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Book Review of The Wind of Change in Central Australia

Download or read book Review of The Wind of Change in Central Australia written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of The Winds of Change in Central Australia

Download or read book Review of The Winds of Change in Central Australia written by Alastair H. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wind of Change

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adolphus Peter Elkin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Wind of Change written by Adolphus Peter Elkin and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews book by F.C.G. Rose - The wind of change in Central Australia; notes changes in kinship terms founds among Aluridja at Angas Downs, N.T. & questions validity of some observations of change; possibility of decrease in polygamy as a result of economic circumstances; discusses evidence of changes in cults & incipient cargo cult; praises inclusion of field diary.

Book 47 Degrees

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin D'Ath
  • Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
  • Release : 2019-01-08
  • ISBN : 1760146854
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book 47 Degrees written by Justin D'Ath and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeelie wonders if they’re in danger. When temperatures soar to 47 degrees one hot summer day, 12-year-old Zeelie hopes the nearby bushfires everyone’s talking about aren’t heading towards her family’s new home. What will they do if the wind changes direction? What about their belongings and their beloved pets? And why hasn’t her mum and brother returned from Melbourne? Nothing can prepare Zeelie for what’s to come.

Book The Winds of Change

Download or read book The Winds of Change written by Eugene Linden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we better prepared than our ancestors were to deal with climate change? Explaining fast-changing science, Linden suggests that man must learn from the past to avoid a coming catastrophe. Illustrations throughout.

Book Social Anthropology and Australian Aboriginal Studies

Download or read book Social Anthropology and Australian Aboriginal Studies written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifts of emphasis from 1961-1986 in the study of Aboriginal economy, kinship, gender issues; religion, law and social anthropology; papers by C. Anderson, J.A. Barnes, R.M. Berndt and R. Tonkinson, I. Keen, F. Merlan, H. Morphy, and N.M. Williams annotated separately.

Book Going It Alone

Download or read book Going It Alone written by Robert Tonkinson and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays in honour of leading anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt has as its central theme Aboriginal autonomy, and includes biographical information about the Berndts and a select bibliography of their work.

Book Winds of Change

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  • Author : Peter Hennessy
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2019-09-05
  • ISBN : 1846147247
  • Pages : 499 pages

Download or read book Winds of Change written by Peter Hennessy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy 'By far the best study of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and important' The Times, Books of the Year Harold Macmillan famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society; its relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defence policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough - the United Kingdom's economy - great efforts were made to sweep away the cobwebs of old industrial practices and poor labour relations. Life was lived in the knowledge that it could end in a single afternoon of thermonuclear exchange if the uneasy, armed peace of the Cold War tipped into a Third World War. In Winds of Change we see Macmillan gradually working out his 'grand design' - how to be part of both a tight transatlantic alliance and Europe, dealing with his fellow geostrategists Kennedy and de Gaulle. The centre of the book is 1963 - the year of the Profumo Crisis, the Great Train Robbery, the satire boom, de Gaulle's veto of Britain's first application to join the EEC, the fall of Macmillan and the unexpected succession to the premiership of Alec Douglas-Home. Then, in 1964, the battle of what Hennessy calls the tweedy aristocrat and the tweedy meritocrat - Harold Wilson, who would end 13 years of Conservative rule and usher in a new era. As in his acclaimed histories of British life in the two previous decades, Never Again and Having it so Good, Peter Hennessy explains the political, economic, cultural and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy. No historian knows the by-ways as well the highways of the archives so well, and no one conveys the flavour of the period so engagingly. The early sixties live again in these pages.

Book Wolfe Island

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  • Author : Lucy Treloar
  • Publisher : Picador Australia
  • Release : 2019-08-27
  • ISBN : 1760787906
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Wolfe Island written by Lucy Treloar and published by Picador Australia. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD 2020 'Atmospheric...evocative...important.' Tom Keneally Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the company of her wolfdog, Girl - unconcerned by the world outside, or perhaps avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following her granddaughter, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will fight to save her as fiercely as her name suggests... A richly imagined and mythic parable of home and kin that cements Lucy Treloar's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR ABIA LITERARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE VOSS LITERARY AWARD 2020 PRAISE FOR LUCY TRELOAR 'A capacious talent' The Australian 'Deeply moving' The Age 'This lovely, atmospheric book sings of the inherent human drama, rising fragility of home-country and the recurrent need to flee and to protect. The journey told in this book is so evocative it will stay with the reader as an important literary fable of our period of history, in which a fraught world threatens all of us with flight, exile and bewilderment.' Tom Keneally, bestselling author of Schindler's Ark 'A work that is more than powerful: it's transformative.' Australian Book Review 'Disturbing but beautiful' Susan Wyndham

Book Index to Australian Book Reviews

Download or read book Index to Australian Book Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries supplied by University of Queensland Library Staff.

Book Anthropology  Art  and Aesthetics

Download or read book Anthropology Art and Aesthetics written by Jeremy Coote and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthropology of art is a fast-developing area of intellectual debate and academic study. This beautifully illustrated volume is a unique survey of the current state of anthropological thinking on art and aesthetics. The distinguished contributors draw on contemporary anthropological theory and on classic anthropological topics such as myth and ritual to deepen our understanding of particular aesthetic traditions in their socio-cultural and historical contexts. Many of the essays present new findings based on recent field research in Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and Mexico; while others draw on classical anthropological accounts of the Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia and the Nuer of the Southern Sudan to form new arguments and conclusions. The introductory overview of the history of the anthropology of art, by Sir Raymond Firth, makes this volume especially useful for those interested in learning what anthropology has to contribute to our understanding of art and aesthetics in general.

Book At the Other End of Australia

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. F. Donovan
  • Publisher : St. Lucia ; New York : University of Queensland Press ; Lawrence, Mass. : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Technical Impex Corporation
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book At the Other End of Australia written by P. F. Donovan and published by St. Lucia ; New York : University of Queensland Press ; Lawrence, Mass. : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Technical Impex Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Aboriginal/white relations, including Coniston Killings; poor conditions for Aboriginal pastoral workers; missions; changing Government policy and administration; lobbying of anthropologists, especially Spencer, Elkin and Thomson; effect of World War II; commitment of Federal Government under Hasluck; development of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Aboriginal self-determination.

Book Rain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthia Barnett
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2016-04-05
  • ISBN : 0804137110
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Rain written by Cynthia Barnett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.

Book APAIS  Australian Public Affairs Information Service

Download or read book APAIS Australian Public Affairs Information Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1963 includes section Current Australian serials; a subject list.

Book Treatise on Geomorphology

Download or read book Treatise on Geomorphology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 6392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing focus and approach of geomorphic research suggests that the time is opportune for a summary of the state of discipline. The number of peer-reviewed papers published in geomorphic journals has grown steadily for more than two decades and, more importantly, the diversity of authors with respect to geographic location and disciplinary background (geography, geology, ecology, civil engineering, computer science, geographic information science, and others) has expanded dramatically. As more good minds are drawn to geomorphology, and the breadth of the peer-reviewed literature grows, an effective summary of contemporary geomorphic knowledge becomes increasingly difficult. The fourteen volumes of this Treatise on Geomorphology will provide an important reference for users from undergraduate students looking for term paper topics, to graduate students starting a literature review for their thesis work, and professionals seeking a concise summary of a particular topic. Information on the historical development of diverse topics within geomorphology provides context for ongoing research; discussion of research strategies, equipment, and field methods, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulations reflect the multiple approaches to understanding Earth’s surfaces; and summaries of outstanding research questions highlight future challenges and suggest productive new avenues for research. Our future ability to adapt to geomorphic changes in the critical zone very much hinges upon how well landform scientists comprehend the dynamics of Earth’s diverse surfaces. This Treatise on Geomorphology provides a useful synthesis of the state of the discipline, as well as highlighting productive research directions, that Educators and students/researchers will find useful. Geomorphology has advanced greatly in the last 10 years to become a very interdisciplinary field. Undergraduate students looking for term paper topics, to graduate students starting a literature review for their thesis work, and professionals seeking a concise summary of a particular topic will find the answers they need in this broad reference work which has been designed and written to accommodate their diverse backgrounds and levels of understanding Editor-in-Chief, Prof. J. F. Shroder of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is past president of the QG&G section of the Geological Society of America and present Trustee of the GSA Foundation, while being well respected in the geomorphology research community and having won numerous awards in the field. A host of noted international geomorphologists have contributed state-of-the-art chapters to the work. Readers can be guaranteed that every chapter in this extensive work has been critically reviewed for consistency and accuracy by the World expert Volume Editors and by the Editor-in-Chief himself No other reference work exists in the area of Geomorphology that offers the breadth and depth of information contained in this 14-volume masterpiece. From the foundations and history of geomorphology through to geomorphological innovations and computer modelling, and the past and future states of landform science, no "stone" has been left unturned!

Book The Archaeology of Australia s Deserts

Download or read book The Archaeology of Australia s Deserts written by Mike Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.

Book Monthly Weather Review

Download or read book Monthly Weather Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: