The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England''s infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.

This unique series explores a variety of fascinating subjects from a fun, educational, and kid-friendly perspective. Gripping, detailed views uncover the most interesting and curious facts about topics that appeal to young readers. Full-color photos. Available now

The two-volume history of the Australian participation in WWII air combat is a must for aviation and military history buffs.

covers combat training and preparation, the Bomber Command and prisoners of war.

A history by leading historians ranging from the first settlement by Polynesian voyagers a thousand years ago to the present day. For this new edition, six new chapters have been added, and many others enlarged or updated.

As morning comes to Kangaroo Island following a thunderstorm, a mother kangaroo finds her lost baby and a burned eucalyptus tree sprouts buds and becomes a new home for animals.

A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J.C. Beaglehole''s edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955. In the forty-odd years since then, our knowledge of this exploration -- and of the imperialism of which it was a part -- has expanded enormously. We now recognise that the scientific endeavours, once seen as disinterested manifestations of the Enlightenment, actually had both strategic and commercial implications. And today much greater emphasis is given to the meanings of early encounters for both the Natives of the Pacific islands and the Strangers from the European world. Glyndwr Williams has played a leading role in the development of these new insights. Always at the forefront of new historiographical developments, his interests range from North America to the Pacific to Asia, encompassing historical, geographical, cartographical, ethnographic, artistic, and literary perspectives. In addition to his own mature overview of British maritime exploration, Pacific Empires offers stimulating contributions by a number of Williams'' colleagues, all authorities in their respective fields. They cover such themes as science and expansion, and culture contact in North American and the Pacific, and they reflect on the nature of history and historiography. Glyndwr Williams has profoundly influenced the development of new understandings of European exploration and imperialism. Pacific Empires is a fitting tribute to his achievements and to the esteem in which his colleagues hold him. It is also a timely examination of historical understandings at the end of the twentieth century.

Descriptions are given of the prehistory of Australia & the changes made after European exploration.

Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asserts that they, and they alone, have the right to identify themselves as Macedonians. The Greek government denies the existence of a Macedonian nation and insists that all Macedonians are Greeks, while Macedonians vehemently assert their existence as a unique people. Here Loring Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic nationalism, the construction of national identities and cultures, the invention of tradition, and the role of the state in the process of building a nation. The conflict is set in the broader context of Balkan history and in the more narrow context of the recent disintegration of Yugoslavia.

Danforth focuses on the transnational dimension of the "global cultural war" taking place between Greeks and Macedonians both in the Balkans and in the diaspora. He analyzes two issues in particular: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the newly independent Republic of Macedonia. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of the construction of identity at an individual level among immigrants from northern Greece who have settled in Australia, where multiculturalism is an official policy. People from the same villages, members of the same families, living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne have adopted different national identities.

This is the true story of how a girl in Australia was taken from her parents and educated in a Catholic mission. In 1965, she was forced to become a domestic on a wealthy estate, where she woke before dawn every day and slaved for fifteen hours. She ate off a tin plate and slept on a shabby cot above a garage. All because of the color of her skin. This sort of thing wasn''t supposed to happen anymore. Here is the frightening yet victorious story of how it did and how that young woman who fought her way out.
"[An] affecting memoir...Her harrrowing story, dispassionately told, could well be fiction."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW