Author: Australian Archaeological Survey Consultants (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Ted Ling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922209023
Category : Australian Capital Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Research guide

Author: South Australia
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ISBN:
Category : South Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Simon Haberle
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921666811
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525

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Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal distributional patterns, pollen analysis from peats and lake sediments to discern Quaternary climate change, explanation of the patterns of faunal extinction events, the interplay of fire on landscape evolution, and models of the environmental consequences of human settlement patterns. The diversity of approaches, geographic scope and academic rigor are a fitting tribute to the enormous contributions of Geoff Hope. As made apparent in this volume, Hope pioneered multidisciplinary understanding of the history and impacts of human cultures in the Australia- Pacific region, arguably the globe's premier model systems for understanding the consequences of humans colonization on ecological systems. The distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume also demonstrate Hope's enduring contribution as an inspirational research leader, collaborator and mentor. Terra Australis leave no doubt that history matters, not only for land management, but more importantly, in alerting settler and indigenous societies alike to their past ecological impacts and future environmental trajectories.

Author: Australian Capital Territory. Department of Urban Services
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642602152
Category : Canberra (A.C.T.)
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Author: George E. Furnival
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ISBN: 9780738817156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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In the beginning of Michael Row Your Boat Ashore Mickey Durrence has been a fugitive from justice for twenty years after a botched bomb explosion killed several people. He had met and fallen in love with a woman with whom he had been living for two years under the alias of Michael McGinnis, when he believes he has been recognized. He tells Jeannie of his previous life and why he must run again; however, they both confess their love for each other which makes it impossible for him to go. She persuades him to contact two of his radical student leader friends, Bart Jamison, now a wealthy business man and Congressman Tom Cosgrove, to see if they would be willing to help him if he turns himself in. He contacts Grace, another from the movement and Barts wife, who promises to help if she can, but she fails to convince her husband, who is in some trouble with federal regulators over some of his questionable business practices, to use his influence. However Tom promises to help. When Greta, his wife another of the group and the political brain behind his success, learns of it she conspires with Bart to stop him by betraying Mickey. They also start an affair, one of many for both of them. When Mickey is surrounded by the FBI, he becomes enraged, charges out of the house brandishing a poker and is killed. The story is a sensation in all the national media. The last member of the group, Hank Stackpole, who had been the comic in the group and the one to everyone had turned for counsel, is a psychologist in Central Florida and a widower with two children. He learns of the tragedy and is deeply troubled. Mickeys companion, Jeannie contacts him and asks him to come to Maine for the funeral. He goes and is very impressed with Jeannie and offers to help her any way he can. Grace and Bart have a huge fight over Mickeys death, even though she knows nothing of his betrayal. Bart heads for Washington, but he is waylaid by a drinking bout in a motel on the way. In the meantime Tom is called up to his son Morgans school in Connecticut to learn that the boy is heavily involved with drugs. The headmaster helps get him into a drug abuse rehabilitation facility in Virginia near Washington. Bart gets to DC and meets Greta in a motel, where they make love and she agrees to help him with his legal problems by sharing with him information about some of the influential people in the government. They both mock their respective spouses for their constantly hankering for those wonderful days in the movement. Grace has become despondent over Mickeys death and her failure to help. This aggravates an already disturbing depression. She is living in luxury because of Bart, and she feels guilty because she never followed through on her desire to utilize her social work degree and help poor people. In her despair she contacts their old friend Hank for help. He is delighted, because he had once been in love with his roommates girlfriend, and they arrange for her to come to Florida to see him. At about the same time Jeannie learns that the authoritys finding Michael was not accidental, because they had found out about Toms way of contacting them through a personals ad in the New York Times, which read Michael Row Your Boat Ashore. She reasons that it must have been Tom who betrayed him. She calls Hank with her suspicions, and he gets her to promise not to do anything until he had a chance to deal with the situation, because he doesnt believe that Tom would betray his old friend. Hank calls Tom, who says that he had wanted to contact Hank to talk. They arrange for Tom to come to Florida to see Hank. It is to be at the same time as Grace is coming. In the meantime, since Grace is going to be out of town, Bart arranges to meet with Greta at their home in Georgetown. Morgan ru

Author: Adrian d'Hage
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1743484208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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A chilling new world order is upon us . . . In the shifting desert sands of Egypt, rumours abound of a lost papyrus that will reveal the true purpose of the Pyramids of Giza. Could these ancient monoliths be the source of a new kind of energy, one that comes at no cost to the planet? CIA agent Curtis O'Connor and archaeologist Aleta Weizman are determined to find out. Close by, a shadowy and powerful group known as Pharos meets in Alexandria, its membership a closely guarded secret. Its first order of business: to orchestrate chaos on international financial markets with a series of spectacular terrorist attacks on the world's fossil-fuel supplies. And in Cairo, amid the anarchy of Tahrir Square, thieves have broken into the famed Museum of Antiquities and stolen one of the world's priceless artifacts: the mask of Tutankhamun. Is the audacious theft linked to the Pharos Group? Nimbly weaving politics, history and science through a rip-roaring plot, from Afghanistan to Washington, Sydney to London, The Alexandria Connection is a spectacular and stylish ride. Praise for Adrian d'Hage's Novels 'A provocative book in which every sort of dogma is questioned and every preconceived idea turned on its head.' Sunday Mail 'A fast-paced and thrilling read.' West Australian

Author: Adrian d'Hage
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1743484216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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Russian President Petrov is determined to restore his country’s dominance on the world stage at any price. In order to develop deadlier nuclear weapons, he recruits Ilana Rabinovich, a beautiful but lethal scientist, to infiltrate the Mossad and steal their research. What no one expects is for the Israelis to then assign her an even more dangerous mission of their own: to penetrate the US nuclear facilities in the deserts of Los Alamos. If the information falls into the wrong hands the results could be devastating. Especially as in the Hindu Kush, ISIS soldiers are also plotting to acquire nuclear weapons. It’s up to CIA agent Curtis O’Connor to stop them before it’s too late. From Russia’s secret nuclear city of Sarov, across the myriad canals of St Petersburg, to an assault on an ancient castle more impenetrable than Colditz, the chase is on. But with a corrupt Russian general, a femme fatale double agent and a very unpredictable US president waiting in the wings, is it only a matter of time until a war begins?

Author: Josephine Flood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781761281518
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A landmark work documenting in detail the pre-history of the Australian Alps. 'Dr Flood essays a total picture of Aboriginal communities and their use of and impact on terrain through time. 'Pure' archaeology is not enough. Archaeology plus the environmental sciences is not enough. Ethnohistory is not enough - for it is a view from the wrong side of the frontier. Only from an amalgam of archaeology, landscape sciences and documentary studies can a living portrait be moulded of any part of Australia and its people.' So wrote Sylvia Hallam in the journal, Aboriginal History in 1982 in her review of The Moth Hunters. Hallan also noted of Flood that: 'She employed a great variety of skills - herself a climber, bushwalker, surveyor, photographer, field archaeologist, excavator, artefact assemblage analyst, statistician, and historian; and she marshalled and drew on the skills of others - amateur, student and professional archaeologists; geographers, zoologists, botanists; bush men, climbers, landowners. Her data range from field monuments, artefact scatters and excavated stratified sites; through stone tool assemblages, distributions and environmental resources; to early European descriptive accounts of Aborigines in a landscape.' She concludes by stating the book to be 'a most impressive and important piece of work.' And so it has proven to be, over forty years from its first publication in 1980.

Author: Rhys Knight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781980537809
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Jack, stuck in a dead-end job and surrounded by dysfunctional relationships has just received some depressing news. Frank, his psychiatrist has told him that he has depression. But at least there's a little white pill for that. Meanwhile, Sophie, Jack's hooker roommate is bringing men back to the house for "dates" and his impulsive need for immediate gratification means he is leaving a trail of broken hearts and angry bosses in his wake. As his world continues to spiral out of control, a series of events will force Jack to look deeply at himself. Or else take enough mind-bending substances that he doesn't have to. "It's not the best thing you've written." Author's Mum "You should be ashamed of yourself." Letter from a publisher "We don't want to be associated with you." Mental Wellness Charity