Australian category: 153 books
The Rise of the Great Southern Land
The Republic of Australia 2023
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
I have a vision for Australia and it’s a new story, about a new chapter for our great nation but its more than a dream, it foretells our destiny. ‘The Rise of the Great Southern Land” is my second book and interweaves a mix of stories into a series of chapters to provide a 5-year blueprint for...
The Other Hybrid Archipelago
Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of...
Writing Never Arrives Naked
Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Playing on both minds and emotions, this academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the colonists’ paper culture.
by Ian Wedde
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical ideas with zest, energy, wit, and humor. A unique volume featuring remembered and misremembered song lyrics from John Lennon, Lou Reed, Johnny Cash,...
by Bruce Biggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Compiled by a renowned linguist and expert in New Zealand's Maori language, this dictionary was designed as a comprehensive finder list. Incorporating words from leading dictionaries from the colonial periods as well as contemporary Maori words, this handy introduction to the language includes more...
Colloquial Malay
The Complete Course for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Colloquial Malay: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Malay as it is written and spoken today.
Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language,...
Elementary Tagalog
Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo! Come On, Let's Speak Tagalog! (MP3 Audio CD Included)
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Elementary Tagalog is the leading beginner Tagalog textbook and Tagalog language learning package.
Elementary Tagalog's comprehensive approach will help students master Tagalog, the language of the Philippines—also known as Filipino or Pilipino. From learning to read Tagalog words and pronounce...
Finding Eliza
Power and Colonial Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt...
The Settler's Plot
How Stories Take Place in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A study of the relationship between writing, place, and the history of the Pakeha/European settlement in New Zealand, this book explores the most frequently chosen settings in classic New Zealand literature—the beach, the farm, the bush, and the suburb—and reflects on the plots and storylines...
by Pinhok Languages
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2017
Tagalog vocabulary book + Tagalog dictionary
This Tagalog vocabulary book contains more than 3000 words and phrases which are grouped by topic to make it easier for you to pick what to learn first. On top of that, the index in the second half of the book provides you with a basic Tagalog-English as...
by John Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Fluo!‘s Maori Pocket Dictionary, authoritative and comprehensive, is a bi-directional (English-Maori & Maori-English) Dictionary, with a wide selection of thousands of lemmas and definitions. An indispensable reference for any student of Maori or English, as well as professionals and translators.
Pocket Tagalog Dictionary
Tagalog-English English-Tagalog
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
It's never a good idea to be overly–relient on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great little Tagalog dictionary.
Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to The Philippines Pocket Tagalog Dictionary is an essential tool for...
by Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2001
This new volume of the Language Family Series presents an overview of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages, spread across a region embracing eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. It provides sufficient phonological and grammatical data to give typologists and comparativists a good idea of the nature of these languag
Finding Meaning
Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Winner of the Native American Literature Symposium's Beatrice Medicine Award for Published Monograph
In this first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Brandy Nalani McDougall examines a vibrant selection of fiction, poetry, and drama by emerging and established Hawaiian authors,...