A Dingo Ate My Math Book

A Dingo Ate My Math Book

Author: Burkard Polster

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2017-12-27

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1470435217

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A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages. This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics—whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.


Through My Eyes

Through My Eyes

Author: Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 9780975114537

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The autobiography of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, and the story of the justice system that betrayed her. This edition features a revised introduction and new epilogue bringing the reader up-to-date with events since the first edition was published in 1990.


The Dingo Took Over My Life

The Dingo Took Over My Life

Author: Stuart Tipple

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781922355089

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The Dingo Took Over My Life is a true story, told by the Chamberlain's lawyer, Stuart Tipple, who led their fight for justice and exoneration. After raising the cry, "The dingo's got my baby!", Lindy Chamberlain was imprisoned for life. This book shares that journey.


Heart of Stone

Heart of Stone

Author: Michael Chamberlain

Publisher: New Holland Publishers

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781742572895

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Dr Michael Chamberlain has written an account of the ten controversial court cases held since the day a dingo killed his daughter, Azaria Chamberlain, at Ayers Rock on 17 August, 1980.


Dingo Makes Us Human

Dingo Makes Us Human

Author: Deborah Bird Rose

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 2000-08-28

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521794848

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This ethnography explores the culture of the Yarralin people in the Northern Territory.


The Dingo's Got My Baby

The Dingo's Got My Baby

Author: Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

Publisher: Momentum

Published: 2012-03-10

Total Pages: 1439

ISBN-13: 1743340281

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In 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo from her family's tent near Uluru in Australia's remote Northern Territory. Her body was never found. In a terrible miscarriage of justice, her mother Lindy was wrongfully convicted of her daughter's murder and sentenced to life in prison. It was seven years before the conviction was overturned. This is the true story behind a tragedy whose echoes reverberated around the world. "This is the story of a little girl who lived, and breathed, and loved, and was loved. She was part of me. She grew within my body and when she died, part of me died, and nothing will ever alter that fact. This is her story, and mine." – Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton "Page after page demolishes the myth and fables that have been spun around a nation's obsession with the baby's disappearance." – The Sydney Morning Herald "What first struck me on meeting Lindy was her sense of humour and surprising lack of bitterness. Here is a woman who has been under such macabre and intense public scrutiny and yet through all the tabloid hysteria they haven't managed to capture the real Lindy at all. There are so many myths about Lindy and the Chamberlain case that have still not been dispelled and to read this book is to get closer to the truth behind the story that has continued to fascinate Australia for the past 24 years." –Miranda Otto, Actress, Lord of the Rings Trilogy Previously published as Through My Eyes in 2004.


Dingo

Dingo

Author: Charles De Lint

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780142408162

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Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from Australia - twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the girls' cooperation.


Wandi

Wandi

Author: Favel Parrett

Publisher: Lothian Children's Books

Published: 2025-12-31

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780734420633

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A young cub is snatched from his family and home by a giant eagle, then dropped, injured and alone, in a suburban garden. This is where he meets his first Human, and begins his long journey to becoming the most famous dingo in the world. He will never see his mountain home again, or his family. But it is his destiny to save alpine dingoes from extinction, and he dreams of a time when all cubs like him can live in the wild in safety, instead of facing poison and bullets and hatred. A children's literary classic in-the-making from one of Australia's most-loved authors.


Wombat Stew

Wombat Stew

Author: Marcia Kay Vaughan

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781761290688

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One day, on the banks of a billabong, a very clever dingo caught a wombat... and decided to make... Wombat stew, Wombat stew, Gooey, brewy, Yummy, chewy, Wombat stew! In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his stew, and the result is something the dingo will never forget!


Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

Author: Meghan Daum

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307454843

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The “funny, charming, and shocking” true story (The New York Times Book Review) of one woman’s quest for the four perfect walls to call home. In this laugh-out-loud personal journey, acclaimed author Meghan Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole. From her teenage apartment fantasies and her mother’s decorating manias to her own “hidden room” dreams and the bungalow she eventually buys on her own, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House “[chronicles] an obsession that threatens to upend sanity and bank accounts…. Daum has a rare gift in her ability to keep readers laughing through her own tears” (The New York Times Book Review).