Malcolm Knox ('On Obsession') and Anne Summers ('On Luck').
Author : Rose M Cullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839458705
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Lucky Country written by Rose M Cullen and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glendon family seek a new home and fortune in The Lucky Country after Patrick's farm in Ireland is bankrupted by a freak storm. Their journey traverses the epic landscape of Australia and their fate collides with a cast of equally lost souls on the vast wheat and sheep station in Western Australia owned by Jack Anderson, a man as tough and ruthless as his pioneering father. Australia in the early 1960's was a world on the brink of change. The Lucky Country strained under its White Australia Policy and was opening up to a greater diversity. Aboriginals had not been viewed as full human beings, one reason why their children were stolen with impunity and herded into missions. The referendum of 1967 at last accorded some level of citizenship. But storyteller, Ben Down, is as uprooted as any of the immigrants he encounters, the ways of his ancestors in his 'Born Country' no longer possible. Stories and memories weave together over the breadth of the twentieth century and one man's luck may be another's misfortune.
Author : Anne Summers
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733644457
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)
Download or read book On Luck written by Anne Summers and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Australians' fervent belief in luck is deeply etched in our consciousness. More than with the citizens of other countries, it affects the way we see most things. When someone escapes serious injury or death in an accident, we remark on how lucky they were. We don't say they were unlucky to have had the accident in the first place.' In ON LUCK, Anne Summers explores the gambling culture that is so intrinsic to being Australian, corruption in business, the economy, our obsession with being 'The Lucky Country', and which Australian city is the best example of a place that has relied on its luck and lost.
