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Open Day
Batman University, a struggling higher education institution on the outskirts of the city, plans an open day to impress its new President, an eminent British academic whose dubious past is catching up with him. The marketing team goes into overdrive.
The Cromartys of Port Stephens
This is an historical novel based on the lives of the Cromartys, the first settlers at Port Stephens, New South Wales. Captain William Cromarty arrived in Sydney in 1822 as first officer on the brig Fame. He was followed by his wife Cecilia and two children Elizabeth and William in 1824. The story of their lives in Orkney, London's docks, Sydney and in Port Stephens is told through the eyes of Elizabeth in her seventieth year.
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity. In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, which emphasizes the individual and human well-being. Viewing global environmental change through the lens of human security connects such problems as melting ice caps and carbon emissions to poverty, vulnerability, equity, and conflict. This book examines the complex social, health, and economic consequences of environmental chan...
The Elusive Captain William Cromarty
This is a biographical account of the life of the first settler in the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. Originally from Orkney, William Cromarty arrived to settle in Sydney as first officer on the brig Fame in 1822. He was joined by his wife and two children in 1824 and in 1826, they took up a government grant of 300 acres on the north side of Port Stephens Harbour. Later,when the Australian Agricultural Company took over their land, they transferred the grant to Soldiers Point where they farmed. For a short time in 1834/5, Cromarty was pilot at Newcastle Harbour. He died in tragic circumstances in 1838. He was widely regarded as a brave and skillful mariner and a sober, industrious person.
Australian Westerns in the Fifties
Australian Western in the Fifties: Kangaroo, Hopalong Cassidy on Tour, and Whiplash looks at Australian Westerns from three points of view—film, personal appearance, and television at the beginning, middle, and end of the 1950s, the American Western’s golden age. It looks at three significant but “forgotten” cases: (1) Kangaroo: The Australian Story, the first Technicolor film made in Australia, produced by the Hollywood movie studio 20th Century Fox, directed by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Lewis Milestone, starring Maureen O’Hara, Peter Lawford, and Richard Boone. (2) The successful goodwill tour of Australia by the Hollywood actor William Boyd who played the film, radio, ...
Housing Needs and Policy Approaches
Drawing upon research from six continents, Housing Needs and Policy Approaches analyzes the social problems involved with providing housing in the industrialized nations and in the Third World. The book focuses on four areas of concern: current trends in housing in specific Western countries, the role of Western governments in creating this housing, housing provisions in less developed nations, and the relationship of societal structure and housing, particularly with respect to the decentralization of population occurring in many regions.
Rising Life Expectancy
This book traces the global history of rising life expectancy in the last 200 years.
