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Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life

By: Alasdair McGregor

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Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life

By: Alasdair McGregor

Photographer, filmmaker, writer, adventurer. Controversial, passionate, audacious. Frank Hurley was an extraordinary Australian, possibly most famous for his Antarctic photographs captured alongside expeditioners Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. From the early twentieth century until his death in 1962 Hurley created a stunning visual archive that chronicled the major events of the twentieth century, and Australia's achievements both home and overseas. This book and the Hurley Collection in the National Library of Australia make clear this outstanding contribution and the lengths to which the man would go in order to convey the gravity of events. For Hurley, image-making and exploration went hand-in-hand and he sought out experiences as a pioneer documentary film-maker, official photographer in two world wars, early aviator, and adventure and story-seeker in both the natural environment and in rapidly disappearing non-western worlds. In this readable, definitive and wonderfully illustrated re-issued biography, Alasdair McGregor describes Hurley's life and character in all its richness.

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National Library of Australia

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0642279330

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A Forger's Progress

The Life of Francis Greenway

By: Alasdair McGregor

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A Forger's Progress

The Life of Francis Greenway

By: Alasdair McGregor

A forger and convicted felon, Francis Greenway was transported to Sydney in 1814. Only a decade later, his dreams of a "city superior in architectural beauty to London" began to be realized as he designed Hyde Park Barracks, St James' Church, the Supreme Court, St Luke's Church in Liverpool, and the Windsor courthouse. In this first biography of Greenway since 1953, award-winning author Alasdair McGregor scrutinizes the character and creative output of a man beset by contradictions and demons. He profiles Greenway's landmark buildings, his complex and fraught relationship with Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and his thwarted ambitions and self-destruction.

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NewSouth

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1742241824

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9781742241821

Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

A Relational Challenge

By: Alasdair Maclean

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Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

A Relational Challenge

By: Alasdair Maclean

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521896932

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Life Changing

Learning from the Past; Fixing the Future

By: Alasdair Thompson

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Life Changing

Learning from the Past; Fixing the Future

By: Alasdair Thompson

In Life Changing, Alasdair Thompson outlines the events surrounding his sacking as chief executive of the Employers and Manufacturers Association, New Zealands largest business membership organisation, after twelve years of reorganisation and rebuilding the Association. He reveals his upbringing, the people and events that shaped him, his views on business, economics and public policy, and outlines a career in local government and in various local authorities and boards. We see the man behind the media target, and he shares his beliefs and values, his crises, as well as personal transformation and newfound faith and peace. Thompsons was at the centre of a media maelstrom that led to his downfall. This book describes how he and his family coped with the aftermath and ultimately moved on, happier and stronger. Life Changing learning from the past fixing the future By Alasdair Thompson Life Changing is what I have called my book due out early October. It is partly autobiographical and partly a commentary on a wide range of political, business, and media issues including the ethics of some leaders in those fields. It's also about my transformation from having been publicly disgraced and humiliated to a happy new and much better person with a wonderful new life. Much of what I have written written will be controversial, although I did not write it to be so. I had some important things to say about business, political even media ethics including those of some important leaders in those field.; The media too rightly comments on such things like the collapse of finance companies and the many billions of dollars that many retirees have consequently suffered, and the increase in the suicide rate among baby boomers. The media is constantly covering such things but there are some things they do not hear the whole story about. It's a few of these I felt compelled to write about. I take responsibility for my fall from public grace; for my bad behaviour towards Mihingarangi Forbes, the interviewer from Campbell Live, ;when I lost my cool with her; this was the; bit that Campbell Live producer, Pip Keane, chose to broadcast on that programme on June 23 2011. Nevertheless I do call Mihingarangi Forbes, John Campbell and Pip Keane for what media commentator, Dr Brian Edwards, at the time called 'dishonest journalism.' The book, in five parts, covers in parts 2 and 3 my downfall as the Employer and Manufacturers (EMA) CEO in June 2011 which led to my sacking for allegedly bringing the EMA into disrepute on 6 July 2011, even though I had offered my resignation almost immediately. It covers how my wife Joan and I coped and ultimately dealt with the maelstrom that followed my comment, first made on Mike Hosking's NewstalkZB breakfast show, that some women's 'monthly; sickness' problems affected their productivity and earnings. This escalated when later that afternoon I ;was interviewed by Mihi Forbes, in a 27 minute interview, the last 4 minutes of which were chosen by producer Pip Keane, as the 'best bits' (most controversial) to be broadcast that evening on Campbell Live. It is mainly parts 2 and 3 of my 5 part book, ;that are the basis of an in depth TV3 3rd Degree programme to be screened on Wednesday 2nd October. The programme also looks at my life now, my transformation, having researched feminism and Christian theology, leading to me becoming a Christian, travelling extensively overseas and to again become a self-employed business advisor and tourist business operator. Life Changing is about much more than all this though, although it does reveal so much more than was ever made public at the time of my demise, mainly because I was barred, at the time, ;from talking to the media and my employer

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483668436

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9781483668437

Blacked Out

Government Secrecy in the Information Age

By: Alasdair Roberts

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Blacked Out

Government Secrecy in the Information Age

By: Alasdair Roberts

Nearly forty years ago the US Congress passed the landmark Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) giving the public the right to government documents. This 'right to know' has been used over the past decades to challenge overreaching Presidents and secretive government agencies. The example of transparency in government has served as an example to nations around the world spawning similar statutes in fifty-nine countries. This 2006 book examines the evolution of the move toward openness in government. It looks at how technology has aided the disclosure and dissemination of information. The author tackles the question of whether the drive for transparency has stemmed the desire for government secrecy and discusses how many governments ignore or frustrate the legal requirements for the release of key documents. Blacked Out is an important contribution during a time where profound changes in the structure of government are changing access to government documents.

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348

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Cambridge University Press

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1139448927

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Strategies for Governing

Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century

By: Alasdair Roberts

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Strategies for Governing

Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century

By: Alasdair Roberts

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research, teaching, and practice. Leaders of states, Roberts writes, are constantly reinventing strategies for governing. Experts in public administration must give advice on the design as well as execution of strategies that effective, robust, and principled. Strategies for Governing challenges us to reinvigorate public administration and public management, preparing the fields for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Cornell University Press

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1501745603

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Superstates

Empires of the Twenty-First Century

By: Alasdair Roberts

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Superstates

Empires of the Twenty-First Century

By: Alasdair Roberts

In this century, the world will conduct an extraordinary experiment in government. In 2050, forty percent of the planet's population will live in just four places: India, China, the European Union, and the United States. These are superstates – polities that are distinguished from normal countries by expansiveness, population, diversity, and complexity. How should superstates be governed? What must their leaders do to hold these immense polities together in the face of extraordinary strains and shocks? Alasdair Roberts looks to history for answers. Superstates, he contends, wrestle with the same problems of leadership, control, and purpose that plagued empires for centuries. But they also bear heavier burdens than empires – including the obligation to improve life for ordinary people and respect human rights. One axiom of history was that empires always died. Size and complexity led to fragility, and imperial rulers improvised constantly to put off the day of reckoning. Leaders of superstates are doing the same today, pursuing radically different strategies for governing at scale that have profound implications for democracy and human rights. History shows that there are ways to govern these sprawling and diverse polities well. But this requires a different way of thinking about the art and methods of statecraft.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509544496

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Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

By: Alasdair McGregor

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The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

By: Alasdair McGregor

On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on a sheep paddock they called Canberra. Almost a century later, Griffin's design - but most of all its implementation - is still hotly debated. Who was this man and what was his vision? How did he come to Canberra, what happened once the Australian establishment tore him to shreds, and what was the role of his wife, helpmate, fellow architect and equal creative partner, Marion Mahony Griffin? In this definitive new biography of Griffin husband and wife, Alasdair McGregor delineates the role each played in the production of their greatest works - Canberra, Castlecrag, Newman College and the rest - and charts their lives, from their childhoods and meeting in Chicago in the employ of the larger than life Frank Lloyd Wright, to their battles in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, and their swansong in India. This is a tale of many parts. It traces the lives of two individuals of great talent and vision and their fight against mediocrity. It is the story of the birth of Canberra, one that tells us as much about the Griffins as it does about ourselves and the troubled birth of the Australian national identity. It is a portrait of a pioneering woman who achieved extraordinary things but was rarely credited with that achievement. And it is an examination of the nature of fame in a young country uncertain of its position in the world. The Griffins' story resonates through the years, and their fight to see their idealistic vision realised is one that goes on in Australia today. 'This biography . . . is a treasure.' Dimity Reed, Sunday Age 'This handsome book . . . is the latest in a growing line of books about the Griffins, and it is perhaps the most successful to date.' Roger Pegrum, Canberra Times 'a meticulously detailed account of the Griffins' professional output.' Annabel Lawson, Australia Coast to Coast Country Style 'This belongs on every architect's bookshelf.' Susan Hewitt, West Magazine

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1743484380

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Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life

By: Alasdair McGregor

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A Forger's Progress

The Life of Francis Greenway

By: Alasdair McGregor

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The Life of Francis Greenway

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Mountains

Over Australia's Blue Horizon

By: Alasdair McGregor,Greg Mortimer

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Mountains

Over Australia's Blue Horizon

By: Alasdair McGregor,Greg Mortimer

On Australia's mountains, the great sagas of the earth from its earliest days are inscribed for those who care to look closely. Alasdair McGregor traces the rise and fall of the Australian continent, from mountains of ice and fire to those of iron and those with their heads in the clouds. An expansive contemplation of natural, geological and social history, McGregor's account defies Australia's reputation as the flattest continent on earth, illuminating the landscape in all its breathtaking height and glory. Australian mountaineer Greg Mortimer describes his own long connection with mountains big and small, and his particular affection for the ancient peaks of Australia.

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0642279640

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9780642279644

Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

By: Alasdair McGregor

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Australia's Wild Islands

By: Quentin Chester,Alasdair McGregor

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Australia's Wild Islands

By: Quentin Chester,Alasdair McGregor

This lavishly illustrated guide provides information about 24 islands off the coast of Australia, including Fraser Island, the Whitsundays and Lord Howe Island, emphasising their attraction as natural wildernesses. Discusses the geography, history, flora and fauna, ecology and special features of the islands and describes various walks and overnight camps. Includes references, a bibliography, suggestions for further reading and an index. Chester writes regularly about aspects of nature in magazines such as the 'Australian Geographic'. He is co-author, with McGregor, of 'The Kimberley: Horizons of Stone'. McGregor is a widely exhibited photographer whose work has been published in magazines such as 'Geo' and 'Out There'.

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0340605375

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9780340605370

The Art of Australian Geographic Illustration

By: Alasdair McGregor

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The Art of Australian Geographic Illustration

By: Alasdair McGregor

Twenty seven years of excellence in illustration is celebrated in this sumptuously illustrated book from Australian Geographic. The illustrator's art has been one of the cornerstones of Australian Geographic since Banjo the platypus graced the cover of the first issue in 1986. Photo-realistic illustrations of native fauna appeared on each cover for the first 83 issues. Inside the pages of Australian Geographic, illustration has been used to explain complex data, recreate scenes from our ancient past or simply to show us nature in all its detailed glory and continues to be a vital storytelling tool. This gorgeous book boasts 224 pages of beautiful images from many of Australia's finest natural history artists. Enjoy the chance to see many familiar scenes in a whole new light as they feature as artworks in their own right. The book is packed with depictions of Australia's fauna and flora as rendered by the finest illustrators and features words from award winning writer and artist Alasdair McGregor.

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1742454720

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A Nation in the Making

Australia at the Dawn of the Modern Era

By: Alasdair McGregor

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A Nation in the Making

Australia at the Dawn of the Modern Era

By: Alasdair McGregor

The output of the two largest photographic studios in Australia in the late 19th century were bought & placed in storage. It became known as the Tyrell Collection. Largely unseen ever-since it is now stored at the Powerhouse museum and has been made available to Australian Geographic. This unique collection...

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1742452264

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Book's by Alasdair McGregor

Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life

Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life

A Forger's Progress

A Forger's Progress

Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

Life Changing

Life Changing

Blacked Out

Blacked Out

Strategies for Governing

Strategies for Governing

Superstates

Superstates

Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life

Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life

A Forger's Progress

A Forger's Progress

Mountains

Mountains

Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

Australia's Wild Islands

Australia's Wild Islands

The Art of Australian Geographic Illustration

The Art of Australian Geographic Illustration

A Nation in the Making

A Nation in the Making

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