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Dan & Kara: A Downeast Prequel
Secrets of Ruin (The Shadow Realms, Book 11)
The Women
The #1 Lawyer
By Frenzy I Ruin
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
The Truth about the Devlins
Onyx Storm
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Mist and Fury
Cottage by the Sea
Iron Flame
Yenni
  • Author : Eugenia Jenny Williams
  • Publisher : DoctorZed Publishing
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography

Summary:
The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the growing tension in Eastern Europe ruptured into World War II in 1939, unleasing a succession of disasters that would redefine the borders, ideologies and cultures of this region for years to come. Against this backdrop, Jenny Williams tells a vivid and remarkable story through the childhoold years of war, the early days of Soviet occupation and oppression of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and the eventual flight of freedom to Australia. Yenni: A Life Between Worlds is a remarkable story of the human spirit and its will to survive. "This is a survivor's tale. After losing everything, leaving everything behind, what is left are teh truly civilised, profoundly human values Williams carried within her when all outward accoutrements had been lost, destroyed." Kathleen Mary Fallon, author of "Working Hot" ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Eugenia Jenny Williams is a recipient of two literary grants from Arts T

Yenni
  • Author : Eugenia Jenny Williams
  • Publisher : DoctorZed Publishing
  • Category : Australia

Summary:
Against the backdrop of WWII and the division of Czechoslovakia, the author relates her experiences of war, the suppression of her culture through her teenage years under Soviet control, the underground student rallies that fuelled resistance and optimism, and finally, her fear of the Prague Spring, which led to her to emigration to Australia. Includes photos.

Fringilla  Some Tales In Verse
  • Author : Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Category : Fiction

Summary:
What means your finch? "Being well aware that he cannot sing like a Nightingale, He flits about from tree to tree, and twitters a little tale." Albeit he is an ancient bird, who tried his pipe in better days, and then was scared by random shots, he is fain to lift the migrant wing once more towards the humble perch, among the trees he loves. All gardeners own that he does no harm, unless he flits into a thicket of young buds, or a very choice ladies' seed-bed. And he hopes that he is now too wise to commit such indiscretions. Perhaps it would have been wiser still to have shut up his little mandible, or employed it only upon grub. But the long gnaw of last winter's frost, which set mankind a-shivering, even in their most downy nest, has made them kindly to the race that has no roof for shelter and no hearth for warmth. Anyhow, this little finch can do no harm, if he does no good; and if he pleases nobody, he will not be surprise

Labour Traditions
  • Author : Phillip Deery
  • Publisher : Melbourne Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
  • Category : Business & Economics

Summary:
The 10th National Labour History Conference, held at the University of Melbourne on 4-6 July 2007 centred around the broad theme of Labour Traditions, the conference offered papers, talks and forum discussions on a range of topics involving presentations from leading scholars, reflective activists and those who are still making our collective history, as they speak. John Faulkner, Robert Ray, John Cain and Wally Curran spoke at a forum on how the labour movement has conducted its internal debates over issues large and small. Terry Irving organised a session on Popular Movements for Democracy in Early Australia. Verity Burgmann assembled some very engaging speakers to commemorate the centenary of the founding of the IWW in Australia. Phillip Deery organised an impressive array of people to talk and argue about the Cold War. The blend of scholarly research and direct engagement in the field is reflected in the presentations on wor

Polyculturalism and Discourse
  • Author : Anja Schwarz
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Category : Education

Summary:
This volume gathers together research by ten scholars engaging with multicultural discourse in Australia and Germany. The term 'polyculturalism' rather than 'multiculturalism' is employed deliberately to re-open a space in which the workings of discourse on culturally diverse societies, both as archive or practice, and as intervention, can be considered in greater depth. The inter-cultural perspective and wide range of disciplinary affiliations exhibited by the essays in this volume contribute to this goal: whereas the majority of discourse analytical work addresses the diversity of speaking positions, as well as the arbitrariness of ascribed meanings, within a historical framework delimited by national boundaries and disciplinary boundaries, the texts collected here transgress this perspective in working comparatively between Australia and Germany.

Radical Visions 1968 2008
  • Author : Denise Varney
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Category : Literary Criticism

Summary:
Radical Visions 1968-2008: The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama is about a generation of Australian playwrights who came of age in the sixties. This important book shows how international trends in youth radicalism and cultural change at the time contributed to the rise of interest in alternative theatre and drama in a number of locations. It follows the career of AustraliaOCOs major playwrights OCo Alma De Groen, Jenny Kemp, Richard Murphet, John Romeril, Stephen Sewell and David Willamson OCo whose early plays were first performed at La Mama and the Pram Factory theatres in Melbourne in the sixties and seventies and who continue to make new work. The bookOCOs dual purpose is to examine the impact of the sixties on playwriting and update the scholarship on the contemporary works with close readings of the plays of the nineties and the first decade of the twenty-first century. By analysing the recent plays, the book tra

The Chequered Lady and Other Tales from Australian Courts
  • Author : Phil Kafcaloudes
  • Publisher : Federation Press
  • Category : Fiction

Summary:
Larrikins, larks, lurks and the law. A collection of short stories based on real characters and cases collected over four years as a court reporter for ABC radio.

Federalism in Canada and Australia
  • Author : Bruce Hodgins
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Category : History

Summary:
This book is a comparison of the history and politics of two sister societies, comparing Canada with Australia, rather than, as is traditional, with the United Kingdom or the United States. It is representative of a particular interest in promoting more contact and exchange among Canadian and Australian scholars who were investigating various features of the two societies. Because some of them were individually involved in aspects of federalist studies, an examination of the early evolution of federalism in what once were the two sister dominions seemed quite an appropriate area in which to begin comparisons. The book discusses Canadian federalism from about 1864 to 1880 and Australian federalism from about 1897 to 1914. It examines the background and changes wrought on early Canadian federalism and early Australian federalism.