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This book, in it sixth edition, has evolved over the years into a complete guide to the metalcasting of sculpture. Potratz (Ironwain) has taken his years of knowledge gained practicing and teaching his craft and is now sharing it all in this easy-to-use...

This classic title was developed from a series of smaller articles on Farm Blacksmithing. Author, J.M. Drew, added his expertise and knowledge from firsthand experiences teaching farm boys at the Minnesota School of Agriculture in the late 1800s. A bonus...

This is one of the very few manuals written by a recognized professional smith; in this case, one with over 50 years' experience, whose work appears in hundreds of restorations throughout the country. The book has long been unavailable and a collector's...

Some of the finest handsaws ever made were produced in the early 20th century by four of the leading manufacturers: E.C. Atkins & Co. of Indianapolis, Henry Disston & Sons of Philadelphia, Simonds Manufacturing Co. of Fitchburg, MA, and Spear & Jackson...

Volume 2 of the Child Maltreatment Assessment serves to help readers identify and interpret sexual, emotional, and psychological forms of abuse in children by providingchapters on the topics of sexual abuse, neglect and abandonment, torture, and more...

The ability to read fast is important in Australia's competitive work and study arenas. With this fun, effective book, ambitious people can improve performance, students can get higher marks, busy people can save time. Commonsense Australian methods turn...

Provides a fascinating and scrupulously research account of the Chanak crisis, when an invasion, a leaked media story and a Prime Minister's decision divided the Australian public, and brought Commonwealth relations to their knees.

The ability to learn well is important in Australia's competitive work and study arenas. With this fun, effective book, ambitious people can improve performance, students can get higher marks, busy people can save time. Commonsense Australian methods...

From the author of Seven Little Australians. Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls, and the story of a country doctor who was busy with a family of his own. Ethel Turner takes us straight into a young people's...

From snappy and urbane to passionate and divine, the writing of tomorrow's novelists dances in burnished reds and icy blues. The latgest collection from our most gifted young writers is set to define the landscape of Australian literature.

Eminent scientists, analysts and medicos debunk the Covid doctrine which maximised multi-national drug company profits, at the expense of life and health. Careful yet scathing contributors demonstrate that Australian governments and health...

Tony Blairs New Labour expects that life will improve if communities take more responsibility for raising their young people, and caring for the old and disadvantaged. But the word Community is still misused, and there have been no investigations of the...

Everyone fantasises about spending six months writing in Paris. These people lived it. - Every year Australia sends 2 people to the Cite de Internationale in Paris, to live and work with other artists from all over the world. This collection, by some of...

Otherwise known as the History of the Present, Public History concerns the historical in the everyday, and the sense in which we are all historians - historian's of our families, our homes and our lifetimes. This is Australia's leading history annual and...

Advice to children on how to get on well with animals. A highly readable, amusing and trustworthy introduction to dogs, cats and many other pets, wildlife such as possums, and farm animals like cows and chooks. Full of wonderful colour illustrations, and...

This fresh and exciting collection of essays looks at the essential elements of writing poetry and fiction. It includes a diverse range of experienced writers and academics discussing genre, technique, the reader and finally publishing. Delia Falconer...

This edition is being launched in conjunction with Bell's new production which will begin in August and later tour Australia. Introduction and notes are by Australia's leading Shakespeare experts and photographs from premier Australian productions are...

One of Shakespeare's most shocking plays, and one of the most widely taught in Australia. This edition includes introduction and notes by Australia's leading Shakespeare experts and photographs from premier Australian productions. These features make...

Richly imaginative writers from diverse cultures, from Japan to Italy describe other worlds, star wars, force fields, weird lifeforms and look at our planet from far, far away. Includes a Japanese story of advanced alien visitors, Plato's tale of...

A powerful family saga, which begins in pre-war Poland with a Jewish couple and a tight-knit community. In 1925 the couple move to Melbourne to a life acutely different to their old one. Distant Land goes to the heart of Australian cultural identity.

In The Human Condition, Tony explores concepts in human nature like competition, loyalty, trust, and much more. Delving deeply into the many facets of humanity by drawing on examples from history, life and art, it is a comprehensive interpretation of...

Originally published in 1944, this biography of Joseph Furphy was written by Miles Franklin. She tells of his multi-faceted life, from 1843 to 1912, including his days as a bullock-driver, and in Victoria building Furphy carts with his brother; of his...

Bunya 100 and Other Cracks in the Looking Glass is Rob Ferguson’s exquisite collection of poems – pieces that resonate with raw courage, playful humour, and a gently haunting melancholy. These contemplative sketches of everyday life invite readers to...

The tensions between nature and development, between reality and hopes are mirrored in the lives of people at the Passage. A Halstead Classic, republished after 70 years.

Grey journeys through modern Islamic countries, and back to times when the differences between West and East were laid down. His mission is to combat cultural misunderstanding and seek alternatives to the materialism of our own society.

Australian Rules Football - Mark Courtney's world ended in October, when the Rabbitohs were excluded from the NRL. In his despair he wrote this remarkable saga of childhood, teenage and adult life, and his clubs mortal struggle against corporate greed...

Great writers reveal their minds and creative processes in the journals and notebooks they keep throughout their lives. This work features fascinating extracts from the collections of Henry Handel Richardson, Eric Scott, and A.D. Hope. Most of these have...

Many of Australia's leading judges, journalists, politicians and academics examine fundamental issues relating to media coverage, the law and public awareness. Some of the issues being discussed are: What kind of media coverage might prejudice a trial;...

The best and most characteristic of a lifetime's work has been skilfully drawn together by David Brooks, Hope's most experienced editor. There are items published here for the first time, alongside others already familiar to millions. Hope's classical...

A Malay-Chinese and an Anglo-Australian family become one when the grieving and financially struggling Mrs M invites two Chinese boarders from Ipoh, Malaysia, into her home—Fay and Ping Chao. In so doing, Mrs M irrevocably changes the lives of her...

Today, vibrant contemporary cultures are flourishing in the Pacific Islands. Instead of mimicking Western culture, artists there are leading the way. Discover the new art of the Pacific in this wide ranging, superbly illustrated book. It is produced in...

One of Australia's best loved classics, in constant demand for students and general readers. The new Halstead Classics edition is the best paperback edition ever published, and the only one in print. The annotations explain its many treats with learning...

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Hailed in the mid-nineteenth century as “an oasis in the wilderness”, the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts was founded in 1833 to “diffuse scientific and other useful knowledge” to the skilled workingmen of the fledgling European settlement of Sydney...

This book is a comprehensive social history of how the London bus has worked in, and for, the capital for the last century and a half. It discusses the design,development and operations of buses in the city and its surrounding countryside and considers...

Have fun with reading, using this unusual alphabet first published in 1915. The illustrations, drawn by the well-known artist Charles Pears and inspired by London's transport, are packed with interesting details designed to appeal to all ages. New...

In November every year, on Remembrance Sunday, representatives of the whole nation parade past the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London. The last section to pass is always a group of London Transport staff. For decades they marched in the company of a very...

The First World War changed London and Londoners forever. For the drivers who took their buses to the Western Front and for their families and friends left behind it meant facing new challenges at work and a new way of life. This book illustrates how...

A handy teachers resource providing useful lists of words made from the individual letter sounds and digraphs. Ideal for dictation and blending practice in class. In addition there are initial and final consonant blends, alternative vowel spellings and...

The JRCALC Pocket Book is the easy-to-use guide to emergency care for busy healthcare professionals on the road and in the community. An extensive medicines formulary and Page for Age tables are included, which make medicines administration safer. The...

Specifically designed to enhance your knowledge and skills within generalist palliative care, this informative textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principle areas you may encounter whilst working with adult palliative and end-of-life...

Covering many aspects of dermatology, this handy and comprehensive reference aid is packed with key information on common skin problems including quick reference treatment guidelines. Topics include: *The integumentary system *Anatomy and physiology *How...

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) began writing poetry as a devotee of Blake, Shelley, the pre-Raphaelites, and of nineteenth-century Irish poets including James Clarence Mangan and Samuel Ferguson. By the end of his life, he had, as T.S. Eliot said, created a...

Drawing on themes of magic, dreams and the nocturnal, Grevel Lindops new collection of poems ranges in subject from the hidden histories of words to the folklore of yew trees, and in place from a haunted English library to a derelict Australian funfair...

The fourth volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks, "Ticks and Crosses" covers the years 1976 to 1978 with the sharp wit and provocative intelligence that made the earlier books an acclaimed success. Raphael observes the inner workings of film studios...

"Smoke and Lilacs" is full of play and shadow, whispered intimations of mortality and glances of humour, elegiac lyric playing against steely classicism, an easy modern vernacular eliding with timeless grace. Sibum's meditative narratives move between...

Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets, and a model of integrity for many of his successors. His poetry was written during the space of just two years, before he was killed in the First World War. Those years lie at the heart of "Edward...