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Chapters: Kylie Minogue, Marie Bashir, Geoffrey Rush, Keith Miller, John Howard, John Farnham, Barry Humphries, Gary Ablett, Sr., Quentin Bryce, Karrie Webb, Ron Hamence, Silma Ihram, Mike Rann, Michael Jeffery, Phillip Adams, Nicholas Shehadie, Keith Payne, Geoffrey Blainey, Peter Cosgrove, Phillip Bennett, Angus Houston, Renfrey Potts, Mick Cronin, Alec Campbell, John Baker, Ray Martin, George Piggins, Russ Shalders, Doug Lowe, Edward Kenna, Harry Wells, John Sanderson, Tammin Sursok, Charles Cutler, Peter Gration, Bruce Dawe, Peter Howson, Mem Fox, Chris Barrie, Eric Abetz, David Smith, Donald Dunstan, Brian Pezzutti, Roy Longmore, Bruce Mcdonald, Neil Batt, Tom Lewis, Neville Mcnamara, Peter Tagliaferri, Edmund Capon, Tom Hughes, Peter Casserly, David Stratton, Carla Zampatti, Guy Green, Jack Lockett, Trevor Kaine, Walter Parker, John Stocker, Peter Leahy, Ken Freeman, Helen Hughes, Richard Larkins, Ben Humphreys, Eric Neal, Chris Ritchie, Ralph Slatyer, Peter Dowding, Sue Napier, Peter Shergold, Clem Christesen, Robin Batterham, Michael L'estrange, Marcel Caux, Ken Michael, Nicholas Saunders, Peter Karmel, Edward Smout, Jim Service, Philip Flood, John Avery, Trevor Rowe, Greg Westaway, Malcolm Brooks, Rob Akers, Francis Carroll, Bob Baxt, Warren Pearson, Clive Berghofer, Centenary Medal, Stephen Duckett, Jim Kennan, Peter Mcphee, Harry Moore, Vivian Smith, Graham Gunn, Gilbert Bennion, Colin Brooks, Khalil Eideh, Alfred Parsons. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 542. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Playing statistics to end of end of 1946 season . Miller, in the vertically-striped jumper, playing for St KildaKeith Ross Miller MBE (28 November 1919 11 October 2004) was an Australian Test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II. Miller is widely re...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1061737 ... Read more

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Chapters: Leo Mckern, Cate Blanchett, Peter Finch, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Hugh Jackman, Jon English, F. Matthias Alexander, Miranda Otto, Rose Byrne, Bert Newton, Robert Helpmann, Judith Anderson, Andrew Hansen, Reg Livermore, David Knijnenburg, Nellie Stewart, Bud Tingwell, Michael Blakemore, Lisa Mccune, Madeleine Orr, Lulu Pinkus, Dennis Olsen, David Wenham, Gary Files, Guy Pearce, Fay Kelton, Ned Manning, Matthew Newton, Stuart Wagstaff, Roy Rene, Lloyd Lamble, Elizabeth Alexander, Drew Anthony, Monica Maughan, Jason Gardiner, Liz Harris, Ian Turpie, Sigrid Thornton, Barry Creyton, Garry Mcdonald, Bryan Brown, Rowena Wallace, Frank Harvey, Jonathan Hyde, Craig Mclachlan, Trisha Noble, Robyn Archer, Bethany Lee, Vince Colosimo, Mae Busch, Kym Gyngell, George Selth Coppin, Jude Kuring, Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Tom Oliver, Nadine Garner, Aimee Horne, Justine Clarke, Richard Walley, Jacqueline Mckenzie, Keith Michell, Robyn Nevin, Clarissa Kaye, June Bronhill, Bille Brown, Thelma Scott, Elizabeth Sharland, Georgie Parker, Deidre Rubenstein, Coral Browne, Zoe Caldwell, Anna Skellern, Philip Quast, Barry Crocker, Toby Schmitz, Catherine Mcclements, Genevieve O'reilly, John Bluthal, Ruth Cracknell, Freya Stafford, Barry Sullivan, Mary Ward, Melanie Parry, Adam Garcia, Marc Mcdermott, Jacki Weaver, Leeanna Walsman, John Mccallum, John Wood, Nicholas Gledhill, Xavier Samuel, Gordon Chater, Barbara Angell, Noel Ferrier, Amanda Harrison, Toni Lamond, Simon Burke, Caroline O'connor, Robert Greig, Alan Edwards, Mark Priestley, Paul Bishop, Jaason Simmons, Louise Van Veenendaal, John Bell, Gregan Mcmahon, Bettina Welch, Brett Budgeon, Marie Lohr, Amanda Muggleton, Ross Skiffington, Martin Crewes, Dion Boucicault, Jr., Helen Dallimore, Kym Valentine, Maggie Moore, Barry Quin, Ron Haddrick, Lech Mackiewicz, Justin Truloff, Scott Mcgregor, Jesse Rosenfeld, John Stanton, Lindy Davies, Richard Grieve, Geoff Morrell, George Sutton Tit...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=160126 ... Read more

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Chapters: Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Grinham, Wade Bootes, Shane Webcke, Rodney Taylor, Steele Rudd, Ross Case, Don Talbot, William Groom, Hunter Poon, Natalie Grinham, Karen Smith, Ian Macfarlane, Paul Mccabe, Bob Mctavish, Mike Horan, Elton Rasmussen, George Essex Evans, Tom Mcveigh, Keith Wright, Adam Mogg, Meshel Laurie, John Rillie, Virgil Patrick Copas, Glynis Nunn, David Rowbotham, Jacob Stumm, Jack Mccafferty, Clive Berghofer, Di Thorley, Stuart Copeland, Cheryl Praeger, Bill Taylor, Rohan Hancock, Michael Brennan, John Dixon, Kerry Shine, Ronald Mckie, Ray Hopper, Stephen Eaton, Kylie Cronk, Darren Lange, Douglas Annand, Paul Kronk. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 149. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rachael Margaret Grinham (born 22 January 1977 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is a professional squash player from Australia. She won the World Open in 2007, and the British Open in 2003, 2004 and 2007. She reached the World No. 1 ranking in 2004. Rachael's younger sister Natalie Grinham is also a top squash player. Rachael has a great pedigree as a squash player. Winner of the World Junior title in 1993 aged 16, she had an opportunity to defend in 1995, but was beaten by Jade Wilson from New Zealand in the final. Since joining the WISPA World Tour during 1994, her array of strokes and strong temperament initially took her steadily towards the top 20, a barrier she finally breached in the middle of 1997. She won her first tournament in 1998 when she was 22 years old, beating Tracey Shenton for the Open Toulouse Central in France. She also lost to Tracey Shenton in the same year at the Isostar-Beverwijk tournament, Netherlands. At the Commonwealth Games in 1998 her partnership with Robyn Cooper brought them a silver medal in the Womens Doubles. Rachael had a good year in 1999 winning...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3455315 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries, Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana, Scott Mcneil, George Lazenby, Rove Mcmanus, Samuel Johnson, Bud Tingwell, David Wenham, Ron Mueck, Lloyd Lamble, Julian Mcmahon, Pete Smith, Nathan Parsons, Lenore Zann, John Blackman, Anna Skellern, Anna Torv, Guy Stone, Adam Garcia, Jacki Weaver, Tristan Rogers, Joel Edgerton, Nicholas Gledhill, Mark Ferguson, Donna Burke, Lex Marinos, Angus Sampson, Gary Mac, Blair Mcdonough, Ron Haddrick, John Stanton, Barbara Frawley, Mike Goldman, Nick Tate, Bill Hunter, Vivienne Garrett, María Antonieta de Las Nieves, Mairead Curran, Peter Kelamis, Jordan Raskopoulos, John Deeks, Francis Greenslade, Peter Greenwood, Catherine Sutherland, Zoe Sheridan, Hélène Joy, Kevin Harrington, Kelson Henderson, Clayton Watson, Andrew Bevis, Keith Scott, Greg Carey, Ryan Corr, Christopher Truswell, Robert Taylor, Paul Khoury, Scott Brennan, Jim Mclarty, Shawn Cosgrove, Michael Pope, Robbie Mcgregor, Craig Willis, Neil Fanning, Georgia Van Cuylenburg, Robyn Moore, Emily Berry. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 287. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist and character actor perhaps best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. Humphries' characters, especially Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he has appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. His Barry McKenzie comic strips a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=370482 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kylie Minogue, Holly Valance, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Eric Bana, Jason Donovan, Kerry Armstrong, Emilie de Ravin, Ben Steel, Isabel Lucas, Bud Tingwell, Liam Hemsworth, Cornelia Frances, Madeleine Orr, Rachel Griffiths, Snub Pollard, Matthew Newton, Lloyd Lamble, Caitlin Stasey, Liz Harris, Costas Mandylor, Emily Browning, Jesse Spencer, Anne Charleston, Vince Colosimo, Radha Mitchell, Gary Sweet, Mae Busch, Kym Gyngell, Frank Thring, Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Nadine Garner, Louis Mandylor, Thelma Scott, John Ewart, Shirley Abicair, Brooke Satchwell, Coral Browne, Zoe Caldwell, Anna Torv, Chris Hemsworth, Joy Dunstan, Pippa Black, Kodi Smit-Mcphee, Tom Budge, John Wood, Jordan Smith, Jane Allsop, Jeffrey Walker, Gary Olsen, Barbara Angell, May Robson, Brad Allan, Ian Smith, Robert Greig, Andrea Mcewan, Louise Van Veenendaal, Sheila Florance, Jessica Jacobs, Helen Dallimore, Caroline Craig, Sidney Bracey, Jane Hall, Natalie Mendoza, Jesse Rosenfeld, Lesley Baker, Tommy Dysart, Daphne Pollard, Sophie Heathcote, Ben Mendelsohn, Seán Martin Hingston, Cameron Daddo, Carla Bonner, Bridie Carter, Danny Alder, Hany Lee, Lyndel Rowe, Eloise Mignon, Eddie Perfect, Timothy Conigrave, Brett Tucker, Mary Maguire, Tom Wright, Benjamin Grant Mitchell, Mairead Curran, Emma Hamilton, Neil Melville, Rob Sitch, Maggie Fitzgibbon, Alison Whyte, Wendy Hughes, Colette Mann, Tammy Macintosh, Jane Kennedy, Lewis Fiander, Petra Yared, Neil Pigot, Guido Lorraine, Kia Luby, Kevin Harrington, Kaiya Jones, Diane Holland, Paul Mccarthy, James Sorensen, Tessa James, David Argue, Scott Major, Louise Siversen, Sianoa Smit-Mcphee, Scott Michaelson, Jiordan Anna Tolli, Madge Titheradge, Morgan Baker, John Brumpton, Noel Tovey, Ryan Corr, Martin Copping, Ben Anderson, Ben Geurens, Ian Fleming, John Frawley, Tory Green, Amanda Douge, Gwen Gaze, Darcy Bonser, Irene Chen, Alwyn Kurts, Kate Keltie, Glenn Meldrum, Fletcher Humphrys, Marcella Russo, Lee M...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16894 ... Read more

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The Godfather, Tudor style
Partially reinventing the period movie, stylistically at least, almost as radically as Martin Scorsese reinvented the Biblical epic with his Last Temptation, Shekhur Kapur's account of the insecure early days of Elizabeth I's reign, Elizabeth, is a claustrophobic film set in a dark world of cold grey stone, alternating overhead shots with tight medium shots rather than stressing spectacle or glamour, more political thriller than costume epic. Indeed, with its bloody finale clearly inspired by The Godfather as Walsingham takes care of business for his Capo di tutti Capo, it's almost a mafia movie, with Cate Blanchett's star-making turn as Elizabeth filling in the Michael Corleone role as the heir apparent who must ruthlessly shed emotions and conscience to hold on to the throne. That journey from fresh-faced youth to impregnable white-faced icon gives the film a solid emotional arc that helps prevent it from becoming a simple series of confrontations and thwarted conspiracies, almost - but not quite - turning it into a tragedy of success rather than the usual tragedy of failure that is usually the lot of women in historical pictures (Anne of the Thousand Days, Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Jane, La Reine Margot, etc).

It's handsomely cast: Joseph Fiennes gives good shallow romanticism as Elizabeth's lover Dudley, Christopher Eccleston in his default misery guts mode makes a fine villain and there's a healthy cast that, if not bursting with A-listers, is at least filled with familiar faces, from Richard Attenborough, Fanny Ardant, Daniel Craig and Vincent Cassel in a dress to Edward Hardwicke, Kelly McDonald, James Frain, Emily Mortimer and Eric Cantona. Yet perhaps even more than Blanchett it's a magnificent Geoffrey Rush who often dominates the film from the sidelines as the Queen's loyal and utterly unscrupulous spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, a man who can seem all things to all men and women but is loyal only to her. Even when he's simply observing from afar he's a powerful presence in all the right ways, emanating a callous intelligence that is truly frightening.

It's strange that the sequel has been attacked by the Vatican as anti-Catholic when this first chapter probably occupies a high place on Ian Paisley's Ten Best List, what with Kathy Burke's psychotic "Bloody" Mary burning Protestants and threatening to do the same to her half-sister and John Gielgud's Pope (earning fifth billing for barely two minutes' screen time) despatching Daniel Craig's priest to assassinate the Protestant queen not merely with his blessing but his promises of a welcome in heaven for any who help in the task. Not entirely inaccurate considering the many attempts by Catholic kingdoms like France and Spain to topple or assassinate Elizabeth during her reign, but a little more historical context might have been helpful for viewers not so familiar with Tudor politics and the causes and effects of the Reformation. It doesn't help that Michael Hirst's screenplay refers to Marie de Guise (Ardant) as Mary, Queen of Scots, leading some to assume she's THE famous Mary, Queen of Scots rather than her mother, but then the problem of just how much historical information you can include before it gets in the way of the drama is always a difficult one in a period film: too little and you don't know what's happening, too much and you feel like you should be taking notes in case there's a test later. Instead, this is content to follow Elizabeth's rise at the expense not just of her enemies but also some of her early friendships, keeping it personal even as Elizabeth has to shed her own personality to create an icon a divided nation can follow. It's certainly not flawless, but it's never dull and often impressive.

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This is a comprehensive guide to the feature films of the first eight decades of film-making in Australia -- from Soldiers of the Cross (1900) to movies such as Don's Party and The Last Wave. Pike and Cooper's work discusses 488 films and features more than 400 illustrations. Oscar-winningactor Geoffrey Rush provides a new foreword to this revised edition. ... Read more

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Australia is one of the world's great sources of mineral treasure. The finding and development of minerals, oil and natural gas have influenced Australian racial attitudes, unionism, religious life, law and politics. Out of the ground and the sea has come wealth to create a host of industries. Geoffrey Blainey's masterly history has rightly been acclaimed as the authoritative account and the fourth edition contains new chapters bringing the story up to the early 1990s. ... Read more

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Interesting analysis of human history
This book details the history of Australian Mining, but don't be put off by the seemingly dry subject-it is anything but dry. Stories are told of the romantic gold rushes, the lucky, the unlucky, the schemes, plots, the deceptions, the clouded histories, the despair of the many, and the fortune of the few. For students of both human nature and history it has interesting insights, such as how plain luck plays a significant part in human events, and how apparently small innocuous irrelevancies can lead to profound outcomes.

An interesting example is that of the Mount Morgan Mine in Queensland. Black boulders, which cattle shied from, formed a low hill in the ranges. There was a gold rush a few miles away, but nobody thought to test the black hill, as the rocks were all wrong. Farmers sold the useless land the cattle didn't like. A lazy miner was sacked from his job, his wife pleaded for his re-employment, in return for the locale of a "silver mine" in the hills. A few savvy mine managers wandered into a black innocuous hill. They chipped away, took out leases over the whole hill (a wise move), kept it very quiet (another wise move). When samples were broken, there was more gold than black earth-it was assumed it wasn't gold but something else. They began to mine quietly away until a local newspaper noticed there was a phenomenal amount of gold leaving a nearby town. The word was out. Mount Morgan -the "freak lode" as described by geologists at the time-became one of the richest and mightiest gold mines on earth. It defied virtually everything known about gold mines at the time. Geologists were perplexed, but as long as shares repaid 413,000% of their value, the owners didn't care. The copper that got "in the way" of gold processing eventually amounted to about 250,000t of copper. It was mined for around 100 years, and money that came from the mine was used to find oil in the Middle East, which eventually formed the company BP. Mine owners declared in World War 1, that Mount Morgan money was used to fight the Germans. In the 1950s over half of Great Britain's revenue came from oil discoveries that were originally financed by one small black hill in the outback of Australia.

The world's largest resource of lead and zinc-the Broken Hill Lode-is another case in point. For some years in the 1800s a large, jagged hill of black boulders more than a mile long and 500 feet wide was ignored by local prospectors at the nearby silver rushes at Silverton. A surveyor's fence was put across it. A trig station crowned the summit. Samples were chipped which came back high in uninteresting lead, but little else. It wasn't near any main thoroughfares. The owner of the land wasn't interested in prospectors. It was too big to be a lode. A good lode was said to be five feet wide, Broken Hill was over 500 feet wide. The rocks were wrong. So numerous hopefuls mined the molehills, whilst the mountain was ignored.

When people finally got around to examining it, a few speculators bought and sold shares, making a few bucks, as the hill guarded its riches. Finally, when a shaft was sunk on the wrong rock type-white kaolin-bonanza silver assays came back and the hill was born. The first 48 tons produced about 36,000oz of silver, which in the 1880s, was a lot of dough. The ensuing stock market mania and mining development transformed Australian history. Over $AUS 70 billion has been taken from the hill to the 1990s.

There are many other similar tales, twists and turns- the vagaries and tides of history. Curiously and well written, it is recommended for those interested in history, particularly Australian, or those simply interested in curious human anecdotes of life. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on January 21, 2001. The length of the article is 725 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cine: Letras prohibidas. La leyenda del Marqués de Sade.(TT: Cinema: forbidden writs. The Marquis de Sade legend.)(Reseña)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on February 21, 2001. The length of the article is 980 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sade en el cine, las plumas y el teatro.(TT: Sade on the silver screen, plumes and theatre.)(Reseña)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: February 21, 2001
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on March 18, 2001. The length of the article is 476 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sade en el manicomio.(película)(TT: Sade in the mental hospital.)(TA: movie)(Reseña)
Author: Pedro Crespo
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