This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and accessible.In his latest book, David Hill traces the story of our nation from its European beginnings to Federation. When James Cook landed on the east coast of Australi...

From the bestselling author of 1788.The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds.Bestselling historian David Hill tells the story of the first three decades of Britain's earliest colony in Australia in a fresh and compelling way.The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New W...

In May 1962, the town council of Centralia, Pennsylvania, hired volunteer firefighters to clean up the town landfill by setting it on fire. It was a routine procedure, but they made a fatal mistake: the landfill sat atop an exposed vein of coal that connected to a vast labyrinth of abandoned mines beneath the town. The fire didn't go out. It went down. "The Town That Burned From Beneath" chronicles the slow-motion apocalypse that followed. For decades, the fire raged underground, heating t...

How to make a macramé lamp with cut work pattern. This is book two in a series of three books on how to make macramé lamps. Each book is standalone. The first book is how to make a wire frame for a free-hanging lamp. The second and third books show separate patterns for the body of the lamps.

Three friends discuss their silly, embarrassing, untrainable pets. It's not until the end that we discover the friends are dogs, and the pets they refer to are human!

On 8 May 1956, the Guardian described Manchester City's homecoming after a Wembley final full of drama. As the Cup, dressed in the City's colours, and held aloft by Roy Paul, the captain, came into view, a deafening crescendo of rattles, bells, even a trumpet (blown by a lusty ten-year-old) rose to greet them. A woman near the Town Hall fainted in the excitement. The Lord Mayor stepped forward and tried to speak, but the crowd had been waiting for too long and interrupted his first words 'Th...

On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island.And so began the race to compile the definitive map of Australia. These men's journeys were the cul...

The Indus Valley Civilization was one of the most advanced and mysterious ancient societies, yet it mysteriously declined and vanished. What caused the fall of this once-great civilization? Was it climate change, invasions, or internal decline?This audiobook explores the rise, achievements, and sudden disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization. From their sophisticated cities like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa to their advanced drainage systems and trade networks, u...

May 1961: the Guardian reports on one man's struggle outside Tottenham's Town Hall. Crowds estimated at more than 40,000 lined the route as an open top bus carried the Tottenham Hotspurs team and the two cups it has won. At the Town Hall, as the team stood on the balconies before the cheering crowds, the Mayor tried to make himself heard with a speech of welcome. He asked for silence, and then set off the wild cheering once again when he said: 'This is a great day for Tottenham.'The 60s Bi...

In December 1959 the Guardian ran a story on a struggling Second Division club: W. Shankly was appointed manager of Liverpool last night at a salary reported to be £2,500 a year.Five years on, the struggle was just a memory. The Guardian's Eric Todd was at Anfield to watch Shankly's dramatically reshaped Liverpool surge to the Division One title. The handclapping created the impression of millions of dried peas being dropped on a corrugated iron roof... The Liverpool players did a lap of hono...

This book, which has only one very distant forerunner authored by David A. Hills with David Nowell, represents a very big step that is the quantification of these problems and represents the twenty-five years’ worth of work which have gone on at Oxford since the first book on the subject. Fatigue (popularly ‘metal fatigue’) is the primary failure mode of all machines, engines, transmissions and indeed almost all mechanical devices. The propagation of cracks is well understood and is treate...