The Gib
Title | The Gib PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Lemann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Gibraltar, Mount, Region (N.S.W.) |
ISBN | 9780646467405 |
More Than the Truth
Title | More Than the Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Ward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 824 |
Release | 2019-08-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780648365501 |
The inspirational success story of the first 100 years of Hutchinson Builders. What started out as a one-man band in 1912, when an English immigrant builder arrived with his family to start a new life in Australia, has grown into the country's largest privately owned construction company. The Hutchies' story straddles a century that witnessed two world wars, the great depression and tumultuous cycles of financial crises against the back drop of the rough and tumble world of construction. As well as tracking the survival and eventual growth of Hutchies into the dynamic and well respected company of today, the book outlines its evolution through successive generations of Jack Hutchinsons at the helm with a fifth generation poised to take on that role. That story is told by way of a historical account as well as captured through the republication and inclusion of every back issue of "Hutchies' Truth", the company's colourful, tabloid-style newsletter covering those years.
Written on the Skin
Title | Written on the Skin PDF eBook |
Author | Liz Porter |
Publisher | Pan Australia |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2007-11-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1742625843 |
A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at a bomb site. After months of testing he is able to match them to the can opener that made them - and lead police to the bomb-maker who used it. A forensic dentist documents the marks in chewing gum dropped by a thief during a burglary and matches them to the teeth of the suspect. A forensic physician examines an abused child, "reading" the terrible alphabet that fists and weapons write on the skin and identifying a mother's hairbrush as the source of the "tramline bruising" on her daughter's leg. Liz Porter's riveting casebook shows how forensic investigators - including pathologists, chemists, entomologists, DNA specialists and document examiners - have used their specialist knowledge to identify victims, catch perpetrators, exonerate innocent suspects and solve dozens of crimes and mysteries. Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2007
The Shadowcatchers
Title | The Shadowcatchers PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Ansara |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | 'The Nib' Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2012) |
ISBN | 9780987225214 |
Contains photographs of working cinematographers from 1901 to the present, with historical text, biographies of Australian cinematographers & fascinating personal anecdotes from the film industry. Reveals little-known information about the role of cinematographers in Australian cinema, & challenges popular conceptions of our national film history.
Breaking the Bank
Title | Breaking the Bank PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Baxter |
Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2008-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1741763681 |
A fast-paced history of Colonial Sydney that tells the extraordinary story of the country's largest ever bank robbery and the people caught up in its wake - from the author of An Irresistible Temptation.
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
Title | A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East PDF eBook |
Author | Tiziano Terzani |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2012-03-08 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0007378408 |
Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author – a seasoned correspondent – took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity.
The First Stone
Title | The First Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Garner |
Publisher | Picador Australia |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780330355834 |
Bestselling title in which the author examines the issue of sexual harassment through the true story of two women who accused the master of Ormond College, University of Melbourne, of indecent assault. The book focuses on Garner's personal response to the event and greater issues of sex and power. The author has written many acclaimed novels and short stories, including 'Monkey Grip' and 'The Last Days of Chez Nous'.