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'Ritchie has provided an exciting and dramatic account of the life and work of Macquarie. We learn, in contrast to the antiseptic treatment of the standard text books, that Macquarie was a man of strong passions, beliefs, plans and ambitions which drove him to hobnob with polite London society, to beg for promotion and favours from his superiors, to wangle commissions for his relatives, to be generous to a fault with those he sought to help and to demand unquestioning support from those he promoted or pardoned.' â?? Malcolm J. Kennedy, Agora

Since 1962 the Australian Dictionary of Biography has been prepared by its staff in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. It provides concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of prominent men and women of this country who contributed their vision and energies to a growing nation.Each entry is prepared by a leading scholar. The subjects come from all walks of life—from premiers, generals and bishops, through artists, actors and authors, farmers, engineers and schoolteachers, to prostitutes, thieves and murderers—providing a cross-section of Australian society.This magnificent cumulative work continues to be a valuable and popular reference tool for all libraries, large and small.

This is the complete index to Volumes 1 through 12 of the ADB.Since 1962 the Australian Dictionary of Biography has been prepared by its staff in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. It provides concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of prominent men and women of this country who contributed their vision and energies to a growing nation.Each entry is prepared by a leading scholar. The subjects come from all walks of life—from premiers, generals and bishops, through artists, actors and authors, farmers, engineers and schoolteachers, to prostitutes, thieves and murderers -providing a cross-section of Australian society.This magnificent cumulative work continues to be a valuable and popular reference tool for all libraries, large and small.

Volume 13 of this work of reference on Australian biography is the first of a series of four volumes to span the years from 1940 to 1980. Contributors include John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Arthur Calwell, Lord Casey, Sir Thomas Blamey, Mr Justice Barry, Martin and Robin Boyd, Dame Mable Brookes, Winifred Burston, Marie Collier, Shirley Briffman, Ma Dalley, Norma Davis, Sylvia Birdseye, Alngindabu, Arkwookerum, Albert Barunga, Emma Callaghan, Sir Irving Benson, Bishop Burgmann, Edouard Borovansky, and Sir Ian Clunies Ross.

Volume 14 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the second of four volumes to deal with the 1940-1980 period, records the lives of Australians whom many of us will remember from the recent past.Maintaining the ADB's tradition of scholarship, Volume 14 reflects what changed and what remained constant in Australia's demographic composition and social values in the years of World War II and its aftermath.Like the pieces of a mosaic, a host of lives gives a picture of our society and provides insights into the experiences of our people. While biography necessarily focuses on the individual, a range of biographies illuminates large themes in Australia's recent history, themes such as immigration, accelerating industrialism, urbanization and suburbanization, war (World War II, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam), material progress, increasing cultural maturity, conservative and radical politics, conflict and harmony, and the loss of isolation and innocence. It also reveals something of the greatness and the littleness of which human beings are capable.

Maintaining the ""Australian Dictionary of Biography""'s tradition of scholarship, volume 15 reflects what changed and what remained constant in Australian society during the years of World War II and its aftermath. Like the pieces of a mosaic, a host of lives gives a picture of our society and provides insights into the experiences of our people. While biography necessarily focuses on the individual, a range of biographies illuminates large themes in Australia's recent history, themes such as immigration, accelerating industrialism, urbanization and suburbanization, war (World War II, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam), material progress, increasing cultural maturity, conservative and radical politics, conflict and harmony, and the loss of isolation and innocence. It also reveals something of the greatness and the littleness of which human beings are capable.

This newly designed series of sermon outlines provides a treasure chest of stimulating ideas for a dynamic preaching or teaching ministry.

This newly designed series of sermon outlines provides a treasure chest of stimulating ideas for a dynamic preaching or teaching ministry.

The seven Old Testament feasts given to Israel are carefully examined to demonstrate how God deals with men and women in grace.

Truths as useful today (if not more so), than they were in 1905. Bible verse notations have been updated to modern format. These are simply a topic name with several Bible verse references to use for research. From the 1905 Introduction: "The 'Five Hundred Bible Subjects' which appear outlined in the following pages, have been gathered from the Sacred Word and used during the past thirty years in various ways, while seeking to help others in the things of God. For the most part, they have been used in giving Bible Readings, Simple Addresses, and Homely Talks to companies of young believers and others, who needed the Bread of Life broken small, and the Truth ministered in words easy to be understood by the common people.They are chiefly Outlines and Groupings of Fundamental Truths and Elementary Doctrines of the Faith, upon which the confidence and hope of children of God in all ages has reposed, and by feeding upon which, spiritual life is developed, spiritual health maintained, and spiritual strength derived for walk and service. John Ritchie."