Australia Books

I read Little Miss Trouble as a child and I enjoyed it. This book is excellent for all those childern who like to cause trouble

I read this book as a child, and here I am years later with a copy my sister recently purchased - and still remember the characters. An excellent way to teach children right from wrong - as well as helping them understand why people act the way they do. I recommend this book and all of the other "Little Miss" and "Mr." books. They are all wonderful!

I loved this book. I am an eight year old and still love this book. This book is about a little girl who always gets into trouble. She does things and then blames them on someone else. People that are ennocent are getting into trouble. Read the book to find out more!

I came across this book almost by accident and I was surprised by how easy to read and useful it is.
The prices and costs may not be up to date but these can be determined by surfing the net. Well worth the price and the effort.
Like I said, a must - read for anyone headed to Australia for over 3 weeks.

Bear in mind however that this version has not been updated for a few years.

I truly enjoyed reading this book as I was able to learn the most essential aspects of living and working in Australia. This book features great advice on how to prepare yourself for the big move "Down Under", and what to expect from this new country. It also gives you a reality check on life in Australia as a new immigrant with all the challenges one must face. I really enjoyed the detailed list of "Aussie Real Estate Jargon" as I will need to refer to it when I will be looking for an apartment in Sydney. There are so many useful and practical information and advice in this book such as tips on how to find a job. This book has given me the confidence to move to Sydney as I feel prepareed and armed with the right information needed to make a good start Down Under. I have also read others books on "Living and Working in Australia", and this book is the best so far as it has the highest quality of content compared to the other ones.

I truly enjoyed reading this book as I was able to learn the most essential aspects of living and working in Australia. This book features great advice on how to prepare yourself for the big move "Down Under", and what to expect from this new country. It also gives you a reality check on life in Australia as a new immigrant with all the challenges one must face. I really enjoyed the detailed list of "Aussie Real Estate Jargon" as I will need to refer to it when I will be looking for an apartment in Sydney. There are so many useful and practical information and advice in this book such as tips on how to find a job. This book has given me the confidence to move to Sydney as I feel prepareed and armed with the right information needed to make a good start Down Under. I have also read others books on "Living and Working in Australia", and this book is the best so far as it has the highest quality of content compared to the other ones.

I am a therapist and have recently recommended this book to numerous patients. One older client had had anxiety for 50 years, and has now reduced her medication to virtually zero and keeps the book around in case she needs to refer to it. All my clients who have anxiety or Panic attacks have found it really helpful.

I do not have PD but I do suffer panick attacks...and only panick attack sufferers can understand how 'IT' feels like. This is a MUST BUY!!!...my school lent this book to me...and after reading it...I had to own one.

This book is very easy(light, relaxing)to read, it uses humour to help you understand your situation...eg: it compares the anxiety to a monster called 'IT'..... with a good uses of humour and simple cartoons...I understood my situation...when I was reading it...it felt as if the book was a mirror...i felt understood and felt like I was part of the book because 'the book understood me so much'...have you ever wished that your loved ones can read your mind?...th book does that... after reading the book...I had to get one for myself to keep...but I went to many book stores and they were all sold out...and i had to wait 2 weeks...which i couldn't...so i had to try getting it from the net(i never shopped from the net before) this book provides understanding, a lot of help, a break from stress(humour) and is just wonderful ^_^

you may feel that you are surely alone...but I can assure that you are definately not alone

Anyone living with anxiety/panic attacks knows how terrifying life can become. I have read many books on panic and to tell you the truth some of them have scared me so much, I've almost had a panic attack! This book is very easy to read and it's fun, the cartoon characters are fantastic. Bev Aisbett definitely knows what she is talking about, she's been there. This book gives you an understanding of panic and steps to be free from "IT", quite frankly it covers everything. The authors lighthearted approach to something that is very serious is soothing to the reader. I would recommend this book to anyone who suffers with panic and wants to reclaim their life, it would be the first step towards recovery.

This travel book on Samoa is full of information to help one maximize a trip to Somoa. It has some great descriptions of Samoan history and places of interest. I am worried though. I am worried that if ever go to Samoa I will not know how to properly act. The author of this travelogue time and time again warns the reader about Samoan cultural mores which should be followed. But I am afraid I will forget some of them and be a shameful traveler.

This book is PACKED with information! It is also a really great size (smallish) to tuck in my travel bag and take along to be sure not to miss anything on my first trip to Samoa. :o)

This book has everything you need to know when travelling to Samoa. Nothing is missed and you should be able to plan a long or short stay in Samoa. Everything is as described in the book and nothing is really out of date. The only problem is that some of the maps lack detail to be useful, however quality maps are available in Apia.

i bought this book a while ago and sat on my bookshelf, somehow i sort of forgot about it and what the subject was actually i even forgot i had it until one day i just picked it up and started reading it.

Bought it whilst i was still living in Oz. Read it last week, after residing in Portugal for over 1 year... and i am so glad i waited.

It made me miss australia, all the familiar names and tv shows and journalists and lingo...

The book is fabulous, recomend it no worries but i wont bore you with details, they are available just up in the editors area.

Just buy it and read it!

I picked up this book at Stansted Airport and was already absorbed by the time I got to the check-in desk. Riveting account of a reporter in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The author was actually in Kabul on September 11th, 2001. It was very refreshing and fascinating to learn the fears and thoughts of a war reporter on the politics leading to the 'Crusade' against 'evil-doers' and the way the press can and will manipulate images to increase ratings. Also very honest and even touching portrait of people who are so often ignored or misunderstood. The author also manages to reveal a fantastic sense of humour in the face of adversity.
Some of his accounts related to his girlfriend sounded oddly familiar, until I realised I had read her book ("Holy Cow") months ago, which deals with her adventures and quest for the meaning of life after moving to India to join him!

The Book Description on this page is wrong. Here is the correct one taken from Amazon.co.uk:

Synopsis
Jonathan Harley knew that becoming the ABC's man in South Asia at the age of only twenty-eight was a dream job. But he'd just fallen in love and wasn't so sure he really wanted it. It took a weekend of soul searching to realise that this would be the experience of a lifetime. From covering India's endearingly over-the-top response to the death of cricketing legend Don Bradman to being the only Australian journalist in Afghanistan on September 11 2001, Lost in Transmission is Harley's exciting, often moving, funny and disarmingly honest account of the three years he spent, lurching from one hair-raising misadventure to the next, reporting from one of the most exotic and, as events unfurled, alarming corners of the planet. Shifting effortlessly between the serious, the sublime and the ridiculous, this is the story of a stranger at something of a loss in an even stranger land - a young man struggling to comprehend and comment on life in a part of the world that never quite makes sense...

Part travelogue (with a touch of humor), part current affairs, "Lost in Transmission" has the perfect combination of intense vs. not-so-intense moments. It is enlightening about the roles of India and Pakistan in the escalation to the "War on Terror" and these countries' interaction with the Taliban. It is also, in parts, a travelogue about south Asian countries and what it is like be a reporter in remote locations. You have to be careful about reading the book in public places, however, because there are portions where the author will have you laughing out loud at the ridiculous situations and cirumstances in which he finds himself. I hope Harley writes more books because it will be a waste of a great talent if he does not.

"The Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream In Australia's Desert", by Robert Tonkinson. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Fl., 2nd edition, 1991 ISBN: 0-03-032282-0. SC 204/182 pgs. Ref. cited 12 pgs. Glossary 2 pgs., Index 6 pgs. 9 ¼" x 6 3/8". Included are c. 20 excellent B & W photographs & a half-dozen or so maps and drawings.

This book, written as a case study in cultural anthropology (with George & Louise Spindler, Standford University as general editors), is a purely scholarly article with reading that becomes dense as it explores the Mardu ("mardu = peoples"), Aborigines of the Western Desert who comprise a linguistic group in the area of Lake Disappointment, i.e. the western side of the Gibson Desert, studied by the author in the 1960's.

The book has 7 chapters that cover their origin, spiritual imperative (The Dreaming), Ecology, social imperative (kinship), life cycle-totemism, birth & initiation rites, ageing, marriage, death, the religious life, living "The Dream", and Europeans and the Mardu response (1900-1990). Tonkinson provides a good description of Mardu behaviorisms and a critical examination of their philosophical outlooks upon their social interactions, members of the group, strangers, the affected (handicapped), nudity, sex, virtual absence of perversions, and fascinating description of "yurndiri"and "wirla ngarnda", as termed by the author "aggressive sulking".

These Stone Age peoples, muscular and proud, of a discrete racial group, found themselves rather abruptly confronted by masses of European immigrants, the Australians, whose novel, crude but energetic pioneering spirits were clearly contrary to the Mardu's societal structures, mores, and religious tenants, -- they seemed to offer little hope for survival. As in many contemporary societies worldwide, ruinous inconveniences as alcohol, TV, cell phones and the like continue to wreak havoc to this now fragile social group. Some headway was been made under the "Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act of 1976 and the Aboriginal Lands Trust of 1972 (Western Australia) but this is regarded by some as too little and too late.

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One of the most comprehensive and descriptive treatises on a complex hunter and gatherer society, which until recently was still pursuing a traditional lifestyle, largely unaffected by European influences. Although scholarly in intent, this work is eminently readable as it takes one deeply into the world of an ancient culture, and most particularly into the fascinating religious life of the Mardu Aborigines of Australia's Western Desert, one of the world's very last frontiers. A truly exquisite ethnography, a must read for those interested in human ingenuity in surviving and thriving in one of the world's most difficult environments. I highly recommend this extraordinary account, for its empathy and deep appreciation of the human condition.

I used the book for an tourism Assignment. I must say it supplied sufficient information form me and it was a choice book to read. Thanks very much it was choice.

`This volume is a welcome addition to the study of architecture from archaeological perspective ... this body of data from the rural city of Armidale will provide useful comparative material for similar studies undertaken in other former British colonies, for example, in the United States and South Africa. '

Historical Archaeology, 35:2 (2001)

`Heather Burke has produced a very important, perhaps landmark study using archaeological evidence to interpret and understand the evolving boundaries of class and status in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I recommend this book to all historical archaeologists interested in issues of class structure, ideology, material culture or reading building fabric.'

Australasian Historical Archaeology, 18 (2000)

`The study of capitalism challenges archaeologists and thus it is impressive when a scholar succesfully rises to this challenge. Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology meets this challenge and should be read by any scholar interested in understanding capitalism.'

American Antiquity, 66:1 (2001)

I am an elementary teacher and I use these books in my class to supplement our Character Ed program (which isn't the greatest). My students love the Little Miss and Mr. Men books. I have to keep them behind my desk and let them "check them out" like library books or they fight over them. The are excellent to use in a pinch if you have a book that pertains to a problem that has developed in class (especially rudeness or bossiness). It is easy to read the book and have a quick class chat about what is going on. I highly recommend all of the books for anyone who teaches, home schools, or children in general. They are a great asset.

We can ALL relate to this installment in the Mr. Men series. A man who talks too much, all the time, and about nothing in particular. However in this story a solution is found via the magic of a magic hat!
After chatting to the hat maker all day long the hat maker orders a magic hat!
This hat grows ever time Mr. Chatterbox chatters aimlessly about nothing much in particular. When the hat finally reaches the ground Mr. Chatter box is quite perplexed. After some silence on his part the hat shrinks back to its normal size. After a few of these hat incidents Mr. Chatterbox finally learns his lesson! And everyone lives happily ever after.

The Mr. Men series is really wonderful for kids 5-8 years old. Each book tells a simple story with an important (yet easy-to-understand) moral. The illustrations are very bright, colorful, and humorous. Adults enjoy reading it along with their kids.

Mr. Chatterbox teaches the reader about modesty and the importance of listening. As his name suggests, he talks too much! His friends find a clever way to keep him quiet and make him a better listener. Could this apply to me as well as to my child?

I first came into contact with Mr Greedy when I was seven, and I haven't looked back. He's truly changed my life. I wanted to be Mr Greedy, but they wouldn't let me. Instead, I purchased the entire collection of Mr Men books from my local bookshop, and gave them to my sister for Christmas.

Sorry for the randomness of this review, but I'm insane.

Mr Greedy tells the sad tale of a man who can't stop eating. Try as he might, he wants to eat everything in sight. Will Mr Greedy be able to cut back on his eating? Or will his greediness be the end of Mr Greedy? Read it and see!

Mr Greedy, along with Mr. Strong, is undoubtedly the top title in these books by Roger Hargreaves. As Sir Jonathan Hawkins MBE OBE Phd MP Esq. so eliquently put it "Roger Hargreaves is the ultimate children's writer and is a real aid to the little children that I so dearly love", and so the same can be said for all of us! In fact, as he is also a lecturer in child studies at Cambridge University, one of his students (who also happens to be his son, Jonathan Hawkins Jnr.) said that this set of books could be seen as a metaphor for the unpredictable upbringing of many children in our topsy-turvy society. The Mr. Men titles are a must read for all children, make sure that Mr. Greedy is part of your collection!! Mr. Greedy is about one particular character who cannot stop his eating habits, his friends try in various amusing ways to help their buddy out!

Great story. The kids absolutely love it. It's a little nostalgic, too, as I remember these books from when I was a kid. The vocabulary is good; it doesn't pander, and it's challenging but not too difficult.

Mr. Grumpy's behavior is not atypical of young children's behavior. This book helps the child to see his/her temperment in a realistic light, and helps you to coax better behavior out of your child.

Roger Hargreaves has done it again with Mr. Grumpy (part of the Mr. Men series). Mr. Grumpy is an ill-tempered fellow, but thanks to a cleverly devised plan by Mr. Happy and Mr. Tickle, we see a change in Mr. Grumpy's ways. A change for the better! This is a cute book that teaches a good lesson for young children. It shows that attitude is everything and that the nicer you are, the nicer others will be towards you.