Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781742035932 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. You would think it would be easy to find, but it stayed hidden from everyone but its First People for a very long time. Australia's coastline was discovered piece by piece. Mapping the coastline was a task that took hundreds of years. See who got it right and who didn't as, bit by bit, the outline of Australia appeared in Putting Australia on the Map.
Author: Bruce J. Doran Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1441956476 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 294
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Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers looking the subject have consistently uncovered alarming characteristics, primarily relating to the behavioural responses that people adopt in relation to their fear of crime. This book reports on research conducted over the past eight years, in which efforts have been made to pioneer the combination of techniques from behavioural geography with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in order to map the fear of crime. The first part of the book outlines the history of research into fear of crime, with an emphasis on the many approaches that have been used to investigate the problem and the need for a spatially-explicit approach. The second part provides a technical break down of the GIS-based techniques used to map fear of crime and summarises key findings from two separate study sites. The authors describe collective avoidance behaviour in relation to disorder decline models such as the Broken Windows Thesis, the potential to integrate fear mapping with police-community partnerships and emerging avenues for further research. Issues discussed include fear of crime in relation to housing prices and disorder, the use of fear mapping as a means with which to monitor the impact of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) and fear mapping in transit environments.
Author: Felicity Jack Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 9781921410260 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 304
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"Robert Logan Jack, a geologist and explorer who played an important role in the early development of Queensland's mining industry. His extensive letters and diaries provide the basis for the book."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0756660823 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 618
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Each information-packed page is splashed with enticing photographs of the people, animals, deserts, and ocean vistas that make the country Down Under famous the world over. Full-color maps and at-a-glance tables make it easy to sort through dining and accommodation choices.
Author: Cathy Moore Publisher: ISBN: 9780999174500 Category : Employees Languages : en Pages : 401
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No more information dumps Map It helps you turn training requests into projects that make a real difference. You'll learn how to: Help the client identify what's really causing the performance problem. Determine the role (if any ) of training. Create realistic activities that help people practice what they need to do, not just show what they know. Choose the best format for each activity -- online, projected to a group, on paper, as a small-group activity, over email... Provide each activity at the best time -- in the workflow, available on demand, spaced over time... Let people pull the information they need to complete the activity -- no more information dumps Enjoy creating challenging activities that people want to complete. Show how your project has improved the performance of the organization. Using humor and lots of examples, Map It walks you through action mapping, a visual approach to needs analysis and training design. Organizations around the world use action mapping to improve performance with targeted, efficient training. Try sample activities, download job aids, and learn more at map-it-book.com.
Author: Eamon Evans Publisher: Hachette Australia ISBN: 0733635598 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 181
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The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names. From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book. Australia's vast spaces and irreverent, larrikin history have given us some of the best place names in the world. Ranging from the less than positive (Linger and Die Hill, NSW), to the indelicate (Scented Knob, WA), the idiotic (Eggs and Bacon Bay, TAS) to the inappropriate and the just plain fascinating, MOUNT BUGGERY TO NOWHERE ELSE is a toponymical journey through this nation of weird and wonderful places. 'A hilarious and unusual tour of Australia and its history.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Author: Olivier Loiseaux Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 311095043X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 553
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The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.
Author: Meljean Brook Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101444088 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 339
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After freeing England from Horde control, Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire. And when Detective Mina Wentworth enters his dangerous world to investigate a mysterious death, Rhys intends to make her his next conquest.
Author: National Library of Australia Publisher: National Library Australia ISBN: 064210610X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 34
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Changing Coastlines examines Australia’s cartographic history. The publication reminds us of the importance of maps, not only as locators of places but also for what they tell us today about the perceptions of Australia in the minds of those who created and used them.
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