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Australia Takes Wing 1900-1939 (eBook)

By AscetDevTeam | August 16, 2018
$22.00 inc GST

This history is written in traditional narrative form with extensive endnotes, bibliography and index. It’s chapters are organized to focus on the highlights of the development of Australian civil aviation; beginning with the earliest flights, early attempts to establish a civil aviation industry, government assistance and regulation, the first Australian airlines, the creation of an ‘air-minded’ society, the effects of the great depression, the rapid growth and early maturity of the industry in the 1930s, the introduction of the first air services beyond Australian shores, the two crisis of 1938 that reshaped Australian civil aviation and the industry on the verge of World War II.

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Airways – Stability in Flight (eBook)

By AscetDevTeam | August 16, 2018
$22.00 inc GST

Australia’s domestic and international airlines
*General aviation and recreational flying
*The growth of travel and tourism
*The Department of Civil Aviation

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EXTENDING MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING (EMU)

By AscetDevTeam | August 13, 2018
$66.00 inc GST

The book Extending Mathematical Understanding (EMU) Intervention outlines the theoretical underpinnings for the EMU Intervention Program, and is the primary resource for EMU Specialist teachers. It is a useful tool for classroom mathematics teachers wanting advice on supporting students who are mathematically vulnerable.

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NICHOLAS O’DONNELL’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

By AscetDevTeam | August 10, 2018
Original price was: $38.50.Current price is: $25.00. inc GST

Born in 1862 at Bullengarook in central Victoria, O’Donnell graduated in medicine, married New Zealand-born Molly Bruen and for many years, based in West Melbourne, they were community leaders and prominent campaigners for Irish Home Rule. Nicholas was was a Gaelic scholar and one of the founders of the Celtic Club.

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GOULBURN RIVER ABORIGINAL PROTECTORATE

By AscetDevTeam | August 10, 2018
$33.00 inc GST

The central station of the Goulburn River Aboriginal Protectorate District at what is now Murchison, operated from 1840 until 1853, and is a significant post-contact Aboriginal site on the Goulburn River. It was the focus of interaction between Aboriginal communities, particularly the Daungwurrung, Ngurai-illam wurrung, and Yorta Yorta peoples, government officials and settlers during the early years of contact in the Port Phillip District. The site continued to hold significance to Aboriginal people after the 1850s, linking pre- and post-contact histories and geographies.

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THE EUREKA FLAG: OUR STARRY BANNER

By AscetDevTeam | August 10, 2018
$16.50 inc GST

One hundred and nineteen years after Anastasia Withers sewed the Eureka Flag, her great granddaughter, Val D’Angri, helped to conserve this nationally significant icon.

This book gives a brief overview of Eureka, the significance of the Eureka Flag, and looks at conflicting stories about the Flag’s origins.

The construction and conservation of the Eureka Flag is outlined in section four. For example, did you know that a dressmakerís pin was found in a seam of the flag during conservation?

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DEEPER LEADS: NEW APPROACHES TO VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS HISTORY

By AscetDevTeam | August 10, 2018
$22.00 inc GST

Deeper Leads: New Approaches to Victorian Goldfields History
Professor Keir Reeves & Dr David Nicholls (editors)

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BULLBOAR, MACARONI AND MINERAL WATER

By AscetDevTeam | August 10, 2018
$33.00 inc GST

During Victoria’s goldrush many Italian speakers sought their fortune on the Jim Crow Goldfields (Now Daylesford and Hepburn Springs). This book looks at the achievements of those settlers and their descendants including food (bullboar), wine, mineral water, architecture, sport, art and so much more.

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FREEMASONS ON THE GOLDFIELDS

By AscetDevTeam | August 10, 2018
$55.00 inc GST

Freemasons on the Goldfields is an intriguing story of men and lodges, secrets, symbols, jealousies, achievements and civic pride. It traces the craft from the early stonemasons and cathedral builders of Europe to the establishments of lodges in Australia and Victoria.

This book shows how the growth of freemasonry in Ballarat reflected the rapid expansion in welfare and services, the growth of commerce, the interest and support for education and the arts, and the beautification of the environment.

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BALLARAT – EUREKA’S WOMEN

By AscetDevTeam | August 10, 2018
$19.50 inc GST

Look into the faces of Eureka’s Women. The story of Eureka through a women’s perspective. Short biographies of many of the women who played active roles during the Eureka Affair. Women were actively involved at the Monster Meetings, editorials and managing the Ballarat Times newspaper, the making of the Eureka Flag, tending the wounded, writing verse, publishing and were politically active. Feminist consciousness was alive and well at the time of Eureka in Ballarat in December 1854!

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