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Geomorphology of Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1977
Papua New Guinea's rugged terrain, dense rain forest, extensive swamps and adverse climatic conditions present formidable barriers to scientific exploration and field research. In spite of this remarkable progress has been made in the last two decades and scientists have filled many of the 'blank spaces' on the map and have greatly increased knowledge of the country. This book is the first major synthesis of our present knowledge of Papua New Guinea's land forms, their distribution, origin and development, the processes that acted on them - and are continuing to act. Such things as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides, and subaerial and subsurface erosion processes, changing river systems and their role in the formation of plains can be better understood by those who read this book: those working in Papua New Guinea and directly concerned with its development and environment such as geologists, agriculturalists, engineers and conservationists, and scholars generally concerned with problems of the geomorphology of the humid tropics. Particularly valuable are the illustrations, which cover a wide range of land forms and illustrate vividly the often dramatic topography.
Australian economic development in the nineteenth century »
Publication date: 1977
The book is a comprehensive survey of nineteenth-century economic development in Australia. Lucidly written and with extensive illustrations, the text deals with fundamental aspects of development - population, export and the balance of payments, transport, urbanisation, manufacturing, money and banking - set against a broad outline of development to 1900 and with a valuable chapter on the role of government in the economy. Written by a practical teacher and designed for readers without formal training in economics or statistics, this book will be as valuable to general historians as it will be to students of economic history in schools or at university.
The Fiji Indians: challenge to European dominance 1920-1946 »
Publication date: 1977
Today the descendants of immigrants from India in Fiji outnumber the original Fijians. They are an integral and vital part of Fiji's multi-racial population. In this book, a sequel to the author's, Fiji's Indian Migrants, Dr Gillion deals with the very important period when there were strikes, boycotts and communal disputes as the Indian community sought dignity, identity and acceptance in its new home.
China and the world »
Publication date: 1977
Dr Stephen FitzGerald is Professorial Fellow in Modern Chinese History, Head of the Department of Far Eastern History and Head of the Contemporary China Centre in The Australian National University. He was formerly a member of the (then) External Affairs Department from which he resigned to enter academic life. In 1971 he accompanied the then-Leader of the Opposition, E. G. Whitlam, to China and in 1973 he was appointed first Australian ambassador to the People's Republic of China. During his tour of duty from 1973 to 1976 he established Australia's first embassy in China and has served under both Labor and Liberal ministries. Dr FitzGerald's knowledge of China and Chinese has greatly enhanced Chinese-Australian understanding. This book achieves a difficult feat of interpretation: to explain, from the Chinese point of view as its author understands it, China's approach to the world outside its own boundaries and the difficulties most western governments experience in coming to terms with China. Against the background of past and contemporary Chinese history Dr FitzGerald builds an analysis of present-day China's approach to other countries of the world: the United States and the Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Australia. He believes there is a stability and a subtle and continuing theme unbroken even by the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution and the overthrow of the 'Gang of Four'. This book - which embodies the revised ANU Convocation Lectures for 1977, given throughout Australia and broadcast by the ABC, and the 1977 Arthur Yencken Memorial Lectures - is unusually wide in the interest it will attract from 'China Watchers', academics, diplomats, businessmen, students of history and inter national relations; above all, from those concerned to know and understand China. A transcript of the questions and answers at the lectures is available from Secretary, Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.
Humid landforms »
Publication date: 1977
Landscapes which contain moving water are perhaps the most sccnically attractive, and to a geomorphologist have long been a central focus for landform studies. Humid Landformsexamines from a novel angle the effects of running water on the landscape, emphasising the processes changing valleys and rivers. The author takes the humid tropics as the most characteristic case of landform evolution through water erosion and deposition and treats humid temperate lands, previously accepted as the 'normal' pattern of landform evolution, as a variation of the situation in the humid tropics. The book emphasises the basic principles of chemical, physical and biotic interrelationships which affect the pattern of landform evolution and provides the reader with a greater understanding of the changes, sometimes dramatic, that moving water makes to the surrounding countryside.
Tropical shrubs »
Publication date: 1977
Hawaii is the home of one of the world{u2019}s greatest collections of tropical and subtropical plants. The Islands' benign and varied microclimates have accepted plants from many different places, ranging from humid jungle rain forests to arid deserts, and from seacoasts sprayed with salt to mountainsides of almost Andean heights. With the enormous variety of plants that have made Hawaii one great botanical garden, comes also a great curiosity and search for knowledge about them. Everywhere people ask, when they see a new one they like, "What plant is that?" "Where will it grow?" "How do I care for it?" The Hawai'i Garden is a series of books written to help the plant lover and amateur gardener identify, select, install, and care for the whole fascinating range of beautiful, interesting plants that are available in modern Hawaii and other mild-climate areas. Magnificent color photographs, each a work of art in interpreting the special qualities of the plant illustrated, will delight armchair gardeners and active gardeners alike. For anyone who appreciates the col orful plants associated with the tropics, these large-format volumes offer both visual enjoyment and a comprehensive practical guide. Tropical Shrubs is the first fully illustrated book on the subject to be published in the United States. The authors describe those shrubs under eighteen feet in height which they recommend for creative use as screen, accent, or border hedge. Unusual selections include Wheeler's dwarf pittosporum, Okinawan holly, dwarf geometry tree, bell flower from Dominica - 103 useful and decorative shrubs altogether. Each plant discussed is illustrated with a full-page color photograph by Rick Golt. The accompanying text gives a complete description of the plant, the origin of its name, its practical uses, required growing conditions, horticultural and landscape uses, propagation, insect and disease control, pruning, fertilizing, and significant disadvantages.
The diaries and correspondence of David Cargill, 1832-1843 »
Publication date: 1977
The diaries and correspondence of David Cargill, Wesleyan missionary in the Pacific, reveal the story of a tragic life. His greatest success came early in his life in the 1830s, when he achieved a mass conversion of thousands of Tongans. His story in Tonga was a happy one, for there he found satisfaction in the fellowship of his colleagues and his achievements as the only trained linguist at the mission. In 1835 he was transferred to Fiji as the first Wesleyan missionary. Here he found life increasingly bitter; four years of work on translations were wasted because the dialect he used was not appropriate as a lingua franca. He quarrelled with his colleagues. He was nauseated by horrifying scenes of widow-strangling, cannibalism and warfare. His beloved wife and one of his children died. Cargill returned to England, remarried, and went back to Tonga and to disappointment: many of his converts had reverted to their old ways. Now known by his colleagues as an alcoholic, sick, and depressed as the aftermath of dengue fever, he committed suicide. Cargill{u2019}s diaries and letters show in graphic detail the impact of two alien cultures on a sensitive man unable to come to grips with these two cultures, a man of high ideals who died a tragic failure.
Climates of hunger: mankind and the world's changing weather »
Publication date: 1977
Climate is changing. Parts of our world have been cooling. Rain belts and food-growing areas have shifted. People are starving. And we have been too slow to realize what is happening and why. In recent years, world climate changes have drawn more attention than at any other time in history. What we once called "crazy weather," just a few years ago, is now beginning to be seen as part of a logical and, in part, predictable pattern, an awesome natural force that we must deal with if man is to avoid disaster of unprecedented proportions. Along with drought in some places and floods in others, both caused by changing wind patterns, average temperatures of the Northern Hemisphere have been falling. The old-fashioned winters our grandfathers spoke of might be returning. In England, the growing season has already been cut by as much as two weeks. The selection of food crop varieties in both North America and Europe is in for sharp reappraisal, in view of the shrinking frost-free agricultural season and other climatic changes. Climate has always had profound effects upon human history, helping both to build and to destroy great civilizations. Until now, we have not had the knowledge to react intelligently to the signs of shifting climate. Today, even though we remain essentially powerless to affect climate purposefully, we are ready to recognize the signs of change and we are somewhat better able to predict the effects of those changes. This book will help. Here, climatologist Reid A. Bryson and science writer Thomas J. Murray present a broad view of climatic change, examining the past in order to view the future. The prospects are not bright. Bryson, whom Fortune magazine called "the most outspoken perceiver of climatological danger signals" in the United States, says that world temperatures since the sixteenth century have been significantly cooler than those of the first half of the present century. Temperatures now seem to be falling, and many of the weather irregularities we have experienced in recent years are, in great part, an expression of this broad reversal. Unfortunately, we came to view the recent warm period as "normal," and based many of our institutions upon it. The world added a billion people to its population during that time, thanks in part to an unusually favorable agricultural climate. Now we must be able to adjust quickly to climatic changes or face the potentially tragic consequences of inaction. The climatic problems Bryson and Murray speak of are not in some vague geological future. They are upon us now, and we are not prepared. Climates o f Hunger is a book of paramount importance for our time. It will be essential reading not only for professionals in the field - including agricultural meteorologists, political scientists, geographers, sociologists, and business counselors - but for all who are concerned in any way with environmental trends, world and domestic food supplies, and their effects on human institutions.
Data base management systems: proceedings of the joint ANU/ACS one-day seminar held at the Computer Centre of the Australian National University, 17 November, 1976 »
Publication date: 1977
Proceedings of the joint ANU/ACS one-day seminar held at the Computer Centre of The Australian National University, 17th November, 1976.
The premiers' conference: an essay in federal state interaction »
Publication date: 1977
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An autobiography; or, Tales and legends of Canberra pioneers »
Publication date: 1977
In 1856, at the age of six, Samuel Shumack came to the Duntroon Estate in Canberra. He farmed in the district until 1915. Forced by injury to retire from active farming, Shumack, at the age of 59, began to record his memories of old Canberra. He was an acute and accurate observer. His stories move freely from one episode to the next. The text is enhanced by eight colour plates by artist Gray Smith. This fascinating book will be treasured by all who have an interest in Canberra's history. Chap. 11, 148-151.; Account of Aborigines in Canberra area, 1856 to 1900; Local Aborigines said to number about 70 in 1856; Mentions visit of 3-400 South Coast Aborigines in 1862 of 1863; Measles epidemic c. 1862; Depredations, etc
Sanuki no Suke nikki: a translation of The Emperor Horikawa diary »
Publication date: 1977
In Japan the Heian period (A.D. 794 to 1185) was characterised by a great volume of published works of literature written by women - an event brought about by the coincidence of the development of a Japanese script at a time when women were enjoying a freedom unparalleled till the present and when the country was at peace. One of the most popular forms adopted was the nikki, a diary form which women turned into a masterful combination of poetry and prose. Sanuki no Suke Nikki tells of the life of the court attendant Lady Sanuki during the reign of the young Emperor Horikawa, who died at the early age of 29, and subsequently of her life for a brief period serving his son, who became Emperor at the age of four. It is a moving story of Lady Sanuki's devotion to the Emperor, her faithful attendance him during his last illness and the grief of the whole court after his death. It tells in retrospect of Lady Sanuki{u2019}s many happy hours at court with Emperor Horikawa and of court ceremonies and festivals. This is the first English translation of an important work which provides insight into the court life of the period.
Grass huts and warehouses: Pacific beach communities of the nineteenth century »
Publication date: 1977
Pacific beach communities have long been thought of by the romantics as tropical paradises away from the cares of the everyday world. But were they? From the examination of the political, economic, and social developments o f five small port towns - Honolulu, Papeete, Kororareka, Levuka, and Apia - the picture that emerges falls short of paradise. Jealousies, petty quarrels, political manoeuverings, followed the early settlers to their island havens. This book examines the shifts in community power, the development of trade and commerce, race relations, and daily life in the five towns before formal Western control was imposed. Written in the belief that the study of Pacific history is more informative when it moves beyond an individual island or island group, this book with its wide perspective reveals a pattern of remarkable similarity of development in the beach communities.
Fiji Hindi: a basic course and reference grammar »
Publication date: 1977
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'A world of its own': poems by J. McAuley, Paintings by P. Giles »
Publication date: 1977
A World of its Own is a sustained lyric, an enchanted and enchanting song that captures in words and colour the simplicity, the beauty, the aloneness of a little-known, unspoilt world. Poet and painter viewed this world with independent eyes, neither seeking to interpret for the other. In an unusual collaboration they have captured a subtlety of impression and recreated a wholeness of experience difficult for either to achieve alone. The poems have a rare visual quality about them and the paintings and sketches a lyrical eloquence as though each art was about to spill over into the other. In the last poem in this book McAuley writes: all things visible, Become a treasure hoarded in the heart Till brought forth by the artist{u2019}s hand, transformed, Into an image. A World of its Own is a treasure hoarded in the heart and transformed by its artist's hands.
Desert landforms »
Publication date: 1977
About one-third of the earth's land surface is desert. Yet, despite a large and varied literature, Desert Landforms is the first book arranged around landforms rather than geomorphic processes. A reeurrent theme is that desert landforms occur in assemblages that are profoundly influenced by geology and major relief. Accordingly, landforms are discussed within a number of fractional groupings in a downslope sequence of settings, ranging from desert upland to plain, an approach influenced by the author's experience in mapping such landform groupings in arid Australia. Professor Mabbutt draws on the world's deserts for his examples (with some bias towards Australia to remedy general neglect in the literature), illustrating them with an excellent and numerous collection of judiciously chosen plates. Desert Landforms is one volume in the series An Introduction to Systematic Geomorphology, designed for use at university level, which has found ready welcome also in schools and among the many people geologists and scientists included who find interest in the what and the why of natural scenery. The examples and discussions are wide-ranging and stimulating enough to encourage readers towards further sources and, above all, to attract them into the desert to see and enjoy for themselves.
Why poor people stay poor: a study of urban bias in world development »
Publication date: 1977
The great division in the world today, says Michael Lipton in this outstandingly important book, is not between capitalist and communist, black and white, east and west, or even between rich and poor nations. It exists within the poor countries themselves, and it is the division between city and country. In developing countries especially, wealth is drained from the country, where a little investment would produce big increases in desperately needed food production, and channelled into the cities where people who are often far better off put it to far less productive uses. As a result, while many of the poorest countries have considerably increased their output of wealth since 1945, the poorest people have grown no richer and have sometimes been thrust into even deeper poverty. We now pay lip-service to the need to develop agriculture, but Professor Lipton shows how biased the distribution of wealth still is. The income gap between city and country is much larger in the Third World today than it was in the early development in Europe and Japan. Moreover public policy - on investment, education and prices - pushes urban and rural incomes even further apart. Even when resources are made available to farmers, they all too often go to the big land- owners producing crops for the city dweller to eat, rather than to smaller farmers who, by allying intensive labour to even a small inflow of capital, could create a much higher increase in production. Why Poor People Stay Poor examines how this unhappy situation came about. Politicians, planners and experts are not {u2018}wicked{u2019}, but respond to pressures, which are strongest from their articulate, organised, concentrated urban neighbours. Ideologies - liberal, Marxist, populist - have also helped national leaders to convince themselves that such an inequitable process was right and necessary. In reality, in terms of efficiency as well as justice, it has had terrible consequences in hunger and thwarted development. Why Poor People Stay Poor analyses one of the great problems of the present-day world in an astute and original fashion, and it sets out guidelines for a future that could hold out hope to many millions of oppressed and impoverished people.
Federalism and fiscal balance: a comparative study »
Publication date: 1977
Few topics in the world of public finance arouse more heat than the financial arrangements between the central government and the states or provinces of countries with federal systems of government. In an attempt to shed some light on these sometimes complex arrangements, this book discusses financial relationships between central and state or provincial governments in four federal countries-Australia, Canada, the United States of America and West Germany. It covers the information on political organisation and constitutional requirements of each country, examination of relevant theories on fiscal federalism, and a survey of economic structure and developments in each country necessary to give the study a true perspective. Dr Hunter faces up to the problems currently confronting federal countries and gives careful consideration to the advantages of fiscal decentralisation and the need for improved methods of inter-governmental co-operation. In an Australian context he suggests several ways in which improvements could be made in the functioning of the federation within a framework of medium and long range economic planning. The problem of federal-state/provincial relationships admits of no easy answers; indeed, any answers will be open to challenge. Nonetheless this book will be essential reading for students of economics and government, in Australia and overseas, and for government officials and economists in many countries.
A handbook of Australian government and politics, 1965-1974 »
Publication date: 1977
The Handbook o f Australian Government and Politics 1965-1974 is a sequel to the volume published in 1968 which covered the years 1890 to 1964. That volume contains a wealth of gubernatorial, cabinet, and electoral data that have made it a basic research tool for Australian historians and political scientists. The present volume follows the format of the first - cabinet and portfolio lists, then voting information for each election between 1965 and 1974. A postscript brings the information up to the end of 1976 - as up to date as it can be, given the unpredictability of politics. Together or separately, these volumes are indispensable reference works.
The foreign trade of China: policy, law, and practice »
Publication date: 1977
Although trade with China is no longer regarded exclusively as a one-way street permitting Western mercantilism to exploit an infinite market, the subject has been largely ignored in the West since the establishment of the People's Republic. Hence the importance of this pioneering study. In his illuminating discussion of the objectives of Chinese foreign trade, Professor Hsiao explains its significance both in the development of the national economy and in a diplomatic context. He also discusses the organization of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade, the business and administrative operations of Chinese national foreign trade corporations, China{u2019}s concept of international trade agreements, her trade representation abroad, and the status of alien residents and property in China. In addition, he analyzes many relevant laws, cases, contractual arrangements, agencies and distributorships, and formal and informal methods of settling disputes, illustrating China's uniquely flexible approach to foreign commerce. A rare collection of Chinese trade documents and contracts is included. Since Japan is China's major trading partner, the author's command of both Chinese and Japanese sources is of particular value. Moreover, he is the first American scholar to have utilized extensive interviews with Japanese traders who have acquired extensive experience in dealing with China. Especially noteworthy is his detailed review of three recent crises in Sino-Japanese commercial relations. A native of Shanghai, an American-educated lawyer and political scientist, and a longtime student of Chinese history and culture, Professor Hsiao is uniquely qualified to write this book, which should interest students of international law, politics, economics, and contemporary Chinese society as well as being extremely helpful to businessmen contemplating trade with the People{u2019}s Republic of China.
The Loyalty Islands: a history of culture contacts, 1840-1900 »
Publication date: 1977
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Sydney in ferment: crime, dissent and official reaction, 1788 to 1973. »
Publication date: 1977
Crime fascinates many members of the public. They are eager to know what forms it takes, whether kinds of crime change, what measures are taken to combat it. Sydney in Ferment draws widely on primary sources, many previously unpublished. It focuses on trends in criminal behaviour, political dissidencc, collective violence and crime control polices in New South Wales from Phillip{u2019}s landing in 1788 to the early 1970s. It investigates variations in rates and types of crime and threats to public order and discusses changes in criminal law, the creation and development of police forces and trends in criminal procedure and penal form. Its conclusion on the relative weights to be given to the influence of short-term changes in policy on criminal justice and to fundamental social and economic factors will provoke spirited discussion. This book is a lively account both of crime itself and also of the changes in the moral attitudes of the officials and the public at large.
The Book of Luelen »
Publication date: 1977
Luelen Bernart, a member of a prominent Ponapean family, was highly regarded for his wealth of traditional knowledge. He wrote this version of his island's history for his relatives and children, but the style of the text reflects the education he received at the Protestant mission school at Ohwa (Oa). 'The Book of Luelen' is the fullest account of Ponape's history that has ever been written by a native of that island. Luelen Bernart gives a comprehensive account of Ponape from the time of its creation to the first European contact. Myths and legends interwoven with history and botanical lore provide a rich source of information about this island. Luelen Bernart died near the end of World War II, but the record that he leaves behind gives an insider's view of Ponapean history that will delight all those interested in the Pacific and its people.
The impact of Port Botany »
Publication date: 1976
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Sydney's environmental amenity, 1970-1975: a study of the system of waste management and pollution control »
Publication date: 1976
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