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Beverly M. Angus

Title: Tick Fever & the Cattle Tick in Australia. 1829-1996

Publisher: Qld Department of Primary Industries

Date Published: March 1998

ISBN: 0-7242-6760-3

Summary

A technical scientific record of bovine tick fever and its tick vector. This is a vital reference source for research scientists and field veterinarians, parasitologists and cattlemen who are interested in integrated pest management of the disease complex and its "carrier", Boophilus microplus.

The book highlights the important international networking carried out between laboratories in Australia, USA and Southern Africa and the fact that as early as the 1890s Australian scientists were regarded as he source of authority on the knowledge and control of bovine tick fever. Australian pastoralists and scientists have developed high quality tropical beef and dairy hybrid breeds which has resulted in a valuable export industry of live cattle and semen straws to more than forty countries.

Venero Armanno

Title: Firehead

Publisher: Random House Australia

Date Published: 1999

ISBN: 0091839920 0091831326

Summary

And so begins this very Sicilian love story. When Gabriella, together with her parents and ageing grandfather - a man who carries the secrets of their Mediterranean island inside his slowly darkening mind - moves in next door to 14-year-old Sam, he knows that his life will never be the same again.

Set in and around New Farm, and against the social and political background of Brisbane between 1975 and 1995, Firehead is a story of love and the generations, of police corruption and a city's changing terrain, and of searching for one place in the world you can finally say is home.

Len Asprey & Michael Middleton

Title: Integrative document and content management

Publisher: Idea Group Publishing

Date Published: 2003

ISBN: 1-800-345-4332

Summary

This book combines theory and practice to provide strategies for exploiting enterprise knowledge. It gives extensive pointers to those who embark upon document management systems that embrace content management within a life cycle framework.

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Dr Tim Baker

Title: The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies, Creating Wealth from a New Employment Relationship

Publisher: Australian Academic Press

Date Published: July 2009

ISBN: 978-1-921513-20-6

Summary

The employment relationship as we know it is a relic of the last century. Globalisation and heightened competition are challenging organisations to be more responsive to fluctuations in market conditions and trends. The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies offers managers and professionals a new, research-based employment model that will alter the way employees and employers think about their working relationship, aligning the changing needs and interests of individuals and organisations to produce a sustainable, productive and profitable workplace.

Anna Bartlett

Title: A Penny in Time

Publisher: Interactive Publications

Date Published: February 2011

ISBN: 9781921479489

Summary

When Yared is left at his nanna's for a week he feels like running away. He wants to be in his own room, with his football cards and his batman doona, not in the spare room at his nanna's with its blue flowery bedspread and the bookshelf full of old-fashioned girls' adventure stories. He wants his own parents, not his brisk, stern nanna. But then Yared stumbles upon a box of old coins in his nanna's bedroom and things begin to change. Worlds open up before him and lives are linked across the decades as Yared discovers truths he never knew about history, love and belonging.

Hilary Beck

Title: Business Communication & Technologies

Publisher: Macmillan

Date Published: 2002

Summary

A text book for years 11 and 12 covering the business syllabus, Business Communication & Technologies (BCT).

Richard Blackburn

Title: The Regiment: die Kompanie (last in the trilogy with The Gatekeeper and Rudigor's Revenge)

Publisher: Zeus Publications

Date Published: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-921574-76-4

Title: The Guardian of the Gate (published as The Gatekeeper in Australia)

Publisher: Lachesis Publications, Ontario, Canada

Date Published: 2009

ISBN Pbk: 1-897370-81-4

ISBN Ebook: 1-908370-82-2

Title: Rudigor's Revenge (sequel to The Gatekeeper)

Publisher: Zeus Publications

Date Published: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-921406-52-2

Title: The Gatekeeper

Publisher: Zeus Publications

Date Published: 2006

ISBN: 1921118547

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Fiona Kumari Campbell

Title: Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Abledness

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Date Published: Nov 2009

ISBN: 978-0230579286

Summary

This book presenting a cartographic journey into the world of the production of disability, and examines embodiment, transhumanism, subjectivity, technology and jurisprudence.

It concerns matters of order and disorder and the normal and pathological. It also explores the way stories about wholeness, health, enhancement and perfection are told.

Contents

• Foreword by Professor Dan Goodley
• Part I:
  • Cogitating Ableism
  • The Project of Ableism
  • Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within
  • Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents
  • Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies
• Part II:
  • Spectres of Ableism
  • The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant
  • Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam
  • Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching & Standpoint
  • Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence & Ontological Envelopment
  • Disability Harm & Wrongful Life Torts
  • Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism
  • Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism?

Scott Charlton

Title:  Your Professional Headspace

Publisher:  Vivid Publishing

Date Published:  July 2011

ISBN:  978192178553

Summary

A practical guide to assist professionals achieve career success and personal fulfillment.

Kim Kwang Raymond Choo

Title: Secure Key Establishment

Publisher: Springer

Date Published: December 2008

ISBN: 978-0-387-87968-0

Summary

Research on secure key establishment has become very active within the last few years. Secure Key Establishment discusses the problems encountered in this field. It also introduces several improved protocols with new proofs of security.

Secure Key Establishment identifies several variants of the key sharing requirement. Several variants of the widely accepted Bellare and Rogaway (1993) model are covered. A comparative study of the relative strengths of security notions between these variants of the Bellare-Rogaway model and the Canetti-Krawczyk model is included. An integrative framework is proposed that allows protocols to be analyzed in a modified version of the Bellare-Rogaway model using the automated model checker tool.

Written for:

• advanced-level students in computer science and mathematics, as a secondary text or reference
• practitioners and researchers working for defense agencies or security companies.

Title: Future directions in technology-enabled crime: 2007-09

Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology

Date Published: 2007

ISBN: 978 1 921185 44 1

Summary

The aim of this report was to identify the crime risks which would arise over the next two years (2007-09) out of the environment in which Australians use information and communications technologies.

In identifying future risk areas, it places particular focus on:

• the impact these risks will have for law enforcement
• the need for additional resources and law reform
• the need for development of cooperative arrangements between Australian and overseas public and private sector organisations
• the development of public information and educational resources to minimise the risk of widespread harm to the community.

The report begins by identifying developments that will take place over the next two years that will be likely to facilitate technology-enabled crime. These include:

• changes arising from globalisation of business
• the emergence of new economies in China and India
• developments in digitisation of information, especially relating to the widespread use of broadband services and mobile and wireless technologies
• the evolution of electronic payment systems, especially those being used in connection with online gambling and auctions
• changes in the use governments make of technology to allow members of the public to conduct transactions with government agencies securely and even to allow participation in democracy online.

These, and other developments, create not only benefits for the community, but also risks. This report identifies the most likely areas in which opportunities for illegality may arise including:

• fraud
• identity-related crime
• computer vandalism
• theft of information
• dissemination of objectionable material online
• risks of organised crime and terrorism.

The implications for these developments are then assessed in terms of their impact for policing, policy making and legislation.

Title: Resource materials on technology-enabled crime

Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology

Date Published: 2008

ISBN: 978 1 921185 70 0

Summary

In December 2005, the Australian Institute of Criminology was commissioned by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre to conduct research into key criminal justice issues concerning technology-enabled crime in the context of an evolving international and domestic legal and law enforcement framework.

As part of this research, the present resource materials were prepared to provide a general overview on cybercrime to assist prosecutors and members of the judiciary faced with proceedings involving computer related offences.

While work on computer related crime is ongoing and is a relatively new field, this compendium aims to present prosecutors with

• common terms and concepts
• relevant legislation
• current debates in the academic literature.

In the short term, computer forensic processes and practice will continue to evolve, driven by new technologies and software and the intent (nationally and internationally) to standardise evidentiary processes and the science behind practice. Such dynamism will continue to generate challenges for practitioners and the judiciary, and compound the risk that research results will become rapidly outdated.

The work presented in this report, however, provides a useful summary that offers a solid basis on which to build greater understanding of e-crime cases and prosecutions that will serve to strengthen future work and policy debate in this field.

Title: Online child grooming: a literature review on the misuse of social networking sites for grooming

Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology

Date Published: July 2009

ISBN: 978 1 921532 33 7

Summary

Online technologies, particularly social networking sites, have been facilitating the grooming of children for sexual purposes. This report describes the nature and extent of how new technologies are being exploited by offenders and the legislative and non-legislative responses being used to combat this growing problem.

Read the publication 'Online child grooming: a literature review on the misuse of social networking sites for grooming children for sexual offences'

Ian Commins

Title: Fiveways

Publisher: University Queensland Press

Date Published: August 2008

ISBN: 9780702236761

Summary

The novel Fiveways by Brisbane author Ian Commins was launched at the Qld State Library as part of the announcement of the Qld Premier's 2009 Literary Awards short listing. When Ian is not writing books he is special counsel for HerbertGeer Lawyers. He previously completed his Masters of Law with QUT.

Fiveways is Ian Commins' first novel and tells the story of five very different people who catch the same bus. They all share the same bus route but are on very different journeys. James is a teenage junkie on the run, riding buses for kicks; Pauline is a Greek widow and a slave to her nine-to-five life; William is a spoilt-rich-kid banker who would rather be driving his silver Audi; Pieter is an immigrant cellist who escaped his past, but tragedy still haunts him; and Anna is on the verge of leaving her accountant husband. Thrust together on a crowded city bus, week after week, the lives of five strangers unfold unexpectedly over the course of this compelling novel.

Dell Craig

Title: A Confounded Nuisance

Publisher: Eloquent Books

Date Published: January, 2009

ISBN: 978-1-60860-977-2

Summary

Post-War Australia is viewed through a child's eyes. A touching and often humourous autobiography, A Confounded Nuisance sets a charming coming-of-age tale into a unique moment of history. The insights it offers are both personal and profound.

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Zita Denholm (nee White)

Title: T.Y.S.O.N.

Publisher: Triple D Books

Date Published: 2002

ISBN: 0 9578681 2 X

Summary

The Life and Times of James Tyson, Pastoral Pioneer, 1819-1898. James Tyson was Australia's first native-born millionaire, preceding Kidman by half a life-time. He held extensive runs, some leased and some freehold, from Tully and Boulia via Cunnamulla and the Darling Downs to Heyfield in Gippsland. The death duties on his estate were a significant item in the Queensland budget in the first decade of the twentieth century.

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Dr Marcus Foth

Title: Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City

Publisher: IGI Global

Date Published: 2008

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David Gillespie

Title: Sweet Poison: why sugar makes us fat

Publisher: Viking

Date Published: 2008

ISBN: 9780670072477

Sweet Poison: why sugar makes us fat

Gloria Grant

Title: Reflections on New Farm

Publisher: New Farm and Districts Historical Society Inc.

Date Published: 2008

ISBN: 978-0-9805868-0-0

Summary

Gloria, herself 'New Farm born', suspects that almost every second person in Brisbane has a New Farm connection or knows someone who does. This hypothesis appears to be borne out by the fact that Reflections on New Farm sold more than 2,000 copies in less than 12 months, is into its first reprint and is usually the No. 1 seller at New Farm's local bookshop. In short, it's testament to a well-produced local history book that has caught the imagination of the many who claim an affectionate connection with one of Brisbane's oldest suburbs.

Reflections on New Farm

Title: Tom Hurstbourne or A Squatter's Life

Written by: John Clavering Wood, edited by Gloria Grant and Gerard Benjamin

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Date Published: 2010

ISBN: 9781921555404

Summary

Five years after arriving in the infant colony of Queensland from Shropshire, 27 year old John Clavering Wood wrote a novel about the new frontier. The notebook in which he wrote his story comprised 600 handwritten pages and, on the title page, bore the date 30 January 1865. Although another novel had been written in Queensland some three years previously, it had been published in London.

Tom Hurstbourne, Queensland's second novel, has never previously been published. It is well written, descriptive of Queensland life in the 1860s and an adventure story to boot. Gloria Grant and Gerard Benjamin transcribed the manuscript and wrote its introduction and contextual notes.

Tom Hurstbourne or A Squatter's Life

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Graham Kenny

Title: Diversification Blueprint

Publisher: President Press

Date Published: 2008

Summary

Details the seven features of successful diversified organisations.

Title: Sure-Fire Steps to Small Business Success

Publisher: President Press

Date Published: 2007

ISBN: 9780980384406

Summary

Sure-Fire Steps approaches the task of finding that special position which a small business must occupy to be successful in a very special way. First, it unravels the mystery of 'business strategy' - a topic most small business managers find daunting. It then addresses the question: Why is strategy overlooked by most small businesses?

The book illustrates that success depends on method - and here's where the book really shines, providing a series of steps. The book is a unique one for small business, combining sound theory with clear method, linking ideas to precise steps and illustrating how to apply all of this via 'Bill's Journey'.

Title: Strategic Factors: Develop and Measure Winning Strategy

Publisher: President Press

Date Published: 2001

ISBN: 0646407171

Summary

The book shows how strategic factors lie at the heart of organisational success - in both private and public sectors, profit and non-profit, manufacturing and service. They apply to organisations as a whole and to business units. The book demonstrates via numerous examples from the full range of industries how the identification of key stakeholders is the essential starting point to developing winning strategy and effective performance measures. It establishes that strategic factors dwell in an organisation's or business unit's relationship with its key stakeholders and shows how a clear understanding of them puts an organisation ahead of its competitors. Strategic Factors brings together, as never before, strategic analysis, strategy formulation and performance measurement and thus provides an innovative approach to the subject of strategy.

Maree Kimberley

Title: Curse of Fire

Publisher: Macmillan Education

Date Published: March 2005

ISBN: 0-7329-9936-7

Summary

Curse of Fire tells the story of eleven-year-old Ralph, who receives a mysterious package while on holidays at his Nonna's. With the help of the unusual gift contained in the package, Ralph saves his Nonna from a house fire and breaks an old family curse.

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Russell John Linwood

Title: Shoot to Win - The First Ten Years

Publisher: Australian Army Rifle Association

Date Published: May 1992

Summary

A concise and illustrated history of military weapon shooting competitions in Australia, and involving Australian Defence Forces in international shooting competitions around the world. During this era Australia achieved world dominance in the field, and the book includes details of the preparation for competitions, the people, the results and the developments that resulted from this period.

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Mary-Rose MacColl

Title: Killing Superman

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Date Published: 2003

ISBN: 1865089982

Summary

Now in his 30s, Scott Goodwin has spent half his life chasing a shadow superman, believing his apparently dead father is alive somewhere. He meets journalist Emily Duval who might help him, but she has shadows of her own. When Scott sees his father on a beach in France, he must confront the truth.

Jill McDougall

Title: Anna the Goanna

Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press

Date Published: 2000

ISBN: 0-85573-344-7

Summary

An anthology of poems reflecting and celebrating the lives of contemporary Aboriginal children in remote areas of Australia. Anna the Goanna is a lively teaching resource in classrooms with indigenous students and is also useful for supporting Aboriginal Education programs. The book is in hardback with wonderful watercolour illustrations.

Michael Middleton

Title: Information management: a consolidation of operations, analysis and strategy

Publisher: Charles Sturt University Centre for Information Studies

Date Published: 2002

ISBN: 1 876938 36 6

Summary

A technical book aimed at students and practicing professionals that provides an overview of different aspects of information management in three domains:

• operational (for example, information organisation
• analytical (for example, information system evaluation)
• administrative (for example, policy and planning).

Aliisa Mylonas

Title: Nelson Business Education

Publisher: Thomson Nelson

Date Published: 2006

Title: Business Communication & Technologies in a changing world (2nd edition)

Publisher: Macmillan Education Australia

Date Published: 2002

ISBN: 0 7329 8071 2

Summary

A textbook written in response to the QSA Senior Syllabus, Business Communication and Technologies. Also an excellent resource for preservice teachers training in the field of Business Education.

Title: Business Organisation and Management for Queensland

Publisher: VCTA Publishing (an imprint of Macmillan Education Australia)

Date Published: 2007

ISBN: 978 1 4202 1185 6

Summary

A textbook written for senior students and teachers in response to the QSA Business Organisation and Management Syllabus. Also an excellent resource for preservice teachers training in the field of Business Education.

Title: Nelson Business Education Homework & In-class Activity Book

Publisher: Thomson Nelson

Date Published: 2007

ISBN: 10 0170129721

Summary

An activity book to accompany the textbook, Nelson Business Education, for students studying programs from the Queensland Business Education Syllabus (Levels 4, 5 and 6).

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Nerida Newton

Title: The lambing flat

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Date Published: 2003

ISBN: 0702233862

Summary

Tells the parallel stories of a Chinese gold-digger and a station-owner's daughter. Set in the heady gold rush days of mid-nineteenth century Australia, this story encompasses the struggle of Chinese immigrants and white settlers to establish themselves and survive in an inhospitable environment.

Sharon L. Norris

Title: The Balloonatic!

Publisher: Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd

Date Published: May 2005

ISBN 0 7329 9935 9

Summary

What do you call someone who's crazy about hot air balloons? Why, a Balloonatic, of course. Ten-year-old Matthew "Monty" Andrews is a balloonatic who receives a flight in a hot air balloon as a gift for his birthday. The flight of Monty's life turns into a fight for his life when the balloon's pilot collapses. The ground crew can't quite believe their ears when their radio crackles to life: "Mr Hewston, we have a problem..." (For upper primary readers)

Title: Finders Keepers

Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing

Date Published: 17 May 2005

ISBN 1 920972 09 9

Summary

What would you do if you found a dinosaur egg? Would you donate it to a museum, sell it for lots of money, or claim "finders keepers" and keep it for your very own, seeing as you found it? This is the dilemma facing young Nathan and Ashley, who find a dinosaur egg buried in the sand dunes at their local beach. When their discovery becomes public, thanks to their unscrupulous uncle who wants to sell it for big money, it seems as though everyone wants their dinosaur egg... (For upper primary readers)

Title: The Blink Off

Publisher: Learning Media Limited (NZ)

Date Published: 2006

ISBN: 10:0 79031726 5

Summary

How long can you stare at someone without blinking? This is the blink-off game that children play all around the world. When Jon becomes too big for his boots in this game, beating all comers, his sister presents him with a challenger he simply cannot beat.

Title: The Crock Shock

Publisher: Aussie School Books Pty Ltd

Date Published: February 2008

ISBN: 9781921255205

Summary

Jack loves wildlife. When his class has Show and Crow Day, he can't wait to introduce Crook, the baby crocodile, to everyone. But is the school ready to meet Crook? How much trouble can one small crocodile cause?

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Noel Preston

Title: Beyond The Boundary: a memoir exploring ethics, politics & spirituality

Publisher: Zeus Publications

Date Published: 2006

Summary

This tapestry of personal story and social analysis is a candid self-disclosure of a quest for ethical clarity and creative political alternatives integrated with a credible spirituality forged amid recurring personal crises involving divorce, cancer and depression.

Noel Preston is an ethicist who has pursued a varied career in the roles of academic, minister of religion, social justice advocate, media commentator and political adviser. He writes from a vantage of challenging social boundaries of Queensland society through the sixties, the controversial Bjelke-Peterson years and the aftermath of the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

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Rhonda Rasmussen

Title: Business Communication and Technologies 2nd Edition

Publisher: Macmillan Education Australia

Date Published: 2002

ISBN: 0 7329 8071 2

Summary

A textbook written in response to the QSA Senior Syllabus, Business Communication and Technologies. Also an excellent resource for preservice teachers training in the field of Business Education.

Glenn Rossiter

Title: New Century Senior Physics

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date Published: 1999

ISBN: 0195510844

Summary

Physics theory textbook for Senior Physics students in Australian secondary schools. Covers all aspects of the QSA Syllabus in Senior Physics. Focuses on the knowledge, scientific processes and complex reasoning skills of the current syllabus and provides an excellent basis for the development of secondary school work programs in this subject.

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Keiko Sannomaru

Title: Problem Solution by Negotiator from the age of 10 to adult

Publisher: Gentosha Renaissance

Date Published: November 11, 2011

ISBN: 978-4-7790-0646-3 c0095

Summary

Fundamental negotiation knowledge and skill training book.

• What is negotiation?
• Why are negotiation skills essential?
• Encouragement to start talking
• Tips for success
• Six case studies
  
• Message to grown-ups

The object of this book is to teach unarmed conflict using negotiation skills from childhood. The six case studies will be a great help fro children. (written in Japanese)

Rebecca Sparrow

Title: The girl most likely

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Date Published: 2003

ISBN: 0702233455

Summary

At seventeen, Rachel Hill was the girl most likely to succeed. At twenty-seven, one rash decision changes everything. As she confronts her idea of perfection, she finds that happiness is living the life you want to live, rather than the one you are expected to.

D. Bruno Starrs

Title: Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer

Publisher: VDM Verlag, Germany

Date Published: October 2009

ISBN: 978-3-639-16834-1

"Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer" is an auteur analysis of the twelve feature films directed (and mostly written and produced) by Dutch-born Australian director, Rolf de Heer.

De Heer has consistently proven himself unpredictable: from his debut feature film, Tail of a Tiger (1984), to his breakout cult sensation, Bad Boy Bubby (1993), which 'tore Venice Film Festival apart', to the first Aboriginal Australian language film Ten Canoes (2006), which scooped the pool at the Australian Film Institute awards.

This analysis of his films, however, suggests that Australia's most innovative film-maker has a signature pre-occupation with giving a voice to marginalized, non-hyper-masculine protagonists. Demonstrating a propensity to write and direct in a European-like style, his 'Dutch tilt' is very much not Hollywood, but is nevertheless representative of a typically Australian world-view.

Contents

• Chapter 1. Why Rolf de Heer?
• Chapter 2. "Tail of a Tiger" (1984) - De Heer's first feature film
• Chapter 3. "Incident at Raven's Gate" (1988): Unseen monsters
• Chapter 4. "Dingo" (1991): Film as jazz performance
• Chapter 5. "Bad Boy Bubby" (1993): 32 visions of suburban horror
• Chapter 6. "Epsilon" (1995): An overwrought eco-warning
• Chapter 7. "The Quiet Room" (1996): Identifying with the inner child
• Chapter 8. "Dance Me To My Song" (1997): De Heer denies auteur status
• Chapter 9. "The Old Man Who Read Love Stories" (2003): An avowal of male lack
• Chapter 10. "The Tracker" (2002): A Western that wasn't
• Chapter 11. "Alexandra's Project" (2003): Another maternal monster
• Chapter 12. "Ten Canoes" (2006): Authenticating Aboriginal Australian voices
• Chapter 13. "Dr. Plonk" (2007): An eco-warning about television
• Chapter 14. Conclusion: A Dutch tilt with an Aussie inflection
• Notes

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Glenn S. Thomas with a contribution by Michael A. Ryan

Title: Landscape Construction Notes

Publisher: RAIA Practice Services, Melbourne.

Date Published: 1999

ISBN: 0-909825-35-1

Summary

An Australian practice based text dealing with a broad range of construction theory, materials and applications used in constructed landscapes.

Topics include:

• constuctions graphics
• foundation soils
• drainage systems
• concrete
• masonry
• timber
• metalwork
• applied finishes
• glass
• sealants
• adhesives
• membranes
• construction for planting
• pavements
• steps and ramps
• retaining structures
• pools and fountains
• dams
• wiers and lakes
• lighting
• principles of structures.