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The dearth of suitable introductory texts presents a serious obstacle to the study of the Egyptian language, so this practical grammar answers a longstanding need. Its well-known and highly respected author, a Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, has written many other popular Dover books on Egyptology. Contents include lists of frequently used signs and determinatives, a short vocabulary of about 500 words, a series of 31 texts and extracts (with interlinear transliteration and word-for-word translation), and a few untransliterated and untranslated texts (with glossary), to be worked out independently. This is a valuable book for archaeologists, anthropologists, and anyone with a professional or amateur interest in Ancient Egypt. -
An immensely readable and stimulating collection of essays examining the enormous possibilities the human race now has for creativity and destruction. Against Orwell's ominous date 1984 he has deliberately set the hopeful word Spring because he feels the worst of the world's long winter may well be over. Clarke's passionate interest in space exploration, vast knowledge of technological and scientific developments and his informed, optimistic humanism are communicated in a style that will strike a responsive chord in the hearts and minds of all readers concerned for the future of humankind on - and off - Earth.
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If Moses really existed, he would be arguably history's most influential figure, the founder of the great monotheistic religions of the modern world. But was he a real person and, if so, when did he live? This is a journey into biblical times, using archaeological evidence as well as a new reading of the Old Testament to recreate early Hebrew history. Phillips shows how much of the Old Testament can be corroborated, from the conquest of Canaan to the seven plagues of Israel. But above all, he uncovers the identity of Moses, unpicking the confused chronology of Exodus to reveal that Moses was not one but two men, living at different times - a Hebrew priest called Kamose who first discovered God and an Egyptian prince called Tuthmose who led the Israelites out of slavery. And he locates one of the most holy places in the world, the Mountain of God, which is not today's Mount Sinai but another, more ancient religious site. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time, including 'author', 'model', 'gold-digger', 'commentator', 'inspiration', 'dumb blonde', 'feminist' and 'mother', among many others. Now, in her first work of non-fiction, she blends memoir and social analysis to examine the common fictions about women. She traces key moments in her life - from small-town tomboy in Canada, to international fashion model in the 90s, to bestselling author taking a polygraph test in 2002 to prove she writes her own work - and weaves her own experiences into a broader look at everyday sexism and issues surrounding the under-representation of women, modern motherhood, body image and the portrayal of women in politics, entertainment, advertising and the media. Deeply personal and revealing, this is more than just Tara Moss's own story. At once insightful, challenging and entertaining, she asks how we can change the old fictions, one woman at a time. Illustrated with colour photographs -
A fabulous compilation of political cartoons from a variety of sources world wide. In this volume: Europe Before The Great War; The First World War; The Uneasy Peace; Depression And Disarmament; The Rise Of The Nazis. With a chapter on Background and guide to cartoon analysis. -
While Kylie Tennant was living in the little fishing town of Laurieton on the north coast of New South Wales, she made two memorable discoveries - Ernie Metcalfe and Diamond Head. The two belonged together. Called by some 'the mad hermit of Diamond Head', Ernie was splendidly sane, if unlike anybody else. Kylie Tennant has painted his portrait vividly and with love, and with it the portrait of Diamond Head - a place to which Ernie was so closely bound in spirit that in the end they seemed to be one. She evokes its fascination and its subtle menace, its rocks and beaches, its wildflowers and wild creatures, the light on sea and land, so that the reader, too, falls under its spell and shares her grief and anger at its later devastation by mining.
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At the age of six, Kerry McGinnis lost her mother. Her father, left with four young children to raise, gathered up his family and left the city to go doving. For the next fifteen years, the McGinnis clan traveled the continent, droving, horse breaking and living off the land. Kerry grew up in the harsh outback, and the animals that inhabit the land became her closest friends. With the memory of her absent mother ever present, Kerry begins her difficult journey into young womanhood. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/heart-country-kerry-mcginnis/
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Poet and author Colleen Burke’s memoir takes the reader into the post World War II decades of the 20th century and a working-class Irish-Catholic background in Bondi, at a time when strict social, religious and family prohibitions were particularly onerous to women. To escape a problematical childhood, Colleen immersed herself in books and stories of lives in worlds far removed from her own. Leaving school at 15, she worked as a shorthand typist in the Public Service as she questioned everything and sought an education, both formal and informal. She explores the stimulating yet confronting era of the Sixties, encountering a broadening political sphere, folk music, poetry and literature which expressed the frustration of the young against injustice. Racism, popular sentiment, American commercialisation, feminism and of course, the Vietnam War. It was during this turbulent times she met her future husband, Declan Affley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declan_Affley. This memoir includes a selection of Colleen’s poems.
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The clients of the Skeldale House vet. practice vary from dour farmers who expect miracles for nothing, those grateful for any little service and for James Herriot, the real five star owners and patients like Mrs. Pumphrey and Tricki Woo. Here are animal characters from cart horses to kittens; a dog whose staple diet is fish and chips, a cat who presides over his master's business and cows and ewes with complicated calvings and lambings. Siegfried and James are compelled to take on assistants, one of whom - Calum Buchanan - has a larger than life personality with a magical touch, and a menagerie of his own that includes badgers, dogs, owls and foxcubs who take up residence in the kitchen. James' wife Helen is there, steering him through the often comic crises with serene practicality, as well as his children Jimmy and Rosie, both determined to follow in their father's footsteps. A book for anyone who loves animals and laughter. Illustrated by Victor Ambrus.
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The frank, honest and heartbreaking true story of parents faced with the unimaginable—a terminal diagnosis for their young adopted daughter. What follows is an extraordinary tale of sacrifice, resilience, and the power of love to overcome. Jia-Mei was the child Sharon Guest and Stuart Neal had always wanted and, following a protracted adoption process, they excitedly traveled to China to collect her from a Chinese orphanage. Friends and family affectionately called her Jessie Mei Mei and welcomed her to a new life in Australia. Jessie was the perfect eighteen-month-old child—gregarious and funny and easy to love. But, from the beginning, Sharon, in that way that parents do, suspected something wasn't quite right about Jessie. She was too serious and immobile and learned quite slowly. When they adopt Bi Bi, another Chinese baby, Jessie's behavior worries them so much that they seek medical help only to hear what no parent is ever prepared to hear—their beautiful daughter has a degenerative condition that means she will be lucky to see her twelfth birthday. What happens next is the all too common and shocking story of how a country as rich as Australia shamefully fails to provide assistance to families in need. The bureaucratic silliness of government departments and their systemic inadequacy in supporting high needs children and adults leads to extreme actions on the part of their exhausted families. Illustrated with colour photographs. -
NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as a vital member of the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 missions. In Carrying the Fire, his account of his voyages into space and the years of training that led up to them, Collins reveals the human tensions, the physical realities, and the personal emotions surrounding the early years of the space race. Collins provides readers with an insider's view of the space program and conveys the excitement and wonder of his journey to the moon. As skilled at writing as he is at piloting a spacecraft, Collins explains the clash of personalities at NASA and technical aspects of flight with clear, engaging prose, withholding nothing in his candid assessments of fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, and Buzz Aldrin, and officials within NASA. A fascinating memoir of mankind's greatest journey told in familiar, human terms.
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Unlike the mostly reverent literature on Australia's most popular sporting hero, this book explains how Sir Donald Bradman's iconic status was created and sustained. How does his popularity and heroism relate to Australian nationhood? Brett Hutchins' unique analysis reveals the mythical character of so many representations of "the Don," and connects them to broader social phenomena and the cultural contexts in which they were created.Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
The sequel to Pieces Of Blue. After seven years on the road with her family, Kerry McGinnis is tired of the wandering life and yearns for a proper home. When her father, the irascible but loveable Mac, buys a property in Queensland's Gulf Country, it seems like she might have found one. But not everything goes smoothly. In their struggle to make a go of things, the McGinnis family encounters fire, flood, a three-metre python, and other, human obstacles. Sian, the eldest son, is at loggerheads with his father, while Mac soon develops itchy feet. And Kerry and her sister Judith discover that life in a man's country is far from easy. At a time when young women are expected to settle down and have a family, Kerry must make some difficult decisions about love, marriage and her passionate desire to write. -
Since that first brave adventurer left the great Afro-Asian homeland to travel the long chain of islands to Australasia, human beings have consumed the resources they would need for their own future. The Aboriginals, Maoris and Polynesian peoples were the world’s original future eaters. They changed the flora and fauna in ways that now seem inconceivable. Europeans have made a much great impact. Today, future eating is a universal occupation. In this illustrated ecological history, acclaimed scientist and historian Flannery follows the environment of the islands through the age of dinosaurs to the age of mammals and the arrival of humans, to the European colonisers and industrial society. Penetrating, gripping, and provocative, this book combines natural history, anthropology, and ecology on an epic scale. -
The people you’ll meet will touch your heart as Swampy brings to life to all the dram and delight of life in outback Australia. There’s Frederick Aloysius Millard, the only dog ever to become a member of a Citizens’ Club; the man who refused to go to the doctor because he’d been hit an a rather unfortunate spot that made it clear he was running away; the hapless bloke who tried to blow a snake out of the dunny and almost took himself out of existence – and much more. -
Book Two contains the text of seventeen interviews heard ion the award winning programme The Search For Meaning. They reflect the diversity of society and include: Poet Kevin Gilbert; management consultant Margot Cairns; former father of the Federal Parliament, Hon. Tom Uren; natural therapist Dorothy Hall; and others whose stories are equally of interest, for all participants reflect on the meaning which shapes their lives. They speak from the authenticity of their own experience. -
Still convinced that the only true modern traveller is the business traveller, Peter Biddlecombe takes the reader on another irreverent global tour. He snubs his nose at the 'gimmick tourists', eschews crossing the Sahara naked on a skateboard and carries on doing what he does best - business, all over the world, with a wonderfully diverse range of characters. Power-players in Milan, storm-trooping language police in Toronto, and just general chaos in a mere selection of the obstacles the international businessman must face as he struggles to get to grips with the local way of doing things. But it's all in the name of commerce, and whether he's trapped in a luxury hotel during the riots in Bombay or working his way through a Good Food Guide to Ouagadougou in one of the poorest countries in the world, Peter Biddlecombe usually comes up trumps...not necessarily with the deal he was after, but always with a hilarious tale to tell.
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Innings Of Grace: Janet West
$15.00A life of Bishop W.G. Hilliard. ‘The Bishop’, as he was known in the media, was a household name in the Sydney of the forties and fifties. Poet, orator and headmaster, he excelled in many fields of endeavour, not least in his ministry to men. He rose from the humblest of origins by sheer force of personality, unremitting dedication to his work and depth of faith. He was equally at home with the leaders of the land and the man in the street. He loved cricket, once describing it as his ‘second religion.’ To play the game in life, according to God’s rules, was his aim at all times. He left an imperishable mark on the Australian and New Zealand Church and on the boys of Trinity Grammar School. This biography published on the centenary of his birth and the 75 th anniversary of the school.
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1996 edition. In this volume: The Cult At The End Of The World – The Incredible Story of Aum: David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall; Mukiwa – A White Boy In Africa: Peter Godwin; The Lost Treasures Of Troy: Caroline Moorhead; Child Of The Snows: Nicholas Vanier; Below The Parapet - Denis Thatcher: Carol Thatcher. -
I was lucky enough to be born a Catholic and fortunate enough to be Irish. What more could anyone ask? Well, my mother asked much more than that. She wanted a charming, polite, intelligent well-mannered youngest child - instead of the off-beat, rebellious child she had... So began the education proper of Jane and her friend Mary - an education that included illicit smoking. skipping classes, illegally conducting paid tours around the cloisters and sighing after the boys of St. Giles...an education which often strained the patience of Mother Superior but which always holds the delighted attentions of the reader. Filmed as The Trouble With Angels. -
Mothers are very special people and Aussie mums are no exception. Two hundred years ago, European settlers came to this land and battled to establish a new colony and a new country. The women worked side by side with their men to tame the land and build a life. Drought, flood, fire, isolation from the Mother Country, the vast distances between settlements...all of these were part and parcel of life for Australian pioneer women. They faced and overcame them with strength and commitment – and developed a truly Australian way of living. This book looks at how they coped with the climate, the recipes they used, how they made a house a home, how they reared their children and the wisdom they lived by. Illustrated.
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What do you do with the rest of your life, after you’ve achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by celebrated journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, athletes and politicians of the twentieth century. What happens if you are an athlete or gymnast and your career peaks at 14, like Nadia Comaneci, who scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic competition – and the second, and the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. What is the next challenge for the likes of adventurer Reinhold Messner, when you have climbed all the really tall mountains? Where do you take your career, when you’ve achieved the impossible and walked on the moon? In this far-reaching and illuminating book, Chris Wright travels the globe, talking to Apollo astronauts, record breakers, world leaders and prisoners of war, people whose defining moments came early in their life, and asks a rare but captivating what happened next? Those interviewed in this book are: Don Walsh; the Moonwalkers; Nadia Comaneci; Reinhold Messner; Gloria Gaynor; United 232; Apollo 8; John McCarthy; Ray Wilson; Russ Ewin, The Sandakan Survivor; Chuck Yeager. -
Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house.When the youngest was two and the oldest eighteen, Dad died and Mother bravely took over his business. Now, to keep the family together, everyone has to pitch in and pinch pennies. The resourceful clan rises to every crisis with a marvelous sense of fun - whether it's battling chicken pox, giving the boot to an unwelcome boyfriend, or even meeting the President. And the few distasteful things they can't overcome - like castor oil - they swallow with good humor and good grace. Belles on Their Toes is the entertaining sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen. -
In 1982, teenager Andrew Tregurtha pleaded guilty to the murder of the Greek Consul-General and a teacher in Sydney's inner city. Six years later he committed suicide at Berrima Gaol. Between the hours of dark and daylight, the lonely hours when prisoners are locked in their cells, Andrew hanged himself. This is his own story. Tregurtha's confession confession begins with the difficulty his family experienced dealing with his undiagnosed hyperactivity and dyslexia, the ensuing confrontations with education authorities and his move to King's Cross as a fifteen year old. Here, unbeknown to his parents, he worked as a male prostitute, eventually falling under the influence of Michael Caldwell, who introduced him to the world of crime in the city. He was sixteen when he was arrested for murder. It is a harrowing tale of life on the edge, of a waif at the Cross, written simply and unglamorously, as he worked towards self-understanding and rehabilitation. Andrew too his own life before publication. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Tuesday, 20 October: Everyone but the lift boy was playing the market and there was every reason for the party to go on forever. In the centre of the action were the freewheeling entrepreneurs whose spectacular deals encapsulated every virtue and vice of the 80s. Then Wall Street went down in a heap and that was the cue for anyone holding shares in Australia and New Zealand to freak out... This is the only book to explain what happened and to look at the forces that shape the age - the psychology of greed, the politics of money, the cult of the yuppie, the rise of the market hero and the mind-boggling phenomenon of all that easy money to be had. This is a story of damnation and redemption of those who dared to tap into all that tremendous power...a book that no self-interested economist or financier would dare to write, a marshalling of fact and opinion - clear and wickedly mischievous - that will fascinate both insider and outsider alike. -
The stories of five pioneer families of the central west of New South Wales. The Coates family of Bathurst and Kings Plains; The Luck family of Blayney; the Smith family of Gallymont; the Green family of Neville; and the Healey Family of Mandurama. Illustrated with archival black and white photographs.
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Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. She began school in Karori with her sisters before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917. She died in France aged 34.
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