Inglis took 15 years to write this book. The book has been written in easy to read non-academic style that makes for easy access by the casual reader. I read this book with ease finding it full of useful and interesting facts. Inglis does not attempt to analyse the theory behind memory or memory representation but does allow enough material for the investigative reader to develop his or her own thesis.

In short it is a long book, but a good book and certainly one that helps to remind us that there are those that we should not forget.

This book is truly one of its kind! Upton goes into great detail about each species in the Sarcochilus genus and several other related species. It will help both the amateur and connosieur alike. It provides cultural and hybridizing information and pictures to go along with each species. As an orchid hobbyist, I know for a fact that some of the pictures in this book are of orchids that you probably would never see anywhere else. Upton also provides drawings of each part of the flower. So if you are into this Australian orchid species, this is the perfect book!

Stoddart identified sociological issues facing Australian sport back in the early 1980's, and his prophecies have been seen to come true. This book provides an excellent analyses of issues plaguing major and minor Australian sports, including how issues such as class, gender, the media and corporate sponsorship have contributed to post-modern Australian sporting culture. Very easy to read, making it an excellent book for anyone interested in Australian sports sociology, and especially academics. Highly recommended.

Sydney Morning Herald: Headline: "Black deaths, black lives" "... unless there's something I don't know about, Philip McLaren's excellent Scream Black Murder is still only the second crime fiction novel by an Aboriginal writer." "Some of the incidents had me thinking, 'this couldn't possibly happen in Australia', then when I thought about it a bit more, I realised how naive I was being. "... Scream Black Murder is a superb novel that's both tough and tender. In it we're presented with a straight-from-the-shoulder novel of criminality that's as evocative and powerful as Walter Mosley's series about the black ghettos of Los Angeles. High praise but McLaren deserves it."

The best books are the ones that after you read, you realize you've learned a great many things you didn't know before. Such is the case with Scream Black Murder, by Aboriginal writer Philip McLaren.

To begin with, this is a suspensful, white-knuckled thriller. The author does an amazing job getting in the head of a deranged killer who targets aboriginal women in and around Sydney, Australia. Assigned to crack the case is Gary and Lisa, the first aboriginal detectives in the history of the force. Not only must they compete in a thrilling game of cat and mouse with the killer, but they must also perform under a prejudiced police department, many of which would like to see them fail.

Apart from a superb story, McLaren also succeeds in illuminating the social and racial issues of Australia--a history of a people oppressed that isn't included in most high school textbooks. It is a relevent, realistic story that will give you a glimpse of a culture suffering from many of the same prejudices as our own.

I highly recommend this book; and I am looking forward to "investigating" the other WorldKrime books put out by the publisher, all of which apparently offer similiar multi-culured views of different countries.

This is a fascinating book.

First off, it presents a close-up view of what the last stages of language death are like -- the language is spoken by only two or three people very old people. They may speak it well, or may speak it haltingly, or may only remember a few phrases. And then they die, and there went the language. Since most of the languages in the US and in the world are headed toward that fate in the next forty years, I think it's time people get to see what it looks like, and what a great loss it is.

Second off, this book is the closest I've seen anyone manage to explaining what it is that we linguists do. If only this book got half the press that Steven Pinker's ramnblings get!

And third off, this book recalls some of the daily experiences of the author's travels in rural Australia, among the Aborigines. As one rarely reads anything about Australian Aborigines, or rural Australia in general, this alone makes it interesting. I, for one, had no idea that the Aborigines were, until recently, in a situation combining some of the worst features of Apartheid and of what the US was doing to its Natives in the 19th century.

Unlike a lot of spiritual writing, Kay's words are refreshingly free of cant and gratuitous term-juggling. They are so simply rich that I can't read more than one at a time. I keep buying copies to give away.

I loved this book. It has a dream-like feel. I grew to like F.J. The last few pages holds a surprise. Read "The Grisly Wife" for a (brief) mention of F.J.

This is a very comprehensive book and is a must for anyone with an interest in the Second Fleet. My interest is genealogy and a convict relative sailed with the Second Fleet. However very little information was available on this man with no record of his arrival in Australia being available. This book has been the first to fill in at least some of the gaps and gave me an indication why this relative had been transported in the first place. It even came complete with references. This is the kind of book you pray that you will find when you are searching for distant convict relatives. I can thoroughly recommend this book.

In this book Arthur Gask has captured the thrilling sense of danger and daring that must always shadow every fugitive or escaped prisoner. Drop the fugitive into a background of early twentieth century Adelaide during the sweltering heat of an Australian summer and the scene is set for a torrid chase which is sure to make palms sweat and pulses race. Falsely accused of embezzlement, our laconic and confident hero escapes from captivity and sets out on a compelling flight for freedom. The reader accompanies the bold escapee through every moment of recklessness and nervous uncertainty and is transported along a perilous path towards a quite surprising and yet satisfying climax. Although good fortune plays a part in most of the hero's escapades, the ever present fear of recapture or recognition fills every page and ensures a gripping and enjoyable read, and Gask's passion for wicked playfulness and the practical joke are evident throughout the plot.