When Ibsen`s controversial play A Doll`s House opened to packed audiences at Melbourne`s Princes Theatre, the slam of the door as Nora left her husband in the final act echoed in the minds of thousands of young Australian women. This book is about four of these women, born in Victoria between 1867 & 1893, who lived through the changes which swept across life, culture & art during the early twentieth century. Four short biographies trace their parallel lives. From Rome, Dora Ohlfsen established a career as a celebrated sculptor. With Mussolini`s support, she became the only expatriate sculptor in Italy commissioned with a national war memorial. Significantly, her Anzac medal was the first commemorative work of art memorialising the Anzacs. From Paris, Louise Dyer invigorated music publishing & recording, helping to transform musical culture world-wide. Her label Les Editions de L` Oiseau-Lyre laid the foundations of the modern early music revival & helped shape the notion of `authenticity` in musical performance. From London, Clarice Zander promoted cultural understanding as a curator & as the publicist for the Royal Academy. She pioneered the modern marketing of art & curated Australia`s first important exhibition of contemporary British art. From New York, Mary Cecil Allen, painter, critic, & educator, working at the centre of modern art, inspired many. She ran the first touring exhibition of contemporary Australian art in the United States. Modern women of the arts, they awoke to their full potential & created opportunities for others to do likewise. ...

One of the titles in the topographic survey of the coastal part of French Guiana, published as an extension of IGN’s survey of France to its overseas departments. Contours are at 5m intervals & the maps indicate 13 different types of vegetation & land use, including rain forest, brushwood, savanna, high & low mangrove, rice fields, orchards & plantations, etc. The extent of changes in the coastline in the recent decades is indicated. The maps have a UTM grid & latitude/longitude lines at intervals of 5’. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Away is the extraordinary story of young Lillian Leyb. Her family destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In 1920s New York, she is taken under the wing of Mr Reuben Burstein, the famous Impresario & his matinee-idol son Meyer. But then her wily cousin Raisele arrives with some unexpected news about Lillian's young daughter Sophie. Driven by a wild hope, Lillian sets off on an odyssey across America, travelling from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Skid Row & up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail towards Siberia. Amy Bloom's first novel for eight years revitalises the American road trip novel, from the perspective of a vulnerable but spirited woman. It paints a vivid, earthy & surprising picture of 1920s America, its smells & textures, its population of drifters & con artists, pimps & prostitutes. Away is storytelling at its finest
- epic in sweep, but intimate & psychologically acute, moving but unsentimental. Like the novels of Sarah Waters, it is both richly authentic in its period detail, & fresh & contemporary in its style. But above all Bloom has created an unforgettable character in Lillian Leyb
- her voice, haunted/damaged yet innocent, passionate, witty & unpretentious, is so believable & strong that her presence lingers long after the novel ends.

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Away at Christmas is a collection of stories of human endeavour drawn from the journals of famous explorers who have spent Christmas day in far flung places. Covering the period from 1492 to the present day, the book describes where & how each explorer spent the Christmas festival, often against the odds, & what became of them & their parties after the season of good will ended.A foreword is supplied by Sir Ranulph Fiennes & extracts from the journals of Columbus, Cook, Darwin, Nansen, Stanley & Livingtone, Shackleton, Eric Newby & Ellen Mac Arthur are included alongside writings from many other well-known names. ...

It`s 1979 & in Birkenhead smack & Maggie Thatcher are still less of an issue than Lois jeans & Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For Paul Carty, 19, & his mystical, Joy Division-loving mate Elvis, life revolves around The Pack, a mob of violent Tranmere Rovers supporters. Carty & Elvis travel the Northern wastelands, always by train, causing mayhem in the `woollyback` strongholds of Halifax, Crewe & Chesterfield. For most of the mob, The Pack is their reason for living. But Elvis, who loves Ezra Pound, & Carty, still getting over the death of his mother, are starting to get bored of it all. The question is: will the Pack let them go? & can they get by without each other? ...

Curious kids who want to know the who/what/where of the coolest things on the planet will welcome this first book in an awesome new National Geographic Kids series. Every turn of the page presents a different theme & counts down the greatest of the great top 8 of its kind. For example: The Awesome 8 Coolest Coasters, Haughtiest Hotels, Wicked Water Slides, Perilous Predators, Remarkable Ruins, Weirdest Wonders, Swankiest Subways, & anything else you can imagine. It`s truly something you have to see to believe--which is why the entire list appears in photographs, layered with fun facts & insightful stories. ...

From number one bestselling author David Walliams comes another heartfelt but hilarious hoot of an adventure Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta & her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret
- & slightly spooky
- weapon up her sleeve...

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From number one bestselling author David Walliams comes another heartfelt but hilarious hoot of an adventure Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta & her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret
- & slightly spooky
- weapon up her sleeve...

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All the family will love playing these three classic card games: Go Fish, Cheat & Old Maid beautifully illustrated with images from David Walliams` best-selling books, Ratburger, Gansgsta Granny & Awful Auntie. Contains: 52 cards featuring illustrations by Tony Ross ...

Step back to an awfully ancient time when pharaohs were phoul, servants suffered & everyone believed in an awesome afterlife. Discover the dire details of mummy-making, the truth about Tutankhamun & his creepy curse & find out why people worshipped a dung beetle. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers. 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...