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1788-1809 Year by Year by Victoria Macleay
Category: Children's | Series: Australian Timelines Ser.
The first 22 years of the colonisation of Australia were tumultuous ones. They began with the arrival of the First Fleet and ended with the aftermath of the only military insurrection Australia has ever experienced. This book covers all the major events the arrival at Botany Bay, the settlement at Sydne ...Show more
2-Day Fasting Diet
Category: Diet | Series: The\Australian Women's Weekly: New Essentials Ser.
Join the scores of people who have discovered the best way of dieting - eat less for just two days a week while eating normally on the other days. This famous 'fasting' diet allows 500 calories for women and 600 calories for men, and the recipes are so delicious, that you'll never be tempted to over-ind ...Show more
25 Years of Australian Geographic Photography - Special Ed by Australian Geographic
Category: Photography | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
A quarter of a century ago, the Australian Geographic journal began documenting an Australia only thrown a passing glance by other media: a land of red dirt, big skies and faces etched with experience of this sometimes harsh and unforgiving land. Founder Dick Smiths love for the Aussie bush manifested i ...Show more
501 Low Carb Recipes by Pamela Clark
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: "Australian Women's Weekly"
Lose weight and feel great with Pamela Clark's sensational new cookbook, 501 Low Carb Recipes. There are breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks to suit everyone, whether your goal is to lose weight fast, or more slowly, or just to maintain your ideal weight. All the recipes are easy to follow and they' ...Show more
501 Low-fat Recipes by -
Category: Cook Books | Series: "Australian Women's Weekly"
This collection shows just how delicious low-fat food can be. One serving of each recipe contains less than 15g fat, but you'd never know: they all taste wonderful. No artificial ingredients are used: this is food that is not only low in fat it's nutritious too. There are recipes for breakfast, light me ...Show more
A Better Death: Conversations About the Art of Living and Dying Well by Ranjana Srivastava
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Australian Psychology
A powerful, timely exploration of the art of living and dying on our own terms by one of Australia's most respected voices Of all the experiences we share, two universal events bookend our lives: we were all born and we will all die. We don't have a choice in how we enter the world but we can have a say ...Show more
A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017 by Andrew James Couzens
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
The bushranger legend is an important component of Australia's cultural history, with names like Ned Kelly and Ben Hall still provoking strong, if ambivalent, responses. Storytellers mobilize this legend in unique and exciting ways that reflect upon both the cultural and actual history of bushrangers, a ...Show more
A Different Sort of Real: The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne, 1918 by Kerry Greenwood
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger arises that will kill more people around the world than the great war itself, an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, who assists the doctor next door, experiences first hand the devastating affects of the disease; even her family ...Show more
A Fortunate Life: Australian Children's Classics by A. B. Facey; John Rose (Afterword by)
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals an extraordinary life lived to the full.Bert Facey was a battler, ever optimistic and hopeful despite the hardships of his lfe. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration.This edi ...Show more
A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton by Stuart Macintyre
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the countrys regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, social patt ...Show more
A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian
An uplifting and magical story of childhood, family and finding ways to change the inevitable ...Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 ... 33 ... and 93. On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction: ‘One ocean: plant in the backyard.’ S ...Show more