Author : Thomas R. Frame
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1741146720
The first full length biography of Australia's most enigmatic prime minister.
Author : Ross Walker
Publisher : La Trobe University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1743822553
A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern Australia Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was Holt's legacy more significant than in the 1967 referendum, and in helping to end the White Australia policy. At the same time, as the Vietnam War raged, Holt dramatically increased Australian troops, telling President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 that Australia was 'all the way with LBJ'. In this evocative, intimate and deeply researched biography, Ross Walker captures the worlds in which Holt moved and the people who were close to him. He reveals a popular, gentle, yet at times self-destructive man, whose tendency to always go one step further would have fatal consequences. This is a strikingly original portrait of Australia's seventeenth prime minister. 'A beautifully told story of a fascinating Australian life and a tragic prime ministership – not only in its bizarre end, but in the entanglement of an amiable, easygoing man in poisonous political rivalry, and a brutal and contentious war in Vietnam.' —Frank Bongiorno
Author : Anthony Grey
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780297784432
Author : Harold R. Holt
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Colorado has a wonderful diversity of birds, offering exciting specialties and serendipitous finds to birders from every part of the continent. Most people associate Colorado with its Rocky Mountains - easily accessible right up to the tundra in every season of the year. Winter-plumaged White-tailed Ptarmigan, the same color as snow - as shown in the author's cover photograph from Guanella Pass - is high on any birder's wish list, but on the way up to see it, you will also find the three species of rosy-finch and an excellent variety of jays, woodpeckers, and winter finches. The Rockies is but one of the bird habitats for which Colorado is well known. The Eastern Plains, at their best on Pawnee National Grassland, offer such breeding specialties as Mountain Plover and McCown's and Chestnut-collared Longspurs. In April you may watch Greater and Lesser Prairie-Chickens on their strutting grounds. The Western Plateaus and Valleys, which comprise the western third of Colorado, have their own specialties - Sage and Sharp-tailed Grouse, Chukar Gray Vireo, Black-throated and Crace's Warblers, and many more.
Author : Harold R. Holt
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : George Eliot
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN :
Author : Harold Evans
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 031643230X
A wise and entertaining guide to writing English the proper way by one of the greatest newspaper editors of our time. Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger. He's even been knighted for his services to journalism. In Do I Make Myself Clear?, he brings his indispensable insight to us all in his definite guide to writing well. The right words are oxygen to our ideas, but the digital era, with all of its TTYL, LMK, and WTF, has been cutting off that oxygen flow. The compulsion to be precise has vanished from our culture, and in writing of every kind we see a trend towards more -- more speed and more information but far less clarity. Evans provides practical examples of how editing and rewriting can make for better communication, even in the digital age. Do I Make Myself Clear? is an essential text, and one that will provide every writer an editor at his shoulder.
Author : Gracey Zhang
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338783548
Winner of the 2022 Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award! From debut author-illustrator Gracey Zhang comes a timeless and timely picture book that celebrates the unassuming power of kind words. Oh, there goes Lala! She carries a pot of water around the corner, down the block, and over the fence, to a patch of dirt and concrete where tiny weeds sprout. "Hello, hello, friends!" she whispers. Lala waters the plants every day, but it is her kind words that make them sway and nod. Lala's wild nature and quiet compassion enchant in this evergreen story about the power of kind words and the magic of being loved for who you are.
Author : Harold M. Proshansky
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : H. G. Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1760989193
A sporting nation is only limited by its imagination. Every time this story is told it changes; something is always added, embellished or dropped from the run-on side. For more than thirty years, H.G. Nelson has been finding the poetry in the punt and humour during half-time. Now, he turns his keen eye for facts and folly to the illustrious history of our great sporting nation. In his trademark fast and furious style, H.G. dives deep into the moments that have truly made us who we are. He reminds us of our leaders' great sporting triumphs, from Harold Holt's swimming to John Howard's bowling; rewrites the record on legends such as 'Aussie Joe' Bugner and Jack Brabham; and explains why Australia's reality TV is the best in the world. The Fairytale is H.G. Nelson's magnum opus - an all-encompassing, no-holds-barred history of Australia at play, told through the stories of our sporting highs, lows and middles.
