Download or read book Bill the Bush Tucker Boy written by Rebecca Mumford and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill goes on a journey to learn about native bush plants, which thousands of years ago, Australian Aboriginal people found could be eaten.
Download or read book Saltwater Boy written by Bradley Christmas and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartfelt and poignant, this coming of age story explores father-son relationships, against a backdrop of small town rivalries, buried truths, with themes of sustainability, preserving the past and environmental care. When Dad goes to jail, Matthew and his mum move to the coast, so mum – an artist – thinks she can renovate her late father’s old place to sell it to get them back on their feet. Matthew strikes up a friendship with Old Bill, an Indigenous man who becomes a father figure to him, and teaches him how to find and eat pippis, fish (and to make a few dollars from it). Dad gets out on parole and moves back in with the family, but his anger fractures the newfound peace and everything is once again at stake, and in peril.
Download or read book Papunya Tula written by Geoff Bardon and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bardon is an ex-art teacher who supplied materials to the artists of Papunya when stationed there in the early T70s. This is a record of his association with them, accompanied by colour reproductions of 20 artists' work with explanations of the symbolism used.
Download or read book The Boys from St Francis written by Ashley Mallett and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable true story pays tribute to a band of Aboriginal boys who grew up together in one group home - many succeeding spectacularly in later life. In 1945, Anglican priest Father Percy Smith brought six boys from their Northern Territory home to an Adelaide beach suburb. There, they became the first boys of St Francis, a place that would house 50 such boys over 11 years. Some were sent, with the blessing of their mothers, to gain an education. Others were members of the Stolen Generations. In their interviews with Ashley Mallett, many of these men recall Father Smith's kindness and care. His successors, however, were often brutal, and the boys faced prejudice in a wider world largely built to exclude Indigenous Australians. The Boys from St Francis is a multi-layered tale of triumph against the odds - using the early building blocks of education and sporting prowess. Many of them went on to become fiercely effective advocates for Aboriginal causes, achieving significant progress not just for themselves, but for Aboriginal people, changing their world for the better. Activist Charles Perkins, the first Indigenous man to receive a university degree, commenced his status as a national icon with the 1965 Freedom Rides. John Moriarty, the first Indigenous man picked for the national soccer team, designed the famous Dreaming images for five Qantas planes. Harold Thomas created the iconic Aboriginal flag. Vince Copley played football for the Port Adelaide Magpies. George Kruger worked with Fred Hollows in remote Indigenous communities for nearly 20 years. The Boys from St Francis is a sometimes shocking, but ultimately hopeful book about black and white Australia, told through one constellation of lives, sharing one seaside address.
Download or read book Bill Rules written by Elizabeth Fensham and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill and Matty are the best of friends. Matty is headstrong, willful and entertaining; Bill is loyal, patient and devoted to Matty. They are also neighbors which means their lives are intertwined and daily 'thinktanks' are held in Matty's backyard bath. When Bill learns that his father is coming home from jail, his world is tipped upside down. How will the kids at school take the news? And, most importantly, how do Bill and his mother feel about his dad being home? Worries start to mount but the ever-watchful Matty has an idea to help Bill keep his dad on the straight and narrow. However, life doesn't always go according to plan ...An enchanting story of friendship, courage and trust from one of Australia's favorite storytellers.
Download or read book Trying to Get It Back written by Gillian Weiss and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to Get It Back: Indigenous Women, Education and Culture examines aspects of the lives of six women from three generations of two indigenous families. Their combined memories, experiences and aspirations cover the entire twentieth century. The first family, Pearl McKenzie, Pauline Coulthard and Charlene Tree are a mother, daughter and granddaughter of the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Range in South Australia. The second family consists of Bernie Sound, her neice Valerie Bourne and Valerie's daughter, Brandi McLeod -- Sechelt women from British Columbia, Canada. They talk to G.
Download or read book My First Book of Hindi Words written by Rina Singh and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Book of Hindi Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Hindi language and Indian culture through everyday words. Organized as an ABC rhyming book, My First Book of Hindi Words incorporates common Hindi words into charming English-language rhymes, beginning with: "A is for akash. A sky so blue where little birds fly and big planes, too," and on through "Z is for zukhaam. Achoo! I sneeze. I must have a cold. Mama, hug me please!" Winsome, full-color pictures illustrate each word and allow even very young readers to make their first foray into India's official language. A helpful glossary at the end makes it easy for readers—including parents and teachers—to review what they've learned! With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the 300 million people worldwide that speak Hindi!
Download or read book Long Time Olden Time written by Peter Read and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of interviews with 48 Aboriginal people recorded in 1976-77. The book is divided into two sections, TConflict' and TLiving with Whites', and the interviews cover areas such as the Coniston Massacre, learning the white culture, living and working, and WWII. A chronology of Northern Territory events 1820-1970, a glossary and a map are also included. TIt is a major contribution to AboriginalPand to AustralianPhistoriography' (Henny Reynolds).
Download or read book Polysituatedness written by John Kinsella and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kathy Acker to indigenous Australian poet Jack Davis, the book touches on other writers and theorists, but in essence is a hands-on 'praxis' book of poetic practice. The work extends John Kinsella's theory of 'international regionalism' and posits new ways of reading the relationship between place and individual, between individual and the natural environment, and how place occupies the person as much as the person occupies place. It provides alternative readings of writers through place and space, especially Australian writers, but also non-Australian. Further, close consideration is given to being of 'famine-migrant' Irish heritage and the complexities of 'returning'. A close-up examination of 'belonging' and exclusion is made on a day-to-day basis. The book offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by experiencing multiple places, developing a model of polyvalent belonging known as 'polysituatedness'. It works as a companion volume to Kinsella's earlier Manchester University Press critical work, Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape to Lyricism.
Download or read book Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction written by Michelle Nolan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key plots, themes, trends and categories. Commentary relates the works to real-life baseball and football of the period. The history of the genre is traced, beginning with the debut of Dime Sport (later renamed Dime Sports), the first magazine from a major publisher to provide competition for Street & Smith's long-established Sport Story Magazine. Complementing the text is a complete catalog of fiction from the six major publishers who competed with S&S, also noting the cover themes for 1,054 issues.
Download or read book Rhetorics of Names and Naming written by Star Medzerian Vanguri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors theorize the formation, modification, and recontexualization of names as a result of technological and cultural change, and consider the ways in which naming influences identity and affects/grants power.
Download or read book International Journal of the Sociology of Language written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legends of the Outback written by Marie Mahood and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes, visionaries and eccentrics! Outback writer Marie Mahood is the author of the much loved Icing on the Damper and A Bunch of Strays. In the 1960s she raised cattle and kids on the world’s most remote cattle station, Mongrel Downs, in the Tanami Desert. Here she writes about the heroes, visionaries and eccentrics of Australia’s vast outback. Her thirty-two characters include the greatest drover and Gulf trekker of them all, Nat Buchanan: prince of poddy-dodgers Harry Readford; the cattle king Sidney Kidman; outback surveyor supreme and all-round good bloke Len Beadell; Aboriginal warrior Jandamarra; Mat Wilson at the NT Depot store; gun shearer Jackie Howe; drover Edna Zigenbine on the Murranji Track; explorer and goldmine Christy Palmerston in the heartland of Cape York Peninsula; eccentrics such as the Gulf Hero and the Barkly Hermit; and drovers who were also painters and poets of repute.
Download or read book Off Script written by Josh King and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Trump won election as the 45th President of the United States by studying American political stagecraft and learning what helped previous candidates succeed and doomed others to failure. A figure on the periphery of campaigns for decades, he glided down the Trump Tower escalator on June 16, 2015, declared his candidacy and took his place, permanently, as an actor in the country’s greatest spectacle. Twenty-eight years earlier, at the dawn of what Josh King calls “The Age of Optics” in OFF SCRIPT: An Advance Man’s Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle and Political Suicide, Trump began to position himself for his eventual run for the Oval Office. Pictured at the foot of that same gilded escalator, he posed at the foot of that same escalator for a cover story profile in TIME magazine. “This Man May Turn You Green With Envy—Or Just Turn You Off,” read the first part of TIME’s headline in January 1989. “Flaunting It is the Game, and TRUMP is the name,” the headline concluded. The cover story came just after Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis lost in a landslide to Vice President George H.W. Bush, in part because Dukakis made the disastrous decision to ride in an M1A1 Abrams tank in Sterling Heights, Michigan less than two months before the election. Why did Dukakis make that ride, and why was it so deadly? Indeed, in each election that followed, why did George Bush, Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry, John McCain and Mitt Romney make similar mistakes that cost them dearly at the polls? These are the questions that Josh King answers in OFF SCRIPT. King, who served as Director of Production in Bill Clinton’s White House and later was host of SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s long-running “Polioptics: The Theater of Politics,” brings readers on a wild ride over the last thirty years of the Age of Optics, from Ronald Reagan’s mastery of image to Barack Obama’s “Vanilla Presidency” to, ultimately, the faceoff between Hillary Clinton and Trump. As one of the White House’s most creative “advance men,” skilled at employing the tools to tell help tell the president’s daily story, and creating the scenes that the media can’t resist turning into news packages and front page photos, King pulls back the curtain on the behind-the-scenes alchemy of political stagecraft. King’s personal account, in-depth interviews, and detail-rich stories, and his unique angle on what drives headlines, makes news, and wins elections will serve as an indispensible companion to those keeping a close eye on the Trump presidency.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1954-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book Camp Nameless written by Rain Siyakim Chetdav and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a millennium emerges an all-encompassing assisted reality and science fiction novel that exemplifies literary greatness and unique storytelling dexterity. Camp Nameless main character, Leigh-Ellen Srey, a fearless protagonist who welcomes challenges from all aspects of life from flying USAF F-22 Raptor in Iraq to training in artistic gymnastics for the 2024 Paris Olympics in her preteen years. Camp Nameless derives its sequences of events from Leigh- Ellen’s point of view which derives from her dream sequences, and dream sequences within dream sequences; readers will engulf in events such as post nuclear apocalyptic Korea, multiple virtual reality environments, US West Point Military Academy’s outpost summer camp, and military covert operations with multinationals elite troopers. Camp Nameless is an enmeshed-up genres...but the one thing remains constant is Leigh-Ellen Srey’s zany, witty persona: she speaks her mind and outwardly exhibits her personal belief in sense of judicatory for all.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-12-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
