The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by J. E. Heeres is a comprehensive historical account of Dutch exploration along the Australian coast, emphasizing the role of the Dutch East India Company in mapping and documenting this previously unknown land. The book outlines the expeditions undertaken by Dutch navigators, such as Willem Janszoon, Dirk Hartog, and Abel Tasman, who were among the first Europeans to chart parts of Australia's northern, western, and sout...

This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents and IndexCONTENTS (abridged list)IntroductionI. Dutch notions respecting the Southland in 1595II. Notices of the south-coast of New Guinea in 1602III. Voyage of the ship DuifkenIV. Fresh expedition to New Guinea by the ship Duifken (1607)V. Voyage of the ships Eendracht and HoornVI. Project for the further discovery of the Southland--Nova Guinea (1616)

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George F. Kennan is well known as the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the author of the doctrine of containment. In Mr. X and the Pacific, Paul J. Heer chronicles and assesses Kennan's work in affecting US policy toward East Asia.Heer traces the origins, development, and bearing of Kennan's strategic perspective on the Far East during his time as director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff from 1947 to 19...

Traditional philosophizing has generally depended upon reason as its primary access to truth. Subjective experiences such as feelings, the passions, and emotions have typically been viewed as secondary to reason, untrustworthy, or both. The Religious Existentialists and the Redemption of Feeling revisits how the movement of existentialism, via the religious existentialists, has contributed to a rethinking of the role of subjective experience, in contrast to the rationalist and idealist tra...

Françoise Mouly, an editor and publisher of uncommon taste and creativity, and an artist in her own right, has spent nearly four decades transforming comics. With her husband, Art Spiegelman, Mouly founded the landmark magazine RAW, which showcased artists such as Chris Ware, Charles Burns and Sue Coe, and, along with Spiegelman's Maus, brought an avant-garde sensibility to the popular art form. As art editor of the New Yorker since 1993, Mouly has remade the face of that venerable magazin...

Body Whispering invites you to step into the phenomenal capacities for body whispering that we all have available but were never invited to learn.What if starting a conversation with your body could be the beginning of the best friendship you've ever had? It will give you the tools for a totally different paradigm when it comes to healing, change and transformation for you, the bodies around you and your clients. In this book you will: Discover how to have communion with your body ...

"I have memories of not remembering."At forty-seven, Grace Heers arrives in Kings Cross with a single suitcase and a hunger for a life she hasn't yet lived. She finds it - in the strip clubs and late-night cafés, the drag queens and spruikers, the sex workers and rough sleepers, the addicts and survivors, the good-time girls in lurex and high heels and the gay boys strutting Darlinghurst Road at midnight. She walks the streets at dawn and writes about what she sees. She ca...

Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the help of state-of-the-art macroeconomic tools that are based on a sound microfoundation and rooted in empirical evidence. Different from the standard partial-equilibrium analysis in traditional textboo...

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For many of us life is safe, secure and sometimes even routine. There's always unexpected issues and events that can set us back, but we eventually and hopefully recover, then return to the mundane.Benjamin Dawson's busy life, physically and mentally stressed him to the point of needing a break and a time to heal. On the advice of his doctor, he ventured out on a quest for solace. An uninhabited resort island getaway was the prescription. But what happened on the island and to the ...