Cartoons of Australian history

Coleman, Peter

T.] Nelson [(Australia)

Paperback: 158 pages Publisher: Angus & Robertson (August 1993) Language: English

Bruce Beresford: Instincts of the Heart (Imprint Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Angus&Robertson

The Real Barry Humphries

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton

With increasing numbers of people living to advanced ages, a better understanding is required of the nature and experience of aging in all its aspects.  This concise book provides a detailed overview of the theories and research that explain adult development into old age.  The classic accounts of theorists such as Jung and Erikson are considered, along with those of their present-day successors.  The book focuses on theories of adjustment and loss, which dominate current gerontological research.

Aging and Development

Health, Fitness & Dieting

O’Hanlon, Ann

Ruth, Jan-Erik

Psychology & Counseling

Hodder Education Publishers

The fiscally conservative and socially progressive Peter Costello is Australia's longest-serving treasurer—from 1994 to 2007—and in his political memoirs he reflects on the role of his political party, his more than 30 years of service to the Liberal cause, and his possible future role in politics. Costello was the architect of the goods-and-service tax that helped eliminate public-sector debt and a supporter the referendum suggesting that Australia become a republic. As deputy leader of the Liberal Party for more than a decade, he worked with significant Liberal leaders including John Howard, Alexander Downer, John Hewson, and Andrew Peacock. This invaluable narrative that combines a first-person memoir with a third-person perspective offers insight into a successful partnership with John Howard, which led to four election victories and the longest period of economic prosperity in Australian history.

The Costello Memoirs

COSTELLO, PETER

Leaders & Notable People

Melbourne University Press

The fiscally conservative and socially progressive Peter Costello is Australia's longest-serving treasurer—from 1994 to 2007—and in his political memoirs he reflects on the role of his political party, his more than 30 years of service to the Liberal cause, and his possible future role in politics. Costello was the architect of the goods-and-service tax that helped eliminate public-sector debt and a supporter of the referendum suggesting that Australia become a republic. As deputy leader of the Liberal Party for more than a decade, he worked with significant Liberal leaders including John Howard, Alexander Downer, John Hewson, and Andrew Peacock. In this updated edition, a new chapter on the global financial crisis is included. This invaluable narrative that combines a first-person memoir with a third-person perspective offers insight into a successful partnership with John Howard, which led to four election victories and the longest period of economic prosperity in Australian history.

Historical

€˜H.W. Arndt has been Australia€™s leading scholar of Asian economic development for over thirty years€™ - Former World Bank President James D Wolfensohn. The year of Heinz Wolfgang Arndt€™s birth, 1915, was not a good time for a German boy to be born. His country was soon to be defeated in a great war, his school years were shadowed by the rise of Hitler. Yet when Heinz€™s long-buried Jewish background led his academic father to lose his chair in chemistry and flee to Oxford, Heinz followed. As Heinz put it, the calamity of Hitler€™s rise to power led him to €˜the incredible good fortune of an Oxford education and a life spent in England and Australia.€™ This was a man of inexhaustible energy and optimism, who returned from months behind barbed wire interned in Canada to write a historical classic€”The Economic Lessons of the Nineteen-Thirties. He seized the opportunity of an unexpected job offer to set off with his young family for Sydney where he

Arndt's Story: The Life of an Australian Economist

Arndt, Bettina

Drake, Peter

Cornish, Selwyn

ANU E Press

Shopping centers have become the most common of shopping environments and have influenced the make-up of cities around the world. However, in recent years, the enclosed "mall" has evolved and diversified with new types of retail environments that were developed to better suit their locale and meet public expectation. This design guide has over 600 illustrations that present the core values and considerations that make a successful retail center: location, catchment user needs, as well as access and layout. Covering everything from site master planning to the essentials of public facilities and the technical systems, this is essential reading for architects of contemporary shopping centers. A series of international examples showcasing different types of shopping environments are included to cover the wide range of designs that have occurred in recent years. From the "out of town" mall to retail parks and mixed use town center developments, the best of contemporary design is illustrated to provide both practical information and inspiration. * A unique and inspirational guide to shopping centre design * An international range of illustrations explore the key contemporary issues in retail design and planning * Packed with essential technical information and design detail

Shopping Environments: Evolution, Planning and Design

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

A biography of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, creator of Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.

Robson Book Ltd

Learning About Schools: What Parents Need to Know and How They Can Find Out (Institute for Research on Public Policy)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Carleton University Press

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