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Author : Michael G. Clyne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australia Talks written by Michael G. Clyne and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Bryant
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0857989022
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Rise and Fall of Australia, The written by Nick Bryant and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forensic look at the Lucky Country, from the inside and outside. Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented acclaim. But never before has its politics been so brutal, narrow and facile, as well as being such a global laughing stock. A positive national story is at odds with a deeply unattractive Canberra story. The country should be enjoying The Australian Moment, so vividly described by the best-selling author George Megalogenis. But that description may turn out to be inadvertently precise. It could end up being just that: a fleeting moment. At present the country seems to be in speedy regression, with the nation's leaders, on both sides, mired in relatively small problems, such as the arrival of boat people, rather than mapping out a larger and more inspiring national future. In The Rise and Fall of Australia, BBC correspondent and author Nick Bryant offers an outsider's take on the great paradox of modern-day Australian life: of how the country has got richer at a time when its politics have become more impoverished. In this thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking book, dealing with politics, racism, sexism, the country's place in the region and the world, culture and sport, the author argues that Australia needs to discard the out-dated language used to describe itself, to push back against Lucky Country thinking, to celebrate how the cultural creep has replaced the cultural cringe and to stop negatively typecasting itself. Rejecting most of the national stereotypes, Nick Bryant sets out to describe the new Australia rather than the mythic country so often misunderstood not just by foreigners but Australians themselves.
Author : Bruce Pascoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922142436
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Dark Emu written by Bruce Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.
Author : Tyson Yunkaporta
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062975633
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Sand Talk written by Tyson Yunkaporta and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently? In this thoughtful, culturally rich, mind-expanding book, he provides answers. Yunkaporta’s writing process begins with images. Honoring indigenous traditions, he makes carvings of what he wants to say, channeling his thoughts through symbols and diagrams rather than words. He yarns with people, looking for ways to connect images and stories with place and relationship to create a coherent world view, and he uses sand talk, the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to convey knowledge. In Sand Talk, he provides a new model for our everyday lives. Rich in ideas and inspiration, it explains how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about talking to everyone and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things. Most of all it’s about a very special way of thinking, of learning to see from a native perspective, one that is spiritually and physically tied to the earth around us, and how it can save our world. Sand Talk include 22 black-and-white illustrations that add depth to the text.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise C Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000423395
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Story of Australia written by Louise C Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia’s history and geography. An island continent with distinct physical features, Australia is home to the most enduring Indigenous cultures on the planet. In the late eighteenth century newcomers from distant worlds brought great change. Since that time, Australia has been shaped by many peoples with competing visions of what the future might hold. This new history of Australia integrates a rich body of scholarship from many disciplines, drawing upon maps, novels, poetry, art, music, diaries and letters, government and scientific reports, newspapers, architecture and the land itself, engaging with Australia in its historical, geographical, national and global contexts. It pays particular attention to women and Indigenous Australians, as well as exploring key themes including invasion/colonisation, land use, urbanisation, war, migration, suburbia and social movements for change. Elegantly written, readers will enjoy Australia’s story from its origins to the present as the nation seeks to resolve tensions between Indigenous dispossession, British tradition and multicultural diversity while finding its place in an Asian region and dealing with global challenges like climate change. It is an ideal text for students, academics and general readers with an interest in Australian history, geography, politics and culture.
Author : Julius Stone
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 174332393X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Letters to Australia, Volume 1 written by Julius Stone and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to Australia is a collection of Julius Stone's radio talks, originally broadcast by the ABC between 1942 and 1972. Recently discovered in the nation's archives, they take the reader back to the mid-20th century, bringing to life the people, events and the sweep of affairs during World War II and its turbulent aftermath, the hopes and fears of individuals and nations. They tell much of Australia's role in that world and that era. More than anyone else at that time, Julius Stone gave Australians a sense that they were part of the world and could, and should, seek to influence these events. Volumes one and two contain essays from the 1940s. Volume one begins with 13 wartime broadcasts, given with war at its most threatening for Australia; they are a call to courage in dark times. The broadcasts became more nuanced when they resumed, in 1945 with the war almost won, and, over the remainder of the decade, they covered a wide range of issues – the complex aftermath of war, moves towards disarmament and the control of nuclear weapons, the shift of power from Britain and Europe to the US and USSR; the evolution of the Cold War; the birth of the United Nations; the first moves to European union, and the stirrings of the fundamentalist violence that is so large a part of today’s conflicts. Volume two completes the 1940s broadcasts, with a series on decolonisation, and a remarkable set of commentaries on the events and people nations and regions, starting with Europe and concluding with the Americas. The volume closes with a series of talks on the jurisprudence of international relations, and four insightful end-of-the-decade talks on the key challenges he believed must be met to maintain intellectual freedom, to counter the narrowness of indoctrination, to respond constructively to the threat of racial conflict, and to assert the value and power of gradual reform.
Author : Tony Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521004039
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Culture in Australia written by Tony Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2001 survey of the changing policies and priorities that are evident in a range of contemporary cultural institutions in Australia.
Author : Suzanne Romaine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521339834
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Language in Australia written by Suzanne Romaine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguists and non-linguists will find in this volume a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia.
Author : Kanaga Segaram
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482893762
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Australia Two Nations written by Kanaga Segaram and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has two nations: native Aboriginal land and majority settlers territory. January 26 should be observed as national mourning day for real reconciliation in Australia. All the talk of reconciliation and apologies did not change ground situation for the Aboriginals. George Bush killed more Americans than Osama Laden killed. Americans paid heavy price for the mass hysteria and melancholia in the aftermath of September 2001. Berlin wall was brought down but walls were erected in Iraq and Palestine. Celibacy should be abandoned by Catholic priests to prevent child sex abuse. Vatican needs transparency and external scrutiny to prevent further mafia style scandals. Abortion and euthanasia should be taken out of religious contexts respecting the individuals choice
Author : Stan Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781460751985
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Talking to My Country written by Stan Grant and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed national bestseller - moving, passionate, deeply felt and powerful. In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a personal, passionate and powerful response to racism in Australia and the sorrow, shame, anger and hardship of being an indigenous man. ''We are the detritus of the brutality of the Australian frontier'', he wrote, ''We remained a reminder of what was lost, what was taken, what was destroyed to scaffold the building of this nation''s prosperity.'' Stan Grant was lucky enough to find an escape route, making his way through education to become one of our leading journalists. He also spent many years outside Australia, working in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, a time that liberated him and gave him a unique perspective on Australia. This is his very personal meditation on what it means to be Australian, what it means to be indigenous, and what racism really means in this country. Talking to My Country is that rare and special book that talks to every Australian about their country - what it is, and what it could be. It is not just about race, or about indigenous people but all of us, our shared identity. Direct, honest and forthright, Stan is talking to us all. He might not have all the answers but he wants us to keep on asking the question: how can we be better? Winner of the 2016 Walkley Book Award and the 2016 National Trust Heritage Award, and shortlisted for the 2016 NIB Waverley Library Award and the 2016 Queensland Literary Award. ''Grant will be an important voice in shaping this nation'' The Saturday paper ''It is a story so essential and salutary to this place that it should be given out free at the ballot box'' Sydney Morning Herald ''Grant is a natural storyteller - at his best when recounting his experiences and observations of Indigenous Australian life with devastating simplicity and acuity. This highly readable book ... has the potential to spark empathy and generate important discussion, and deserves to be read widely.'' Bookseller + Publisher ''...an urgent and flowing narrative in a book that should be on the required reading list in every school'' The Australian
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521223294
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Languages of Australia written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-07-24 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the more than two hundred different Aboriginal languages of Australia. Professor Dixon deals first with the general character of these languages, and their use and role in Australia today. He stresses that they are in no sense 'primitive' languages, but have a rich and complex grammar with the many subtle and distinctive features. He goes on to demonstrate this in the first-ever study of their genetic relationships, probable origins and historical development, and their grammatical and phonological behaviour. This is in many ways a pioneering work, and a fundamental one. The Press has already published two major scholarly studies by Professor Dixon of individual Australian languages, Dyirbal and Yidin. He offers here the synthesis that they pointed towards, provisional still in many of its details, but sufficiently convincing in outline to stimulate the next stage of professional research, to provide the general linguist with the kind of survey to the interested Australian something of the extraordinary linguistic heritage of the continent, now and for some time past seriously at risk.
Author : Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472151518
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Hate Race written by Maxine Beneba Clarke and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street. Except for this one, glaring, inescapably obvious thing. From one of Australia's most exciting writers, and the author of the multi-award-winning FOREIGN SOIL, comes THE HATE RACE: a powerful, funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia.
Author : Gerhard Leitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110181944
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Australia's Many Voices written by Gerhard Leitner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a comprehensive, descriptive, and sociohistorical view of mainstream Australian English and of the social processes that have made it possible for it to become the national language of Australia reaching out into the Asia-Pacific region.
Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 014379549X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Shepherd's Hut, The written by Tim Winton and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaxie dreads going home. His mum's dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There's just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt.
Author : M. A. K. Halliday
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027220743
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Learning, Keeping, and Using Language written by M. A. K. Halliday and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Whereas the focus of Volume I is on learning language and the standpoint of the individual learner, the contributions to Volume II are concerned not so much with individuals as with communities, and the reasons for and the nature of language maintenance and shift.
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Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australian News Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
