By The Currawong's Call

By The Currawong's Call

Author: Welton B. Marsland

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1489251626

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A small town, a new arrival, and a love that is as undeniable as it is unlawful... Victoria, Australia, 1891 Anglican priest Matthew Ottenshaw receives his first posting in tiny Dinbratten, two days' ride from his Melbourne home. Determined to honour his calling as best he can, he throws himself into the footy mad, two–pub town, navigating the dusty streets, learning the gossip, and striking up a friendship with Jonah Parks, the resident police sergeant and local bona fide hero. A police officer and a priest often find themselves needed at the same place, and Jonah and Matthew's friendship deepens quickly, as they set about their business of protecting the bodies and souls of Dinbratten's residents. When a bushfire threatens the town, and Matthew's inexperience with fire endangers the church buildings, Jonah comes to the rescue, and a reckless kiss in the midst of the chaos takes their friendship to forbidden. Neither Matthew nor Jonah can go back to the way things were before, but continuing their relationship puts everything at risk: their jobs, their friends, even their lives. In the outback town of Dinbratten where everyone knows everything about everyone else, how can they ever expect to keep a secret this explosive? MORE PRAISE 'Told with an old-fashioned, authentically Australian wink and a smile...By the Currawong's Call is also a tale with a very timely message: people in love will marry whether it's legal or not.' - Australian author Kim Kelly 'By the Currawong's Call, set in 1891 rural Australia, is a gorgeous story of forbidden love.' - The Novel Approach Reviews 'There is a lushness to the writing, a sweeping, lyrical feeling to the story that just drew me in and kept me captivated.' - Joyfully Jay LGBTQ romance reviews


Content and Justification

Content and Justification

Author: Paul A. Boghossian

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-09-11

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0191558907

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Content and Justification presents a series of essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge. Part one comprises essays on the nature of rule-following and its relation to the problem of mental content; on the intelligibility of eliminativist views of the mental; on the prospects for a naturalistic reduction of mental content; and on the currently influential view that meaning is a normative notion. Part two includes three widely discussed papers on the phenomenon of self-knowledge and its compatibility with externalist conceptions of mental content. Part three concerns the classical but ill-understood phenomenon of knowledge that is based upon knowledge of meaning or conceptual competence. Finally, part four turns its attention from general issues about mental content to an account of a specific class of mental contents. It contains two widely discussed papers on the nature of colour concepts, and colour properties.


The Comfort of Water

The Comfort of Water

Author: Maya Ward

Publisher: Transit Lounge

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1921924365

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This is the joyful yet heartbreaking true story of four friends who walk a 21- day pilgrimage from the sea to the source of Melbourne’s Yarra River. There is no path for most of the way, but offers of campsites and boats, and free access to private lands, illustrates the generosity shown to pilgrims even in modern times. The Comfort of Water: A River Pilgrimage, Maya Ward’s lyrical exploration of her river as it winds through the city and the wild is a revelation, a testament to the fact that the greatest of worlds are often at our doorstep. Maya's telling of her own journey and that of her fellow walkers is seamlessly woven together with ecological and cultural history, the revelation of the pilgrim’s path and the unknowable depth of Aboriginal myth. Through trekking this Wurundjeri Songline, this ancient, ever-renewing river, she discovers rich possibilities of belonging, and shares how a river can nourish the passion and resilience required to transform our world.


Advances in the Study of Behavior

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Author: John C. Mitani

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2010-08-02

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0123808936

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Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields. Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect full-text online from volume 30 onward.


Walking to Connect with Nature and Respond to Anthropogenic Climate Change

Walking to Connect with Nature and Respond to Anthropogenic Climate Change

Author: Margaret Somerville

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-07-19

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1036408000

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The author, Margaret Somerville, collected the insights contained within the present volume over a year of walking the ridge daily, linking globally significant scientific findings on the origins and deep time evolution of landscapes and living things to her own intensely observed, embodied interactions with rocks, trees, plants, birds, weather and the seasons, informed by decades of work with Indigenous researchers. It draws on the formation of Gondwana Land and how the planet came to be when life emerged from the sea and trees in symbiosis with fungi. The Gondwana forests contained the oldest trees and plants on the planet and the first song birds in the world that are said to be the beginning of music and song. It also addresses seasonal change. This book is a valuable resource for any course that aims to address global issues and bring hope to the global movement of young people facing climate change in their local places.


The Accidental Tour Guide

The Accidental Tour Guide

Author: Mary Moody

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 192579136X

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The Year of Magical Thinking meets Salvation Creek in a powerful memoir of love, loss and discovery – the third act in an extraordinary life. Mary Moody’s bestselling memoirs about her adventures in France, Au Revoir and Last Tango in Toulouse, inspired thousands of women. The Accidental Tour Guide completes the circle by sharing another major turning point in her life. When Mary loses her beloved husband, her world is turned upside down. Part of her journey to reignite her passion for living is to boldly go where she has never been before – in her travels and in her everyday life. A powerful, moving and inspiring true story about how to rebuild your life without the people who matter most.


Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country

Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country

Author: Chris Tzaros

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780643069671

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The forests of Victoria's Box-Ironbark region are one of the most important areas of faunal diversity and significance in southern Australia. This is a useful guide to the resident and migratory vertebrate fauna of the region. It will enable the user to identify 26 species of mammal, 175 birds, 43 reptiles & 13 amphibians.


Call of the Reed Warbler

Call of the Reed Warbler

Author: Charles Massy

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1603588132

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"Originally published in 2017 as Call of the Reed Warbler: a new argiculture, a new earth by Univeristy of Queensland Press"--Title page verso.


Curious Recollections

Curious Recollections

Author: Rob Morrison

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1743056702

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Every child who grew up in Australia in the 70s and 80s remembers Curiosity Show, the science show that encouraged kids to build their own experiments at home. Running for 18 years, it was a groundbreaking television production, winning awards and screening into homes around the world. As the show experiences a renaissance online, co-host Rob Morrison delves into its weird and wonderful past. From a flight to Antarctica, to being an expert witness on dingos in the Lindy Chamberlain case, to using a sex doll to win a scientific debate, Rob's recollections from this era - and of his long partnership with Deane Hutton - are imbued with his famous sense of fun. He also takes us behind the cameras, sharing how he got into the television business and small tips and tricks to engage with viewers all around the world. For fans new and old alike, this is a wonderful peek into one of Australia's most beloved televisions shows. You'll never look at Humphrey B. Bear the same way again ...