This book helped me to realize that there are many parents out there who are faced with life changing news everyday. Through reading the experiences in this book, it showed me the different emotions wrapped up in families with disabilities. I am studying to be a special education teacher, and I know that this book will be a reference for me when relating to the parents of my students. If you are a special educator, or anyone whose life has been touched by a child with a disability, you MUST purchase this book!

Anyone who has ever sailed, or dreamt of a sailing adventure, has no choice but to read this book. Mark Darby has completed an awesome task, tantamount to a dare, by sailing a small boat through some large seas around a huge continent! His adventures have been well crafted with vivid word pictures and a descriptive action style which put me in the boat with him and Sue. I can still clearly see the beautiful Australian coastline, the memorable people they met and the first reading has left me with a sweet salt water taste in my mouth and wanting more.

This is, I believe, a unique sea saga which would encourage any would be adventurer, with personal challenges and emotions spilling out onto every page. Nine out of 10!

this book, the first by the author specifically for young adults, would suit teenagers from the age of 14 upwards. Killing Darcy tells the story of a family (the Menzies) and their interactions with a young Aboriginal man (Darcy of the title) over the course of a summer holiday. The book explores themes of bigotry, racism and acceptance set against an intriguing mystery of a magical camera which takes pictures of the past. The writing is powerful and the language strong, and the author has captured how modern Australian youth speak and teh broad themes of the book address many issues confronting the same youth today - sexuality, adulthood and the treatment of Australia's indigenous population today and in the past.

Written by American biologist John Alcock (along with excellent illustrations by Marilyn Hoff Stewart), this book chronicles Alcock animal observations throughout the land Down Under. Alcocok observed the intimate details of the birth, breeding habits, feeding habits, and sometimes death of a large variety of Australian birds, insects, and mammals. Each chapter devoted to a particular species, he covers not only well known species such as the kookaburra, flying fox, and platypus, but lesser known ones (at least to Americans), such as the northern logrunner, resin wasp, and silver gull.

Alcock not only covers the life habits of a number of species, but also during the course of the book, using these species as examples, explores many concepts in biology. Why do birds sing so early in the morning? Are marsupials really primitive and not able to compete with placental mamamls (such as dogs and horses)? Particulary interesting are his speculations on adaptations on animals. Do all the features of an animal, from the cooperative efforts by grey-crowned babblers to raise a brood of young to the red tail feathers in the otherwise black red-tailed cockatoo all surve useful purposes in species (and individual) survival and were the results of evoultion, or is it wrong to atttribute every feature and behavior an animal to direct survival of individuals and the production of new offspring?

A highly worthwhile and readable book, I recommend it.

Well I am deeply disappointed that this book is no longer being published but I must emphasize that James Miller has done well bringing forth the true struggle of the Kooris of Australia. This hardcover extravaganza tells it like it is! Although one would not want to hear it, or rather admit it, the truth must be told. This is a book that I feel should be placed on every black studies course around the world. I'd also like to emphazise that a book like this raises the question: should there be an indigenous course integrated in high school curriculums? I say yes, read Miller's "Koori A Will To Win" and you'll agree to yes as well! Don't miss out on a chance to learn of the struggle, despair and survival of the Kooris of Australia. We can all learn from the world's most fascinating culture and it's not too late. I hope James goes on-line often and reads this because I'd really like to thank him for giving me the opportunity to be proud of my "black self"!

Kym Bonython is an internationally renowned art dealer, Jazz promoter, brought the Beatles to Australia in 1964 and international man of intrigue. Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1920 he has lived an astoundingly interesting life; besides achivements noted he was a WWII hero and government official, all of which comes to vivid life in this volume. Currently a major force in the Australian Monarchist Movement a sequal can't be far off, Ladies Legs and Lemonade is a must for the student of Australian history, or anyone who likes a good biography.

This is a lesson for us all. With policy makers around the world relying on property as a prop for economic activity moral hazard abounds. Property has never created wealth. It is a manifestation of wealth created doing something productive. The fact that we never learn "this time will be different" means we are doomed to repeat. The property crash, when it comes, will be slow to surface because of illiquidity but it will be more devastating than any sharemarket crash because of the sheer weight of capital involved.

I read this book over five years ago and it was so powerful that it gave me nightmares. I hope everyone in the world reads this book. If you have any interest in Australia or Tasmanian this is a book that will make you smart if you are dumb. Soak in the richness of the literature and hold your eyes wide open to the facts! No book is better. Time well spent.

First i read another book of hers called 'the game of the goose' then i looked 4 all these other books by her, but we didnt have that many. i found this book and i finished it a bit slow cuz i was reading sabrina, but since im not reading any others im reading this again. Anyway,
This book is about a girl called Bella and she has a very deep secret. When she was 8 years old she stole her grandfathers tobacco pouch, and now in the last week of December, Bellas grandparents, Ernest and Dorothy and mean 15year old Aunt Lettice have come to stay. Bella cant sleep. Lettice has told her allthese unusual thing about her, like she dusnt use soap and sleeps so silently and her long gold hair. Bella is getting nervous and doesnt know what to do.......

This magnum opus is the definitive work on the law of torts in Australia for students, academics and practioners. The authors draw heavily from both common law and statutes to provide intelligent, critical and thought-provoking commentary.