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Evolve

How exceptional leaders leverage the inner voice of human evolution

By: Graeme Findlay

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Evolve

How exceptional leaders leverage the inner voice of human evolution

By: Graeme Findlay

Leaders work hard to develop strong leadership capabilities in today’s modern organizations, for the benefit of their teams and for their own careers. But, sometimes conventional leadership theory fails to explain why our efforts fail to make an impact, and arguably are becoming less and less successful. Why would this be? The answer lies in our evolutionary history. Leadership is integral to our success and evolution as a species, as larger better functioning groups out-survived fragmented groups that did not benefit from strong leadership. Leader-follower relationships are, therefore, deeply ingrained in our brains, our instincts and our behaviour. But, our modern world, with its technology, connectedness and complexity, has evolved much faster than our brains – and our leader-follower behaviour has not caught up. Evolve charts the fascinating development of our evolutionary history to provide a profound understanding of human behaviour around leadership. It also establishes a framework for the modes of leadership that shape the world today. Through case studies and real-world examples, you will gain powerful insights into the nature of leadership now. More importantly, these insights inform the actions you can take in your own life to enable you to become a more aware, mindful, impactful, and successful leader.

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0429955782

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Myths of Oz

Reading Australian Popular Culture

By: John Fiske,Bob Hodge,Graeme Turner

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Myths of Oz

Reading Australian Popular Culture

By: John Fiske,Bob Hodge,Graeme Turner

This book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-established, traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the 'knocker's' view started from an elitist viewpoint, yearning for Australia to aspire to a European culture in art, music, literature and other traditional cultural fields. They argue however that there are other definitions of culture that are more populist, more comprehensive, and which represent a vitality and dynamism which is a true reflection of the lives and aspirations of Australians. Myths of Oz offers no comprehensive definition of Australian culture, but rather a way of interpreting its various aspects. The barbeque or the pub, an expedition to the shops or a day at the beach, the home, the workplace or the job queue; all these intrinsic parts of Australian life are examined and conclusions drawn as to how they shape or are shaped by what we call popular culture. The authors look too at monuments and symbols, from Ayers Rock to the Sydney Opera House, which both shape and reflect Australian culture, while a chapter on the Australian accent shows how language and terminology play a powerful role in establishing cultural standpoints. A particular strength of this book is that while delivering a provocative and stimulating series of viewpoints on popular culture, it also makes use of current academic tools and methodology to ensure that we gain new insights into the meanings and pleasures we derive from our everyday experiences.

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1315511398

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First to Care

125 Years of the Order of St John New Zealand, 1885-2010

By: Graeme Hunt

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First to Care

125 Years of the Order of St John New Zealand, 1885-2010

By: Graeme Hunt

FIRST TO CARE: 125 YEARS OF THE ORDER OF ST JOHN IN NEW ZEALAND, 1885-2010 brings to life the history of one of our most ubiquitous and vital charitable organisations. The heavily illustrated book provides a vivid account of public-spiritedness, enterprise and innovation by people involved in St John over the past 125 years, peppered with occasional disputes and setbacks along the way. St John invented and popularised 'first aid' as we know it. It provided medical assistance from the sidelines of our sports fields from as early as 1891 and it played a leading role in disaster relief from its formative days. From humble beginnings it established a nationwide ambulance service that today is the envy of the St John fraternity worldwide.

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Oratia Media Ltd

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1877514039

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The Shrinking Nation

How we got here and what can be done about it

By: Graeme Turner

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The Shrinking Nation

How we got here and what can be done about it

By: Graeme Turner

Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repeated cycles of political upheaval. The divisive and hyper-partisan version of party politics that has accompanied these events has hamstrung the nation' s capacity to respond to the challenges of the day &– from dealing with climate change, to advancing gender equity, or to renovating the buckling structures of social welfare. At the same time, we have seen the quality of our democracy compromised. In The Shrinking Nation, leading cultural historian Graeme Turner examines a wide range of social and cultural change, including the role played by a media environment swamped by misinformation, the social consequences of neoliberal economic policy, and the divisive legacy of the culture wars, before considering how we might strengthen the bonds of community and belonging that tie our nation together.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702268038

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Making It National

Nationalism and Australian popular culture

By: Graeme Turner

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Making It National

Nationalism and Australian popular culture

By: Graeme Turner

Making it National argues that we need to rethink the way national identity is constructed in Australia today. Graeme Turner takes a series of recent instances - the mythologising of Bond and the larrikin entrepreneurs, the Spycatcher trials, Maralinga and the Bicentenary - showing how popular images of national identity are used to serve specific rather than national interests. 'Graeme Turner's writing has a remarkable power to engage its readers with all the immediacy, vividness and drama of our very best journalism, while putting cultural theory to work in new and creative ways.' - Meaghan Morris 'Making it National could be to the 1990s what Richard White's Inventing Australia was to the 1980s.' - Tony Bennett, Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Griffith University

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1000256871

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Lies, Damned Lies and History

A Catalogue of Historical Errors and Misunderstandings

By: Graeme Donald

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Lies, Damned Lies and History

A Catalogue of Historical Errors and Misunderstandings

By: Graeme Donald

From cats, spats and catacombs to the Wall Street shuffle, this book looks at how historical events didn't always unfold as we think they did. It takes the readers on a journey, century-by-century, showing how the truth we take for granted is a far cry from the facts. It is suitable for those who want to see the past as it was.

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The History Press

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0752462350

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Body and Mind

Historical Essays in Honour of F.B. Smith

By: Graeme Davison,Pat Jalland,Wilfrid Prest

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Body and Mind

Historical Essays in Honour of F.B. Smith

By: Graeme Davison,Pat Jalland,Wilfrid Prest

Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F. B. (Barry) Smith. Barry has made pioneering contributions to the political, social and cultural histories of Britain and Australia, and these essays range across the fields he made his own, especially the interconnected histories of medicine (body) and ideas (mind). The editors bring together several generations of Barry's admirers, colleagues, friends and pupils, including Joanna Bourke writing on war and industrial trauma, Peter Edwards on the Agent Orange controversy, Pat Jalland on death in the London Blitz and Phillipa Mein Smith on the idea of Australasia. Body and Mind is a salute to the inestimable work, and the life and times of F. B. Smith.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522859992

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Platypus Dreaming

... a prophecy

By: Graeme Innes

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Platypus Dreaming

... a prophecy

By: Graeme Innes

A prophecy brings common sense to the confusion of modern life, responding to its challenges in local and international conflict resolution, through remembering life’s composition of widely divergent yet related parts. An alternative view of life’s complexities, this novel is a modern-day take on an ancient way of seeing, placing the reader as the central character in a set of real-life circumstances, and confronting them wherever they find themselves. In many ways, the book is an initiation, taking you on a fascinating journey while deepening your comprehension of who and what you are and your place in the scheme of things. Disoriented and dissatisfied by the trite answers provided by compromised teachers and politicians alike, and perhaps lacking the experience and wisdom to judiciously negotiate life in the confusion of a world of apparent plenty, most people find themselves struggling to find representatives whose wise application of intelligence is the currency of their decision making. Where a balance of feeling and intuition equally weighted by logic and reason is absent, humanity is forced to conclude that society’s rulers, whether financial or political, have abandoned representing life’s common destiny as the foundation stone of humankind’s finest aspirations. When morality is applied differently in different settings to gain advantage and cultures have a variety of spiritual and existential beliefs pitted one against the other, the step to terrorism, though seemingly incomprehensible, appears understandable to a mind pushed to its extremes, as it attempts to reconcile that which is apparently irreconcilable. Without prizing humanity as an interwoven part of nature’s fabric, people are caught between a rock and hard place, but it is precisely there that Platypus Dreaming inspires hope.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503504506

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The Laws of History

By: Graeme Snooks

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The Laws of History

By: Graeme Snooks

In this unorthodox and trail-blazing work Graeme Snooks argues that it is possible to construct a scientific theory of human history, but only if we adopt a radically materialist theory of human nature.

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113465622X

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Parodies of the Romantic Age

By: Graeme Stones

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Parodies of the Romantic Age

By: Graeme Stones

This volume collects together a wealth of material ranging from verse parodies originally published in pamphlet form, to longer works such as P.G. Patmore's parodies of the works of Byron, Lamb and Hazlitt.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000743926

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9781000743920

John Farnham's Whispering Jack

By: Graeme Turner

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John Farnham's Whispering Jack

By: Graeme Turner

The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice,' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501382071

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Finding a Way

By: Graeme Innes

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Finding a Way

By: Graeme Innes

I learned from my family that most things could be achieved – the challenge was finding a way. Blind from birth, Graeme Innes was blessed. Blessed because he had a family who refused to view his blindness as a handicap and who instilled in him a belief in his own abilities. Blessed because he had the determination to persevere when obstacles were put in his way. And now, after a long and successful career – from lawyer to company director to Human Rights Commissioner – he has written his story. Finding a Way shares his memories of love and support, of challenges and failures, and of overcoming the discrimination so many people with disabilities face. He writes of the importance of family, the value of courage and the unique experience of a life without one sense but with heightened awareness of the others. Alongside his life story, Innes shares ideas on advocacy for people with disabilities and outlines what remains to be done to fully include people with disabilities in Australian society.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702257273

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Working with Youth Violence

The Name. Narrate. Navigate program

By: Tamara Blakemore,Chris Krogh,Shaun McCarthy,Louise Rak,Graeme Stuart

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Working with Youth Violence

The Name. Narrate. Navigate program

By: Tamara Blakemore,Chris Krogh,Shaun McCarthy,Louise Rak,Graeme Stuart

Relevant for experienced and emerging social work and human service practitioners alike, this book explores the uniquely challenging, yet seemingly ubiquitous issue of youth violence. It provides an authentic and accessible discussion of the theories and evidence that inform practice with youth violence alongside the voices of practitioners and the young people they work with. These voices are drawn from work with the Name.Narrate.Navigate (NNN) program for youth violence. NNN provides a trauma-informed, culturally safe preventive-intervention for young people who use and experience violence, and specialist training for the workers who support them. The program embraces creative methods as a bridge between contemporary evidence on trauma and violence and Aboriginal healing practice. The dual focus of the program is informed and interconnected by action research involving Aboriginal Elders and community members, practitioners, and key service stakeholders, including young people with a lived experience of violence. This book is ideal for use in professional cross-disciplinary programs, such as criminology, sociology, social work, and psychology, across post-secondary, vocational, and university sectors.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003810373

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9781003810377

Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems

A Comparative Legal Account

By: Graeme Orr

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Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems

A Comparative Legal Account

By: Graeme Orr

’Why do we vote in schools?’ ’What is the social meaning of secret balloting?’ ’What is lost if we vote by mail or computers rather than on election day?’ ’What is the history and role of drinking and wagering in elections?’ ’How does the electoral cycle generate the theatre of election night and inaugurations?’ Elections are key public events - in a secular society the only real coming together of the social whole. Their rituals and rhythms run deep. Yet their conduct is invariably examined in instrumental ways, as if they were merely competitive games or liberal apparatus. Focusing on the political cultures and laws of the UK, the US and Australia, this book offers an historicised and generalised account of the intersection of electoral systems and the concepts of ritual, rhythm and the everyday, which form the basis of how we experience elections. As a novel contribution to the theory of the law of elections, this book will be of interest to researchers, students, administrators and policy makers in both politics and law.

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1317062477

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The Ashes: It's All About the Urn

England vs. Australia: ultimate cricket rivalry

By: Graeme Swann

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The Ashes: It's All About the Urn

England vs. Australia: ultimate cricket rivalry

By: Graeme Swann

Shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards Graeme Swann leads us on a compelling adventure through one of world sport's most engrossing rivalries. He knows as much as anybody about the heat of England v Australia battles, having played in three series wins and also the whitewash defeat of 2013-14 when its intensity ended his international career. However, it brought out some of his best displays in Test cricket. But he is just one of dozens of colourful characters to have added their chapters to this great tome. The mock obituary of English cricket in the Sporting Times of 1882 was the forerunner of summers and winters of heaven and hell, depending on which side of the divide you were situated. When it comes to on-field relations nothing quite compares to the over-my-dead-body feel of the Ashes. From Grace to Sir Don, the most graceful of them all. From the foulest play to the fairest - contrast the 1932-33 Bodyline series affair to the image of Andrew Flintoff hunched over a distraught Brett Lee in 2005. From Ray Illingworth's famous walk-off in the Seventies, when an England team-mate was assaulted by a spectator, to Steve Waugh's hugely emotional lap of honour when he retired a quarter of a century later. Swann's book will reveal the magic of a series that first gripped him in his front room in Northampton as an aspiring spin bowler in the mid-1980s.

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1473670845

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Jacaranda Humanities and Social Sciences 10 for Western Australia, LearnON and Print

By: Jacaranda,Robert Darlington,Jill Price,Denise Miles,Graeme Smithies,Matthew Richardson,Cathy Bedson,Kingsley Head,Jane Wilson,Benjamin Rood

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Jacaranda Humanities and Social Sciences 10 for Western Australia, LearnON and Print

By: Jacaranda,Robert Darlington,Jill Price,Denise Miles,Graeme Smithies,Matthew Richardson,Cathy Bedson,Kingsley Head,Jane Wilson,Benjamin Rood

Jacaranda Humanities and Social Sciences 10 WA Curriculum, 2nd Edition learnON & Print This combined print and digital title provides 100% coverage of the WA Curriculum for Humanities and Social Sciences. The textbook comes with a complimentary activation code for learnON, the powerful digital learning platform making learning personalised and visible for both students and teachers. The latest editions of Jacaranda Humanities and Social Sciences for Western Australia series include these key features: Content is completely revised and updated, aligned to the WA Curriculum, and consistent across all platforms - learnON, eBookPLUS, PDF, iPad app and print Concepts are brought to life with engaging content, diagrams and illustrations, and digital resources including interactivities, videos, weblinks and projects Exercises are carefully sequenced and graded to allow for differentiated individual pathways through the question sets Answers and sample responses are provided for every question HASS Skills are explored and developed through new SkillBuilders with our much-loved Tell me, Show me, Let me do it! approach Brand new downloadable eWorkbooks provide additional differentiated, customisable activities to further develop students' skills Enhanced teaching support including teaching advice, lesson plans, work programs and quarantined assessments For teachers, learnON includes additional teacher resources such as quarantined questions and answers, curriculum grids and work programs.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0730387550

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9780730387558

Absolutely Foxed

By: Graeme Fowler

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Absolutely Foxed

By: Graeme Fowler

Wonderfully entertaining' Mail on Sunday ‘Profoundly important' Guardian Graeme Fowler - former England cricketer, happy-go-lucky joker and inspirational coach - was 47 when depression struck. Suddenly one of the most active men you'd ever meet couldn't even get up off the sofa to make a cup of tea. In Absolutely Foxed, a cricket memoir like no other, Fowler takes the reader on a vivid ride, with riotous stories of life on England tours, partying with Ian Botham and Elton John, combined with a moving account of his battle with mental-health issues. A hugely influential coach, and one of the most original thinkers about the game, Fowler looks back over his 40 years in the professional game, including his 16 years on the county circuit with Lancashire and Durham, and his three years as an England international - a period that was cut short by a life-threatening injury. He followed that with a spell working on Test Match Special, before running the Durham Centre of Excellence for 18 years. In his Foreword, lifelong friend Sir Ian Botham describes Fowler as 'one of the gutsiest I ever encountered', but also points out how he 'made a dressing room tick'. Those elements of courage, knowledge and humour are all present in Absolutely Foxed - a truly unmissable read.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471142337

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City Dreamers

The Urban Imagination in Australia

By: Graeme Davison

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City Dreamers

The Urban Imagination in Australia

By: Graeme Davison

I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism. In City Dreamers Graeme Davison restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime’s work, Davison views Australian history, from 1788 to the present day, through the eyes of city dreamers – such as Henry Lawson, Charles Bean and Hugh Stretton – and others who have helped make the cities we inhabit. Davison looks at significant individuals or groups that he calls snobs, slummers, pessimists, exodists, suburbans and anti-suburbans – and argues that there’s a particular twist to the ways in which Australians think about cities. And the ways we live in them. This extraordinary book excavates the cultural history of the Australian city by focusing on ‘dreamers’, those who battle to make and re-make our cities. It reminds us that for most of us the city is home, and it is there that we find belonging.

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NewSouth

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1742242537

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Parodies of the Romantic Age Vol 1

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin and Other Parodic Writings

By: Graeme Stones,John Strachan

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Parodies of the Romantic Age Vol 1

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin and Other Parodic Writings

By: Graeme Stones,John Strachan

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1000748383

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The Collector

The Life & Loves of young Joseph Banks

By: Graeme Lay

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The Collector

The Life & Loves of young Joseph Banks

By: Graeme Lay

Brave, inquisitive, entrepreneurial: Joseph Banks personified the spirit of late 18th century Enlightenment Europe. Banks’ fascination with the plant and animal kingdom began when he was a boy in rural Lincolnshire. A privileged upbringing saw him schooled at the famous institutions Harrow, Eton and Oxford. As a well-connected, independently wealthy adult, Banks developed a particular friendship with Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, who introduced Banks to the pleasures of angling, and the debaucheries of the London club scene. In 1768, 25-year-old Joseph joined a round-the-world voyage led by the great English navigator, James Cook. This introduced Banks to the freedoms of traditional Polynesian society. He became an ardent lover of indigenous women and an assiduous collector of exotic flora and fauna. Following his return to England, Banks became a figure of renown, lionised by English society. But his dreams of a second world voyage with Cook ended before they began. How did this happen? How did Banks’ vision become a chimera? This novel tells all.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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103580199X

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The Best of Adam Sharp

A Novel

By: Graeme Simsion

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The Best of Adam Sharp

A Novel

By: Graeme Simsion

Originally published: Australia: Text Publishing Company, 2016.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250130409

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The Backroom Boys

Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46

By: Graeme Sligo

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The Backroom Boys

Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46

By: Graeme Sligo

The Backroom Boys is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia’s most senior soldier, General Blamey, and through him to the Government for the remainder of the war and beyond. This band of academics, lawyers and New Guinea patrol officers formed a unique military unit, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, under the command of an eccentric and masterful string-puller, Alf Conlon. The Directorate has been depicted as a haven for underemployed poets or meddlesome soldier-politicians. Based on wide-ranging research, this book reveals a fuller and more fascinating picture. The fierce conflicts in the wartime bureaucracy between public servants and soldiers, in which the Directorate provided critical support to Blamey, went to the heart of military command, accountability and the profession of arms. The Directorate was a pioneer in developing approaches to military government in areas liberated by the combat troops, as demonstrated by the Australian Army in New Guinea, and Borneo in 1945-46. It is an issue of enduring importance. The Directorate established the Australian School of Pacific Administration, and had an important role in founding the Australian National University. Its influence extended into post war Australia. The Backroom Boys emphasises the personality of Colonel Alf Conlon, as well as the talented men and women he recruited. Above all, this book shows how, unexpectedly, the Australian Army fostered a group of men and women who made a lasting contribution to the development of Australia in the decades after the war.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922132543

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Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary?

By: Graeme Donald Snooks

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Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary?

By: Graeme Donald Snooks

By examining the wider dimensions of the Industrial Revolution, the authors draw conclusions to answer the question of the title.

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Psychology Press

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0415108683

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Prehistoric Farming in Europe

By: Graeme Barker

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Prehistoric Farming in Europe

By: Graeme Barker

Drawing upon his own extensive knowledge of European archaeology, Graeme Barker has impressively integrated the full range of archaeological data to produce in this book a masterly account of prehistoric farming in Europe on a unique scale. He makes use of modern archaeological techniques to reconstruct the lives of prehistoric farmers in remarkable detail. Not only do we now have a vivid picture of the prehistoric farmyard, but we know what animals were kept, how they were fed and why they were bred. Evidence for crops grown and techniques of cultivation and husbandry helps recreate the prehistoric landscape. Even the social organisation that determined the use of resources, and provided the crucial stimulus for agricultural change, can be relived. Graeme Barker develops his argument through analogies with the agricultural history of classical and medieval Europe and concludes that today's industrial farmers can learn much from the successes and failures of early European farming.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521269695

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Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples

Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia

By: Graeme Morton,David A. Wilson

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Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples

Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia

By: Graeme Morton,David A. Wilson

The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish and Scottish migrants had with Indigenous peoples in North America and Australasia. The Irish and Scots were among the most active and enthusiastic participants in what one contributor describes as "the greatest single period of land theft, cultural pillage, and casual genocide in world history." At the same time, some settlers attempted to understand Indigenous society rather than destroy it, while others incorporated a romanticized view of Natives into a radical critique of European society, and others still empathized with Natives as fellow victims of imperialism. These essays investigate the extent to which the condition of being Irish and Scottish affected settlers' attitudes to Indigenous peoples, and examine the political, social, religious, cultural, and economic dimensions of their interactions. Presenting a variety of viewpoints, the editors reach the provocative conclusion that the Scottish and Irish origins of settlers were less important in determining attitudes and behaviour than were the specific circumstances in which those settlers found themselves at different times and places in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Contributors include Donald Harman Akenson (Queen's), John Eastlake (College Cork), Marjory Harper (Aberdeen), Andrew Hinson (Toronto), Michele Holmgren (Mount Royal), Kevin Hutchings (Northern British Columbia), Anne Lederman (Royal Conservatory of Music), Patricia A. McCormack (Alberta), Mark G. McGowan (Toronto), Ann McGrath (Australian National), Cian T. McMahon (Nevada), Graeme Morton (Guelph), Michael Newton (Xavier), Pádraig Ó Siadhail (Saint Mary's), Brad Patterson (Victoria University of Wellington), Beverly Soloway (Lakehead), and David A. Wilson (Toronto).

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0773588817

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9780773588813

Domesday Economy

A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History

By: John McDonald,Graeme Donald Snooks

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Domesday Economy

A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History

By: John McDonald,Graeme Donald Snooks

Snooks and McDonald have compiled an unequalled new interpretation of the Domesday Book, the ancient work containing detailed and comprehensive statistics on ownership, income, and resources of almost every manor of Norman England in 1086.

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Oxford University Press

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0198285248

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Fame Games

The Production of Celebrity in Australia

By: Graeme Turner,Frances Bonner,P. David Marshall

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Fame Games

The Production of Celebrity in Australia

By: Graeme Turner,Frances Bonner,P. David Marshall

The areas of publicity, public relations and promotions have been considered to be on the periphery of the media. Yet this revealing new book demonstrates that they form a fundamental component of the media industries, with the decline of hard news being accompanied by the rise of gossip and celebrity. In addition to making a substantial contribution to our understanding of the cultural function of celebrity, Fame Games outlines how the promotion industry has developed and how celebrity is produced, promoted, and traded within the Australian media. While their analysis will inform academic debates on media practice internationally, the authors have taken the unique step of investigating the workings of the Australian promotion industry from within. Interviews with over 20 publicists, promoters, agents, managers, and magazine editors have provided a wealth of information about the processes through which celebrity in Australia is produced.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521794862

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9780521794862

Forces for Good

Cosmopolitan Militaries in the Twenty-first Century

By: Graeme Cheeseman

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Forces for Good

Cosmopolitan Militaries in the Twenty-first Century

By: Graeme Cheeseman

Forces for good develops and explores the concept of 'cosmopolitan militaries'. It examines how governments, militaries and institutions have responded politically, doctrinally and operationally to claims that militaries have a new role in cosmopolitan law enforcement that allows and perhaps even requires the use of force to protect and defend those who are the victims of gross abuse of human rights. The contributors include academics, defence practitioners and serving military officers."--BOOK JACKET.

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Manchester University Press

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071906936X

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9780719069369

Children's Understanding

The Development of Mental Models

By: Graeme S. Halford

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Children's Understanding

The Development of Mental Models

By: Graeme S. Halford

This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive tasks is considered paying particular attention to the implications of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models for cognitive development. The first half of the book contains analyses of human reasoning processes (drawing on PDP models of analogy), development of strategies, and task complexity -- all based on aspects of PDP representations. It is proposed that PDP representations become more differentiated with age, so more vectors can be processed in parallel, with the result that structures of greater complexity can be processed. This model gives an account of previously unexplained difficulties in children's reasoning, including some which were influential in stage theories. The second half of the book examines processes entailed in some representative cognitive developmental tasks, including transitive inference, deductive inference (categorical syllogisms), hypothesis testing, learning set acquisition, acquisition and transfer of relational structures, humor, hierarchical classification and inclusion, understanding of quantity, arithmetic word problems, algebra, conservation, mechanics, and the concept of mind. Process accounts of tasks are emphasized, based on applications of recent developments in cognitive science.

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Psychology Press

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1317766636

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Ending the Affair

The Decline of Television Current Affairs in Australia

By: Graeme Turner

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Ending the Affair

The Decline of Television Current Affairs in Australia

By: Graeme Turner

Ending the Affair is a critical account of the state of current affairs television in Australia today. It questions its future, draws lessons from the past and shows why television current affairs matters."--BOOK JACKET.

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UNSW Press

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0868408646

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Economics Without Time

A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change

By: Graeme Donald Snooks

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Economics Without Time

A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change

By: Graeme Donald Snooks

Historical, theoretical, and real time in economics.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472104950

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9780472104956

Corporate Collapse

Accounting, Regulatory and Ethical Failure

By: Frank Clarke,Graeme Dean,Kyle Oliver

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Corporate Collapse

Accounting, Regulatory and Ethical Failure

By: Frank Clarke,Graeme Dean,Kyle Oliver

This revised edition of Clarke, Dean and Oliver's provocative book tells why accounting has failed to deliver the truth about a company's state of affairs or to give warning of its drift towards failure. A number of well-known cases of corporate collapse from the 1960s to the 1990s and beyond are studied and the recent HIH and One.Tel collapses are examined. Corporate Collapse is essential reading for professional accountants and auditors, company directors and managers, regulators, corporate lawyers, investors and everyone aspiring to join their ranks.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521534267

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9780521534260

James Cook's New World

By: Graeme Lay

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James Cook's New World

By: Graeme Lay

The sensational fictionalised account of James Cook's extraordinary second voyage of discovery, from the tropical isles of Polynesia to the icey seas of the great Southern Ocean, the furthest south anyone had ever sailed. James continued to stare at the vast, impenetrable sheet of frozen water. Beyond it, and surprisingly bright, was a range of ice mountains whose summits reached up to and vanished into a wig of white cloud ... 'I believe,' James said quietly, 'that we are now closer to the South Pole than anyone who has sailed before us.' The year is 1771. James Cook, recently returned from his first, epic world voyage, is promoted to captain and instructed to embark on a search for the last undiscovered landmass, the Great Unknown Southern Continent. It proves to be one of the longest and most perilous voyages ever undertaken. Like an 18th-century Ulysses, Cook drives himself and his men onward, traversing the entire South Pacific, putting into place the last pieces of Earth's great jigsaw puzzle. And though it marks a personal triumph for Cook, his prolonged absence from his wife Elizabeth and their surviving children is marked by domestic tragedy and heartbreak. In this thrilling sequel to The Secret Life of James Cook the biggest question of all is: where does duty to King and Country end, and loyalty to wife and family begin? Praise for The Secret Life of James Cook: 'Graeme Lay ... is well placed to attempt what no one has ever managed to achieve, by telling us not just what Cook did, but what he was like' North & South

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Harper Collins

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1775490785

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The Law of Ship Mortgages

By: David Osborne,Graeme Bowtle,Charles Buss

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The Law of Ship Mortgages

By: David Osborne,Graeme Bowtle,Charles Buss

This book provides a full explanation and understanding of the English law of ship mortgages. Some of the key topics that this title covers include: • Beneficial ownership of ships and the registration system under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 • Nature of ship mortgage and the different forms of mortgage and security interest that can be created • Rights and obligations undertaken by both the owner and the mortgagee • Methods by which a mortgagee can enforce his security • Problems that can arise in consequence of the insolvency of the owner

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CRC Press

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1135115419

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9781135115418

Undead Me

By: Graeme Hawke

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Undead Me

By: Graeme Hawke

Alex Watson was just a normal teenager whose life was turned upside down at the death of his mother. He now unwillingly finds himself in the middle of a government conspiracy, and before he can do anything to change the course of events he and his two best friends are murdered and left for dead. There is just one problem is he dead? Alex soon learns that survival is not simple anymore, and with his memories fading and his hunger is growing he struggles to hold on to his humanity. He is now part of the desperate many UnDead, looking for a way to sustain their thoughts, their dreams and cling on to a small proportion of what might be called LIFE! For Jeremy Watson and his daughter Alice, it's a do or die effort to find a son and brother. Sheriff Rodger Masters, his deputy Steve Iverson, and a young man Chad are all drawn together to find Alex and the answers they need. Captain Bison on the other hand wants J74 for himself, can Alex stop him before he causes an all out zombie war.

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Lulu.com

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1105782727

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9781105782725

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