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Ministry of love: the story of the sisters of charity
Par Danielle Achikian. 2018
Women who changed the world: fifty inspirational women who shaped history.
Par Cambridge Editorial Partnership. 2006
A celebration of the achievements of womankind, this book honours 50 amazing women and the incredible impact they have had…
on our world. From empire builders and healers to daring explorers and iconoclastic thinkers, these are moving stories of dedication, conflict, tragedy and triumph, as dramatic as any fiction.Beautiful balts: from displaced persons to new Australians
Par Jayne Persian. 2017
Over 170000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952-the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Under the slogan of 'populate…
or perish', Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for 'white' refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as 'Beautiful Balts' - yet as this book shows, many of the 'Beautiful Balts' were not Lithuanian, Latvian or Estonian. Amid the White Australia Policy, the tensions of the Cold War and the national need for labour, these people would transform not only Australia's immigration policy, but the country itself. Beautiful Balts tells the extraordinary story of these Displaced Persons. It traces their journey from the chaotic camps of Europe after the Second World War to a new life in a land of opportunity where prejudice, parochialism, and strident anti-communism were rife. Persian investigates who they really were, why Australia wanted them and what they experienced after migrating halfway across the world.The closed circle: an interpretation of the Arabs
Par David Pryce-Jones. 2009
As the violence of the Middle East has come to America, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new…
form of mayhem that appears to be a feature of Arab societies. This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions.Thanks for the memories: stories of our past
Par Vision Australia. 2008
On June 21, 2008 Vision Australia hosted a farewell celebration at 557 St Kilda Road for people who attended the…
RVIB school and resident rehabilitation and training centre. This book was produced as an official momento of that day. It consists of the official procedings, followed by a compilation of interviews and memories that people shared on the day.Ian Clunies Ross: a biography
Par Marjory O'Dea. 1997
Ian Clunies Ross was an Australian scientist and founder of the CSIRO, the man Sir Robert Menzies claimed was the…
greatest PR man that Australian science ever had. Langridge's biography celebrates his achievements and character.The mystery of Fairyland, Kew
Par James Nicolas. 2017
In 1965 in Kew, Melbourne, 88-year-old Grace Tabulo passed away at her 1860's home, Fairyland. This ended more than 20…
years that Grace and her Gallipoli veteran husband Jim had made their home a tourist attraction for children in the local area and beyond. With exhibits, stories, concerts and celebrations for events like Empire Day, Fairyland was featured in newspapers and magazines in Melbourne and abroad. It was a unique place in a more innocent time that had a profound effect on all those who went there. What motivated this couple to dedicate their lives to their community? And what are some of the mysteries that lie behind this story? This is a window into post-war Melbourne suburbia which celebrates a wonderful couple and their lives' work.Assyrians: the continuous saga
Par Frederick A Aprim. 2004
Assyrians have been deprived of their rich heritage in their ancestral homelands in Mesopotamia. From one side, history curriculum taught…
in the Middle East's public schools is manipulated and it focuses predominantly on the region's Islamic era.Assyrians: from Bedr Khan to Saddam Hussein : driving into extinction the last Aramaic speakers
Par Frederick A Aprim. 1999
After the establishment of Islam as a state religion in the Fertile Crescent by the 8th century, the ferocious attacks…
by the Timurids, plundering the region as they descended from Central Asia in the 14th century, drove many Christian Aramaic speakers who did not convert to Islam into the mountains of the Taurus, Hakkari, and the Zagros for shelter. Others remained in their ancestral villages on the Mosul (Nineveh) Plain only to face heavy pressure to assimilate into Arab culture. The greatest catastrophe to visit the Assyrians in the modern period was the genocide committed against them, as Christians, during the Great War. From the Assyrian renaissance experienced when, miraculously, they became the objects of Western Christian missionary educational and medical efforts, the Assyrians fell into near oblivion. Shunned by the Allies at the treaties that ended WWI, Assyrians drifted into Diaspora, destructive denominationalism, and fierce assimilation tendencies as exercised by chauvinistic Arab, Persian and Turkish state entities.Hiroshima: why America dropped the atomic bomb
Par Ronald T Takaki. 1995
The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unresolved.…
At the time, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and chief of staff Admiral William Leahy all agreed that an atomic attack on Japanese cities was unnecessary. All of them believed that Japan had already been beaten and that the war would soon end. Was the bomb dropped to end the war more quickly? Or did it herald the start of the Cold War?Borough burning: the first 125 years of the Eaglehawk Fire Brigade
Par Noelene Wild. 1998
The first 125 years of the Eaglehawk Fire Brigade. Includes fire stations, uniforms, and equipment. Describes fire fighting over the…
years, and the types of fires battled; fire trucks and their improvement. Sporting prowess is well covered, with Championship results and trophies.The secret discovery of Australia: Portuguese ventures 200 years before Captain Cook
Par Kenneth Gordon McIntyre. 1977
Everyone knows that Captain Cook 'discovered' the great continent of Australia in 1770. It says so in the history books,…
and his many monuments in Australia acknowledge it. True, the Dutch had sighted the West Coast in 1606. But it was Cook who found the harbours of the East, and made settlement possible. But K. G. Mclntyre, an Australian lawyer with a lifelong interest in the history of discovery, has uncovered a different story. By studying ancient maps particularly those known as the Dauphin and 'Dieppe' maps and researching the history of Portuguese navigation from the time of Henry the Navigator, he shows that not only was Captain James Cook not the first European to visit Australia, he was preceded by more than 200 years. For is it not reasonable that the Portuguese who discovered Timor in the mid-16th century should have found the vast continent a mere 250 miles away, as well? How else to explain the mysterious records of the finding of a wrecked 'Mahogany Ship' on the Western Australian Coast? Mclntyre's story of these early voyages, his detailed understanding of the development of deep-sea navigation and of the policies that drove the Maritime Powers of Spain and Portugal to compete to rule the world on either side of the Pope's meridian, make his book compelling reading in itself. But The Secret Discovery of Australia is also a fascinating suspense story, the tale of the author's own unravelling of a great historical mystery, the unearthing of secrets that have been kept for hundreds of years.Konin: a quest
Par Theo Richmond. 1995
In 1939 the Polish town of Konin vanished in the wake of Nazi occupation. Twenty-five years later, Theo Richmond set…
out to find what he could about that vanished world. He traveled across the United States, Europe, and Israel, tracing survivors and sifting through archives and the stories of those he interviewed. A project he thought would take six months took seven years. Finally he confronted the Konin of today. Interweaving past and present, Konin tells the story of one community--how it began, how it flourished, and how it ended--and in the process re-creates the precariousness, anguish and necessity of human memory.A history of Tasmania
Par Henry Reynolds. 2012
Massacre: Myall Creek revisited
Par Russell Blanch. 2000
The author revisits the site to unravel its mystery. Here in the bush is a record of savagery and injustice.…
The atrocity cut into the conscience of our pioneering forebears. It affronted and challenged the nations ethic of a fair go.Memories of guiding: a collection of stories to celebrate the Centenary of Guiding in Australia : 1910-2010
Par Margaret Taylor, Jill Johnston. 2009
Only behind a cloud: a history of Old Linton
Par Stephe Jitts. 2012
The great boomerang
Par Ion L Idriess. 1948
In this book, originally published in 1941, Idriess suggests a scheme for developing the Outback, with particular emphahsis on managing…
and harvesting water resources."The dreams of to-day are the facts of to-morrow. And if even a portion of the Plan outlined here were organized for execution immediately after the war, we would have no need to fear Depression."Great Australian mysteries 2: unsolved, unexplained, unknown
Par John Pinkney. 2006
Australia is a continent of fathomless mysteries. In this compelling book John Pinkney presents a new selection of the most…
tantalising true cases he has investigated during a lifetime's research: unexplained disappearances, from the enigma of Victoria's vanishing heiress to the saga of the 'jinxed' ship which disappeared with 102 Australians aboard. Outback riddles: the desert Aboriginals whose astonishing 'song' saved the life of a dying woman 4,000 kilometres away, the eerie invasion of Lake Eyre, the monster that guarded an abandoned NSW potato farm, startling events in Queensland's Isla Gorge. Mysterious deaths, including the fate of John Friedrich, 'the man who never was' - and the horror in the Sydney's dunes. Mystifying events: the baffling case of the burning man, the uncanny images floating outside Melbourne suburban windows, and much more...Sailing to Australia: shipboard diaries by nineteenth-century British emigrants
Par Andrew Hassam. 1995
Between 1788 and 1880 some 1.3 million free emigrants arrived in Australia from the British Isles. For these people, the…
journey to this new promised land was fraught with difficulty and danger. It was a huge transition, both geographically and culturally. Andrew Hassam analyses the journals and diaries that offer snapshots and experiences of many ordinary men and women who embarked on the adventure.