Textbooks
Browse or search textbooks or find out more about the publications' authors. Download the ebook for free or buy a print-on-demand copy.
Displaying results 1261 to 1270 of 2630.
Cook's voyages and peoples of the Pacific »
Publication date: 1979
Two hundred years ago Captain James Cook revealed to Europe the world of the Pacific. In three great voyages made in the short span of eleven years he explored the ocean from the Antarctic, through the islands of Polynesia and Melanesia, to the north-west coast of America, Alaska and the Arctic. A small isolated group of voyagers, half the world away from home, found its way to and fro across the vastness of the South Sea (as the Pacific was also known) coming across new lands and peoples as they went. Much has been written about the history of Cook{u2019}s voyages in terms of geography and chronology; the purpose of this book, written to coincide with the bicentenary of Cook{u2019}s death on Hawaii on 14 February 1779, is to describe the impact which Cook made on some of the peoples which he encountered, and the impression which they made on him and his companions. The illustrations nearly all represent drawings, objects, etc., directly connected with the voyages, in an attempt to recapture the experience of the initial encounters. In the first chapter the background and chronology of the voyages is sketched; the succeeding chapters, each written by an expert in the field, deal with four of the most important cultures encountered by Cook: those of the Society Islands, the Maori of New Zealand, the Nootka of Vancouver Island, and of Hawaii. A final chapter by Dr Helen Wallis sums up the cultural achievement and consequences of the enterprise.
Captain Cook and the South Pacific »
Publication date: 1979
Volume 3 of the Yearbook is devoted to matters relating to the voyages of Captain James Cook (1728-79), the bicentenary of whose death in Hawaii falls on 14 February 1979. His three voyages of Pacific exploration, in the Endeavour (1768-71) and the Resolution (1772-75, 1776-80), the last one completed after his death, established for him a reputation as one of the greatest explorers of all time. Cook was accompanied on his first voyage by a young botanist named Joseph Banks, who took with him a private staff of scientists and draughtsmen, and in the first paper Dr A. M. Lysaght deals with these draughtsmen, many of whose drawings are preserved in the British Library. A Tahitian native named Omai returned to England with Cook's second expedition, and a paper by Dr R. Joppien, discusses a pantomime based on his life, which was staged in London at that time. Cook and his companions found nearly all of the islands of the South Pacific to be inhabited, and the theorizing about how the natives came to be there is examined in a paper by Dr B. Durrans. The last two papers, by Dr A. L. Kaeppler and Professor D. Waite, attempt to identify some of the artefacts collected in the South Seas by participants in Cook's voyages, which are now in the collections of the British Museum. In Cook's own lifetime, in 1777, Daniel Wray wrote that he, Cook, 'will go down to posterity as one of our principal discoverers'; two hundred years after his death it is still true. The five papers gathered together here illustrate and evoke much of the impact that Cook and his voyages made on the eighteenth century.
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands since the First World War »
Publication date: 1979
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2721 1885_114738.jpg ANU Press Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands since the First World War Saturday, 18 August, 1979 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services
White man got no dreaming: essays 1938-1973 »
Publication date: 1979
This book looks at 'the Aboriginal problem' from an unusual viewpoint - that of the Aborigines themselves, for whom 'the Aboriginal problem is the white Australian'. The essays deal with all those features of traditional Aboriginal life that made it so deeply satisfying to the original Australians: religion, attachment to land, imaginative culture, and the whole ethos on which the impact of Europeans and their way of life has been destructive. The Aborigines have been dispossessed, exploited, rejected and on occasions reviled. What we now offer them is, from an Aboriginal point of view, neither true recompense nor equality. The author argues that race relations will deteriorate even farther than the neuralgic point to which our ethnocentric insensibility has already brought them unless white Australians make an effort to comprehend the Aboriginal truths of life.
The people's health, 1830-1910 »
Publication date: 1979
The patient has been much neglected by medical historians: most medical history has been compiled by medically-trained men and published only for medical men. This social history of health and ill-health in Britain is conceived on a wider, more questioning scale than standard medical history. The survey ranges from maternal mortality to the management of the old and infirm, and hinges upon measuring the benefit accruing from the huge investment in the medical profession and sanitary improvement. It is shown, in answer to the cost-benefit question that, apart from vaccination against smallpox, and anesthesia and antisepsis after 1880, medical science had little impact upon the health and life chances of nineteenth-century people. Improved nutrition, better housing and working conditions probably achieved a great deal more. Similarly, despite a large investment in lying-in hospitals and obstetric training for doctors, maternal and infant mortality rates remained at an appallingly high level until the first decade of this century. Sanitary development has also been too readily accepted as lowering the death and morbidity rates. This study shows that piped water and sewerage systems came to wealthy suburbs a generation before they were introduced among the poor. Indeed, the channelling of the refuse of the rich into the rivers which supplied water for the poor may have maintained the high typhoid, cholera, diphtheria and gastro-enteritis rates among the latter.
Field guide to the non-marine molluscs of south eastern Australia »
Publication date: 1979
The non-marine molluscs form a significant part of the invertebrate fauna of South-eastern Australia. Several species are of economic importance, mainly pests and parasite vectors. Non-marine molluscs are also valuable as environmental indicators and are used extensively by ecologists in environmental impact studies. This field guide of non-marine molluscs is intended as a check-list and a field and laboratory identification manual to this diverse and significant group. It is intended to give a current assessment of the knowledge of this group and is the logical next step in the available literature. The book provides basic information on the study and identification of an important group of Australian animals and it is hoped that it will stimulate further research into the native fauna of this most man-modified part of Australia.
Nationalism in the twentieth century »
Publication date: 1979
Why has nationalism become one of the most powerful and widespread political forces of our century? And why has the national ideal triumphed over its rivals? In this book, Dr. Anthony Smith explores its fundamental and enduring appeal in the modern world, by systematically comparing nationalism with other ideologies like millennialism, fascism, racism and communism. Nationalism, he argues, flourishes today because of the pressures and effects of modern conditions on ancient ethnic ties and sentiments. Far from dissipating these mass sentiments, as one might have expected, modern bureaucracy, science and internationalism have only inflamed them, causing many to protest against their impersonal rationalism. At the same time, nationalism is revealed as an infinitely flexible and adaptable political movement. Unlike communism, racism or fascism, it is not tied to specific dogmas, classes, periods or countries. Nationalism can accommodate itself to the most diverse social backgrounds and contrasting environments, and appear as their natural outgrowth. Everywhere its propagators among the intelligentsia have used it to secure the often passionate, but always enduring, support of different classes among their compatriots. So varied in its forms, so easy to identify with the tasks of modernisation, and so indispensable as an instrument for mobilising all kinds of people, nationalism can frequently absorb rival movements like communism or racism, without losing its basic vision or profoundly practical momentum. Hence it is unlikely to wither away. Even in the heavily industrialised states of the West with their well-educated citizenry, ethnic nationalism has recently experienced a resurgence. Having overcome the challenges of communism and fascism in our century to a very considerable extent, nationalism today is built into the fabric of the international order. Both in the West and in the developing countries, the national ideal is likely to command men{u2019}s loyalties for the foreseeable future.
Social organization in Aboriginal Australia »
Publication date: 1979
This book focuses on kinship and affinity, important aspects of Aboriginal social organization which the author claims have not been satisfactorily explained in the literature. He illustrates his arguments with data on the social life of the Aboriginal peoples of north-eastern Arnhem Land and elsewhere. Professor Shapiro challenges the theories of some of the established authorities, and argues that some dicta are distorted: the character of four- and eight-class systems; the alleged isomorphism between kin-classification and social behaviour; the imaginary notion of Aboriginal corporate descent groups; and several others. This book will arouse controversy among anthropologists and prove of interest to the general reader as well.
Biographical register of the New South Wales parliament 1901-1970 »
Publication date: 1979
This book, the sixth in the series Australian Parliaments: Biographical Notes, fills an important gap in biographical reference aids, which in Australia are notoriously inadequate. It includes entries for all members of the Legislative Assembly and of the Legislative Council between July 1901 and December 1970 and includes information up to and including the election in October 1978. Each entry gives a comprehensive account of the member{u2019}s career - main occupation, education, details of parliamentary career and other salient facts. This will be an invaluable research tool for all concerned with New South Wales politics.
The Canberra fisherman »
Publication date: 1979
The Canberra region contains a wide variety of lakes and rivers and more than twenty species of introduced and native fish. This book describes in detail the angling resources of the region. It contains detailed descriptions of the fish, their distribution, feeding, breeding and migratory habits and the special characteristics which make many of them unique in the angling world. It is written for the estimated 70,000 Canberra anglers but is applicable to angling throughout Australia. It is designed to be enjoyed by anglers of all ages, dilettante or serious sport fishermen, naturalists, scientists, conservationists, or people who simply enjoy reading another fascinating chapter on Australia{u2019}s remarkable native and introduced aquatic wildlife.