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Author: Anne Bower Ingram Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 1740518063 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 146
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Australia is an extraordinary country. Our past is filled with pioneers and bushrangers, brave soldiers and record-breaking athletes. We've created foods eaten nowhere else in the world and we're the home of Big Things. Australians are intrepid explorers, wacky inventors, celebrated artists and daring lifesavers. This book contains thirty of our most time-honoured icons, from the Sydney Opera House and jars of Vegemite to Phar Lap's glory and the tradition of Anzac. Take a tour through the large legends and little-known facts that make Australia truly unique.
Author: Anne Bower Ingram Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 1740518063 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
Australia is an extraordinary country. Our past is filled with pioneers and bushrangers, brave soldiers and record-breaking athletes. We've created foods eaten nowhere else in the world and we're the home of Big Things. Australians are intrepid explorers, wacky inventors, celebrated artists and daring lifesavers. This book contains thirty of our most time-honoured icons, from the Sydney Opera House and jars of Vegemite to Phar Lap's glory and the tradition of Anzac. Take a tour through the large legends and little-known facts that make Australia truly unique.
Author: Mal Walden Publisher: ISBN: 9781920785185 Category : Languages : en Pages : 384
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Australia's favourite newsman is back. This time with Legends and Icons - those uniquely Australian stories, people and products. From a tradition of bush medicines to amazing world first medical discoveries. Walden takes us on a journey through Australian history to revive and pay tribute to those whose legacies have helped shape our nation. Serendipity is a happy and unexpected event that often occurs while searching for something else and as Walden shows, often a search for one thing led to amazing accidental Australian inventions. Join him on as he looks at true Australian Legends and Icons.
Author: Loretta Barnard Publisher: ISBN: 9781741662863 Category : Sports Languages : en Pages : 187
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For many Australians sport is an obsession - some even call it a religion! Others just enjoy having a bit of fun while keeping fit. Our remarkable sportspeople compete in a huge variety of events, making Australia one of the world's most successful sporting nations. Everyone has a favourite sport they love to play or team they want to join. This collection features thirty of your favourite sports stars and events, including icons such as Ian Thorpe, Cathy Freeman, Dawn Fraser, Donald Bradman and Phar Lap. They appear alongside other greats such as Casey Stoner, Lauren Jackson, Karrie Webb, Midge Farelly and Layne Beachley. Plus, you'll find novelty sports for animals and humans. Have you ever thought about racing a camel or a lizard? Or how about having a boat regatta . . . in a dry riverbed? Whether you're after laps, goals, swings, strokes, marks, aces, waves or hoops, 30 Australian Sports Legends has fascinating facts, trivia and - oops! - sporting mishaps to appeal to everyone.
Author: Jeremy Prestholdt Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190092645 Category : History Languages : en Pages :
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The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, Icons of Dissent offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.
Author: Miriam Dixson Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 9780868406657 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
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Examination of the nature of Australian national identity; includes reference to Aborigines discussed in terms of violence, racism, guilt, remorse and memory; questions the characterisation of race relations through forgetting and silence (Stanner) and violence (Rowley); argues that simplified historical narratives about race relations impede reparative energy in race relations; psychological understanding of racism; theories of the nation; crisis of history and time in Australia and its impact on identity.
Author: Dana Ferguson Publisher: Children's Book Review Index C ISBN: 9780787679385 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 640
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The Childrens Book Review Index contains review citations to give your students and researchers access to reviewers comments and opinions on thousands of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media intended and/ or recommended for children through age 10. The volume makes it easy to find a review by authors name, book title or illustrator and fully indexes more than 600 periodicals.
Author: Richard Paul Simpkin Publisher: ISBN: 9781742574929 Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 216
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Photographer Richard Simpkin set himself a herculean task; take a photo of 100 Australians he believed had attained status as legends. Starting with a knock at the door of the Adelaide home of cricketer Sir Donald Bradman, Simpkin approached dozens of famous people, from veterans reluctant to be called legends, through to media moguls who had long ago ceased to even consider themselves Australians. Artists, actors and inventors all posed for him and told their stories. Many of the legends have since passed away, in one case within days of being photographed. Each of this great collection's vivid photographs contains a brief bio of the subject, as well as a description of how the author managed to get the legend on the other end of his lens.
Author: John Tulloch Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415698049 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 234
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This book explores the ideas of key thinkers and media practitioners who have examined images and icons of war and terror. Icons of War and Terror explores theories of iconic images of war and terror, not as received pieties but as challenging uncertainties; in doing so, it engages with both critical discourse and conventional image-making. The authors draw on these theories to re-investigate the media/global context of some of the most iconic representations of war and terror in the international ‘risk society’. Among these photojournalistic images are: Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a naked girl, Kim Phuc, running burned from a napalm attack in Vietnam in June 1972; a quintessential ‘ethnic cleansing’ image of massacred Kosovar Albanian villagers at Racak on January 15, 1999, which finally propelled a hesitant Western alliance into the first of the ‘new humanitarian wars’; Luis Simco’s photograph of marine James Blake Miller, ‘the Marlboro Man’, at Fallujah, Iraq, 2004; the iconic toppling of the World Trade Centre towers in New York by planes on September 11, 2001; and the ‘Falling Man’ icon – one of the most controversial images of 9/11; the image of one of the authors of this book, as close-up victim of the 7/7 terrorist attack on London, which the media quickly labelled iconic. This book will be of great interest to students of media and war, sociology, communications studies, cultural studies, terrorism studies and security studies in general.
Author: Anne Bower Ingram
Author: Anne Bower Ingram
Author: Mal Walden
Author: Loretta Barnard
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Author: Jeremy Prestholdt
Author: Miriam Dixson
Author: Dana Ferguson
Author: Richard Paul Simpkin
Author: John Tulloch
Author: K. Langloh Parker