Email the library -----Review --- Place hold-- View catalogue record -- Other new items-- Twitter updates
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Verandah music -- now in the library
'Verandah Music' is a unique anthology of writing on traditional Australian music which provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between the music and the people that produced and perpetuated it. Through interviews, photographs and personal stories, the book illuminates the traditions, working lives and family connections of some of Australia's most colourful characters and the music they loved.
The book comes complete with two CDs, mastered by the National Library of Australia, which greatly enhances the reader's understanding and enjoyment of this unique form of Australian folk music.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Sold (Patricia McCormick) is in the library
Email the library ---- Place hold-- View catalogue record -- Other new items-- Twitter updates
Lakshmi's family is desperately poor, but village life in the mountains of Nepal has its share of pleasures. When the monsoons wreck their crops yet again, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. She arrives at Happiness House' full of hope, but soon learns the unthinkable truth - she has been sold into prostitution. This new world becomes a nightmare from which there is no escape. But, very gradually, Lakshmi makes friends with others in the house, and gathers her courage, until the day she has to face the hardest decision of all: will she risk everything to reclaim her life? Deceptively simple, eloquent, and shocking - this is a story you will never forget. A phenomenal book, a punch in the gut...It drew me in from the first page, even though I wanted to turn away...McCormick has taken a difficult, distasteful subject and written something readable and compassionate without shying away from the truths of the matter. I only wish it was a historical document, not a portrait of a world we have all helped to create.' Deborah Ellis
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Dry times
Email the library -- Place hold-- View catalogue record -- Other new items -- Twitter updates
With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story. Dry Times: Blueprint for a Red Land provides new insights into how our desert environments and institutions work - and how this affects the people living in them, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Whaling (Issues in society series)
Email the library ----- Book review --- Place hold-- View catalogue record -- Other new items-- Twitter updates
Unregulated commercial whaling has had a major impact
on the world’s whale populations. In spite of a complete
commercial whaling ban imposed by the International
Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986, whales are still being
killed on a daily basis by traditional whaling nations such
as Japan, Norway and Iceland. And despite broad global concern for the
depleting whale populations, there is still ongoing debate among IWC
members over if and how whaling should continue. This book examines
the history of whaling and focuses on Australia’s prominent role in trying
to secure a compromise from the whaling nations, especially Japan,
with whom diplomatic relations have become strained. The book also
details Australian and international efforts to protect whales through
sanctuaries, research and legal frameworks. Aboriginal subsistence
whaling, ‘scientific’ whaling and commercial whaling ... what is entailed
in each of these practices? Is there room for political compromise, or
do these giants of the ocean need a globally binding conservation
commitment to survive in the world’s already over-fished oceans?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)