Book Description
Includes chapters on Aborigines of the Everards and the Flinders Ranges; stories and recent history of Pitjantjatjara and Ardjamunda people of these areas.
Author : John Mabey
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780642975973
Includes chapters on Aborigines of the Everards and the Flinders Ranges; stories and recent history of Pitjantjatjara and Ardjamunda people of these areas.
Author : Jack Absalom
Publisher : Gallery Childrens Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Jack Absalom
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Cooking, Australian
ISBN : 9780867882810
Author : Ron Moon
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780864422392
This guide includes information for travellers to the Outback.
Author : Denis O'Byrne
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Providing coverage of the Australian outback, from the central deserts to tropical Cape York, this guide includes: notes on track and road conditions; travelling facilities and supplies; tips on driving and camping; and checklists for planning and packing.
Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416540423
One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw China’s future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of China’s building a relationship with the United States. As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party. Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearl’s life in China. "Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld." Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies. It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Chang’s Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either. Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan. Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people— "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.
Author : Dorcas S. Miller
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780898865516
Tasted, tested, and trouble-free from the editors of "Backpacker" magazine and other outdoor experts, this book includes over 144 recipes, along with expert, trail-tested advice on how to plan and pack simple, delicious meals, plus culinary tips from trail veterans. 50 photos. 100 illustrations.
Author : Lorin Woolfe
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2002-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814426638
Millions have been inspired by the Bible’s spiritual lessons. Now, Lorin Woolfe provides a unique way to view the Bible . . . for leadership lessons that can be applied to our modern business world. Consider David’s courage and innovation in slaying Goliath with just a stone and a sling; Moses’ outstanding ""succession planning"" in picking Joshua; Joseph and the political skills that brought him to the seat of power; and of course, Jesus’ compassion, communication skills, and vision that launched Christianity (a long-term success by any measure). These are leaders among leaders. Their achievements -- and their inspired methods of achievement -- offer a wholly different perspective on business leadership. For the dozens of Biblical stories presented, the book provides: * A concise retelling of each story * One (or more) leadership lessons suggested by each story * Examples of contemporary business leaders who exhibit some of the inspired traits of these ancient leaders, including: Fred Smith of FedEx, Howard Shultz of Starbucks, Tom Chappell of Tom’s of Maine (a “toothpaste with a mission”), Roy Vagelos of Merck, and many more. The chapters cover these universal topics: Courage * Purpose * Communication * Honesty and Integrity * Power and Influence * Performance Management * Team Building * Humility * Compassion * Justice * Encouragement and Consequences * Wisdom * Creating the Future Each topic concludes with a list of key points to keep in mind as readers continue on their own leadership journeys.
Author : Peter Tapp
Publisher : Samuel French
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780646337005
Films, videos and multimedia products released in Australia, in the last 18 months. 6,000 titles include feature films, documentaries, educational titles, etc. Lists where titles can be borrowed or bought in Australia and New Zealand. Has title, category (i.e. subject), country and director indexes. Includes summaries.
Author : Ethel Lina White
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2024-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1464216452
First published in 1936 and adapted for the screen as The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina White's suspenseful mystery remains her best-known novel, worthy of acknowledgement as a classic of the genre in its own right. Then the rhythm of the train changed, and she seemed to be sliding backwards down a long slope. Click-click-click-click. The wheels rattled over the rails, with a sound of castanets. Iris Carr's holiday in the mountains of a remote corner of Europe has come to an end, and since her friends left two days before, she faces the journey home alone. Stricken by sunstroke at the station, Iris catches the express train to Trieste by the skin of her teeth and finds a companion in Miss Froy, an affable English governess. But when Iris passes out and reawakens, Miss Froy is nowhere to be found. The other passengers deny any knowledge of her existence and as the train speeds across Europe, Iris spirals deeper and deeper into a strange and dangerous conspiracy.