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This is a comprehensive history of Antarctica from the earliest human contact through to the present. It covers the early explorers (Polynesians), the flora and the fauna, geological features, and the amazing marine diversity. The author discusses the physical and emotional effect of Antarctica on explorers, scientists, workers and visitors.

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This book has fifty episodes related to tractors and farm machines. Amusing illustrations accompany the stories.

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Peter Plowman describes the liners and companies that traversed the Pacific. The main North American ports were San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vancouver. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was the first to instigate regular operations, the route was then taken over by the Oceanic Steamship Company.

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With his mates Signaller Ellis Silas of the 16th Battalion, Australian Imperial force, went ashore at Anzac Cove in April 1915, and witnessed the terrible carnage at Gallipoli whilst performing his duties as signaller in the thick of the fighting. This title offers an eyewitness picture of what it was really like at Gallipoli in 1915.

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The career of Allan Percy Fleming (1912- 2001)-teacher, soldier,journalist, trade commissioner, senior bureaucrat, librarian, counter terrorist-was characterised by the lack of 'appropriate' training.'I was a demonstration', he once remarked,'of the art of how to do things when unqualified'.

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Provides details of many of the ships that cruised out of Australian ports from the early 1970s up to 2000, and the cruise liners to have been seen in local waters since 2001, as well as a look ahead to the liners scheduled to come here later in 2007 and into 2008.

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In 1945 Arthur Calwell announced an immigration policy for Australia requiring an influx of 70,000 migrants a year, and it was hoped that all of them would come from Britain. This book looks at the ships that brought these migrants to Australia - some that were never designed to carry passengers or to travel great distances.

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There are widely differing views about solutions to energy and climate change. This book provides an unbiased look at both sides of this debate and addresses what still needs to be done before we can return to an all renewable energy economy. It looks at why using renewable energy sources is not quite as simple as it seems.

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Roy Ramsay worked with the Field Ambulance in Egypt, on hospital ships evacuating the wound and sick from Gallipoli in WWI. He served on the Western Front, enduring the shocking physical conditions of trench warfare. This book covers the whole course of the war until the Armistice.

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Henri Aram arrived in Australia a teenager with nothing. Through hard work, enterprise and some luck, he worked his way up from being an enemy alien to running a successful underwear business, moved into stockbroking and then became Australia's first personal finance guru and media star. This book tells his story.

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Presents the history of High Speed Trains. This title begins with the Japanese in the 1960s and the rounded nose "bullet trains", travelling at speeds in excess of 200km/h, a speed which was just attainable on the better standard gauge tracks in Europe by the late 1960s.

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Describes practical methods to address various problems and to help educators, the public, and government practitioners to get started on changes and to accelerate their rate of progress. This book enables educators, students, government professionals and the community to consider and adapt appropriate aspects of the work to their specific needs.

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The Battle of Mont St Quentin was fought over 31 August to 5 September 1918. It was the third significant Australian victory that helped bring World War I to an end. Including photographs, maps and diagrams, this book also gives travel information for those who wish to make a pilgrimage to the Mont St Quentin area.

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This is a wonderful history of the steam era coming to an end and the rise of diesels. Using contemporary advertising material, timetables, photographs and other printed ephemera, combined with primary source material the author has created a nostalgic journey of railways and those who worked there.

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