Nature in the Balance ecology guide for students
A Melbourne authored text on pollution and its control titled Nature in the Balance surveys natural cycles, human impact, and ecological remedies. It argues for environmental science, discusses DDT and soap harms, water purification, and policy implications, with notes on format, errors, and the need for a second edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Melbourne
Adelaide
Ceylon
Fogland
Thames
London
Masks of Hate A Fury Of Insights And Alarms
David Holbrook's Masks of Hate offers a piercing critique of flaws in people art and society. The text attacks envy in a competitive culture and analyzes psychoanalytic theories to explain human beginnings and creative culture. It praises parts two and three for originality while faulting Holbrook's polemic as hortatory and self righteously furious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vid Holbrook
Kate
Holbrook
Hack Holbrook
Rotary
Canberra
Jules Henry
Balint
Fairbairn
Guntrip
Melanie Klein
Winnicott
Owl
Yale
Aml
David
Jan Fleming
Goldfinger
Fleming
Thigh
Iris Murdoch
Sartre
Issus
Francis Bacon
Alan Kaprow
Harold Pinter
Joseph Losey
Blun
Dartington Hall
Goliath
The Incredible Brazilian and The Circle of Hands
Two book reviews praise Zulfikar Ghose's The Incredible Brazilian, a vivid seventeenth century Brazil tale of Gregorio, full of violence and adventure, and Thania Mererrein Cratlanec's The Circle of Hands, a light witty civic romance about James Parnell O Shana and Sarah Riecher as the wedding plans unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zulfihar Giase
Macrullan
Thaniae Mfc
Mererrein Cratlanec
Ghegoro Persoto da Silva Mavier
Brazil
Europe
Africa
Gregorio
Thomas McMenamin
James Parnell O'Shanahas
Sarah Riecher
James
Riecher
Philip Roth
Portnoy
MyMenamin
Minnie Riecher
A remnant of feudalism A island Sark review
Leonard Clark edits a portrait of Sark, an independent island within the British Commonwealth. The 1270 acre feudal enclave runs with Norman French law, tenements, and a female policy role, as a traveler’s guide and cultural sketch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sark
Leonard Clark
Dennis Dodgan
Dame Stby Hathaway
Experts in the air BIRDS IN FLIGHT
John Kaufmann notes how early aviation mimics bird flight and the long, costly path to mastery. He compares the Concorde’s design challenges to pre war experiments and references Bleriot’s Channel crossing as a historical baseline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kaufmann
Australia
Bleriot
English Channel
Om Frail
Europe
Books for Children OOKS Diverse Styles for Young Readers
A compact survey of children’s books across publishers with titles such as Robbie's Mob by Jo Rice Riverview Kids by Elizabeth Wilton Bread and Honey by Ivan Southall Down to Earth by Patricia Wrightson and more. The piece notes settings from Australian towns to old goldfields and includes commentary on themes of development, war, myth and flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robbie
Jo Rice
World's Work
Riverview
Elizabeth Wilton
Angus and Robertson
Puffin Books
Ivan Southall
Puffin
Patricia Wrightson
Small Martin
Outer Space
Earth
Woolloomooloo
Armada Lion
Alan Marshall
Reginald Oftley
Sandhills of Yamboorah
Yamboorah
Kaufman
Woden
Ibsen by Osborne at Oxford Press sparks debate over Hedda Gabler
A scholarly edition from Oxford University Press faces criticism as John Osborne reworks Hedda Gabler for Faber. The altered Hedda is described as harsh and provocative, drawing comparisons to modern stage sensibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford University Press
John Osborne
Hedda Gabler
Faber
Hedda Hedda
Thas Theen
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nature
H. F. Hartmann
N. Norman
A. Triffer
D. F. Weise
Heinemann Education
Hatf
David Holbrook
Percamion Press
Zulfikar Ghose
Brian Palfrey
Braet
Ghose
Vlashman
Errol Flynn
Don Quixote
Que
Tyo
Tive
Montgomery of
Alamein
Collins
Lord Montgomery
M. E. Crawford
Chief Pleas
Lark
Clark
W. F. Leeming
Times
Verity Hewitt
Queanbeyan
Crawford Street
By Hugh Elliot
Nan Chauncey
Oxford Canara Press
Mr Kaufmann
Ibsen
Osborne
Now
Canberra Pioneers
Beauty of
Paul Ormonde
the Movement
Don Whitington
Dalton’s Bookshop
Canberra City
Macquarie
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