Imagining Australia

Author : Brian Thacker
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 174115930X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm Not Eating Any Of That Foreign Muck written by Brian Thacker and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Rule Number 5: No Sex on the Bus is on the road again, only this time he has Harry, his 73 year old, meat-and-three-veg loving dad in tow. On a two month odyssey they geographically retrace Harry's life, and in the process Brian Thacker finally gets to really know his father and maybe even get him to eat some of that foreign muck'. One of the drawbacks of writing funny, irreverent and - worse yet - honest travel books is that you can't stop your parents from reading them. Because once they have they forever have the upper hand when it comes to knowing about all those insane overseas adventures you'd really rather they didn't. In a fearsomely foolish display of pro-activity Brian Thacker decided the only way to get his own back, and finally uncover the truth about his dad's mysterious early life, was to scam a couple of business class flights and drag 73-year-old Harry Thacker off the couch and half way across the planet to such far-flung and exotic locations as Gibraltar, Sri Lanka, Malta, Singapore and - not forgetting that haven of the international jet set -Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mine Head, in an attempt to retrace his Dad's history Along the way Brian's hoping to finally figure out just how Harry lost those two fingers on his right hand, not to mention where he picked up such an inexhaustible supply of truly awful jokes. Which is all fine with Harry, just so long as Brian's paying and Harry doesn't have to eat any of that bloody foreign muck.

Author : Renata Summo-O'Connell
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034300087
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagined Australia written by Renata Summo-O'Connell and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Terra Nullius to Land of Opportunities and Last Frontier, the European dream has constructed and deconstructed Australia to feed its imagination of new societies. At the same time Australia has over the last two centuries forged and re-invented its own liaisons with Europe arguably to carve out its identity. From the arts to social sciences, to society itself, a complex dynamic has grown between the two continents in ways that invite study and discussion. A transnational research group has begun its collective investigation project of which this first volume is the outcome. The book is a substantial multidisciplinary collection of current research and offers critical perspectives on culture, literature and history around themes at the heart of the Imagined Australia project. The essays instigate reflection, discovery and discussion of how reciprocal imagining between Australia and Europe has articulated itself and ways and dimensions in which a relationship between communities, imagined and not, has unfolded.

Author : Judith Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Australia written by Judith Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing about Australia: Literature and culture.

Author : Sarah Mirams
Publisher : Social Science Press
ISBN 13 : 9780170127974
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Australia written by Sarah Mirams and published by Social Science Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Australia: Australian History, VCE Units 3 & 4 is an exciting new text written by an expert author team to address the requirements of the new Australian History study design. This is the ideal text for students wishing to gain a solid understanding of Australian history from 1830 to 2000 and the ideas and visions that have underpinned the Australian experience at four points in our nation's history. It combines a comprehensive narrative with high interest primary sources and modelling of key history skills. Imagining Australia is the 'must have' text for VCE Australian History students.

Author : S. Perera
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023010312X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia and the Insular Imagination written by S. Perera and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps the seascape borders of Australia's insular imagination. It explores how the boundaries and contours of the nation were made and remade in the first years of the war on terror, offering a striking reassessment of the territoriality of 'the island continent'.

Author : Deborah Ruiz Wall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992324155
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Imagining Australia written by Deborah Ruiz Wall and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book calls for a re-imagining of Australia by revisiting the history of its relations with its Indigenous inhabitants and Asian neighbours in remote parts of Northern and Western Australia during pre-Federation times. We have compiled stories told by Australian Indigenous descendants of Filipino pearl divers in the nineteenth century that, several generations later, reveal the descendants' more nuanced and diverse approaches to identity taking. Their stories dating from a period of global migration and trade were underpinned by intersections of colonial cultural assertion, foreign missionary endeavours, and early infrastructure economic development before British Australia and Spanish Philippines became independent nations. Their forebears, then collectively called Manilamen during the pearling industry boom in the 1880s, faced challenges to obtaining equal rights with British subjects and securing stable employment and settlement so that some, even after living in the country for decades with their Indigenous families, were disenfranchised and treated as 'aliens'. Indigenous and Asian people experienced the effects of laws that reinforced hierarchies based on race. These laws were indicative of the state's effort to define and assert its sovereignty in times that marked Australia's emergence into nationhood, gradually incorporating people entering the country from diverse cultural backgrounds. The stories of Manilamen descendants demonstrate a more intimate connection between Indigenous Australians and Asians than is presently recognised.

Author : Brian Caldwell
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412934701
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Imagining Educational Leadership written by Brian Caldwell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how leadership is changing the world of education on a scale that can best be described as transformation. Such leadership differs in important ways from what has been expected in the past, it requires a change in role at all levels, and shiftsin the balance.

Author : K. Jungnickel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113731253X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DiY WiFi: Re-imagining Connectivity written by K. Jungnickel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive fieldwork, Jungnickel's research into community WiFi networking explores the innovative digital cultures of ordinary people making extra-ordinary things. Committed to making 'ournet, not the internet', these digital tinkerers re-inscribe wireless broadband technology with new meanings and re-imagined possibilities of use.

Author : Andrew Leigh
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781741145311
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Australia written by Andrew Leigh and published by Allen & Unwin Academic. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is ready for a new national vision, a roadmap for its future. Four exciting, new and talented young Australians articulate such a vision offering fresh ideas and bold thinking about the country's future political, economic and social policy.

Author : Loretta Barnard
Publisher : Moshpit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781923065338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Australia written by Loretta Barnard and published by Moshpit Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Australia is a story of our nation, told by the artists who made it what it is today. Writers, painters, musicians, filmmakers: they hold up a mirror and tell us who we are.