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Alan Watt has been a ceramic artist for 45 years and was for 20 years head of the Ceramics Department of the National Institute of Arts at the Australian National University. Since retiring he has over the past six years conducted numerous weekend workshops on how to build your own wood fired oven. This convinced him that there is a broad and growing interest in learning how to make and use a pizza or wood fired oven. So he has written this bo...

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The book: A unique full colour luxurious publications for maritime artists and those with an interest in art generally. For those who wish to understand the intricacies of painting a maritime scene. The title is from a poems beginning Paint me a ship as looks like a ship something that requires a knowledge of the anatomy of ships and their rigging. Part 1: how to approach Marine Painting explains how to create the sea, sky and weather conditio...

Never have Cooks journals and charts been subjected to such unbiased, forensic examination. The doubts, puzzles and queries raised by J.C. Beaglehole, Cooks renowned editor and biographer, are answered. Cooks discoveries had to remain secret until Britain could afford to send an occupation force to fortify the place and keep out the French hence the publication of Cooks censored journal and charts. From the Foreword by John Howard .... The aut...

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. Every state is covered as well as Commonwealth Railways. There are chapters on some of the great personalities who steered the railways into the e...

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At its heart, this is a book of nature writing interleaved with significant sea-side moments in the author's life. It covers over forty journeys on foot, in a kayak and by campervan to different parts of the South Coast of New South Wales over the last twenty years. The broad and colourful tapestry includes observations of animals, plants, people, history, ship wrecks, ecology, lakes and islands. There are encounters with cuckoos, terns, owls,...

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Since Federation Australia has had 25 Prime Ministers. Some have towered over their party, Parliament and the national scene. Others have been pushed about by events or their own colleagues even by Parliament. The contest for the Prime Ministership has come to resemble the presidential-style elections of the United States. It is a personality battle between two contenders, not one over ideas, principles, or even parties. Brian Carroll tells of...

Meticulously revised and updated throughout. Four completely new designs of locomotive have entered service, and new examples of existing types have appeared under new ownership as well as to existing operators. Some locomotives have changed hands. New entries for new types and updated information for those types affected by new deliveries, sale or transfer overseas are included. Technical data has been provided in the new entries and these ha...

This is the historical story of the ship liners that had operated across the Tasman region, beginning in 1879. There was fierce competition between the shipping companies, which included fare wars that caused one company to withdraw. The aftermath of Worl

This book provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historical controversies, literature and sport, and a number of social issues. Malcolm Prentis has paid particular attention to covering all regions of...

Governor-General Sir John Kerrs dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the born-to-rule Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Australian political history. Whitlam himself was certainly one of the most momentous figures in that history. Born into a privileged life that should have seen him on side with the born-to-rule gang, he took the other fo...

The Great South Road was built to allow the distribution of wool, tallow, hides and other products to Sydney docks from Campbelltown and Picton and beyond. This book tells stories of the people who travelled and worked or lived on a small section of this road - migrants, teamsters, tramps, gold escorts, toiling convicts, and bushrangers.

Flying Officer Allen Mawer confided to his diaries the excitement of being 21 flying the most famous aircraft ever built - with a Merlin V12 engine and four 20mm Hispanso cannon. Days spent hunting the Hun over the English Channel, nights spent partying in London, experiencing the perils of aerial combat and the hazards of wartime romance. War doesn, t get any better than this. The mood changes, by 1943 Mawer is living in a swamp that pretends...

With nine maps and 100 illustrations, this book is a well-researched history on the conflicts that have taken place in Afghanistan and Northwest Pakistan, beginning in 1839. The book puts Afghanistan's conflicts into the broadest perspective, with the inclusion of the numerous wars and conflicts on the Northwest Frontier. Drawing heavily on resources such as unit histories, the book includes information on all such wars in Afghanistan, includi...

This history of High Speed Trains 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. The French developed high speed rail tracks planned to follow the topography and rely on momentum and a high power to weight ratio to ensure a consistent high speed. Not only was this a success, ...

In recent years the medical profession has been revolutionised in the fields of research, of technology and of practice. At the same time, while community attitudes themselves change, group practices have taken some weight from doctors but perhaps have diminished the doctor/ patient relationship of previous years. Another change in the oversight of the medical profession has been the growth of what is called medical ethics. What, for example, ...