Volcanic eruption is the most spectacular of all landscape-forming processes, and has a fascination for the scientist and the ordinary man alike. This book gives an up-to-date account of the mechanism of volcanic activity, the products of eruption, and especially the many varieties of landform produced by vulcanism. It also describes the processes of weathering and erosion that attack volcanoes and lava flows, and discusses the course of landscape evolution in volcanic areas.

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.

Man came to Australia well before the end of the Pleistocene epoch - the so-called Ice Age. To understand his history, then, both early and later, calls for an understanding of climate and environment, and the changes that have taken place in them. Early man in Australia was a stone-using huntergatherer, and the traditional Aboriginal economy and society have persisted into modern times, so a wealth of ethnographic information is available to help in understanding the way he reacted and so influenced the diversity of environments found in the Australian continent.

Admiral Henry Byam Martin's first command in the British Navy was Captain of the 50-gun frigate, H.M.S. Grampus, in the year 1846. He was ordered to a sail from Plymouth 'round the Horn to Hawaii for further orders. Those orders sent him to Tahiti for a full year, the fatal year in which the French subjugated the Tahitians by bloody force, made the island a "Protectorate" of France but allowed the glamorous Queen Pomare to be the titular ruler until they took it over completely, as a colony, in 1880.

In Philip Martin's first collection, the voice is unmistakably one voice, yet it catches up the tones of many, creating new figures, recreating others from myth and history, often with significant changes. A mother comes to terms with her daughter's beauty; Orpheus and Persephone loiter between world and underworld, neglecting their purposes; Saint Anthony at last repents of his celibate years in the desert.

Beyond the Cotter offers residents of the ACT, as well as visitors, an illustrated account spiced with history of new places to visit and things to do beyond the familiar Cotter Reserve. Each section describes a place within a day{u2019}s return drive of Canberra and pleasant walks of varying length are featured as part of the day{u2019}s activities. Some interesting places in the wide area farther to the south-west as far as Yarrangobilly and Tantangara Reservoir are also documented for those with more time to spare and a taste for somewhat wilder country.

In 1953 Dr Jean Martin went to live in a Migrant Hostel in {u2018}Burton{u2019},' the name she gives to one of Australia{u2019}s larger provincial cities. Amongst the Displaced Persons in the Hostel and in the town, she found much of pain, bewilderment, suspicion, and fear, but {u2018}looking back now, I think that the patience, friendliness, and trust shown to me were quite remarkable, considering how time-consuming, impertinent, and even frivolous my inquiries must at times have seemed{u2019}.

Australia and New Zealand are regarded in some parts of the world as almost one country. This is not the way they regard themselves, and the sense of separateness in both places that has grown for more than a century has continued and been reinforced, despite a growing number of links between the two countries. This book is the record of a conference that took place in Wellington in February 1968.