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Author : Perth (W.A.) Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Natural history
ISBN : LCCN:43031703
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015048905189
Author : D. J. Kitchener,A. Chapman,John Dell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Cape Le Grand National Park, Australia
ISBN : UOM:39015066959191
Author : Terri-ann White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 192084323X
Author : Susan Cochrane,Max Quanchi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443871006
This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importance of Pacific Collections in Australia and is a timely contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Oceanic arts and cultures. The essays suggest that the custodial role is not fixed and immutable but fluctuates with the perceived importance of the collection, which in turn fluctuates with the level of national interest in the Pacific neighbourhood. This cyclical rise and fall of Australian interest in the Pacific Islands means many of the valuable early collections in state and later national repositories and institutions have been rarely exhibited or published. But, as the authors note, enthusiastic museum anthropologists, curators, collection managers and university-based scholars across Australia, and worldwide, have persisted with research on material collected in the Pacific. This volume is a very important one for anyone studying the art and material culture of the Pacific. It focuses on collections now in Australia. Even those well versed in museum collections from the Pacific will learn about many important but little-known collectors as well as better-known figures like the anthropologists F. E. Williams and Thomas Farrell, the husband of Queen Emma. This will be a treat for students and specialist alike. —Professor Robert L. Welsch, University of Dartmouth
Author : South Australian Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UCR:31210016126375
Author : Clem J. Lloyd,Peter Sekuless
Publisher : North Ryde, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PSU:000006550790
This film reveals the many lives of flamboyant design pioneer, Florence Broadhurst. Born in outback Australia in 1899, Florence was a singer and dancer in Shanghai in the 20s and ran her own fashion boutique in London in the 30s before sweeping into Sydney society as a painter and charity queen. But it was in her last incarnation that she really made her mark, shaking up conservative Australia with her bold, exotic wallpaper designs. Now, with her prints in huge demand internationally, the times have finally caught up with this glamorous, complicated, unconventional woman, whose brutal murder in 1977 has never been solved.
Author : Barry Wilson
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780124114883
The Biogeography of the Australian North West Shelf provides the first assembly of existing information of the North West Shelf in terms of geological, oceanographic and climatological history and current understanding of such issues as biodiversity, connectivity, larval dispersal and speciation in the sea that determine the distribution patterns of its invertebrate fauna. It is intended as a source of information and ideas on the biota of the shelf and its evolutionary origins and affinities and the environmental drivers of species’ ecology and distribution and ecosystem function. Regulators and industry environmental managers worldwide, but especially on the resource-rich North West Shelf, are faced with having to make decisions without adequate information or understanding of conservation values or the factors that drive ecosystem processes and resilience in the face of increasing anthropogenic and natural change. This book will provide a resource of information and ideas and extensive references to issues of primary concern. It will provide a big-picture narrative, putting the marine biota into a geological, evolutionary, and regional biodiversity context. The first book to cover the major benthic habitats and physical and ecological condition of the North West Shelf of Australia Covers new information on geomorphology and biota of coral reefs and other invertebrate habitats that are key species and functional groups of the North West Shelf Introduces new ideas on biogeographic processes and patterns in tropical seas
Author : Western Australian Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015061355403
Author : Harold Cogger
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486309702
Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia is a complete guide to Australia’s rich and varied herpetofauna, including frogs, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, lizards and snakes. For each of the 1218 species there is a description of its appearance, distribution and habits. These descriptions are also accompanied by distribution maps and, in many cases, one of the book's more than 1000 colour photographs of living animals. The book also includes 130 simple-to-use dichotomous keys, accompanied by hundreds of explanatory drawings, that in most cases allow a specimen in hand to be identified. In addition, it has a comprehensive list of scientific references for those wishing to conduct more in-depth research, an extensive glossary, and basic guides to the collection, preservation and captive care of specimens. This classic work was originally published in 1975. The updated seventh edition contains a new Appendix that discusses recent changes and lists over 80 new or resurrected species and genera that have been added to the Australian frog and reptile fauna since the 2014 edition.
Author : Kenneth Hudson,Ann Nicholls
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349070145
Author : Gavin Prideaux
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520916050
This work represents an exhaustive review of one of the most important late Cenozoic radiations of Australian marsupials: the short-faced, or sthenurine kangaroos. Sthenurines originated in the Miocene, diversified in the Pliocene, and radiated in the Quaternary to become one of Australia's most conspicuous mammal groups, the only lineage of browsing marsupials comparable in diversity to the browsing artiodactyl guilds of other continents. The culmination of 12 years' research, the monograph details the taxonomy of the sthenurines, redescribing each of the six genera (two new) and 26 species (four new), and is amply illustrated with line drawings and more than 100 pages of plates. It presents the first cladistic analysis of sthenurines, and by synthesizing systematic, functional morphological, biochronologic and zoogeographic data, considers the major directions of adaptive change within the group, and the major environmental factors that drove their evolution. It is one of the most comprehensive studies of an extinct marsupial lineage ever made, and should be an essential reference for students of Australian late Cenozoic vertebrates, marsupial evolution, environmental change and Pleistocene extinctions.
Author : Chris Manias
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822989943
When people today hear “paleontology,” they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dramatic demonstrations of the history of life focused on the developmental history of mammals. The Age of Mammals examines how nineteenth-century scholars, writers, artists, and public audiences understood the animals they regarded as being at the summit of life. For them, mammals were crucial for understanding the formation (and possibly the future) of the natural world. Yet, as Chris Manias reveals, this combined with more troubling notions: that seemingly promising creatures had been swept aside in the “struggle for life,” or that modern biodiversity was impoverished compared to previous eras. Why some prehistoric creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and ground sloth, had become extinct, while others seemed to have been the ancestors of familiar animals like elephants and horses, was a question loaded with cultural assumptions, ambiguity, and trepidation. How humans related to deep developmental processes, and whether “the Age of Man” was qualitatively different from the Age of Mammals, led to reflections on humanity’s place within the natural world. With this book, Manias considers the cultural resonance of mammal paleontology from an international perspective—how reconstructions of the deep past of fossil mammals across the world conditioned new understandings of nature and the current environment.
Author : Dorothy Erickson
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1921401435
This definitive history of gold and silversmithing in Western Australia has been masterfully compiled by Dorothy Erickson, the first person to be awarded a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Western Australia. Gold & Silversmithing tells the story of the Western Australia's many talented gold and silversmiths. It examines the stylistic, social, and economic milieu in which the works were created. Featuring over 500 full color photographs, Gold & Silversmithing is a beautiful coffee table book that merges fashion, history, and cultural identity.
Author : Center for the Coordination of Foreign Manuscript Copying (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Archives
ISBN : OSU:32435056487200